) From then on I'd play video games off and on until I got tired of playing video games and stopped playing completely.10 years later...
I get a phone call from my friend who worked at Goodwill. He tells me out of the blue, "...Oh yeah by the way, some dude brought in a Sega Saturn. If you want it I can sell it to you for $8.00. It comes with all the original box, chords, couple games, and 2 controllers." Without thinking I immediately came to the store and bought it! It came with a decent amount of games but the one that stood out was definitely Die Hard Arcade. I used to play it at the arcade rooms all the time. I always knew about the 32-bit Saturn, but I never played one before! I never even seen one in real life because none of my friends owned one. I like the most of us, bought the mighty Playstation. I never understood why the Saturn was not a success...It's been plagued here in North America by very bad marketing techniques, no support from Japan, and shitty upper management aka Bernie Stolar.
So I did A LOT research on the Saturn and found out it to be an amazing video game console. What really gets my attention about the Saturn is that technically it's a superior system than the Playstation just harder to program for. Don't ask me why that matters. I guess it's the fact that I like everyone else owned a Playstation and not a Saturn. I grew to love the Saturn fairly quickly because of the true power and capabilities it has. To top it off it has a giant Japanese library filled with many fucking great games unheard of here in the states. I quickly googled "modchip for Saturn" and Racketboy's site was the first site to pop up in the results...Racketboy is so cool that he sent me another chip because my dumbass accidentally bent the mod chip while trying to push it in slot where the lens cable goes into. From then on the rest was history...I now have a giant CD-r collection of North American and foreign games. To this day I play my Saturn almost everyday. The games I play the most by far are Radiant Silvergun and Street Fighter Zero 3 (how cliche, I know). I play it on my 32" LCD Sony T.V. with S-video quality. The Saturn is truly my favorite system and I cherish it dearly and for an older console it looks sexier than any console I know of still to this day!
Pros:
-An awesome library of great games
-Blessed with an AMAZING controller
-Very solid well designed console, will last forever...
-32-bit powerhouse
-Most 2D ports are superior on this system and the library is unmatched
-Games load fast!
-3D games are just incredible but has to be programmed for properly to take advantage of its true potential.
-Internal memory
-BIOS screen and options. Also when you open the disc tray while a game is running, the BIOS opens immediately rather than the console freezing like most CD based video game systems.
Cons:
-Memory is cartridge based
-Many inferior 3D ports because of the lack of good programmers who understand the system
-Lack of good U.S. titles (I'd like to go in detail about why, but most of you know why the Saturn was not a success in the U.S.)
Here's what I now own for my chipped Model2 Saturn:
Grey Model1 Japanese controller (refurbished it myself)
Model2 American controller
ST PadPro (fuck this controller)
Sega (Japan) licensed 4MB RAM Cartridge
Memory Card PLUS Cartridge (works flawless)
21 original copy games in their cases (most valuables are Die Hard Arcade, Panzer Dragoon Zwei II, Virtua On)
and 250+ back up copies of the best games I could download from http://www.sega-saturn.us (unfortunately got hacked August 10th, 2009 but will be back up).
okay thanks for reeding!!!!!!!!!!
