Hey, thanks for the shout out. Huge point of clarification though, the Pluto that was sold for $84,000 was NOT the one owned by Roger (KidVid). It was the Japanese unit. He and Roger discussed the sale prior, that is to say, they were in contact with each other. Roger still has his Pluto as we intend to do more tests with it that the pandemic delayed.
I would not sell that thing for under 500K if it were mine. Not because I like it, just knowing how obsessive Sega collectors can be. Auctioning is not smart. The man should put it up for $1,000,000 OBO and test the waters that way.
@@warehousedave7937 That's idiotic. Nobody is going to pay that price for it and all it's going to do is sit. Not sure if you know how collectables work but they don't just jump in price from thousands to millions just because somebody holds on to them forever.
@@MaffeyZilog how is that idiotic? I sell video games for a living and know this business extremely well. If I want to make as much as possible for a one of a kind piece with a TON of historic and collectible merit... What should I do? You tell me, smart guy.
That's crazy it sold for that amount. The Saturn is one of my favorite consoles, I can kind of see why they didn't want to bother with putting this on the market because the Saturn was already expensive enough at the time when it was released without a built in modem
Considering the rarity of the system $84,000 doesn't seem too bad for a console that has only 2 known working examples in existence. With that kind of rarity the seller can pretty much dictate the price. Reading through some of the other comments it seems that Kid Vid has held on to it. If I was him I wouldn't be willing to part with it for anything under $100,000.
Agree with you that it would've been nice going to a museum. Given how many times he tried to sell it though, it was always going to a private collection :(
I remember that Ben Hack video :O I was so intrigued about the console. Love the Saturn. I'll never get over SEGA quitting the console industry... ( meaning I'm still hoping they'd return... just team up with CAPCOM, SNK and Bandai Namco, you know you want to )
Only found you recently, got say as someone who played pong in the arcade I'm loving both you & the nostalgic trips down memory lane. Keep up the great work
One learning tree that is very easy to sit under & enjoy all the little bits of trivia dug up in your research 🔬. Keep it up 👍. Definitely one of my new favorite channel to wait for new content from. PS Thank You Top Hat Gaming Man for recommending this channel a few weeks ago. Enjoying the content immensely. Even went back to watch some of the legacy content.
Will NEVER forget my SEGA Saturn. I went to a pawn shop and found a model 1 Saturn and a model 2 controller for $60. My God was it such a premium console- I still have so much onstage for the late 90s gaming aesthetic and the saturn embodies it more than just about anything. Such a neat system
just found your channel, this is a very well made video and Ive never heard of the pluto before also, as an american, I just wanna clarify that as far as I know 'swap meet' and 'flea market' are interchangeable at least from my experience, when I lived in Texas I mostly heard "flea market" but here in the SF Bay Area most people I know say 'swap meet'
Just found this channel. Great work. Vids are very imformative, concise and edited very well. I'm very picky about who I subscribe too but you deserve it. Keep up the great work.
Here in Mexico, arround 1995 - 1999, we used to have a tv news show calles CYBERNET, it presented gaming news and technology. The voice of this lady, remainds me soo much of that anchor lady in that old news show.
Wow, I never even knew about the Neptune, but I heard a bit of the Pluto, which was the Saturn's successor. I found your channel, and there's no doubt that it is amazing!!
The one that I saw was some guy accompanied Adam koralik from Chicago took it up to Madison Wisconsin so Ben heck can work on it and get it running they also found out the Prototype we have here in the United States used to be white and it was just painted black
Great video! Sega does seem to have been ahead of the curve when it came to internet connectivity. Also, it's refreshing to have a British source that refers to car boot sales and weighs consoles in stones so I don't have to translate in my head ;)
Watching this reminded me of the Sega CD2, that I desperately wanted when I was 9 years old or something like that, but didn't know at all what it was good for, I just really wanted it besides already owning a mega drive 2..
