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Despite all the other video game systems I own I wanted a sega saturn. When it came out I was in school and did not have money to bye one. And I have all my life had only a mom and she had to pay everthing on her own and could not afford one for me. It was a 400.00 video game system when it came out. Thats a lot of bread. Okay. I bought a sega saturn in a local flea maket for 25.00 used of course. I agree with one of the other reviewers that the system is well built. I was very hestient about buying a saturn because there are a few people who say thet its a bad system but I reall like it a lot. The system was very nice for back then but today look look at it and say god!!! what an ulgy system. The games don't take long to load. They load pretty fast. It has a cartridge input. It has a cartridge input which has to be for the memory card. Big memory card. I don't know. I only got the system alone without original paper work so I do not have a manuel to read. overall I have been very satstifed with my sega saturn. Its a very free promblem system. I have had 2 systems that I have had promblems with. I have to admitt that I love sega saturn more then my ps2. Great System. It was well worth the moey. Evey penny. If you are new to video games and want to bye a system then maybe my review was well worth it to you to land up byeing a sega saturn. Great System and I have allways love sega. Thet make some good video game consoles. I know because I have a gensis and a nomad. Thank you. Have a super year!!!!
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Don't listen to those who diss the Saturn, it was a great system with great games, SEGA RULES!
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I own or have owned many game systems. Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Playstation, Game Gear, Nomad, and now Gamecube and PS2. But My two favorite systems are undoubtedly the Dreamcast and the Saturn. And my favorite of the two is undoubtedly the Saturn.
The saturn was a well-built machine. Despite its internal workings being less than perfect in some ways (it was designed to work with squares rather than triangles when rendering, and had multiple processors sharing the main load) it also had some surprisingly good ideas (like built in memory for game saves and an expansion slot for memory upgrades and save backups). But what really impressed me about the hardware is the fact that even though the machine has been extinct for years, every one that I've encountered works perfectly. Now I'm sure that some of them just plain gave out, or were dropped or something. But I have never had a Saturn not load a game. I have never seen a Saturn freeze up or crash. I have never seen one stutter while playing movies. And my playstation started doing those things years ago (I finally had to get rid of it and pay for a replacement). Also worthy of mention is the fact that the original saturn controller is what I consider to be the finest designed controller in all of video game history. I fits my hand PERFECTLY. Playing games like Panzer Dragoon II, or Rayman with this controller is simply amazing. And speaking of Panzer Dragoon II...
The Saturn had what I consider to be the greatest selection of games ever. The best version of Rayman (my favorite side-scrolling game ever) is on the Saturn. Radiant Silvergun (what many consider to be the best shooter ever) is for Import Saturn. Nights into Dreams (the greatest game Sonic Team ever made) is for Saturn. And what about Sega Rally (quite possibly the greatest rally racing game ever)? Truly, when you take the imports into consideration, the Saturn had an outstanding selection of games. Whatever you want, you can get. Want fighting games? Strategy games? Side-scrollers? Arcade racing? RPGs? The Saturn delivers. Big Time.
The Sega Saturn is truly a system for the hardcore. And many games for it can be had for as little as three or four dollars. And with the system itself running about $30.00 or thereabouts for one in good shape, everyone should have one. Now if only the Price of the import games would drop a little on ebay...
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The Sega Saturn was orginally planned and concieved as a replacement/update for the 16 bit Genesis system. It was to have the best 2-D graphics of it's day, better than anything Nintendo was workign on. Then, Sony entered the game with the PlayStation which introduced the idea of 3-D console capabilities. Sega decided to change the focus of the Saturn towards a 3-D experience. Therefore the internals of the Saturn were redesigned to accomodate the shift in planning. The system launched before the PlayStation, early 1994 in Japan, and May of 1995 in the U.S. At first intital sales for the console looked pretty good, and going into 1996 the Saturn was out-preforming the PS. The early Saturn days saw some great software such as Panzer Dragoon, Daytona USA, Sonic 3D Blast, and Nights into Dreams. The PlayStation however also had great games, and by the end of 1996 had caught up with Saturn in sales. In 1997 the PS took firm control of the lead with the release of Final Fantasy 7 an amazing game that increased sales of the PS exponentially. While the PS was soaring, the Saturn began declining, the games werent as good, several titles that should have been brought over from Japan were not localized, and the system gradually lost support among 3rd party developers. By mid- 1997 the Saturn began its fall from grace. 1998 saw some of the last great games come out for the system, these included Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force 3 and Burning Rangers. With the annoucement of the Dreamcast, Sega's next-gen console, the Saturn was essentially dead in the U.S. Sega stopped supporting it in the fall of 98'.
All in all you could say the Saturn was a failure. It certainly didnt do well commericaly and it lost Sega a lot of money, though it did have some very good games and if it had been supported correctly, might have had a chance and topping the PS. It had decent system specs, and had some great developers especially from Sega making games for it. The control pad was pretty good as well, better than PS1 IMO. I would recomend getting it, just for the games, though the graphics are very obsolete these days. But IMO it was a good console.
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hey everyone now that says psx is better than saturn is full of it.saturn has some special titles u don't find in normal gaming systems.this is better than gamecube or xbox in the game selection cheaper.the graphics are meanlingless if there are no good titles.i say buy now.this is my favorite other yhan ps2.please if u have a need for some good games and want fun and exictement but don't want the hassle of 300 dollars.buy now
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