Sega Saturn

[Pains Requiem]

After reading under the gaming forum sections, i saw halo, pc, xbox, nintedno, and PSX PS but no place to put this so i will keep it here in chit-chat until moved or whatever:
heres my question:
how many of you guys ever owned a Sega Saturn, or ever heard of one? They came out before the playstation and were the first to use disc games and started the Gex, tekkan, and Panzer Dragoon series i think-
i had one of these like 8-9 years ago, but i never really found out why they never got really popular even though they came out before the PS-
they had a few games, but what few they had were awesome.
I had a small colelction, including Tekkan, Panzer Dragoon Zwei (omg this game owned), Gex, and Sonic- forgot which sonic it was, but it was like the first 3d sonic game ever- and it had graphics in that game, i beleive, that surpasses any new PS graphics on any game.
gimme' some feedback on this..

 

[Auron]

I have heard of them never was a fan of sega so I never bought one.

 

[Icedragon]

i have played only one game on the sega saturn but im looking on ebay for one someday lol. ok well the game i played was vertual on. Its robot fighting but its really good

 

[Abyss]

yea i heard of it ... my friend owned one last time ... i didnt ...

hot stuff last time ...

but i own a Genesis Sega 16-bit ... u know ... insert the game cartridge on top ... and i still have it ... working fine too

 

[Icedragon]

lol yeah me too i also have a working NES i play that a lot. the saturn didnt get the respect it deserved i think

 

[Auron]

Saturn kinda got pushed aside by Nintendo now Nintentdo GB is getting pushed aside by PS2.

Kinda Funny eh.

 

[RuneyPoo]

Always wanted a Sega Saturn just to play Shining Force 3, then I woulda threw it away.

 

[Auron]

Make sure you throw itmy direction and I'll catch it.

 

[Zerglite]

nights into dreams was a good one too but im not sure if it was saturn or dreamcast, im BIG fan of sega ( GO SEGA ) and my aunt still has her saturn.... and colecovision..... and atari...... and nintendo ( NOT SUPER NES... just NES ) and her genesis and now a ps2 i dunno y im talkin bout my aunt but w/e why shud i care if it seems wierd

 

[Jimbo]

haha i actually own a sage saturn,yeah it was ahead of its time,just like the dreamcast,but the dreamcast took off and got WAY popular...


too bad my sega saturn broke after a month,so i never really got to enjoy it...though this was like 7 years agoo...

 

[Homem mAIOR]

Well, Saturn never got famous because it was to difficult to program it and as a result games were really expensive to produce and rare... then came PSX and for about two months there was some competiton but Saturn was quickly pushed aside (PSX was cheaper to program and way faster the games ratio soon grew to about 4:1 for PSX) When Nintendo64 1st appeared, it had a great graphical display (Super Mario is one of the best platform games) the two main drawbacks wich pushed it asside for the weaker but, more reliable, PSX were the programing (cartridges are far more expensive than cd's, can't carry that much info and are harder to program), late entry in the market (PSX was already well stablished with a lot of games), much slower game production (because the programing and manufacturing costs) and few games available in it's launch...
This is some of the console history... feel free to ask for more

 

[Arkillo]

I have a Saturn, but SegaCD was the first system to use CD's, not Saturn.

Only games I have for it is Megaman X4, Knights Into Dreams, and Space Jam.

 

[Pains Requiem]

SegaCD? gimme some info plz greedy sir

 

[Arkillo]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-14,GGLD:en&q=sega+cd

 

[Homem mAIOR]

Sega Cd was a sound system that boosted Megadrive abilities... (much like 32X...) it had cool games indeed...I recal one car game that was particulary amusing

 

[Forged]

Sega CD was way cooler than sega saturn, if only for sewer sharks.
I never owned a sega saturn, though I wanted one untill playstation came out and I got one of those.

 

[Homem mAIOR]

Yup Sega CD was really cool... I nearly bought one a few days ago and now, I regret I didn't...

 

[Pureblade]

I wasn't born when Saturn came out, we had an SNES.