I loved my Saturn since Christmas 95(when I finally got mine). First time I play Panzer, Daytona, virtua 2, children of the atom… etc,I was blown away and felt the next generation had arrived. I’m Still in love with the thing all this years later the same.
If you're not using an ODE or a Pseudo Saturn cartridge, definitely prioritize that! Pseudo Saturn is the better option imo as you can flash an Action Replay with it yourself and still play retail discs
I had one when it launched when I was 5. Panzer Dragoon is like a core memory for me. My brother and I grew up in Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast, then we got into like N64 and PS2 and Xbox when Sega stopped making consoles. My favorite non Sega console is probably GameCube, lots of unique experiences on that console, reminded me a lot of Dreamcast.
@@scottbracher6254 Really?! Where were you living at the time? I'd only ever heard of the Saturn being popular in Japan and some parts of the UK briefly before PS1 overtook that region too.
I got the Saturn on its release and still have it to this day with all the games. That includes imported games that came in a cardboard case with the 4 MB RAM cartridge.
I appreciate this video. Saturn will always be my favorite system. Perhaps it's the nostalgia talking but, there was a special feeling no other console ever had for me.
Myself and all of my friends owned PlayStations at the time, I didn't know anyone with a Saturn here in Ireland. It was only through emulation that I discovered just how great a library the Saturn had. It's now one of my favourite consoles ever.
In spite of their decisions, it's impressive how Sega was able to resonate with certain markets during different generations and create a Rock Paper Scissors effect: Master System dominated Brazil, flopped in Japan and NA. Genesis- exploded in NA, not so much in Japan and good in Brazil. Saturn: did well in Japan, failed in NA. Dreamcast: well received everywhere, but too late.
It still surprises me to this day how often Sega had more success outside Japan or vice versa. Especially with the Genesis. As an American I just assumed it was a huge success everywhere
The Saturn was the first console I ever bought with my own money and I absolutely loved it. It also came with Christmas Nights which I adored. It had an awesome music player too, it used to be my default CD player with its cool little spaceship visualiser.
My first memory is sega rally in 95.a friend asked me to mime starting a car with a key. He pressed start, the sound of the motor blew my mind. And i fell in love with the saturn . For ever
Very little compares with that gaming moment for me. I still remember my dad being utterly blown away when we first loaded up Sega Rally. Rarely did my dad exclaim such astonishment with videogames I owned over the years, but the occasions I vividly remember were Rally, Nights, Virtua Fighter 2, Tomb Raider, Far Cry and Metropolis Street Racer.
I was a N64 player back in the 90s, but I always wanted a Saturn, finally last year I found a good deal for a unit from Japan, along with a decent collection of games, my favorite console of all time ❤
Yesterday I just discovered your channel and started watching your Saturn videos. And just today an special video of Saturn came out, wow, the timing xDD
I think I’m obsessed with your content, it’s like it is made specifically for me! 10/10! Thank you for every video you make, you have no idea how much it’s been helping me through the hardest time in my life.
@airthrowDBT I can’t agree with the PS1 changing gaming for the worse as there is far to much that I enjoy about the console’s library. What I can say is since the release of the PS2. The gaming Industry went in a different direction and has never felt the same since the DC. Theres still been many great games to release from the PS2 and onward but theres a certain style and feel that has not been replicated since.
@@SomeOrangeCat all fan boys seem to have equally ridiculous opinions. I don’t really understand what they meant by that either. I mean, I don’t really see anything philosophically different between where sega and Sony were headed when it comes to the future of gaming. The ps1 is so fucking cool, but the Saturn is fascinating and full of great games. I do wish it had a longer life, but come on. The ps1 is one of the dopest libraries.
@airthrowDBT it’s kind of obscure. Not completely. I knew a total of 2 people who had one growing up. It took me so many years to get into it, but I’m happy I did cause I’m obsessed with it now.
The kids and game magazines during the 90s always see the Saturn is weaker than the PlayStation but now looking back the difference is actually not that huge and are almost negligible in retrospect. The crt tvs and scanlines used during those years also made 32bit games look better than what is being shown on modern hd tv and youtube too.
1:12:07 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Now, look, I like NBA Action '98, but _the_ best basketball game on the Saturn is, was, and always will be NBA Jam. And I'm glad you bring it up, because NHL All-Star Hockey '98 is fantastic fun. It's easily the best Saturn hockey game, and still one I come back to, even when masterpieces like NHL 2K3, NHL 2K8, and NHL Legacy Edition exist.
I was young for this sega. I had the Dreamcast and picked up another one. I’m looking into getting a sega Saturn. These graphics are amazing I had no idea
Thanks for the vid! I was born too late to experience the saturn, and never really considered it just cause I didnt know the type of games it had in its library. But Ive been doing a deeper dive into all things Sega recently and wow, so many saturn games seem right up my alley.
damn I just spent 2h listening to Sega Lord X talking about my favourite console's games. Didn't even notice 2 hours had passed. Awesome video for us Saturn fans and a showing of its great library.
I was somewhat lucky. I wanted the Saturn at launch, but as a teenager, could not afford it. I bought it when I could afford when they price dropped to $199 and came with the 3 pack, and I really loved the system. Of course all my friends had PS1 by that time and dissed it, but I didn't care, I had a ton of fun with the Saturn and built a huge library over all the years since and still play it on a regular basis.
