Saturn is the timeless console. It pioneered a lot of the industry standards we have today: 60 fps, high res and fast loading times. It was named after the Titanic planet and continues to impress.
Glad to see the Sega Saturn get some much needed love here. The system has a special place in my heart when Nights came out. A few days before it came out, my mother succumbed after a four year battle with ovarian cancer and it helped clear my head at such a sad time. Every time I play that game it will always remind me of her. I remember how I got mine. I went to my local Software Etc and was actually shocked that they had it in stock, and as I had a decent income for the time being as my college was pretty much paid for due to scholarships that I made the Saturn an impulse buy. The problem was there were not many places that sold it (KB Toys would not sell it because they were left out of the initial shipment) and new games were at a trickle. But over time better games did come out, they gave out VF Remix to everyone for free, and that holiday was what I call the "Holy Trifecta," that being VF2, Virtua Cop and Sega Rally. It was a shame how it was treated in the US, more so when Bernie Stolar (who I still to this day believe was a double agent for Sony) made his infamous claim of how "the Saturn is not our future" and would not allow a lot of great games to come to the US. I ended up having to go to an import store called Starland (now called eStarland) to get great import games such as X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (which was $100 when I got it) and Thunder Force V. I miss my Saturn, and if I had the money to do so I'd love to collect for it again, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
Top Hat Gaming Man it was dope appearing in a video with the both of you, lol if you woulda told me back when we were chatting in rerez's live stream I wouldn't have believed ya lol
Sega's Rally Championship was my fave on Saturn. Graphics were colorful with a super smooth 60fps & clever track design to hide polygon pop-in, and controls were sublime.
Great to have a documentary with so many viewpoints. What an underrated system. Truly the last games console that felt like it was a proper games system rather than one going for realism.
Very well made documentary sir. I was already sold on the Saturn as it was my first proper console as a kid and I'm chuffed to see there is still so much love for it.
Excellent video as always, the Sega saturn is by far my favourite console and is the one I play most in my collection. looking forward to more videos like this !
Thank you for this video, I just got a Saturn for Christmas and I'm looking forward to getting the full potential out of it. Always great to see that people still love it.
I am really one of those rare gamers who owned the Saturn in the '90s.... I know PlayStation was the console of the generation, but Saturn was a great console on its own right. Very underrated and underappreciated. It makes me sad when I think about it. 😥
Still my favorite system. It just doesn't get the respect it deserves. My roommate and I played Battle Garegga night after night on our old-school projection TV in college. Those were good times.
Thanks to your video I just ordered one. I remember playing my best friend's and being so jealous. Great games but sadly I never was able to acquire one... until now. I had completely forgotten about the Saturn and I wasn't even sure if my fond recollections were accurate of how good the system really is. After seeing this video I can't wait to get my hands on it in a couple weeks! Thank you Top Hat Gaming Man and Co.
The Sega Saturn was just a strange time in gaming. But unfortunately for Sega, past mistakes would be their downfall and those errors came back to bight them in the arse sadly. So bloody chuffed to have been a part of this major celebration of not only gaming but of the gaming community. Dear TH-cam, this is what TH-cam is about! Not bloody Hollywood and those bunch of hacks doing what they can to get on your screens to push their latest movies! But real peeps that put a call out to discuss topics that they are passionate about! I do hope someone in TH-cam gets a whiff of this video and starts to get serious about acknowledging the REAL reason why we love TH-cam.
Sony used false information to attract customers from that Saturn competition. Back then, Sony claimed that they were $100 cheaper than Saturn but they lied on actual reality. When Sony claimed to be sold at $300, and saturn at $400, they were putting themselves as a $100 cheaper console. But what Sony did not told their customers is that after buying their sony console, they also need to buy a game for $50-60 plus a memory card for $20-$30. Meanwhile, Saturn was $400 including a free game plus a free so, the price different between Saturn bundle against Sony PS bundle was only $25 or maybe less. Kind of the same false marketing that Sony ps4 is doing now with the "we have 4k gaming" when in reality is not "real" 4k. It's only an set of stretching squares techniques.
One cannot simply blame the past blunders of Sega for the failure of the Sega Saturn launch outside of Japan. We can only blame the lack of software titles and horrendously bad marketing of the Saturn console. The great quality library of games that the Genesis/MegaDrive had was totally missing from the Sega Saturn both at launch, and during it's barely-there life span.
The system was launched when I was 12 and I was a Nintendo fan so my sights were set on the N64 coming out in 1996. But I remember the system coming out suddenly (as it was launched by surprise during e3 from what I remember). I wasn't a Sega fan at the time so outside of reading reviews in various gaming magazines and being obsessed with the amount of sprites on screen for Dragon Force it seemingly came and went. Didn't help that I grew up in a rural town so basically if it wasn't popular in the bigger cities it wasn't going to be in my area. I've started collecting Saturn the last year or so and I've enjoyed it but it is pricey.