I was just looking at some info... It seems like there were (at least) two prototypes in the US and you may have confused the story of the two consoles. One is the one owned by KidVid, and the second was in the possession of a “former Sega employee”. The second one (which had “Sega Saturn” emblazoned on its top, and not just the S logo, and is pictured in your video’s still image) is the one that sold for $84,000 last year. Either KidVid still has his, or he made some sort of a private sale.
never heard of your channel but when i saw the info and this video alone made me click that sub button. your probably the only girl talking about this kinda stuff. edit: 5:29 if you look carefully in her eye you can see 2 pupils!
I know one of the 2 Sega Plutos in the world got to a creator named Crusherbad64 I believe. He showed it off in one of his videos 5 months ago. At least know what happened to one of them
The gaming world just wasnt ready for online gaming on a scale where it would justify an expensive hardware revision just for that purpose back in the mid 90s. At least not in Europe. What they really should have done instead of 32x, CD, Neptune and Pluto is a deluxe Saturn with Megadrive backwards compatibility. That would have been it! Go 32bit and take your 16bit library with you. Nobody else offered that, all obsessed with polygons.
I bought an apple pippin but then i found out the games were more expensive than the system itself so i sold it (it was supposed to work with burn blank cd games but it almost never did) i got a bootleg power rangers Zeo game to work once and never again 😂
With only 2 Plutos left on the planet, the new owner of KidVid's Pluto could get more than $300,000 for it in 10 years... Now, if Steve Jobs hadn't come back to Apple (c1997), to overhaul its operation and redesign macOS when he did, and Apple had gone belly-up sometime between 2000 and 2005, that Pippin of yours (if you still have it) might be worth at least $5,000 now.
There were only 5 Saturn games that had any Saturn Modem/Netlink Modem so didn't make any sense to re-tool manufacturing for this additional console to be manufactured and complicating Sega's production. If people really wanted to use the Saturn on the net they could buy the modem for a regular Saturn. There was no killer app of an internet game for the Saturn, bit of a problem.
$84,000?! Is that the highest offer ever for a home video game system? I imagine KidVid ponied up at least $10,000 each to Ben and Adam in trying to get that Pluto back into its original working condition. With Sega no longer making video game _hardware_ (now 20 years since the Dreamcast project closed up shop), in 10 years that Pluto could be worth at least _$300,000._ I hope that whoever bought it put it in a thoroughly padded box with fireproof material around it.
This sexy woman brings some old ass technology to light, that has not been seen, mostly forgotten, or never was a thing, in many years! Lady Decade is my new fave! Cheerz!
@@BigEpinstriping oh for real? Makes sense. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it doesn't mention the name project earth in the sega cd page but it does for others including Mercury, Venus, Mars etc. But I don't doubt that's likely true, just couldn't find info to confirm it.
@@adayinforever Originally it was considered for a Laser Disc system, and evolve into the Sega CD. Even the experts aren't sure though. Info in this video: ruclips.net/video/wqdN_L4YaDE/видео.html
I'll bet short money he did. $84,000 is an amount that doesn't go unnoticed. He probably got $10,000 for helping KidVid restore the system to its original condition.
Serious question: who TF has time to make high quality videos with a 10 minute run time? Most of my videos are 60 - 90 seconds long and those can take me anywhere from 5 to 10 hours to make. I work 40 hours a week and then probably spend anywhere between 30 and 60 hours a week on videos. It's like having 2 full time jobs except that I don't get paid for one (and I barely get paid for the other). Short story long, I have a lot of respect for anyone who makes longer form videos. It's a lot of work.
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Hey, thanks for the shout out. Huge point of clarification though, the Pluto that was sold for $84,000 was NOT the one owned by Roger (KidVid).
It was the Japanese unit. He and Roger discussed the sale prior, that is to say, they were in contact with each other.
Roger still has his Pluto as we intend to do more tests with it that the pandemic delayed.
Ahhhhhh thank you so much for this!
I hope KidVid manages to get his sale soon!
Great thanks for the important info
I would not sell that thing for under 500K if it were mine. Not because I like it, just knowing how obsessive Sega collectors can be. Auctioning is not smart. The man should put it up for $1,000,000 OBO and test the waters that way.
@@warehousedave7937 That's idiotic. Nobody is going to pay that price for it and all it's going to do is sit.
Not sure if you know how collectables work but they don't just jump in price from thousands to millions just because somebody holds on to them forever.