My Saturn cost my dad about £350 back in the day when I got it with Virtua Fighter and Daytona. Most of my mates still had a Megadrive or SNES, although one or two had PSX. Nobody aside from me had a Saturn until about a year later, so I had to buy and rent all my games, I unfortunately couldn't swap any! I didn't care though. I felt so damned privileged. I fell in love with it immediately. That love grew when the likes of VF2, Sega Rally, Nights, Virtua Cop, Exhumed, Guardian Heroes, SF Alpha 2, Nightwarriors, Panzer Dragoon appeared, then it became like no other console for me in history once Panzer Dragoon Saga, Quake, Duke Nukem, Fighters Megamix, Sonic Jam, Sonic R, Resident Evil and such were released. Fast forward to a year or so ago, and the Satiator has meant that I can now enjoy the Japanese releases we were starved of in the UK (Metal Slug, Dead or Alive, Vampire Savior, X-Men vs Street Fighter, Thunderforce V, Grandia etc). I think I could play it until I'm in my 80s and still not be anywhere near sampling the entire library.
I got a Saturn in 95 when I was like 5 (or really my dad got it for my brother and I) and I loved it. I would show my friends Panzer Dragoon 1&2 when they would nay say the Saturn. They all left impressed and with positive things to say about the Saturn.
Love all ur videos, been watching for a long time. The Sega Saturn is in my top 5 consoles ever and my favorite from Sega... Great lineup of games. Hated the controller mine came with but got a S controller shortly after. Great times and memories. Thx
Thank you for what you do, Sega Lord X!! You are one of my inspirations. Our gaming experiences are similar. I have been watching for a few years now. I love the way that you tell it like it is and call out piss poor work. Yours is one of the most entertaining channels Sega or otherwise, on You Tube. Keep up the good work and we'll stay watching!!
Growing up, I was not a Sega guy at all. I was all about the C64, PC, Mac, and Nintendo systems. However, a good friend of mine got a Saturn in the mid '90s and it was a great console. It was fun to play Death Tank via Powerslave.
OMG death tank is SO FUN! So is power slave ! I remember the old days of hooking up the 6 player adapter for Truly Epic Death Tank battles !! I bought my Saturn back at launch and she still works perfect to this day ,so many hours of fun gameplay logged into this baby, PlayStation just sucked and if Sony never entered the gaming world, it would have been for the better , Sony attracted all the " non hardcore video games and ruined the innovation Sega would have kept bringing, it's too bad junky PlayStation hit the scene,even with the absence of Sega consoles, Sony still just doesn't do it for me,PC,Xbox,and Nintendo are far better, and Sega was the BEST! Let's hope they start making consoles again!
@@guldmillaDeath Tank was a fun time. Virtua Fighter 2 was great as well. Panzer Dragoon was fun, and I know there were other games I had played (Daytona USA comes to mind), but most of them I don't remember offhand, as it's been over 25 years since I played around with a Saturn.
I've been gaming for 40 years now and the Sega Saturn is to me the very best video game system of all time! I mean c'mon online multiplayer on a console in the mid 90s?! Web browsing, those amazing Sega exclusives!! Um panzer dragoon,panzer dragoon saga, burning rangers, guardian heroes ,nights, Sega rally,virtual fighter and the list goes on, btw the only game system in history that is as innovative and superb as the Sega Saturn,was / is the Sega Dreamcast. If Sony never ruined the game market with their shitty yet somehow popular PlayStation, boy imagine how much further we would be today, Sega made consoles in the 2000's !? Just imagine the innovation we don't have, that's where Sega would have rocked the gaming world. They were so innovative! I consider myself a PC / console, hardcore gamer I own every video game system known to man since coleco vision and guess what there is 1 Sony console in my epic collection a PS4 that was given to me , and it has 1 good game ( which is on every console) sega's phantasy star online 2 ! SEGA!
ATTENTION!! Assault suit lynos 2 got a recent release with english translation on Steam, ps5, xbox, and Switch. I HIGHLY recommend playing it. It's one of my favorite games ever.
I've just bought my first Saturn because of your channel. A lot of bad decisions in the last 5 years got me in my lowest point in my life. Retrogaming and channels like yours helped me in those last years to overcome depression and other bad things. Heard that Saturn helped you too in some bad times, so I decided to buy a (yellowed ahah) japanese Saturn and two controllers and a multi function cart. I cleaned it and now I'm enjoying it. Unlocked the Stratos in Sega Rally Championship at the first try, and I unlocked all the cars (and the horses ahah) in Daytona USA in 30 minutes, but man, Astal is kicking me in the ass, didn't expect to be so "hard". Btw, too much words, thanks for your suggestions!
Awesome video, the ultimate saturn reference. Thank you, it was a joy to watch it. We really felt your passion for the Saturn trough it. I understand your disappointment about Panzer Dragoon Saga, expecting another rail shooter, and the price tag being unjustified (well yes and no, demande and offer...), but if you take the game for what it is, at its release, for its backstory that went on development hell, soundtrack (!!!!), the cutscene, gameplay, Graphics, the world! This game is a miracle on the Saturn, a développement tour-de-force that DID compete FF7. And in the end, it also did show the world that the Saturn was capable of what everybody thought it could not do. It doesn't deserve more spotlight because we dont want the price to go higher, but it should not be forgotten as a masterpiece and the pioneer that it was back then. Sega has too much innovative Ip that went forgotten or were overshadow by more mainstream title, and ended up just being another title with poor sales from sega, starting with the very first PSO on the Dreamcast that was one of the most innovative game of all time at its launch and legit changed the industry for what it is today, over shadowed by the launch of xbox live and the online play on other console. It's never mention in top 10 of all time even if it deserve its place next to mario 64. PDS redefined rpg and story telling on console and looked waaaay better, cutscene and in game graphic included, with voice acting, that ff7. Its combat system was never seen before. Let it not sink in the forgotten realm of Sega pioneering IP.
I recently purchased a saturan and some of the must have titles, I did so because of the fond memories of playing at my friend's. One of the first games he got was Bug! As clumsy as it is today, I still LOVE it
The Saturn is my retro motto. I have such great memories on it is still something awesome. It wasn’t a failure in my point of view with all those import gems. The Dreamcast was the failure in my point of view with only half of the Saturn catalog. I was so upset when Sega decided to stop the Dreamcast. The Saturn has such amazing rare variants ( hi Navi, super prologue, SGX …). Nowadays we have also new homebrew and translation.