Fantastic video mate. Really liked the style of video and hearing everyone's experiences with my favourite console. And of course thank you for letting me be a part of this project. :)
@shockz16 I keep joking about the difficulty of acquiring Panzer Dragoon Saga and seeing yours wrapped in plastic on your shelf made me laugh at my own predicament, haha.
Top Hat Gaming Man I fucking love the Sega saturn. I played it to death when I was ill in secondary school I played daytona usa and Sega rally all the time and sometimes clock work knight
Top Hat Gaming Man also mine was broken and guy fixed it up for me and got it for £25 but unfortunately it died on me. I saw one in cex a few days it was £90
I remember being the only one with a saturn and all my friends thinking I actually had a sega genesis but for some strange reason would call it by a different name until one of them came to my house and realized there actually was a console newer than the genesis from sega, it was that rare in the U.S. I also remember going to electronics boutique and being jelous that playstation and n64 had a whole wall of games and the saturn had a small standup section in a corner with like 10 games.
It's funny that after I bought a Japanese Sega Saturn a few months ago that I start seeing a bunch of people that I subbed to a while ago post videos on the Saturn. Maybe I just notice it more now that I own one finally. Great video THGM, very informative as always!
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Thanks for this top hat GAming man. Prety neat job!
My favorite games, which i still have on the system, are Xmen vs Street fighter, Xmen Children of the Atom, Shinobi Legions, Mr. Bones, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Sega Rally, and Tomb Raider.
Top Hat Gaming Man I am from Australia and imported X-men Vs. Street Fighter (Japan) back in 1998. We wasted hours on Japanese imports. I would love to give a review on the many parties we all had playing Saturn down in the southern land LOL.
I was hardcore Sega back then. I had the Master System, graduated to the Genesis, then 32x , Sega CD, and eventually the Saturn. Sega games just appealed to me more. My brother opted to get the PlayStation, which i grew envious of all the titles that were available for that system , vs the Saturn. I was still happy with the Saturn and my friends enjoyed playing it when they came over. I still play my Saturn , even probably more than my PS4. Lol
Just headed over off the back of Death Mountaineers recommendation, quality longer style documentary! Was good to get an in depth view from other collectors of a system I don't know much about. Top Hat Gaming Man, keep up the work good sir!
I had one I got for Christmas one year, back in the late 90's when they were on clearance. I ended up selling it to make student loan payments back in the great recession. Replaced it later after I got a job with a Japanese Victor V-Saturn
I only knew one person who ever owned a Saturn back in the day which was a friend of my mother's who ran a Daycare business from her home, so whenever we went over to her house I would always get to play it on a big early 90's wooden Zenith console TV that had S-video(Yes from the US, and we never got SCART), and she thankfully at least used composite over the RF signal. It was awesome getting to play great titles like V.F 1, and 2, Daytona, Virtual Cop, & House of the Dead, and thankfully some of these titles came out on PC as well which I've always been big into, and as such I got to play them at my own home, but I still have not come across a Saturn of my own at a price does not make my budget want to go HOLY HELL BATMAN!!!
Gah! I would have killed to be part of this video! Great stuff guys. I owned a Saturn from launch, crazy how many people didn't know about this console or shunned it, but that's the tragic history. Best game on the system, Panzer Dragoon Saga, hands down. I poured over images of that game in every Sega Saturn magazine until it released! Then they released the "demo" disk which was the entire first disk of the full game...amazing stuff. That game is precious to me. Awesome video again, share that Saturn love.
Death Mountaineers - I bought them every month, lived by them. Back when demo disks were awesome and on most covers. Great stuff and yes, still got all mine, both Sega Saturn magazine and Saturn Power, loved them. Got me all nostalgic now, might have to break the Saturn back out heh.
Clocked It I too had the Saturn at launch. We had a game store called Game Giant in my neighborhood, which let you do a layaway, which helped me a lot back then, since the Saturn was so dang expensive. Dreamcast is still my favorite, but the Saturn is right up there, and probably tied for second with my 360.
LOL! I almost pissed myself at 13:25 when you said "stepfathers friend had one.." That's exactly how I remember the Sega Saturn. My stepfather's college friend had one! And it was the only one I ever saw as a child. I had a PlayStation , it wasn't till years later that I bought a Saturn as an adult. I feel like I missed out on so much....
World of MrGrey why is almost every comment from someone saying how they are in the video. No one gives a shit! Oh, look everybody, i'm in the video.. Lol
@ 16:56 "I was 3.5 years old when Saturn came out, I had a SNES at 3 y/o so I don't ACCURATELY remember the launch" stop just stop, you didn't know ANYTHING about the Saturn launch or knew what your older brothers SNES was at 3 y/o LOL.
