Back to Saturn after ~20 years (man I feel old)

[jdh]

It was December 1995 when I first received my Sega Saturn as a joint Christmas present with my brother. Man the fun we had playing that thing! Sad part is in Canada after a few years, it was nearly impossible to find any Saturn games whatsoever, so naturally we moved to PlayStation which has a wealth of games available to buy. Truth be told, we only had about 6 games total for the Saturn, but man we played the hell out of those games!

Saturn holds a special place in my heart though, and after years of wanting one again, I just ordered a Model 1 (same one I had!) from eBay that looks to be in  great condition complete with 2x 80100 controllers and a (Brand new!) 3D Control Pad.

I bought the 3-pack of games (New/sealed!) along with Nights and Bug to start my collection off. I look forward to playing all these great games again, and learn more from all you guys here. I have lots of reading to do.


If anyone has pointers for starting out or anything, please share!

[sych]

Welcome to the Forums. Glad you've found your love for the console once again. What were the 6 Saturn games you and your brother originally owned? I take it Nights & Bug were 2 of them. As always game recommendations are always coming up, have a look around at the forums and you'll soon discover what's hot and what's not. Most of the great Saturn games can still be had a decent price but then there are those with prices well into the 3 figure marks so be prepared to spend a small fortune for some games. I'd also recommend picking up an Action replay 4in1 when you can. Anyway, here a link to some great game recommendations from another newbie after the same question.

segasaturngroup.proboards.com/thread/9861/suppose-sega-noob

[nathangrave]

I envy your child experience with Saturn a little bit. I have only PS1 experience, I even don't know if Saturn was in stores back in a day in my country:) But, fall in love with Saturn, recently so welcome!

[jdh]

Dec 30, 2016 22:09:26 GMT sych said:

Welcome to the Forums. Glad you've found your love for the console once again. What were the 6 Saturn games you and your brother originally owned? I take it Nights & Bug were 2 of them. As always game recommendations are always coming up, have a look around at the forums and you'll soon discover what's hot and what's not. Most of the great Saturn games can still be had a decent price but then there are those with prices well into the 3 figure marks so be prepared to spend a small fortune for some games. I'd also recommend picking up an Action replay 4in1 when you can. Anyway, here a link to some great game recommendations from another newbie after the same question.

segasaturngroup.proboards.com/thread/9861/suppose-sega-noob

The games I had as a kid were:

Bug
Gex
Nights
Virtual Fighter 2
Virtua Cop
Daytona USA
Astal
Clockwork Night

Okay I miscounted in my OP 8 games!

Sheesh, looking online, I can definitely see this being a small fortune for sure! You know what though, it's about quality not quantity, so i'm (semi) okay with this. Thanks for the link it's great!

Dec 30, 2016 22:30:59 GMT nathangrave said:

I envy your child experience with Saturn a little bit. I have only PS1 experience, I even don't know if Saturn was in stores back in a day in my country:) But, fall in love with Saturn, recently so welcome!

It's such a cool system! I don't even know why, but it's just so special!

[xDerekRx]

JDH Welcome, what part of Canada are you from? Im from Buffalo so its basically both countries

Your story is kinda like mine in some ways. My brother and I got a Saturn in late 1996 during XMAS. Parents got the 3 Free Game Deal.

As 10-11 year olds we had no choice and my parents thought it would be the next big system. We gave it a good 1.5-2 years of love before getting a PS1 and N64... then DC and PC.

Like you, despite owning a PS1 and being able to play ALL of the great titles (RE2, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid).... the Saturn love remained the strongest when I got older. Maybe it was that everyone was against it. Maybe its because as a Saturn owner you felt you were in a small exclusive club.

Its never too late to start re-collecting. Although my re-interest came back in 2006 and it was certainly easier and cheaper to start up again...

We also only owned maybe 10-12 titles when I was a kid too. But they all offered something unique as Saturn versions. My memory is sometimes blurry about a couple titles if they were borrowed from friends and kept or not.

Virtua Cop, Virtual Fighter 2, Daytona USA, Area 51, Sega Rally, Sonic 3D Blast, Fighting Vipers, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Alien Trilogy. Borrowed ones: Nights, Myst, Tomb Raider. Also remember playing the heck out of the demos for Clockwork Knight, Bug, Nights, Panzer Dragoon, and Baku Baku.

But the nostalgia for the games I read about in magazines is what really brought me back to collect. Games I never had the means to buy but wanted: Burning Rangers, Sonic R, Congo, Powerslave, Last Bronx, Steep Slope Sliders, Bomberman, Hercs Adventures, Croc.

[jdh]

Jan 3, 2017 5:49:42 GMT xDerekRx said:

JDH Welcome, what part of Canada are you from? Im from Buffalo so its basically both countries

Your story is kinda like mine in some ways. My brother and I got a Saturn in late 1996 during XMAS. Parents got the 3 Free Game Deal.

As 10-11 year olds we had no choice and my parents thought it would be the next big system. We gave it a good 1.5-2 years of love before getting a PS1 and N64... then DC and PC.

Like you, despite owning a PS1 and being able to play ALL of the great titles (RE2, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid).... the Saturn love remained the strongest when I got older. Maybe it was that everyone was against it. Maybe its because as a Saturn owner you felt you were in a small exclusive club.

Its never too late to start re-collecting. Although my re-interest came back in 2006 and it was certainly easier and cheaper to start up again...

We also only owned maybe 10-12 titles when I was a kid too. But they all offered something unique as Saturn versions. My memory is sometimes blurry about a couple titles if they were borrowed from friends and kept or not.

Virtua Cop, Virtual Fighter 2, Daytona USA, Area 51, Sega Rally, Sonic 3D Blast, Fighting Vipers, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Alien Trilogy. Borrowed ones: Nights, Myst, Tomb Raider. Also remember playing the heck out of the demos for Clockwork Knight, Bug, Nights, Panzer Dragoon, and Baku Baku.

But the nostalgia for the games I read about in magazines is what really brought me back to collect. Games I never had the means to buy but wanted: Burning Rangers, Sonic R, Congo, Powerslave, Last Bronx, Steep Slope Sliders, Bomberman, Hercs Adventures, Croc.

I'm from Edmonton, Alberta. And that's nowhere near the border unfortunately, so shipping is my only option really. 

My family gave it as fair of a chance as we could, but when games were disappearing from shelves, we knew it was time to move on. I ended up downloading the entire collection of the Official Saturn Magazine from the Internet Archive, so I have tons of reading to do! I never had the opportunity to read the actual magazines when they were published, so i'm excited!