When I got my Saturn modded to play Japanese games and got my hands on X-men vs sf and my true love msh vs sf. God it was like hidden alien tech. It felt like I had a cps2 board at home. I felt above my American gamers. Modern Gamers will never have that feeling. That 4mb ram cart gave me amazing memories. So sad what’s happened to capcom and marvel also NRS. Game companies give us the same boring crap now, I am so sick of hunter monsters and evil residents
Just bought my Saturn a year ago, and I cannot stop playing it. There are so many great titles, I even modded a second Saturn to have the entire US library on it. I was even reading that lately Saturn has been getting a lot more attention over the PS1. This will only help the console get a lot more attention that it deserved. GGz Sega!
@@Adamtendo_player_1not all of them, but yeah, the games designed for Saturn from the ground up have aged better than most of the stuff made for the PS from the ground up.
Panzer Dragoon 2 was the first game I saw on a kiosk at Toys R Us and I thought it looked amazing. Running on the ground shooting at stuff then the dragon jumps off a cliff and starts flying, it was intense and the music was perfect. I didn't get a Saturn till I saw how great Capcom Fighters ran on it. Panzer 2 was one of my first pick ups and I got 1 too. I had Saga, even paid retail price for it when I started working my new job at Walmart. 16 years later I lost that job because I got congestive heart failure and my work performance was fading. Sadly while jobless I used my Saturn Library as a saving account lol... Had to sell my top titles including Saga. I had planned on getting them again, but that will never happen. I wish the Saturn had the love back then that it seems to have now. It was truly a good system. And.. I like Mr Bones 😜
I was born in 1993, and i didn't learn that the Sega Saturn existed until 2008. Upon learning this, I immediately went on Craigslist and bought one cause retro gaming was an incredibly cheap hobby back then, and I've never looked back. I can't say that it's truly my favorite 5th Gen console, but I love it just as much as it's more popular contemporaries.
Your work and dedication you put into your videos are incredible, you truely are a enrichment for retro gamers, gamers in general and everybody who's enterested in video game history itself. 👌✌ Nevertheless there is one problem for me: In my region the Saturn and Dreamcast are only avaiable via TV antenna cable. It really is a bummer that Sega ever refused to use AV cinch cables like Nintendo and Sony, which basically have been the norm since the mid 90's.
I have been gaming since the early 80s and the Sega Saturn is my favourite console. It has graphics and audio unlike any other system and I really wish it would have been more successful. I’d love Sega to release a Saturn mini but doubt they ever will. I hope that Saturn emulation progresses in the next few years then I can invest in an emulation machine
Sega Rally is a real masterwork on saturn. Till today the best Rally game for home consoles. The programmers must be gods to port all physics of an racing wheel based game to a perfect gameplay with only 8 Way on a Saturn Pad.
Brother, you have just... you made my summer man! Let me explain, my friend. I started watching this video when your Assault Suit Leynoss coverage started, and it was like being struck by lightning... It was like being transported back to 1996'ish and I'm in my parents' home reading EGM or GamePro. I see a new release in Japan- Assault Suit Leynoss for the Saturn. I absolutely loved Target Earth and wanted this game badly. Unfortunately, it never released here (or that I know of). As luck would have it, my cousin (also a gamer of our age) is watching this with me. He tells me... "Bro, they just released that on the Xbox Series X and PS5 as a Saturn Tribute. I have it pulled up on our Series X right now, and he's thumbing through our PS5 store to find it there. The cheapest platform wins or failing that the Series X takes it. The Xbox Series X gamepad is the absolute best in the industry. The PS5 is good but finally, Microsoft got it right. It only took them 4 generations of terrible ganepads to do it. ;)
I absolutely adored Mr Bones! It's one of the games I mention to a lot of retro gamers that is so unique, and charming. It is hard and certain levels are unforgiving, but well worth the time imo.
What a festival - Great games great system even from european point of view- Thanks retrogaming Saturn ages well compare to PlayStation- 2 thumbs up videomix
Las weekend I finally got to make run properly a Sega Saturn Emulator and got to play Saturn games for the very first time in my life.. 1- Clockwork Knight is an amazing game 2- Astal is a feast to the eyes (I know where you got your intro) 3- Nights is more magical than I expected Somehow I felt like a 10 year old boy again.
There was only one Saturn in my neighborhood, and we absolutely got down on Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtua Cop. Most of the time, people who write badly about video game systems like the Saturn (or other things with potential) is that they need to make a quick buck off the words while the discourse is hot. Always been that way.
Assault Suit Leynos was recently released for the Switch in Japan, I wonder if they will localize it for the west at some point, though I have the Saturn version, on a good sale might be worth checking.
The Sega Saturn is one of my biggest Sega regrets and this is the best console from Sega and I aim to get a Saturn before the end of this year so I can get to experience it’s great library and it’s games I’ve held up much better than the vast majority of PS1 games.
When the 16 bit era arrived, I was pressed for the Turbo Grafx and always kept my eye on the SNES. My family went with the Genesis, and I was happy that they did because I always felt the 6 button controller was by far the best. Fast forward to the next Gen, Saturn and PS1 were, and N64 was well on its way. I read an Gamepro article on Night Warriors, and saw the graphics and knew they had kept the 6 buttons on the face of the Saturn controller, with two bumpers. Right there, I knew I would go with the Saturn, and I never looked back.
Hardware wise everything Sega did after the Genesis was a mistake, and the Genesis ended up behind the SNES in sales even though it had a big head start. The 32X and Sega CD were disasters. Both the Saturn and Dreamcast were underpowered compared to their competitors.