I remember when I got mine for Xmas waay back in 95. went from master system all the way through dreamcast! amazing game library! Panzer series, burning rangers, D, Albert Odyssey, Daytona, nights, etc etc etc
I must be a weird gamer because I love sports games and have since I was a kid. I know a lot of the community writes off sports games but I really enjoy a good sports game as well as all your platforming classics
Loving the use of Saturn Bomberman in the background Really enjoyed the video too, i grew up with Sega consoles (the first console i ever bought myself was a japanese Mega Drive) and the Saturn has always been a favourite of mine. My games collection for the Saturn isn't massive (but i have most of the big ones including Panzer Dragoon Saga and Shining Force 3 among others) mostly as i only buy games i want to play I was lucky as i bought my Saturn just after the Playstation came out and many people were getting rid of their Saturn's and games so i was able to pick up games for it cheap. I love the system and it really makes me happy to know there are so many other lovers of the Saturn out there, Thank you all so much Also my favourite Saturn game?...... i have 2, Saturn Bomberman (as i have 2 multitaps and a box of joypads for some hectic games at the local gaming club) and Virtual On Cyber Troopers because who doesn't love giant robots?
my friends had the saturn too. Its an amazing system. I own one MIB I got on clearence for $25 at K mart. So I have a back up. Panzer Dragoon was awsome so was knights. The special christmas disk is fun
I didn't play much SEGA Saturn ... my best mate rented it for a weekend a few times with a few games. My favourite game was easily SEGA Rally ... I was heavily into driving games at the time and playing such a great port of the arcade game at home was just AWESOME.
Scott Champyan I don't understand what Burnout Revenge has to do with the SEGA Saturn ? SEGA Rally was released for the 5th gen Saturn console in 1995, ported from the arcade rally racer game. Burnout Revenge is a multiplat 6th-7th gen console street racer from 2005 where the player uses demolition derby, race & crash combat mechanics to win. Both fun in their own rights but hardly comparable.
At least i know that im not the only one who truly loved Xmen Children of the Atom! It seems like that game gets overlooked a lot. Still love and play it.
Love this I remember I picked my Saturn up for 50 bucks when it was discontinued in the US but still strong in Japan. Loved nights into dreams. Did you happen to try to reach out to avgn? or was he just too busy? Keep up the great work.
I didnt actually reach out to anyone. I just sent a tweet out, asking if youtubers wanted to contribute to a Saturn documentary and everyone involved are repliers to that tweet.
I don't remember being mad about the Sega CD or 32X, I had fun with the CDs and nobody I knew bought a 32X. It was timing and title releases in NA that had me getting a Playstation, first time I could buy a console on my own iirc and the 3D graphics were enticing. I wish more 2D games left Japan but 3D was so popular and showing off more 3D SS titles only made it look worse in comparisons.
LOVE the Saturn. Every gen I go for every console so I can play the best of what each has to offer. The next under appreciated systems will be the Vita and the Wii U.
Bought it on release with vitura fighter. Tomb raider came out on this first. More power than the PlayStation which I worked on at virgin but it was hard to program for so never really saw its full potential but in 2D it excelled. Dead or alive used the same Engine as vitura fighter 2. Sega gave out a free copy of Christmas nights. Never got the fmv cart as I had one in the cd32 that played all the cdi movies too. Shame sonic xtreme never got finished and even shenmue was made for the Saturn but for good reason went into the dreamcast. Back then I'd buy all the systems. Wipeout for ps1 mario 64 for Nintendo 64 and the Saturn for Daytona. 32x for doom. Sega are going to return with a Netflix style service sega forever and for a subscription you can play them all.
And still most cross platform 2D games look better on Playstation. Because it was just simpler to program. Saturn for example could only do transparency on one of it's 2 pocessors or something like that. So Saturn games ended up using meshes instead of true transparency very often.
i stole my sisters saturn and installed the 50/60hz switch.. lucky i bought all the shoot em up games when i still lived with my mum in the early 2000s and they were reasonably priced.silvergun was always expensive tho .even at release importers like another world were charging £70+
i wouldn't pay anything for them now.no shame in the mame.plus we have pseudo saturn.game collecting is for rich nerds nowadays.i hope your not recommending me cheap dreck like ghost blade and caladrius blaze.i have taste thank you
Funny fact: I'm almost sure the Saturn did great in Portugal on its early years. Everyone that I knew had one. My favourite game of all time is actually on the Saturn, the holy grail Panzer Dragoon Saga.
