After last week’s Saturn celebration/commiseration I broke the old beast out of storage and went through my Saturn games to check out what it was about the system that made it stand out for me.
The first thing I notice is the game boxes. Playstation games come in plastic CD style jewel cases, the N64 have cardboard boxes like the SNES, the Saturn however is a little different from the norm, they resemble the cardboard cases the first DVD’s came in, you know the ones- they had the tear out proof of purchase tabs- (what the help were they for?? why were there loads of them in each DVD???). The card sleeve was glued to a plastic lining that has a CD/DVD shaped recess that allowed you to click the game disc in safely- this gave a really nice bespoke feel to the games and set them apart from the cheap boxes of the N64 and generic CD style of playstastion.
Having dung through the box and realised the AV lead was missing i spent 20 mins looking through draws full of cables trying to find the sega one withe the odd S video style connection for the console.
Ive written at length about the different styles and models of the saturn so im not going to go on about this, suffices to say that it looks great, keeping black megadrive looks and feel.
But its the games that set it apart, Nights, Sega rally and datona are all gold in my eyes and theres enough exclusive titles to keep up with the likes of Playstation.
At the end of the day it was a rushed launch, lack of games and Sony's master stroke of embracing the 20 somthing post pub/club crowd that where the real nails in the saturns coffin, the console its self was pretty damn fine.
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