@@MaffeyZilog how is that idiotic? I sell video games for a living and know this business extremely well.
If I want to make as much as possible for a one of a kind piece with a TON of historic and collectible merit... What should I do? You tell me, smart guy.
That's crazy it sold for that amount. The Saturn is one of my favorite consoles, I can kind of see why they didn't want to bother with putting this on the market because the Saturn was already expensive enough at the time when it was released without a built in modem
Considering the rarity of the system $84,000 doesn't seem too bad for a console that has only 2 known working examples in existence. With that kind of rarity the seller can pretty much dictate the price. Reading through some of the other comments it seems that Kid Vid has held on to it. If I was him I wouldn't be willing to part with it for anything under $100,000.
Just found this channel! Loving the content. I'm a sucker for video game nostalgia and any awesome details/stories (such as this one)
Haven't heard of this system since the days of EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine). U roll pretty deep!👏
Agree with you that it would've been nice going to a museum. Given how many times he tried to sell it though, it was always going to a private collection :(
So glad I found this channel! Cheers!
Excellent. I do enjoy obscure learning about consoles and peripherals :)
Wow a grear video! I remember seeing the grey prototype in the mags! Very lucky kid without a doubt, I hope it shows up again soon!
I remember that Ben Hack video :O I was so intrigued about the console. Love the Saturn. I'll never get over SEGA quitting the console industry... ( meaning I'm still hoping they'd return... just team up with CAPCOM, SNK and Bandai Namco, you know you want to )
I haven't seen Ben's video yet, but that was pretty decent of him to do those repairs for free.
Only found you recently, got say as someone who played pong in the arcade I'm loving both you & the nostalgic trips down memory lane.
Keep up the great work
I've been watching videos about retro gaming for years. WHY DID RUclips WAIT SO LONG TO RECOMMEND THIS CHANNEL???
One learning tree that is very easy to sit under & enjoy all the little bits of trivia dug up in your research 🔬. Keep it up 👍. Definitely one of my new favorite channel to wait for new content from.
PS Thank You Top Hat Gaming Man for recommending this channel a few weeks ago. Enjoying the content immensely. Even went back to watch some of the legacy content.
Will NEVER forget my SEGA Saturn. I went to a pawn shop and found a model 1 Saturn and a model 2 controller for $60. My God was it such a premium console- I still have so much onstage for the late 90s gaming aesthetic and the saturn embodies it more than just about anything. Such a neat system
I love Saturn. PlayStation classics are very accessible. So many hidden gems for the Saturn and great arcade ports you can’t even find anywhere.
Never heard of this OMG 😲 Thanks for this video, you're a hero.
Another awesome and informative video. Keep up the great work!
BTW, that console is huge! It looks like the size of an old Intellivision!
found your channel from the SEGA Neptune video and immediately subscribed! congrats on 10K!!!
just found your channel, this is a very well made video and Ive never heard of the pluto before
also, as an american, I just wanna clarify that as far as I know 'swap meet' and 'flea market' are interchangeable
at least from my experience, when I lived in Texas I mostly heard "flea market" but here in the SF Bay Area most people I know say 'swap meet'
Another awesome and informative video. You never disappoint.
This is the first video that I've seen....I immediately subscribed. Great content!!! Keep it up!
I’m so glad I found this channel! Love it!
Very good channel. Thanks from switzerland.
My carboot episode 😁 that stall was so killer I don't think I will ever run out of cash on 1 stall again 🤣 miss them days. Nes SP for £1.50p!
Just found this channel. Great work. Vids are very imformative, concise and edited very well. I'm very picky about who I subscribe too but you deserve it. Keep up the great work.
Here in Mexico, arround 1995 - 1999, we used to have a tv news show calles CYBERNET, it presented gaming news and technology.
The voice of this lady, remainds me soo much of that anchor lady in that old news show.
I think I remember about Sega Pluto.
6:51- Oh no.
I didn’t know nearly enough about this, great video!
Yeah it's rare and a cool story of how he stumbled across it. Super cool!!!!!
I had no idea that any actual consoles of the Sega Pluto actually existed! Great video!
