Thread 712672225

Zoomers have literally no idea what this is.

That's a good thing, boomer

I was born in 94 so a little late for it but I didn't know a single person that owned one of these at any point or anyone's older brother that had one

>>712672225 (OP)
thats a sega saturn, games console

>>712672225 (OP)
that's a weird looking dreamcast

Anyone remember the jaguar?

>>712672225 (OP)
The best console sega ever made

>>712672225 (OP)
What this is?

>daily threads laughing at the N64 and Gamecube for being "failed consoles"
>these same people will deny what a fucking failure the Saturn was and that it had deservedly no support outside of Japan

>>712672225 (OP)
Most of us weren't even born when Sega dropped out of the console business
Shit, I didn't know Sega consoles were even a thing until 2007

>>712672225 (OP)

Panzer Dragoon Saga is some good shit. I actually knew someone with this in real life but my autism got so fucked I lost all my friends.

https://youtu.be/NhAAYJNQZ_k

>>712672596
A cat can't be a console that would be silly

>>712672793
>"b-but it outsold the Nintendo 64 in Japan"
>Saturn sales in Japan = 6 million
>N64 sales in Japan = 5.5 million
And the Saturn had a fucking two year head start in that country kek

>>712672225 (OP)
literally nobody I know owned a saturn.

>>712672803
I'm afraid to look up when that was. Growing up I knew one kid who had a Game Gear but all Nintendo consoles, and someone with a Genesis but after that nothing. Everyone had PS2s and Nintendos. When Gamecube came out I played all the Sonic shit there. Fuck them for censoring out Big the Cat.

I do remember finding out what a dreamcast was when I got a hacked Mag in PSO that was a floating dreamcast.

vgh the no games machine

>>712673005
i knew one poor kid that had a saturn. his mom bought it because it was the cheapest console at the flea market. it was the cheapest because no one wanted it.

>>712672225 (OP)
Zoomer here, didn't know what a Saturn was until a few years ago

>>712672225 (OP)
>tranime *cryl*c

>>712674471
the fuck?

>>712672793
segafags and specially saturnfags are trying really hard to rewrite history and put the saturn in 2nd place solely because it "outsold" the N64 in Japan and because it has "hidden gems" aka arcade and weeb shit you can pretend to like to gain hardcore retro gamer points.

>>712672225 (OP)
considering how poorly it sold at the time, im not sure most boomers do either

>>712672225 (OP)
Tell us what it is unc

Saturn reminds me of the Vita. Only ever really sold in Japan, and its maker quickly abandoned it for the next thing.

>>712672225 (OP)
this thing fucking sucked. i bought had my parents buy me this instead of a nintendo 64.

don't give me a list of a bunch of obscure japanese games that they didn't have at walmart and claim that makes the console good. maybe it's ok in current year on an emulator but owning this thing as a kid was painful.

>>712672225 (OP)
I was born in 1986 in Australia and I have never seen a Sega Saturn in real-life. Never heard anyone ever talk about it either. I knew one kid who had a Dreamcast though.

>>712672225 (OP)
My dad had one. I remember a helicopter game and a demo for a different game that was on rails and a guy flying on a dragon through the forest or some shit.
The only game I wanted to play on it was Sega Rally Championship but the disc didn't work

>>712672225 (OP)
my parents kept me a generation behind because money until the ps1 so I never even knew this fucking things existed

>>712672225 (OP)
I’m a zoomer (24) and it’s one of my favorite consoles.

>>712678093
At least back then you had a fuckload of games to play when a generation behind. Unlike fucking today where I'm still playing games released during the PS4/Xbone's relevancy.

No one knew the Saturn existed in NA/EU anyways.

>>712672225 (OP)
Sure, it's a PS1 except shittier and only relevant in Japan.

>>712672225 (OP)
Im 26. That is the sega saturn, segas 5th generation console successor to the genesis and predecessor to the dream cast. It was popular in japan but bombed internationally, ive suspected due to publishers being afraid to publish the licensed anime games and rpgs which were often 2d and sprite based.

I didnt grow up with one though and i didnt know about it till my late teens, until then i thought they literally went from the genesis to the dreamcast

Yeah i imagine a lot of zoomers dont know about the saturn especially since gen alpha literally cant tell a ps2 from a 3 from a 4 (my personal experience, i play console games in public with friends regularly)

Kids do not know about old consoles unless their parents tell em basically

>>712672225 (OP)
I can do you one better.

My girlfriend at the time bought me this just so I could play Phantasy Star Online with my friends.

>>712672225 (OP)
>Implying

Did anyone have a Blockbuster that rented Saturn games? Cause mine never did.

>>712673835
>FM Towns Marty
soul

>>712678538
I still have mine!

>>712678349
>It was popular in japan but bombed internationally, ive suspected due to publishers being afraid
Story time. The Saturn was announced overseas as a same-day surprise launch. To compensate for their same-day release, sega massively overstocked the console to make sure that no one went to a store to buy their saturn only to find out it was sold out. Back then, there werent as many dedicated game stores and video game consoles were largely sold in generalist consumer electronics stores, which were often in malls. So sears and sharper image had these big displays of sega saturns, and they sold a fair amount of them, but it wasnt nearly all of them. And, to repeat, these werent large freestanding warehouse stores like a target or walmart, they were largely mall stores that didnt have the space for storage, and especially not for something that was a side product and not the actual cameras or house appliances that were the stores' selling points. These stores' models were built around constantly rotating stock of fad items, and when they had piles of leftover saturns that werent selling through, they started marking them down to clear inventory. Many of them never bothered ordering restock after that, and stopped offering the console.

>>712672225 (OP)
I had one but it was black like my genesis. Clockwork Knight, Bug 1/2, Golden Axe: The Duel, GUARDIAN HEROES, Virtual Cop, Astal. Loved the Saturn.

>>712672225 (OP)
I'm playing mine this weekend. Grandia and Silhouette Mirage.
Sega Saturn is absolute kino.

>>712673005
So? You and your friends were ignorant. Congratulations.
>>712677052
Come round and play mine. Got it hooked up to a Sony CRT via an RGB Scart -> Component transcoder. It's amazing. I'm in QLD btw.

>>712679980
There's also the fact that several retailers weren't told about this and had to watch their competitors make money. KB Toys went so far as to refuse to stock the Saturn or Sega games from then on.

>>712672225 (OP)
i do know what that is

>>712672225 (OP)
I was a fucking weirdo early zoomer who collected old consoles and had like 3 genesises + sega cd and even I didn't get a saturn when I had the chance to (not that it was a 5 dollar thrift store buy like the other consoles it was 30 something at a Slackers)