Yes, bro. For the record, I *love* these marathon videos. I put them on whilst I'm doing a particularly monotonous task that takes ages, lol. Mega Drive/Genesis next, please. 🙏🤞
My best friend of 30 years had a Saturn back in 1996 when it came with the 3 game pack including free copies of Virtua Fighter 2, Daytona Racing, and Virtua Cop 2 and we had hours and hours of fun with those three games alone across many weekend sleepovers, but our favorite game to play on Saturn was actually Area 51 as stupid as that sounds. It wasn’t until much later that I realized how unique a console it really was.
The Sega Saturn is an amazing console it’s better than the N64 if Sony and Microsoft never came out with consoles it would still be just Sega and Nintendo blessed to see all from 1980-Now
A lot of what released on N64 either didn't age well or wasn't that good to begin with. The reason for that was Nintendo wanted to push 3D on the system which hurt it in the long run. There is a reason why the Saturn got more games than the N64. The N64 used cartriges instead of CDs.
shining force 3 and holy ark, and dragon force1 and 2 , and lunar 1 and 2, and dracula x , and sonic r , and marvel sh vs sf, snd x men vs sf, and guardian heroes, and policenauts, batsugen and hyper duel and radiant silvergun, battle garegga and cotton 2/boomerang, thunder force v and layer section and darius gaiden and metal black and psythe and fughters mega mix and metal slug and liquid kids and bulkslash. sega rally and nights and vf2 theres just so many that i love for this console, it’s definitely my favorite with dreamcast right behind it, and of course mega drive, sega cd , maybe 32x.
1:28 One could say the same about the PS3. I have heard countless times how horrible the system was by the people who never experienced it and never had one. We who actually supported the platform and gamed on it think very differently of it. I think in some ways the PS3 was better than Sony's offerings after it.
It's definitely a wonderful console, especially the earlier models that were backwards compatible with ps2 and ps1. But many games ran horribly on the console cause devs didn't know how to code for it. Games like fallout 3, new Vegas, and dark souls 2 are absolutely horrible on it.
I was a weird kid and went with the Saturn and N64 in that generation. Let's be honest here, 3D at that point was in its infancy. The N64 was the only console that did 3D decently well with titles like Mario64 and Ocarina. I feel that Sega should've just included the RAM cart and pushed for more Capcom and SNK arcade games.
Panzer Dragoon 1&2 look great still, Nights looks really good, Virtua Fighter 2 and the fighting games that came after it all look good. Yes, 3-D was is in it’s infancy, but that doesn’t mean it all looked like shite. I remember playing Panzer Dragoon when it came out and it blew my mind.
Oh yes! We are in dire straights for this. There so many games unpayable on ebay. Collecting all Saturn games has basically become impossible. 199$ for a Saturn Mini with build in TFT HD monitor and like 25 preinstalled games, all running butter smooth with 60fps would be a blessing.
The PC version of Powerslave was actually running the Build engine (Duke3D, Blood, etc...) and was a different, less cool experience. It was more linear, the map design was worse, there was a lot of repetition, but the positive was the guns had standard ammo instead of weird orbs and a bar you filled up for weapon power, which made it tough to tell exactly how many bullets you had.
I got one off Santa Claus in 96. Life changingly loved it. Panzer Dragoon Saga was the absolute 💣 Shining Wisdom too. Resident Evil too. Class. Motor packed in on mine and cd stopped spinning about 10 years ago so got rid 😢
Saturn forever. I don't sell, I don't rent, I don't lend. 28 years with me, region free unlocked, I love it.
I loved my Saturn since Christmas 95(when I finally got mine). First time I play Panzer, Daytona, virtua 2, children of the atom… etc,I was blown away and felt the next generation had arrived. I’m Still in love with the thing all this years later the same.
I also loved my saturn since Christmas of 2023. I am not kidding.
i wish i had a Sega Saturn.
I'm right there with you, after playing Street Fighter Alpha, I understood what the saturn was about
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@Residentevil1998racooncitythe N64 was far from terrible bro
It makes me so happy and overjoyed to see the respect, and fan base the Sega Saturn has garnered over the last 10+ years. SEGA!!!!
I was only 10 when Saturn was released so I was largely unaware of it. Nobody I knew had one. Just picked one up in 2024 and loving it!
If you're not using an ODE or a Pseudo Saturn cartridge, definitely prioritize that! Pseudo Saturn is the better option imo as you can flash an Action Replay with it yourself and still play retail discs
I was 10 also when The Sega Saturn Launched in May in 1995
I had one when it launched when I was 5. Panzer Dragoon is like a core memory for me. My brother and I grew up in Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast, then we got into like N64 and PS2 and Xbox when Sega stopped making consoles. My favorite non Sega console is probably GameCube, lots of unique experiences on that console, reminded me a lot of Dreamcast.
Seemed to be in fashion where I lived.. was on par with mates owning it as much as PlayStation so kinda lucky in a way hearing lots of these comments
@@scottbracher6254 Really?! Where were you living at the time? I'd only ever heard of the Saturn being popular in Japan and some parts of the UK briefly before PS1 overtook that region too.
Wow. This episoide is a keeper and need to be saved up for repeat viewing. Thanks. , 👍
Albert Odyssey was my 1st Sega Saturn game I'd gotten for a quarter in a stack of loose cds. Still have it to this day & play it all the time
Albert odyssey is amazing
I got the Saturn on its release and still have it to this day with all the games. That includes imported games that came in a cardboard case with the 4 MB RAM cartridge.
I just got a Saturn a few weeks ago and have been looking for some good game suggestions, so this video came at the perfect time for me. Thanks!
I appreciate this video. Saturn will always be my favorite system. Perhaps it's the nostalgia talking but, there was a special feeling no other console ever had for me.
It had such unique experiences. Panzer Dragoon, Burning Rangers, Nights, etc. then all the great fighting game arcade ports.