Wow, I never even knew about the Neptune, but I heard a bit of the Pluto, which was the Saturn's successor. I found your channel, and there's no doubt that it is amazing!!
This was a good video... You got a new sub!.
Great video as usual. I like the panzer dragoon background music 😉
Love the content. Very well researched and concisely organized. Subscribed look forward to your new content
Loving the Radiant silver gun bgm. Cool.
Another Awesome retro video
SEGA probably bought it. But used a 3rd party to buy it. They felt stupid leaving something like that out in the wild.
Wow, nice channel. Love your accent. And the editing is pretty top notch
Another lil fun fact about that Pluto: it’s the only Pluto remaining with a black case, the one at the NVM has a white case, making it even rarer
Anyone remember watching games master, watching these videos takes me back to those era's.loved that show back in the day.
Awsome video. I hadn't ever heard of the Neptune or Pluto.
Top hat wrestling man is one lucky sob
Great videos Lady Decade 🤘
Great documentary! Really enjoy your channel.
The one that I saw was some guy accompanied Adam koralik from Chicago took it up to Madison Wisconsin so Ben heck can work on it and get it running they also found out the Prototype we have here in the United States used to be white and it was just painted black
Great video! Sega does seem to have been ahead of the curve when it came to internet connectivity. Also, it's refreshing to have a British source that refers to car boot sales and weighs consoles in stones so I don't have to translate in my head ;)
Never knew about this console!
Watching this reminded me of the Sega CD2, that I desperately wanted when I was 9 years old or something like that, but didn't know at all what it was good for, I just really wanted it besides already owning a mega drive 2..
I was just looking at some info... It seems like there were (at least) two prototypes in the US and you may have confused the story of the two consoles. One is the one owned by KidVid, and the second was in the possession of a “former Sega employee”. The second one (which had “Sega Saturn” emblazoned on its top, and not just the S logo, and is pictured in your video’s still image) is the one that sold for $84,000 last year. Either KidVid still has his, or he made some sort of a private sale.
You are right. Kidvid still has his Pluto.
Anyone ever tell you that you look a lot like Daphne moon from Fraser ? ( just discovered you love your vids )
The Neptune was a 32x before it was a addon. The Saturn had a crazy amount of variants with the Brazilian market being the weirdest. Kidvid
Keep up the good work lass and stay safe. Hope Richard and the sproglets are well.
@Lady Decade - I enjoyed this video a lot, great commentary, and love the accent! Keep up the good work and looking forward to the next video 🙌🏽💪🏽😎💯
Thanks for that. I thought I knew about this console but I guess I didn’t at all. Appreciate the vid.
never heard of your channel but when i saw the info and this video alone made me click that sub button. your probably the only girl talking about this kinda stuff.
edit: 5:29 if you look carefully in her eye you can see 2 pupils!
You are very good at this.
What a fox🦊 THGM is a lucky gentleman indeed to have such a savvy queen
Where did you get the video of the Sega Channel collection at 10:15?
Its a video on RUclips called "finding the sega Neptune in doom"
great video, I have subbed and looking forward to more
Fantastic. Great video.
I know one of the 2 Sega Plutos in the world got to a creator named Crusherbad64 I believe. He showed it off in one of his videos 5 months ago. At least know what happened to one of them
I like how you say Pluto! :)
Wow! How cool is that!
Wow never knew it existed
this is a neat video on the sega pluto and also will you create a discord server in the future?
The gaming world just wasnt ready for online gaming on a scale where it would justify an expensive hardware revision just for that purpose back in the mid 90s.
At least not in Europe.
What they really should have done instead of 32x, CD, Neptune and Pluto is a deluxe Saturn with Megadrive backwards compatibility.
That would have been it!
Go 32bit and take your 16bit library with you.
Nobody else offered that, all obsessed with polygons.
I bought an apple pippin but then i found out the games were more expensive than the system itself so i sold it (it was supposed to work with burn blank cd games but it almost never did) i got a bootleg power rangers Zeo game to work once and never again 😂
With only 2 Plutos left on the planet, the new owner of KidVid's Pluto could get more than $300,000 for it in 10 years...
