Actually, Magic Knight Rayearth was the final game released in North America. Excellent video, though. 👍 When you were showing the copies of Herc's Adventures that sold on eBay, I was the person who purchased the one at the top that you circled with your cursor for $214.99 on June 13th. Thank God I am nearly done collecting for the Saturn. It's been brutal. I wish I did it a long time ago.
Yet Sega makes very little effort to re-release anything. They are insane to only focus on new games, whilst ignoring all their history. The PS2 Sega Ages collections were a good start in the 2000s, unfortunately even those stayed for Japan Only and very few knew they were even happening at the time due to the still active territorial media blackouts. Consumers will have to wait generations to pass until copyright ends and they can be re-released freely by new publishers.
Luckily I already have all of these, except for Mega Man 8 , Magic Knight Rayearth and the Daytona Netlink Edition. Saturn is a great console. You don't need these expensive releases to have a lot of fun with it. Many great games are still affordable.
I got Rayearth from a church 'virtual yard sale' years ago for... well still quite a bit but considering it was complete with only minor box and manual damage, it was a lot less than it's going for these days. Let's just say less than what disc-only was going for on those ebay captures. If you're curious about the damage, the stickers had fallen off (though they were there), and the hinge on the box was broken (common on the Saturn and Sega CD cases). Most of the prices these days are, imho, artificially inflated by things like that sealed Super Mario Bros. game selling for so much. Regarding the Rayearth game, I kinda hate that they removed most of the voiced lines as US audiences found it distracting. It was ahead of its time.
Saturn is such an inaccessible console if you want to play United States versions of most of its games. Importing games are much cheaper, but that's not too useful if you can read Japanese and are playing any games with a lot of text. At least emulation is great, and every year we hear about various Saturn games finally being translated after being stuck in Japan since its launch.
100% agree. It’s a very expensive console to collect for and flippers tend to grab up the few yard sale finds that are left. I love Japan and Japanese culture, but sadly I don’t speak the language and don’t care to deal with importing stuff from there. I only collect US copies of Saturn games at the moment and I have a pseudo saturn cart to play backup discs
I try to play the two games at once thing, i.e. the game and the implied narrative of non-communication. Fighting against a lack of translation is just a second game within a game, most people just want to be lazy about not having their hand held in the interactive media sphere. I take up the challenge all the time, of course it is pointless with an RPG (but then I don't play those).
Also if you use ebay's research tool you can see information on sold listing for the last 3 years. There have been 4 copies of Daytona Netlink edition sold.
Actually, Magic Knight Rayearth was the final game released in North America. Excellent video, though. 👍
When you were showing the copies of Herc's Adventures that sold on eBay, I was the person who purchased the one at the top that you circled with your cursor for $214.99 on June 13th. Thank God I am nearly done collecting for the Saturn. It's been brutal. I wish I did it a long time ago.
Yet Sega makes very little effort to re-release anything. They are insane to only focus on new games, whilst ignoring all their history. The PS2 Sega Ages collections were a good start in the 2000s, unfortunately even those stayed for Japan Only and very few knew they were even happening at the time due to the still active territorial media blackouts. Consumers will have to wait generations to pass until copyright ends and they can be re-released freely by new publishers.
I agree. I really wish they would get back into the console space, but if not- at least give us a collection of great saturn stuff
Luckily I already have all of these, except for Mega Man 8 , Magic Knight Rayearth and the Daytona Netlink Edition. Saturn is a great console. You don't need these expensive releases to have a lot of fun with it. Many great games are still affordable.
I got Rayearth from a church 'virtual yard sale' years ago for... well still quite a bit but considering it was complete with only minor box and manual damage, it was a lot less than it's going for these days. Let's just say less than what disc-only was going for on those ebay captures. If you're curious about the damage, the stickers had fallen off (though they were there), and the hinge on the box was broken (common on the Saturn and Sega CD cases). Most of the prices these days are, imho, artificially inflated by things like that sealed Super Mario Bros. game selling for so much.
Regarding the Rayearth game, I kinda hate that they removed most of the voiced lines as US audiences found it distracting. It was ahead of its time.
Thanks for sharing- cool story. I had this game years ago and regret getting rid of it. Too expensive these days
Saturn is such an inaccessible console if you want to play United States versions of most of its games. Importing games are much cheaper, but that's not too useful if you can read Japanese and are playing any games with a lot of text.
At least emulation is great, and every year we hear about various Saturn games finally being translated after being stuck in Japan since its launch.
100% agree. It’s a very expensive console to collect for and flippers tend to grab up the few yard sale finds that are left. I love Japan and Japanese culture, but sadly I don’t speak the language and don’t care to deal with importing stuff from there. I only collect US copies of Saturn games at the moment and I have a pseudo saturn cart to play backup discs
I try to play the two games at once thing, i.e. the game and the implied narrative of non-communication. Fighting against a lack of translation is just a second game within a game, most people just want to be lazy about not having their hand held in the interactive media sphere. I take up the challenge all the time, of course it is pointless with an RPG (but then I don't play those).
The line through the price indicates that a best offer was accepted on the asking price. It is not the price that it was sold for.
Also if you use ebay's research tool you can see information on sold listing for the last 3 years. There have been 4 copies of Daytona Netlink edition sold.
Yep, thats why I show multiple sold listings and not just one