My favourite Saturn game is probably Alien Trilogy. I have a huge childhood nostalgia towards it, I love the Alien universe. Aliens is my favourite movie, I played the hell out of Alien Trilogy back in the day and still play it now and still love it. I prefer the Saturn version over the PS1 version.
I bought the SATURN back when it was new and immediately modded it so I could play Japanese games. Psychic Killer and Princess Crown are loads of fun. SPRITE GAMES > POLY GAMES
Theguy at 1:44 .. James did his first sega saturn video 2 years ago, the Crow. He didnt really review the system so I don't know how that inspired him to get one right after. Maybe he saw a different video and connected it to James
If you lived in North America when the Saturn came out and didnt know about it you were either poor or not a real gamer. 1st console I ever got at launch and always fond memories of the system.
The Sega Saturn is a genuinely sexy piece of kit (although, not the original butt-fugly American controller). My favourite game on the system is Sega Rally Championship.
I think I owned one in the early 2000s but truthfully my memory is pretty hazy from 1998 to 2011. However, I did have the genesis, cd, and 32x. I wanted a Saturn so badly but my parents couldn't afford it at the time (how they got me the 32x was because it wasn't expensive when you already had the genesis).
This is a recollection of the personal experiences of quite a few youtubers world wide and is just the same as that Channel 4/5 series where famous people talked about the NES or Handheld LCD games etc as they experienced them lol not a documentary sane as the 5% time taken for some obvious well known aspects about the product within the episode. If this as you seem to demand is a documentary then the 2016 release of Ghostbusters deserved a sequel too like the OTT director insisted.
This is a documentary...I have already answered people in this comment section regarding the definition of a documentary. If we want to get really specific and discuss which type of documentary this is, it falls under the genre of a 'talking head documentary'. I am really surprised here, that so many people,, do not understand what a documentary is, but even more surprised people do not do simple google searches before making uninformed statements.
Saturn is the timeless console. It pioneered a lot of the industry standards we have today: 60 fps, high res and fast loading times. It was named after the Titanic planet and continues to impress.
Glad to see the Sega Saturn get some much needed love here. The system has a special place in my heart when Nights came out. A few days before it came out, my mother succumbed after a four year battle with ovarian cancer and it helped clear my head at such a sad time. Every time I play that game it will always remind me of her.
I remember how I got mine. I went to my local Software Etc and was actually shocked that they had it in stock, and as I had a decent income for the time being as my college was pretty much paid for due to scholarships that I made the Saturn an impulse buy. The problem was there were not many places that sold it (KB Toys would not sell it because they were left out of the initial shipment) and new games were at a trickle. But over time better games did come out, they gave out VF Remix to everyone for free, and that holiday was what I call the "Holy Trifecta," that being VF2, Virtua Cop and Sega Rally.
It was a shame how it was treated in the US, more so when Bernie Stolar (who I still to this day believe was a double agent for Sony) made his infamous claim of how "the Saturn is not our future" and would not allow a lot of great games to come to the US. I ended up having to go to an import store called Starland (now called eStarland) to get great import games such as X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (which was $100 when I got it) and Thunder Force V.
I miss my Saturn, and if I had the money to do so I'd love to collect for it again, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
Oh yeaaaa excited to watch this! Thanks for having me be a part of it as well dude.
It was my pleasure!
Top Hat Gaming Man it was dope appearing in a video with the both of you, lol if you woulda told me back when we were chatting in rerez's live stream I wouldn't have believed ya lol
I think this came out great! I'm glad I got to contribute to a video for such an awesome system 😀
Dude u r awesome
Sega's Rally Championship was my fave on Saturn. Graphics were colorful with a super smooth 60fps & clever track design to hide polygon pop-in, and controls were sublime.
Great to have a documentary with so many viewpoints. What an underrated system. Truly the last games console that felt like it was a proper games system rather than one going for realism.
This was a lot of fun to take part in and the final product is better then I ever could have imagined. Long live sega!!
Thank you sir! It was an honor to have you involved.
long live Dreamcastguy!!
He is SaturnGuy now
Top Hat Gaming Man we're all Saturn guys now
Top Hat Saturn Man
Great video & thanks for letting me be a part of it, I feel honoured appearing alongside some of these quality TH-cam channel hosts! 😊
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Very well made documentary sir. I was already sold on the Saturn as it was my first proper console as a kid and I'm chuffed to see there is still so much love for it.
Fun to watch and listen to all of the contributors. Nice to have so much information in one place.
I loved the Saturn's CD player, one of the most unique of the game systems.
Excellent video as always, the Sega saturn is by far my favourite console and is the one I play most in my collection.
looking forward to more videos like this !
Me too! I absolutely loved it, very well done! Thanks for having us!
