Thread 11998849

Did you know anyone back in the 90s that owned a saturn? I didn't even know the saturn was a thing until I saw it on YouTube.

>>11998849 (OP)
One of my older cousins

I mean i guess technically. I bought one off a friends, brothers, friends, brother who sold it to me with a bunch of games and accessories for 20 dollars in either 99 or 2000 so that he could buy a playstation or dreamcast.

I knew one person yes, ultimate Sega fanboy, only had Sega consoles (and all of them), bought only games for Sega consoles and nothing else, not even computer even though they had one.
He had lot's of games, bought everything the Sega magazines told him to buy like Guardian Heroes, Sega fans tend to be like this, only cared about Sega and that's why Sega consoles tend to have a great attach rate. The only thing he didn't do was import which for a Saturn fan in Europe was surprising to be honest.
Sega magazines in Europe talked a LOT about imports because I mean, if Americans thought they had it bad with Saturn releases they should check European releases and how grim that was:

https://www.satakore.com/sega-saturn-complete-european-game,,1,,0,,1.html
Note that his list includes games that were only released in 1 or 2 countries too.

>>11998849 (OP)
>Did you know anyone back in the 90s that owned a saturn?
only one or two people. it wasn't a very popular console and the specs were pretty average. i liked it but getting new software for it became challenging. had to rely on the piracy scene for new games not being shipped to my country quick enough or in great numbers.

>>11998849 (OP)
I envy you. I knew about it, got one, and it was trash.

>>11998849 (OP)
Yes a kid from small town in Italia.

>>11998849 (OP)
I knew about the system from stores and magazines. But I knew noone who owned one. System did okay in the first year or two after which support seemed to have dropped fast. There were a few games I was interested in (daytona, panzer 2, sega rally, dark savior, legend of oasis, and a few more. Took a while before I could actually get to play them)

>>11998849 (OP)
never knew anyone that had a Saturn but I knew about the the console since early 95 from reading magazines

No but I knew a kid in the early 00s who inherited one from his older cousin. He refused to let me play it. Go fuck yourself, Grant.

>>11998849 (OP)
Yes. Friend of my brother had one and I got to play VF2. Loved it. Another kid i rode the bus with said he had one with Sonic R but that was honestly it. I was given my first Saturn summer of '00 with MK3 Ultimate and that was when I started collecting foe it because i was a poorfag and all the games were practically being given away.

Yes, I did. Still have it and play it regularly

>>11998849 (OP)
It's the only mainstream console I've never seen in person and none of my friends had one. My friends had a 3DO, a CD-I, and I had a TG16 and then later a Turbo Duo, but I never even knew this thing existed until the early 2000s when people on GFAQs were talking about them

>>11998849 (OP)
2 people. I wish I had one, but my parents were already set on giving me a PS1.

>>11999129
You have smart parents.

>>11999129
I wish parenting skills were still a thing

>>11999129
Based parents wtf

>>11999146
>>11999330
>>11999412
They probably chose PSX solely because it was cheaper not really knowing any better.

>>11998849 (OP)
a cousin had one, and he got someone teen pregnant

had a saturn because i was a sonic fag and played NiGHTS in a store.
seeing sonic x-treme and sonic fighters in magazines for years was legit torture.

>>11998849 (OP)
I owned a Sega Saturn, had the American one. I ended up buying the Japanese one when I became an adult. It's my favorite 5th gen console to be honest, mainly because of the arcade titles and the Sega exclusives.

The only person I knew who ever had a Saturn said Powerslave was the only good game. And that's how I learned about Powerslave.

I owned one, but I was the only kid I knew that had one. A friend was going to buy one, but ended up getting a PlayStation instead because it was cheaper/more games.
Even though I was the only kid that one had, my friends used to visit often and loved playing Die Hard Arcade, VF2, Daytona and Athlete Kings. It was a fun console.
When I went to high-school it was 1999 and the Dreamcast was out, and most friends were waiting on PS2, but I met one person who did have a Saturn and lended me Die Hard Trilogy to, which was fun.

As others have said, at first it was common enough to see in stores and at rental places, but after a year or two it quickly fell off in popularity. I couldn't find games to rent anywhere and most retailers didn't have it apart from Electronics Boutique or other specialists like Games Men or Games Wizards (Ausfag). By 1997 or 1998 I sometimes got a game sent from England by some relatives who were travelling there for Xmas or the like, that's how I got Shining Force III and Last Bronx.

>>11998849 (OP)
My neighbor with rich parents who also had a psx and an n64 had it. I only played it once, and it was MK Trilogy. Never again since we got it for both the psx and the n64 later and he didn't have many games for it. This kid is also the only reason I've ever seen the Dreamcast IRL, also only once, but this time because I moved.

>>11999435
You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18

>>11998938
SS euro catalogue isn't thaat bad.
shame about the shitty 50hz tho

>>11999851
Some of these were only released in 1 or 2 countries

DBZ was a system seller though

>>11998849 (OP)
Hello from Ireland. I knew exactly one house that had one, and it's the only time I ever played it in my life, maybe a handful of times. Specifically I remember Panzer Dragoon and the Aliens game (trilogy?) It must have been 98 or something because the Playstation and N64 were out, N64 was 97 here and these lads were focused on those thinking the Saturn was old so I didn't see it often in their house. Funnily enough they had a NES they'd get out every so often.

The Saturn was a tragic moment in weeb history, because it revealed that "Japan makes good games" was actually "Capcom, Konami, Nintendo, and Square make good games".

>>12001925
So everyone but Sega?