Now, if Steve Jobs hadn't come back to Apple (c1997), to overhaul its operation and redesign macOS when he did, and Apple had gone belly-up sometime between 2000 and 2005, that Pippin of yours (if you still have it) might be worth at least $5,000 now.
There were only 5 Saturn games that had any Saturn Modem/Netlink Modem so didn't make any sense to re-tool manufacturing for this additional console to be manufactured and complicating Sega's production. If people really wanted to use the Saturn on the net they could buy the modem for a regular Saturn. There was no killer app of an internet game for the Saturn, bit of a problem.
He should of send it to the Video Game museum in Texas
Really sad how it's now just sitting on some collector's shelf somewhere.
Silly Sega just started naming systems after planets, but Saturn got it right, then crashed...
$84,000?! Is that the highest offer ever for a home video game system? I imagine KidVid ponied up at least $10,000 each to Ben and Adam in trying to get that Pluto back into its original working condition. With Sega no longer making video game _hardware_ (now 20 years since the Dreamcast project closed up shop), in 10 years that Pluto could be worth at least _$300,000._ I hope that whoever bought it put it in a thoroughly padded box with fireproof material around it.
Great video girl.
3:48 Still using stones instead of kilos I see
I love SEGA!
I thought benhack repaired the sega pluto or one of these devices a few years ago and got the laser on the cd to run?
This sexy woman brings some old ass technology to light, that has not been seen, mostly forgotten, or never was a thing, in many years!
Lady Decade is my new fave!
Cheerz!
I hate it when NON gamers get ahold of stuff like this.
Crazy! 😛
Mflop, bits and mips please from Paris France.
This console belongs in a museum.
I think the pluto is a prototype for the saturn
Coolio 😃 Pretty interesting about sega's lost hardware 🙂
Cool
I'm 99% sure Sega bought this back, posterity and what not.
Upvoted for weighing a console in Stone and lbs. 10/10 would subscribe again.
Interesting
hahahahahhahaa I remember sega of the 90's. Bolt on after bolt on, after bolt on slapped ontop of or on the side of the mega drive :D
Holy crap, I'm in this video. 😳
While there wasn't a project Earth that I know of, the opening screen of the Sega CD had a picture of earth on it.
That was confirmed that Mega CD was Project Earth, That's why the planet earth is in the CD firmware.
@@BigEpinstriping oh for real? Makes sense. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it doesn't mention the name project earth in the sega cd page but it does for others including Mercury, Venus, Mars etc. But I don't doubt that's likely true, just couldn't find info to confirm it.
@@adayinforever Originally it was considered for a Laser Disc system, and evolve into the Sega CD. Even the experts aren't sure though. Info in this video: ruclips.net/video/wqdN_L4YaDE/видео.html
8:45 what was that?
*Nice but I’m happy with my SATURN thanks!*
I hope you get more views
No it's not audacious. It'll be worth more than that. The only copy out there for sale.
Like to know how these got out in the wild, much less a flea marketer who sold it for $1.
And where is the Uranus project?
Ben heck really destroyed that pluto system by drilling and gluing in to the case. It lost a lot of value right then and there
I heard Sega Pinto instead of Sega Pluto.
Ben Heck should get a cut of the sale.
I'll bet short money he did. $84,000 is an amount that doesn't go unnoticed. He probably got $10,000 for helping KidVid restore the system to its original condition.
Idk that kidvid666 is pretty sassy. I wish I could pet his doggies!
Sega only ever got it right with the Mega Drive. The Dreamcast was a good machine but it was too late for Sega by then
Okay was sega in love with planets like Atari was fascinating with cats
Dreamcast was the best, BUT not a planet unfortunately lol
Serious question: who TF has time to make high quality videos with a 10 minute run time?
Most of my videos are 60 - 90 seconds long and those can take me anywhere from 5 to 10 hours to make. I work 40 hours a week and then probably spend anywhere between 30 and 60 hours a week on videos. It's like having 2 full time jobs except that I don't get paid for one (and I barely get paid for the other).
Short story long, I have a lot of respect for anyone who makes longer form videos. It's a lot of work.
They probably has an editing staff / team.