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The Definitive History Guide For Saturn. Excellent job by Everyone That Participated. Thank You.
The Sega Saturn does not weigh 399 pounds!....oh, right. British currency.
Yeeeaaaahhh.
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Thank you for this video, I just got a Saturn for Christmas and I'm looking forward to getting the full potential out of it. Always great to see that people still love it.
I am really one of those rare gamers who owned the Saturn in the '90s....
I know PlayStation was the console of the generation, but Saturn was a great console on its own right. Very underrated and underappreciated. It makes me sad when I think about it. 😥
Hey, I'm here thanks to Death Mountaineers on TH-cam, a minute in and already i know this is gonna be good, thanks for making this!
Horray! Welcome
Still my favorite system. It just doesn't get the respect it deserves. My roommate and I played Battle Garegga night after night on our old-school projection TV in college. Those were good times.
How is it better than ps1 or n64 tho
Thanks to your video I just ordered one. I remember playing my best friend's and being so jealous. Great games but sadly I never was able to acquire one... until now. I had completely forgotten about the Saturn and I wasn't even sure if my fond recollections were accurate of how good the system really is. After seeing this video I can't wait to get my hands on it in a couple weeks! Thank you Top Hat Gaming Man and Co.
The Sega Saturn was just a strange time in gaming. But unfortunately for Sega, past mistakes would be their downfall and those errors came back to bight them in the arse sadly.
So bloody chuffed to have been a part of this major celebration of not only gaming but of the gaming community. Dear TH-cam, this is what TH-cam is about! Not bloody Hollywood and those bunch of hacks doing what they can to get on your screens to push their latest movies! But real peeps that put a call out to discuss topics that they are passionate about! I do hope someone in TH-cam gets a whiff of this video and starts to get serious about acknowledging the REAL reason why we love TH-cam.
Sony used false information to attract customers from that Saturn competition. Back then, Sony claimed that they were $100 cheaper than Saturn but they lied on actual reality. When Sony claimed to be sold at $300, and saturn at $400, they were putting themselves as a $100 cheaper console. But what Sony did not told their customers is that after buying their sony console, they also need to buy a game for $50-60 plus a memory card for $20-$30. Meanwhile, Saturn was $400 including a free game plus a free so, the price different between Saturn bundle against Sony PS bundle was only $25 or maybe less. Kind of the same false marketing that Sony ps4 is doing now with the "we have 4k gaming" when in reality is not "real" 4k. It's only an set of stretching squares techniques.
Jorge Palomares worst part the Saturn was selling the console and the games at a lost when they wage a price war with the ps1.
One cannot simply blame the past blunders of Sega for the failure of the Sega Saturn launch outside of Japan.
We can only blame the lack of software titles and horrendously bad marketing of the Saturn console.
The great quality library of games that the Genesis/MegaDrive had was totally missing from the Sega Saturn both at launch, and during it's barely-there life span.
Still have my Saturn and love it.
The system was launched when I was 12 and I was a Nintendo fan so my sights were set on the N64 coming out in 1996. But I remember the system coming out suddenly (as it was launched by surprise during e3 from what I remember). I wasn't a Sega fan at the time so outside of reading reviews in various gaming magazines and being obsessed with the amount of sprites on screen for Dragon Force it seemingly came and went. Didn't help that I grew up in a rural town so basically if it wasn't popular in the bigger cities it wasn't going to be in my area.
I've started collecting Saturn the last year or so and I've enjoyed it but it is pricey.
Got my Sega Saturn Christmas of '97 and I'm still playing it in 2018.
Fantastic video mate. Really liked the style of video and hearing everyone's experiences with my favourite console.
And of course thank you for letting me be a part of this project. :)
Thank you Mr Saturn.
@shockz16
I keep joking about the difficulty of acquiring Panzer Dragoon Saga and seeing yours wrapped in plastic on your shelf made me laugh at my own predicament, haha.
Top Hat Gaming Man I fucking love the Sega saturn. I played it to death when I was ill in secondary school I played daytona usa and Sega rally all the time and sometimes clock work knight
Top Hat Gaming Man also mine was broken and guy fixed it up for me and got it for £25 but unfortunately it died on me. I saw one in cex a few days it was £90
I remember being the only one with a saturn and all my friends thinking I actually had a sega genesis but for some strange reason would call it by a different name until one of them came to my house and realized there actually was a console newer than the genesis from sega, it was that rare in the U.S. I also remember going to electronics boutique and being jelous that playstation and n64 had a whole wall of games and the saturn had a small standup section in a corner with like 10 games.
It's funny that after I bought a Japanese Sega Saturn a few months ago that I start seeing a bunch of people that I subbed to a while ago post videos on the Saturn. Maybe I just notice it more now that I own one finally.