Myself and all of my friends owned PlayStations at the time, I didn't know anyone with a Saturn here in Ireland. It was only through emulation that I discovered just how great a library the Saturn had. It's now one of my favourite consoles ever.
In spite of their decisions, it's impressive how Sega was able to resonate with certain markets during different generations and create a Rock Paper Scissors effect: Master System dominated Brazil, flopped in Japan and NA. Genesis- exploded in NA, not so much in Japan and good in Brazil. Saturn: did well in Japan, failed in NA. Dreamcast: well received everywhere, but too late.
It still surprises me to this day how often Sega had more success outside Japan or vice versa. Especially with the Genesis. As an American I just assumed it was a huge success everywhere
The Saturn was the first console I ever bought with my own money and I absolutely loved it. It also came with Christmas Nights which I adored. It had an awesome music player too, it used to be my default CD player with its cool little spaceship visualiser.
Thanks for putting this together, hearing the evolution of your style and delivery was one of the highlights in my opinion.
My first memory is sega rally in 95.a friend asked me to mime starting a car with a key. He pressed start, the sound of the motor blew my mind. And i fell in love with the saturn . For ever
Very little compares with that gaming moment for me. I still remember my dad being utterly blown away when we first loaded up Sega Rally. Rarely did my dad exclaim such astonishment with videogames I owned over the years, but the occasions I vividly remember were Rally, Nights, Virtua Fighter 2, Tomb Raider, Far Cry and Metropolis Street Racer.
@@Nightopian1982 i agree so much with msr. Dreamly soundtrack and amazing atmosphere
Thanks for the notes in the description. I read them in your voice, which I'm sure many would agree, is now iconic.
I was a N64 player back in the 90s, but I always wanted a Saturn, finally last year I found a good deal for a unit from Japan, along with a decent collection of games, my favorite console of all time ❤
Yesterday I just discovered your channel and started watching your Saturn videos. And just today an special video of Saturn came out, wow, the timing xDD
I think I’m obsessed with your content, it’s like it is made specifically for me! 10/10! Thank you for every video you make, you have no idea how much it’s been helping me through the hardest time in my life.
Thank you!
Only people that never had the Saturn are the only one talking smack. This console is classic.
Saturn was honestly my favorite system.
@airthrowDBT
I can’t agree with the PS1 changing gaming for the worse as there is far to much that I enjoy about the console’s library.
What I can say is since the release of the PS2. The gaming Industry went in a different direction and has never felt the same since the DC.
Theres still been many great games to release from the PS2 and onward but theres a certain style and feel that has not been replicated since.
@airthrowDBT Wow. You really said the PS1 changed gaming for the worse with a straight face? No one is more butthurt than Sega fanboys. No one.
@@SomeOrangeCat all fan boys seem to have equally ridiculous opinions. I don’t really understand what they meant by that either. I mean, I don’t really see anything philosophically different between where sega and Sony were headed when it comes to the future of gaming. The ps1 is so fucking cool, but the Saturn is fascinating and full of great games. I do wish it had a longer life, but come on. The ps1 is one of the dopest libraries.
@airthrowDBT it’s kind of obscure. Not completely. I knew a total of 2 people who had one growing up. It took me so many years to get into it, but I’m happy I did cause I’m obsessed with it now.
The kids and game magazines during the 90s always see the Saturn is weaker than the PlayStation but now looking back the difference is actually not that huge and are almost negligible in retrospect.
The crt tvs and scanlines used during those years also made 32bit games look better than what is being shown on modern hd tv and youtube too.
1:12:07 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Now, look, I like NBA Action '98, but _the_ best basketball game on the Saturn is, was, and always will be NBA Jam.
And I'm glad you bring it up, because NHL All-Star Hockey '98 is fantastic fun. It's easily the best Saturn hockey game, and still one I come back to, even when masterpieces like NHL 2K3, NHL 2K8, and NHL Legacy Edition exist.
I was young for this sega. I had the Dreamcast and picked up another one. I’m looking into getting a sega Saturn. These graphics are amazing I had no idea
Thanks for the vid! I was born too late to experience the saturn, and never really considered it just cause I didnt know the type of games it had in its library. But Ive been doing a deeper dive into all things Sega recently and wow, so many saturn games seem right up my alley.
Love your content so much SLX. Been a viewer for years.
Always appreciate the SEGA love. I'm with you man.
damn I just spent 2h listening to Sega Lord X talking about my favourite console's games. Didn't even notice 2 hours had passed. Awesome video for us Saturn fans and a showing of its great library.
I was somewhat lucky. I wanted the Saturn at launch, but as a teenager, could not afford it. I bought it when I could afford when they price dropped to $199 and came with the 3 pack, and I really loved the system. Of course all my friends had PS1 by that time and dissed it, but I didn't care, I had a ton of fun with the Saturn and built a huge library over all the years since and still play it on a regular basis.
My Saturn cost my dad about £350 back in the day when I got it with Virtua Fighter and Daytona. Most of my mates still had a Megadrive or SNES, although one or two had PSX. Nobody aside from me had a Saturn until about a year later, so I had to buy and rent all my games, I unfortunately couldn't swap any! I didn't care though. I felt so damned privileged.
I fell in love with it immediately. That love grew when the likes of VF2, Sega Rally, Nights, Virtua Cop, Exhumed, Guardian Heroes, SF Alpha 2, Nightwarriors, Panzer Dragoon appeared, then it became like no other console for me in history once Panzer Dragoon Saga, Quake, Duke Nukem, Fighters Megamix, Sonic Jam, Sonic R, Resident Evil and such were released. Fast forward to a year or so ago, and the Satiator has meant that I can now enjoy the Japanese releases we were starved of in the UK (Metal Slug, Dead or Alive, Vampire Savior, X-Men vs Street Fighter, Thunderforce V, Grandia etc). I think I could play it until I'm in my 80s and still not be anywhere near sampling the entire library.