>>12001925
Weebs had psx with good games
Otaku had Shitturn with dating sim games

>Did you know anyone back in the 90s that owned a saturn?
The girl next door
>I didn't even know the saturn was a thing until I saw it on YouTube.
I did want one, but I ended up getting a PSX because it was cheaper, and Sony had a reputation for being a highly reliable and quality brand back then. No ragrets.

>>11998849 (OP)
nope. the only saturn i ever saw/played was the one i bought for cheap when they were being liquidated and came w/ several games.

>>12003414
And autistic faggots had Nu64 with pricey toddler games.

Bought mine in '97 and still play it several times a week

>>11998849 (OP)
rural swede here, and i haven't even seen a saturn in person.
i was more or less convinced it wasn't even officially released here until i saw it a couple of days ago in some old toy catalogue from '97 some guy posted online. they only listed the system, no games.

>>11998849 (OP)
No, I heard about the saturn in the 2000s because of Castlevania SOTN for saturn had Maria as a playable character. (I also learned about the PC Engine too that day).

However, back in the 90s. I rememeber I had a neighbor that had the 3do with Gex and it looked cool. The curious thing is that it was 90s in Mexico in a town in middle of nowhere and this cunt had a 3DO. No idea how the fuck did he get it since his parents were also middle class.

>>11998849 (OP)
>Did you know anyone back in the 90s that owned a saturn?
I used to think the Genesis was the last console and the Saturn was just a Genesis with a CD and 32x built in, so I dodged it. Then, in the summer of 2004, a crackhead sold me one for 2 or 5 bucks. I assumed it was broken because Genesis cartridges didn’t fit, and it wouldn’t play cd games. Turns out, a tech later explained to me that it had nothing to do with the Genesis.
I should have it somewhere.

>>11998849 (OP)
My cousin and it was my first time seeing videogames, he had Blam! Machinehead and some football game he showed me. My family ended up getting a PlayStation.

>>12003720
>he had Blam! Machinehead

Based

>>11998849 (OP)
I have never seen a Sega Saturn back then. Even here in Europe where Sega was really popular. I saw MD/Genesis and DC everywhere.
The first time I learnt about the Saturn was in the early 2000s when I saw the name in online walkthroughs. There were a bunch of PS1 games that had a Saturn version.

>>11999075
Normal though, when you have a Saturn you have to keep it to yourself. It's a special patrician console and you can't just let dirty plebeians near it.

>>12003720
Smart family

>>11998849 (OP)
Yep, only one. This cute tomboy who ran around with the goths in my year in high school. Think she'd been given one a few weeks after release date by her estranged dad, when the Saturn looked like the safer bet. Overheard her in Electronics Boutique trying to convince her friends to get one, and getting laughed at. Broke my heart. Thanks, Sega.

>>12005803
Yuji Naka is a piece of this

>>11999851
This here in Europa we god more games than north américa. But small print run on some of those.

>>11998849 (OP)
One awkward poor kid raised by a single mother brought one over to another poor kid raised by a single father's house one night and we played Virtua Farter for a bit but got bored and went back to playing Mario Kart on my SNES. I used to bring it over all the time because the single father kid only had a Mega Drivel and three boring games that he played over and over again in the dark because he was motherless. Last I heard he was trying to drink himself to death finally after trying for decades.

>>12006131
Common Sega L

>>11998849 (OP)
Discovered a friend of mine had one when visited his house during his birthday.

It was my dream to have a sega saturn aswell, but then N64 appeared.

Nobody I knew IRL owned a Saturn.
Everyone owned an N64, most people had a PS1.

>>11998849 (OP)
>I didn't even know the saturn was a thing until I saw it on YouTube.
How old are you?

>>12007328
19yo unc, and you?

>>11998849 (OP)
Within my circle of friends, there were 3 others which had a Sega Saturn. I'd go to libraries, other schools, even some friend's friends, or random visits to specialty game stores and there'd be 1 or 2 others there who owned the system. While the Playstation was much more popular, even in its day the Saturn still had a decent player support in its day from my perspective.

>>11998849 (OP)
I only personally remember two kids from my school with a Saturn. Myself and a friend whose dad owned a Japanese import video store. I played Bug! at his house around the launch date. Then I got mine with Virtua Fighter and Panzer Dragoon for Christmas later that year. Can't remember when I got Bug! and Clockwork Knight, but those were two of the other first games I had.

I didn't realize just how obscure it was until later though, the Saturn felt like a big deal for my brothers and I. We loved Sega. I was kind of surprised learning just how few people in America had one. I knew tons of people with a Dreamcast though.

knew a guy who's dad bought it on release day for him and the dad himself.
they also got an n64 imported early to rent to play mario 64 before anyone else
his dad was crazy about video games
this was in texas, hope they're doing alright

The nigger that sold me weed had one, sometimes I played Virtua Fighter Remix with him.

>>12007335
>Unc
Nigger or just brainwashed zoomer?

>>12005803
And then everyone clapped.

>>11998849 (OP)
A cousin on mine, when I saw that cartridge port and was told it wasn't for Mega Drive I was so disappointed, my 1st impression of the Saturn was that it was a piece of shit and inferior to the PS1, finding out there was no Sonic title for it was even worse.

>>11998849 (OP)
I didn't know the Saturn was a thing until I picked up a cheat code magazine in the early 2000s that had a section for it. Before that, I thought Sega went from the Genesis to the Dreamcast. Tbf, I was a kid and I really only got into console gaming at the tail end of 5th gen/early 6th gen.