Great video THGM, very informative as always!
Thanks for this top hat GAming man. Prety neat job!
Awesome video, one of my favourite consoles, awesome video mate
This is great. Really good format. Love the "talking heads" approach!
Brilliant and informative; loving the new 'vibe' of your channel
I havn't ever owned one but was lucky enough to play this not long after release, watching this video made me want one all over again
I'm fully expecting the Wii U to be the same in many ways, hopefully the biggest difference will be that Nintendo won't go under after the Switch
My favorite games, which i still have on the system, are Xmen vs Street fighter, Xmen Children of the Atom, Shinobi Legions, Mr. Bones, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Sega Rally, and Tomb Raider.
I'm amazed you don't have more subscribers. Always producing legit content. Cheers from Canada!
Top Hat Gaming Man I am from Australia and imported X-men Vs. Street Fighter (Japan) back in 1998. We wasted hours on Japanese imports. I would love to give a review on the many parties we all had playing Saturn down in the southern land LOL.
Legit, one of the best videos anyone in the community has ever done. Tip of the top hat my dear friend. Great work!
I was hardcore Sega back then. I had the Master System, graduated to the Genesis, then 32x , Sega CD, and eventually the Saturn. Sega games just appealed to me more. My brother opted to get the PlayStation, which i grew envious of all the titles that were available for that system , vs the Saturn. I was still happy with the Saturn and my friends enjoyed playing it when they came over. I still play my Saturn , even probably more than my PS4. Lol
Now atleast the sega saturn got more recognition in the us, in the uk it was whole diffrent story
Just headed over off the back of Death Mountaineers recommendation, quality longer style documentary! Was good to get an in depth view from other collectors of a system I don't know much about. Top Hat Gaming Man, keep up the work good sir!
Good stuff, myself and the Death Mountaineers channel are releasing a two way collab video, later this week.
Will keep em peeled for that chap.
I had one I got for Christmas one year, back in the late 90's when they were on clearance. I ended up selling it to make student loan payments back in the great recession. Replaced it later after I got a job with a Japanese Victor V-Saturn
I always loved the saturn. Was playing Tomb Raider to death back in the 90s. Today i have almost a complete library.
I'm not going to be able to watch this until tomorrow now, hope my bits fit in with the rest of you ok!
man the saturn and dreamcast were brilliant, bloody loved them
I only knew one person who ever owned a Saturn back in the day which was a friend of my mother's who ran a Daycare business from her home, so whenever we went over to her house I would always get to play it on a big early 90's wooden Zenith console TV that had S-video(Yes from the US, and we never got SCART), and she thankfully at least used composite over the RF signal. It was awesome getting to play great titles like V.F 1, and 2, Daytona, Virtual Cop, & House of the Dead, and thankfully some of these titles came out on PC as well which I've always been big into, and as such I got to play them at my own home, but I still have not come across a Saturn of my own at a price does not make my budget want to go HOLY HELL BATMAN!!!
Gah! I would have killed to be part of this video! Great stuff guys. I owned a Saturn from launch, crazy how many people didn't know about this console or shunned it, but that's the tragic history. Best game on the system, Panzer Dragoon Saga, hands down. I poured over images of that game in every Sega Saturn magazine until it released! Then they released the "demo" disk which was the entire first disk of the full game...amazing stuff. That game is precious to me. Awesome video again, share that Saturn love.
Clocked It my uncle gave me a bunch of those magazines when I was about 14, I still have them lying around somewhere! Good memories!
Death Mountaineers - I bought them every month, lived by them. Back when demo disks were awesome and on most covers. Great stuff and yes, still got all mine, both Sega Saturn magazine and Saturn Power, loved them. Got me all nostalgic now, might have to break the Saturn back out heh.
Clocked It I too had the Saturn at launch. We had a game store called Game Giant in my neighborhood, which let you do a layaway, which helped me a lot back then, since the Saturn was so dang expensive. Dreamcast is still my favorite, but the Saturn is right up there, and probably tied for second with my 360.
Holy crap! You got Ashens and Shawn on this?! You're doing incredibly well Mr top hat! Kudos! Hope you top 15k subs by Christmas!
Watching this video really made me miss my Saturn. World Series Baseball '98 is such a good baseball game :)
Well .. I think it's time I buy one. Been far too long. Pika
Really enjoyed this thanks lads
LOL! I almost pissed myself at 13:25 when you said "stepfathers friend had one.." That's exactly how I remember the Sega Saturn. My stepfather's college friend had one! And it was the only one I ever saw as a child. I had a PlayStation , it wasn't till years later that I bought a Saturn as an adult. I feel like I missed out on so much....
cool love my saturn even have the flight stick plus tons of games
that was awesome, loved hearing other people's experience with the Saturn. Thanks for letting me be a part of it ;)
Thanks for giving a Welsh perspective on the system!