I got a Saturn in 95 when I was like 5 (or really my dad got it for my brother and I) and I loved it. I would show my friends Panzer Dragoon 1&2 when they would nay say the Saturn. They all left impressed and with positive things to say about the Saturn.
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Thank you for your support.
Didn't even skip. Best 3 hours of game info worth watching. Kudos
I appreciate your videos my brother. They are a nice blast from the past keep doing your thing 💪🏾
Cheers, bro!
Watched the whole thing.
Really respect the work that was put into this.
I used to sneer at the Saturn. Now, because of your channel, I want one.
Love all ur videos, been watching for a long time. The Sega Saturn is in my top 5 consoles ever and my favorite from Sega... Great lineup of games. Hated the controller mine came with but got a S controller shortly after. Great times and memories. Thx
Thank you for what you do, Sega Lord X!! You are one of my inspirations. Our gaming experiences are similar. I have been watching for a few years now. I love the way that you tell it like it is and call out piss poor work. Yours is one of the most entertaining channels Sega or otherwise, on You Tube. Keep up the good work and we'll stay watching!!
Best gaming history channel ever. Thank you Sega Lord!
That was a fantastic FRAKING video games review my ninja
Growing up, I was not a Sega guy at all. I was all about the C64, PC, Mac, and Nintendo systems.
However, a good friend of mine got a Saturn in the mid '90s and it was a great console. It was fun to play Death Tank via Powerslave.
OMG death tank is SO FUN! So is power slave ! I remember the old days of hooking up the 6 player adapter for Truly Epic Death Tank battles !! I bought my Saturn back at launch and she still works perfect to this day ,so many hours of fun gameplay logged into this baby, PlayStation just sucked and if Sony never entered the gaming world, it would have been for the better , Sony attracted all the " non hardcore video games and ruined the innovation Sega would have kept bringing, it's too bad junky PlayStation hit the scene,even with the absence of Sega consoles, Sony still just doesn't do it for me,PC,Xbox,and Nintendo are far better, and Sega was the BEST! Let's hope they start making consoles again!
@@guldmillaDeath Tank was a fun time. Virtua Fighter 2 was great as well. Panzer Dragoon was fun, and I know there were other games I had played (Daytona USA comes to mind), but most of them I don't remember offhand, as it's been over 25 years since I played around with a Saturn.
I've been gaming for 40 years now and the Sega Saturn is to me the very best video game system of all time! I mean c'mon online multiplayer on a console in the mid 90s?! Web browsing, those amazing Sega exclusives!! Um panzer dragoon,panzer dragoon saga, burning rangers, guardian heroes ,nights, Sega rally,virtual fighter and the list goes on, btw the only game system in history that is as innovative and superb as the Sega Saturn,was / is the Sega Dreamcast.
If Sony never ruined the game market with their shitty yet somehow popular PlayStation, boy imagine how much further we would be today, Sega made consoles in the 2000's !? Just imagine the innovation we don't have, that's where Sega would have rocked the gaming world. They were so innovative! I consider myself a PC / console, hardcore gamer I own every video game system known to man since coleco vision and guess what there is 1 Sony console in my epic collection a PS4 that was given to me , and it has 1 good game ( which is on every console) sega's phantasy star online 2 ! SEGA!
ATTENTION!! Assault suit lynos 2 got a recent release with english translation on Steam, ps5, xbox, and Switch. I HIGHLY recommend playing it. It's one of my favorite games ever.
You are the master! SEGA Saturn Bliss!
I've just bought my first Saturn because of your channel. A lot of bad decisions in the last 5 years got me in my lowest point in my life. Retrogaming and channels like yours helped me in those last years to overcome depression and other bad things. Heard that Saturn helped you too in some bad times, so I decided to buy a (yellowed ahah) japanese Saturn and two controllers and a multi function cart. I cleaned it and now I'm enjoying it. Unlocked the Stratos in Sega Rally Championship at the first try, and I unlocked all the cars (and the horses ahah) in Daytona USA in 30 minutes, but man, Astal is kicking me in the ass, didn't expect to be so "hard". Btw, too much words, thanks for your suggestions!
Awesome video, the ultimate saturn reference. Thank you, it was a joy to watch it. We really felt your passion for the Saturn trough it.
I understand your disappointment about Panzer Dragoon Saga, expecting another rail shooter, and the price tag being unjustified (well yes and no, demande and offer...), but if you take the game for what it is, at its release, for its backstory that went on development hell, soundtrack (!!!!), the cutscene, gameplay, Graphics, the world! This game is a miracle on the Saturn, a développement tour-de-force that DID compete FF7. And in the end, it also did show the world that the Saturn was capable of what everybody thought it could not do. It doesn't deserve more spotlight because we dont want the price to go higher, but it should not be forgotten as a masterpiece and the pioneer that it was back then. Sega has too much innovative Ip that went forgotten or were overshadow by more mainstream title, and ended up just being another title with poor sales from sega, starting with the very first PSO on the Dreamcast that was one of the most innovative game of all time at its launch and legit changed the industry for what it is today, over shadowed by the launch of xbox live and the online play on other console. It's never mention in top 10 of all time even if it deserve its place next to mario 64. PDS redefined rpg and story telling on console and looked waaaay better, cutscene and in game graphic included, with voice acting, that ff7. Its combat system was never seen before. Let it not sink in the forgotten realm of Sega pioneering IP.
I recently purchased a saturan and some of the must have titles, I did so because of the fond memories of playing at my friend's. One of the first games he got was Bug! As clumsy as it is today, I still LOVE it
Amazing resource to have A. to Z., thank you brother
Two hours in SEGA heaven 😍 Thanks a lot for this wonderful presentation !!
