List of Sega Saturn Exclusives

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I really quite like the discussion going on here

Regarding the official Sega Saturn Magazine's stance against Astal, this was typical of the publication in its early period as the editorial staff were keen - maybe even forced? - to support Sega's every (wrong) move. The powers that be were pushed hard by their Japanese superiors to promote Virtua Fighter as the console's flagship title at launch, which even led to the production of a planned third and final chapter in the Eternal Champions franchise being cancelled outright. Hypocritically, it was SOJ that also "inflicted" the likes of Astal, Golden Axe: The Duel and Gale Racer* on early Saturn adopters, though only one of these made it to PAL territories. Later on, when SOE had given up on the Saturn, it was SSM that covered the still healthy import scene

I think that's probably it. If you pick up later issues of SSM they really start to support the 2D library, mainly because they could say with certainty that 2D titles were better on the Saturn! at that point they probably decided to play on the strengths of the Saturn over the PSone. Which really wasn't hot air, alot of the Capcom 2D releases on the Saturn were miles better than the PSone versions.

Early on 3D was probably the biggest thing, so it made sense to prioritize that as the best possible 3D graphics were enough to lure consumers who had grown up with 8 bit and 16 bit platforms.

[sonix]

List updated with several Japanese games. This makes 2 out of 26 pages of Jap games on Satakore covered.

[NeoGeoNinja]

Apr 12, 2013 16:11:06 GMT sonix said:

List updated with several Japanese games. This makes 2 out of 26 pages of Jap games on Satakore covered.

GOOD WORK...
but, my God, how on Earth have you managed to clarify all those as exclusives!

[sonix]

Gamefaqs has every single game listed so it's nothing hard Sometimes I just have to google for more clarification.

[Oho]

This is not only an awesome list but an interesting read that game critics of the time were hating on 2D games as much as they were. 3D might have been popular in consoles at the time but 2D games still look amazing today.

[mick_aka]

Really is an epic undertaking, good work!

[sonix]

A little update, right now I'm through 300 Japanese releases, so it's about 25% complete.

A little curio: I didn't expect to find out there's an "educational" game called Father Christmas, that was released only for Saturn and, originally, for... C64.

[mick_aka]

I have that, its based on the Raymond Briggs cartoon, same guy that did The Snowman.

[NeoGeoNinja]

I'M HOPING...
that this thread will eventually find itself not only completed, but stickied too

Really, really good thread. Well done Sonix

[thewhitefalcon]

I know this isn't done, and it looks like OP hasn't been on since 2014, but could this be stickied anyway? It's pretty useful as-is (and maybe someone can finish it).

[Shinra]

May 28, 2016 15:00:38 GMT thewhitefalcon said:

I know this isn't done, and it looks like OP hasn't been on since 2014, but could this be stickied anyway? It's pretty useful as-is (and maybe someone can finish it).

That's very kind of you to volunteer to take on such a big task! Good luck!

[jacknickelsonthe3rd]

You forgot about Lunar: Samposuru Gakuen on Saturn (also on Game Gear),
named Mahō Gakuen Lunar! (Magic School Lunar!).

[abveost]

Do you have more of the Japan Only list?

[purple1308]

Panzer dragoon had another version on panzer dragoon orta if you completed the game you got the orginal.

[zyrobs]

Don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but Digital Pinball got an ios release, titled Last Gladiators Ver.2010.