MrGreys Gaming happy to be introduced to your content my dude!
Death Mountaineers - thanks man, same back at you :)
World of MrGrey why is almost every comment from someone saying how they are in the video. No one gives a shit! Oh, look everybody, i'm in the video.. Lol
Nights into Dreams was trully a magnificent game.
@ 16:56 "I was 3.5 years old when Saturn came out, I had a SNES at 3 y/o so I don't ACCURATELY remember the launch" stop just stop, you didn't know ANYTHING about the Saturn launch or knew what your older brothers SNES was at 3 y/o LOL.
I remember when I got mine for Xmas waay back in 95. went from master system all the way through dreamcast! amazing game library! Panzer series, burning rangers, D, Albert Odyssey, Daytona, nights, etc etc etc
This was Awesome! Thanks for letting me take part in it mate!
You know a video has everything when it even includes Mizzah Tee!
Mizzah Tee dude I can't wait to check your stuff out! Glad I was able to be in a video with ya, I dig your content idea man!
Hadn't seen you before this but you just got a new subscriber!
Thanks! Gonna check out your channel and everyone else involved. Glad to get to know you gents!
Mizzah Tee you too! Oh I was in it everybody! How sad.
I must be a weird gamer because I love sports games and have since I was a kid. I know a lot of the community writes off sports games but I really enjoy a good sports game as well as all your platforming classics
Great video, love it!
Loving the use of Saturn Bomberman in the background
Really enjoyed the video too, i grew up with Sega consoles (the first console i ever bought myself was a japanese Mega Drive) and the Saturn has always been a favourite of mine. My games collection for the Saturn isn't massive (but i have most of the big ones including Panzer Dragoon Saga and Shining Force 3 among others) mostly as i only buy games i want to play
I was lucky as i bought my Saturn just after the Playstation came out and many people were getting rid of their Saturn's and games so i was able to pick up games for it cheap. I love the system and it really makes me happy to know there are so many other lovers of the Saturn out there, Thank you all so much
Also my favourite Saturn game?...... i have 2, Saturn Bomberman (as i have 2 multitaps and a box of joypads for some hectic games at the local gaming club) and Virtual On Cyber Troopers because who doesn't love giant robots?
Anarki471 playing a full game of Saturn bomberman multiplayer is low-key a huge dream of mine 😊
It's mad fun, althought it only has a single 10 player map.... it can also really strain friendships :)
great video i will share it in my Sega Saturn French blog !
my friends had the saturn too. Its an amazing system. I own one MIB I got on clearence for $25 at K mart. So I have a back up. Panzer Dragoon was awsome so was knights. The special christmas disk is fun
I didn't play much SEGA Saturn ... my best mate rented it for a weekend a few times with a few games. My favourite game was easily SEGA Rally ... I was heavily into driving games at the time and playing such a great port of the arcade game at home was just AWESOME.
Scott Champyan I don't understand what Burnout Revenge has to do with the SEGA Saturn ? SEGA Rally was released for the 5th gen Saturn console in 1995, ported from the arcade rally racer game. Burnout Revenge is a multiplat 6th-7th gen console street racer from 2005 where the player uses demolition derby, race & crash combat mechanics to win. Both fun in their own rights but hardly comparable.
Woo! Totally forgot that I was featured in this. Talk about a fun surprise
Apparently I'm the only person on earth who had a Saturn when they were current.
Great content. Thank you. Subscribed!
Channel is aces mate so I subbed. Cheers!
At least i know that im not the only one who truly loved Xmen Children of the Atom! It seems like that game gets overlooked a lot. Still love and play it.
Still need Street Fighter Collection for a full PAL collection. I love the system.
Thankyou for the video Top hat !!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this I remember I picked my Saturn up for 50 bucks when it was discontinued in the US but still strong in Japan. Loved nights into dreams. Did you happen to try to reach out to avgn? or was he just too busy? Keep up the great work.
I didnt actually reach out to anyone. I just sent a tweet out, asking if youtubers wanted to contribute to a Saturn documentary and everyone involved are repliers to that tweet.
I loved NES, SNES and Genesis. But Saturn holds a big place in my heart.
Ghen War was my absolute favorite game.
Awesome video, good job guys 👌👌
Sega needs to make a comeback
I don't remember being mad about the Sega CD or 32X, I had fun with the CDs and nobody I knew bought a 32X. It was timing and title releases in NA that had me getting a Playstation, first time I could buy a console on my own iirc and the 3D graphics were enticing. I wish more 2D games left Japan but 3D was so popular and showing off more 3D SS titles only made it look worse in comparisons.