The Saturn is my retro motto. I have such great memories on it is still something awesome. It wasn’t a failure in my point of view with all those import gems. The Dreamcast was the failure in my point of view with only half of the Saturn catalog. I was so upset when Sega decided to stop the Dreamcast.
The Saturn has such amazing rare variants ( hi Navi, super prologue, SGX …). Nowadays we have also new homebrew and translation.
Imagine you wanted to have a complete Saturn library of games. I think even 20.000$ wouldn't be enough lol
@@osimos nowadays yes. Between 2000 and 2005 that was easy
When I got my Saturn modded to play Japanese games and got my hands on X-men vs sf and my true love msh vs sf. God it was like hidden alien tech. It felt like I had a cps2 board at home. I felt above my American gamers. Modern Gamers will never have that feeling. That 4mb ram cart gave me amazing memories. So sad what’s happened to capcom and marvel also NRS. Game companies give us the same boring crap now, I am so sick of hunter monsters and evil residents
Wow man you put in a ton of work! Great video!
Just bought my Saturn a year ago, and I cannot stop playing it. There are so many great titles, I even modded a second Saturn to have the entire US library on it. I was even reading that lately Saturn has been getting a lot more attention over the PS1. This will only help the console get a lot more attention that it deserved. GGz Sega!
Saturn games have aged beautifully while PS1 games have aged like milk 😂😂
@@Adamtendo_player_1not all of them, but yeah, the games designed for Saturn from the ground up have aged better than most of the stuff made for the PS from the ground up.
Panzer Dragoon 2 was the first game I saw on a kiosk at Toys R Us and I thought it looked amazing. Running on the ground shooting at stuff then the dragon jumps off a cliff and starts flying, it was intense and the music was perfect. I didn't get a Saturn till I saw how great Capcom Fighters ran on it. Panzer 2 was one of my first pick ups and I got 1 too. I had Saga, even paid retail price for it when I started working my new job at Walmart. 16 years later I lost that job because I got congestive heart failure and my work performance was fading. Sadly while jobless I used my Saturn Library as a saving account lol... Had to sell my top titles including Saga. I had planned on getting them again, but that will never happen. I wish the Saturn had the love back then that it seems to have now. It was truly a good system. And.. I like Mr Bones 😜
loving it !
It’s fun hearing your voice sound different between videos 😊
I was born in 1993, and i didn't learn that the Sega Saturn existed until 2008. Upon learning this, I immediately went on Craigslist and bought one cause retro gaming was an incredibly cheap hobby back then, and I've never looked back. I can't say that it's truly my favorite 5th Gen console, but I love it just as much as it's more popular contemporaries.
When two hours just isn't nearly enough time to cover something...
Still my favourite console of all time.
The Sega Saturn will always be special to me!! ❤
Your work and dedication you put into your videos are incredible, you truely are a enrichment for retro gamers, gamers in general and everybody who's enterested in video game history itself. 👌✌
Nevertheless there is one problem for me: In my region the Saturn and Dreamcast are only avaiable via TV antenna cable. It really is a bummer that Sega ever refused to use AV cinch cables like Nintendo and Sony, which basically have been the norm since the mid 90's.
WHAT!!! Cheers SLX
Astal was the first Sega Saturn game that I played at my friend’s house and I STILL am blown away by that game.
Over 2 hours of pure bliss ❤
1:17:55. I gotta say the more screen time I see of knights into dreams the more I have to try it cause it just looks so ... not... fun.....
#5 i also support you doing this for the genesis! 👍
I have been gaming since the early 80s and the Sega Saturn is my favourite console. It has graphics and audio unlike any other system and I really wish it would have been more successful. I’d love Sega to release a Saturn mini but doubt they ever will. I hope that Saturn emulation progresses in the next few years then I can invest in an emulation machine
Sega Rally is a real masterwork on saturn. Till today the best Rally game for home consoles. The programmers must be gods to port all physics of an racing wheel based game to a perfect gameplay with only 8 Way on a Saturn Pad.
Brother, you have just... you made my summer man! Let me explain, my friend. I started watching this video when your Assault Suit Leynoss coverage started, and it was like being struck by lightning...
It was like being transported back to 1996'ish and I'm in my parents' home reading EGM or GamePro. I see a new release in Japan- Assault Suit Leynoss for the Saturn. I absolutely loved Target Earth and wanted this game badly. Unfortunately, it never released here (or that I know of). As luck would have it, my cousin (also a gamer of our age) is watching this with me. He tells me... "Bro, they just released that on the Xbox Series X and PS5 as a Saturn Tribute. I have it pulled up on our Series X right now, and he's thumbing through our PS5 store to find it there. The cheapest platform wins or failing that the Series X takes it.
The Xbox Series X gamepad is the absolute best in the industry. The PS5 is good but finally, Microsoft got it right. It only took them 4 generations of terrible ganepads to do it. ;)
Still playing my saturn to this very day. Nights into dreams is on my tope 10 favorite games of all time on any machine.
I absolutely adored Mr Bones! It's one of the games I mention to a lot of retro gamers that is so unique, and charming. It is hard and certain levels are unforgiving, but well worth the time imo.
I'm Sega Lord X and I LOVE me some Sega Saturn
What a festival - Great games great system even from european point of view- Thanks retrogaming Saturn ages well compare to PlayStation- 2 thumbs up videomix
Las weekend I finally got to make run properly a Sega Saturn Emulator and got to play Saturn games for the very first time in my life..
1- Clockwork Knight is an amazing game
2- Astal is a feast to the eyes (I know where you got your intro)
3- Nights is more magical than I expected
Somehow I felt like a 10 year old boy again.
No way you upload a 2 Hour Saturn video in 2024. Let's goooo!
There was only one Saturn in my neighborhood, and we absolutely got down on Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtua Cop. Most of the time, people who write badly about video game systems like the Saturn (or other things with potential) is that they need to make a quick buck off the words while the discourse is hot. Always been that way.
Finally, a video long enough for me to sleep to ^^
I love ps1 but I really have an ultra love for Sega, Sega Saturn
Guardian heroes a legitimate candidate for one of the best soundtracks of all time. Dragon force a contender for one of the best games of that era.
Assault Suit Leynos was recently released for the Switch in Japan, I wonder if they will localize it for the west at some point, though I have the Saturn version, on a good sale might be worth checking.
Like the Turbo Grafx 16 and cd Hated at first. Now loved system!!
The Sega Saturn is one of my biggest Sega regrets and this is the best console from Sega and I aim to get a Saturn before the end of this year so I can get to experience it’s great library and it’s games I’ve held up much better than the vast majority of PS1 games.
When the 16 bit era arrived, I was pressed for the Turbo Grafx and always kept my eye on the SNES. My family went with the Genesis, and I was happy that they did because I always felt the 6 button controller was by far the best. Fast forward to the next Gen, Saturn and PS1 were, and N64 was well on its way. I read an Gamepro article on Night Warriors, and saw the graphics and knew they had kept the 6 buttons on the face of the Saturn controller, with two bumpers. Right there, I knew I would go with the Saturn, and I never looked back.
This is amazing! Now do one for the Mega Drive 😅
Hardware wise everything Sega did after the Genesis was a mistake, and the Genesis ended up behind the SNES in sales even though it had a big head start. The 32X and Sega CD were disasters. Both the Saturn and Dreamcast were underpowered compared to their competitors.
assault suit valken, i think, is a prequel that was released on the switch. It has a lot of quality of life features. RECOMMENDED.
Yes, bro. For the record, I *love* these marathon videos. I put them on whilst I'm doing a particularly monotonous task that takes ages, lol.
Mega Drive/Genesis next, please. 🙏🤞
2 hours! I'm so happy 😆
There's also a remake of target earth. Aka, Assault suit lynos on the 5, steam, and everything else. It is a good play.
My best friend of 30 years had a Saturn back in 1996 when it came with the 3 game pack including free copies of Virtua Fighter 2, Daytona Racing, and Virtua Cop 2 and we had hours and hours of fun with those three games alone across many weekend sleepovers, but our favorite game to play on Saturn was actually Area 51 as stupid as that sounds. It wasn’t until much later that I realized how unique a console it really was.
The Sega Saturn is an amazing console it’s better than the N64 if Sony and Microsoft never came out with consoles it would still be just Sega and Nintendo blessed to see all from 1980-Now
A lot of what released on N64 either didn't age well or wasn't that good to begin with. The reason for that was Nintendo wanted to push 3D on the system which hurt it in the long run. There is a reason why the Saturn got more games than the N64. The N64 used cartriges instead of CDs.
This is a great video. You should put timestamps. This is a type of video that I would come back many times to search for some games to play.
I loved the original elevator action game! Never knew there was a sequel?!
shining force 3 and holy ark, and dragon force1 and 2 , and lunar 1 and 2, and dracula x , and sonic r , and marvel sh vs sf, snd x men vs sf, and guardian heroes, and policenauts, batsugen and hyper duel and radiant silvergun, battle garegga and cotton 2/boomerang, thunder force v and layer section and darius gaiden and metal black and psythe and fughters mega mix and metal slug and liquid kids and bulkslash. sega rally and nights and vf2 theres just so many that i love for this console, it’s definitely my favorite with dreamcast right behind it, and of course mega drive, sega cd , maybe 32x.
Dragonforce and Sega Rallye was one of the best games I have ever seen. I really love the saturn.
1:28 One could say the same about the PS3. I have heard countless times how horrible the system was by the people who never experienced it and never had one. We who actually supported the platform and gamed on it think very differently of it. I think in some ways the PS3 was better than Sony's offerings after it.
It's definitely a wonderful console, especially the earlier models that were backwards compatible with ps2 and ps1. But many games ran horribly on the console cause devs didn't know how to code for it. Games like fallout 3, new Vegas, and dark souls 2 are absolutely horrible on it.
Astral é uma obra de arte! / Astral it's a masterpiece ❤
I was a weird kid and went with the Saturn and N64 in that generation. Let's be honest here, 3D at that point was in its infancy. The N64 was the only console that did 3D decently well with titles like Mario64 and Ocarina. I feel that Sega should've just included the RAM cart and pushed for more Capcom and SNK arcade games.
Panzer Dragoon 1&2 look great still, Nights looks really good, Virtua Fighter 2 and the fighting games that came after it all look good.
Yes, 3-D was is in it’s infancy, but that doesn’t mean it all looked like shite.
I remember playing Panzer Dragoon when it came out and it blew my mind.
wish they would finally release a saturn mini
Oh yes! We are in dire straights for this. There so many games unpayable on ebay. Collecting all Saturn games has basically become impossible. 199$ for a Saturn Mini with build in TFT HD monitor and like 25 preinstalled games, all running butter smooth with 60fps would be a blessing.
The PC version of Powerslave was actually running the Build engine (Duke3D, Blood, etc...) and was a different, less cool experience. It was more linear, the map design was worse, there was a lot of repetition, but the positive was the guns had standard ammo instead of weird orbs and a bar you filled up for weapon power, which made it tough to tell exactly how many bullets you had.
Long live the Sega Saturn!
Great Stuff!
Ima download the hell out of this video
HOLY MONSTERVIDEO BATMAN!
I got one off Santa Claus in 96. Life changingly loved it. Panzer Dragoon Saga was the absolute 💣 Shining Wisdom too. Resident Evil too. Class. Motor packed in on mine and cd stopped spinning about 10 years ago so got rid 😢
Sega Saturn is my favorite console of all time. It does not matter if N64 or PlayStation are good or not, Saturn is great.