LOVE the Saturn. Every gen I go for every console so I can play the best of what each has to offer. The next under appreciated systems will be the Vita and the Wii U.
Bought it on release with vitura fighter.
Tomb raider came out on this first.
More power than the PlayStation which I worked on at virgin but it was hard to program for so never really saw its full potential but in 2D it excelled.
Dead or alive used the same Engine as vitura fighter 2.
Sega gave out a free copy of Christmas nights.
Never got the fmv cart as I had one in the cd32 that played all the cdi movies too.
Shame sonic xtreme never got finished and even shenmue was made for the Saturn but for good reason went into the dreamcast.
Back then I'd buy all the systems.
Wipeout for ps1 mario 64 for Nintendo 64 and the Saturn for Daytona.
32x for doom.
Sega are going to return with a Netflix style service sega forever and for a subscription you can play them all.
And still most cross platform 2D games look better on Playstation. Because it was just simpler to program. Saturn for example could only do transparency on one of it's 2 pocessors or something like that. So Saturn games ended up using meshes instead of true transparency very often.
Nic B Creations not all, many cross platform games are way better on Saturn... DOA, Street Racer, X-men v Streetfighter, Powerslave, etc.
Last Bronx and Darius Gaiden are easily my two favorite Saturn games
Didn't know there were so many great titles for it, including a dozen or so of my favorate arcade games. might have to pick one up.
Awesome vid dude.
i stole my sisters saturn and installed the 50/60hz switch.. lucky i bought all the shoot em up games when i still lived with my mum in the early 2000s and they were reasonably priced.silvergun was always expensive tho .even at release importers like another world were charging £70+
i wouldn't pay anything for them now.no shame in the mame.plus we have pseudo saturn.game collecting is for rich nerds nowadays.i hope your not recommending me cheap dreck like ghost blade and caladrius blaze.i have taste thank you
We had one for 2 days as a kid. My parents took it back and bought a Playstation.
Maybe it 's nostalgia, but I love the Saturn and it's predecessor.
Funny fact: I'm almost sure the Saturn did great in Portugal on its early years. Everyone that I knew had one. My favourite game of all time is actually on the Saturn, the holy grail Panzer Dragoon Saga.
My favourite Saturn game is probably Alien Trilogy. I have a huge childhood nostalgia towards it, I love the Alien universe. Aliens is my favourite movie, I played the hell out of Alien Trilogy back in the day and still play it now and still love it. I prefer the Saturn version over the PS1 version.
These where the good old days!... Takes me back but, long gone now... ;(
No mention of Dragon Force or Guardian Heroes during the favorites? BLASPHEMY!
Had it in 1995, have it in 2017. Just have more games now that passed me by back then. Absolutely the best "failed" console.
I bought the SATURN back when it was new and immediately modded it so I could play Japanese games. Psychic Killer and Princess Crown are loads of fun. SPRITE GAMES > POLY GAMES
stringanime I like shmups and the low-poly graphics
Theguy at 1:44 .. James did his first sega saturn video 2 years ago, the Crow. He didnt really review the system so I don't know how that inspired him to get one right after. Maybe he saw a different video and connected it to James
If you lived in North America when the Saturn came out and didnt know about it you were either poor or not a real gamer. 1st console I ever got at launch and always fond memories of the system.
Such a misunderstood and underrated system.
The Sega Saturn is a genuinely sexy piece of kit (although, not the original butt-fugly American controller).
My favourite game on the system is Sega Rally Championship.
Awesome video mate. :)
my perants rented this and psx, turns out we got psx
My first Saturn game is Dragon Ball Z: Idanaru Dragon Ball Densetsu. So many memories.
I bought the Saturn the day the PS1 came out, and I feel I made the right choice.
Big up for so many toobers, Mizzah Tee's my man.
I think I owned one in the early 2000s but truthfully my memory is pretty hazy from 1998 to 2011.
However, I did have the genesis, cd, and 32x. I wanted a Saturn so badly but my parents couldn't afford it at the time (how they got me the 32x was because it wasn't expensive when you already had the genesis).
another great video
This is a recollection of the personal experiences of quite a few youtubers world wide and is just the same as that Channel 4/5 series where famous people talked about the NES or Handheld LCD games etc as they experienced them lol not a documentary sane as the 5% time taken for some obvious well known aspects about the product within the episode. If this as you seem to demand is a documentary then the 2016 release of Ghostbusters deserved a sequel too like the OTT director insisted.
This is a documentary...I have already answered people in this comment section regarding the definition of a documentary. If we want to get really specific and discuss which type of documentary this is, it falls under the genre of a 'talking head documentary'. I am really surprised here, that so many people,, do not understand what a documentary is, but even more surprised people do not do simple google searches before making uninformed statements.