Best Of Saturn
Alien Trilogy hit the Saturn in mid-1996 to positive reviews. Based on the events of the first three Aliens films, the game is a first-person missions-based shooter. The game features…
Best Of Saturn
1995 saw the release of the racing game F1 Live Information in Japan, which was localized as F1 Challenge and released the following year in the West. Licensed by FOCA,…
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An NEC production, Sentimental Graffiti is a 1998 Japan-only dating sim. As a young man in high school, you receive a mysterious letter that states “I want to meet you”……
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Arcana Strikes is a 1997 Japan-only hybrid RPG / card battling game. You are drawn into an ethereal world where people’s dreams give power to cards… but people have stopped…
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In late 1995, the North American versions of Virtua Fighter 2 and SEGA Rally Championship hit retail in special silver foil packaging. No other titles would receive this treatment. While…
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The final System Sacom FMV adventure on the Saturn, 1996’s Lunacy / Gekka Mugentan Torico is an engrossing 2-disc game. You are Fred and you awaken in Misty Town’s jail…
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2D one-on-one fighting games exploded in popularity in the mid-90s, thanks to the immense success of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Keen to grab a slice of gamers’ dollars, Atari’s…
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An entry in the long-gone point-and-click genre, Discworld released in Japan and Europe in 1996. Terry Pratchett’s world comes alive in this adventure that sees the player take control of…
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An overhead adventure game focused on puzzle solving, Casper hit the Saturn in 1996 courtesy of Interplay. Finding items, hitting switches, and solving puzzles is the order of the day,…
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Before the Budokai games, there was Dragon Ball Z: The Legend on the Saturn, an up to 3 vs. 3 fighting game featuring 2D sprites moving about in 3D worlds….
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Released by Game Arts in early 1997, Dino Island is a shojo anime adventure, where protagonist students Emily, Angie, and Riron learn music to hypnotize / train dinosaurs for various…
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The biggest Saturn release of 1999, the Japan-only Street Fighter Zero 3 is perhaps Capcom’s Saturn magnum opus. Requiring the 4MB cartridge to run, this 34-character fighting game came over…
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Released in March 1996 in Japan and December 1996 in America (no Euro release), Virtual Casino boasts 5 popular games to try, including Roulette, Slots, and Blackjack. Featuring a story…
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Fighting Vipers kicked off SEGA’s 1996 year-end assault on gamers’ wallets (or so they had hoped). A 3D vs. fighting game, AM2’s FV uses the same three button layout as…
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Ghoulish greetings, Shiromaniacs! It’s Halloween time again, and that means time to grease back your jet-black hair, light your dark candles, take out the Ouija board, and ask it what…
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In 1997, Victor released Marica: Shinjitsu no Sekai, a dialogue-heavy action RPG. Marica is a young girl who finds herself inadvertently in possession of a secret that a shadowy society…
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A 1995 SEGA/Sims co-production, Blue Seed is a mission-based RPG-style game based on the mid-90s manga. Momiji is a young female officer in a secret government division tasked with investigating…
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Exclusive to North American Saturn Consoles, Corpse Killer: Graveyard Edition is an on-rails FMV zombie B-movie shooting game. Your goal is to team up with a horribly stereotyped driver and…
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After hastily transplanting Shining Wisdom from the Genesis / MegaDrive to the Saturn, Shining the Holy Ark was Sonic Software Planning’s first all-Saturn effort. A masterful dungeon-crawler featuring colorful graphics,…
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Before Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima made Policenauts. Policenauts is a serious science fiction graphic adventure / visual novel – with the occasional shooting scene – that supports both the…
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Liquid Kids saw arcade release in 1990 and an exclusive home port on the PC Engine in 1992… until Ving ported the title to the Saturn in 1997! Japan-only, this…
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Paneltia’s Story: Cologne’s Great Adventure is a 1997 TamTam production. A non-linear world-building RPG, you start off on a single small tile of land and create adjacent panels. Fight monsters…
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Yellow Brick Road is a Japan-exclusive, Myst-style graphic adventure based on Baum’s 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. There is more animation than most visual novels, but the early…
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Sailor Moon Super S: Various Emotion is a 1996 2D vs. fighting game exclusive to Japan. Based on the uber-popular Sailor Moon anime, players fight evil by moonlight while trying…
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AI Igo is the Saturn version of the popular table game Go. A 19×19 square board hosts matches, where the object is to capture more territory than the opponent. Black…
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A Koei production, EMIT Vol 1 (there were 3 in total) is a visual novel meant to teach the English language to Japanese gamers. In the options menu, the text…
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A popular entry of the long-running series, Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire is a Koei release. A deep management and war strategy game, this title demands…
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Black/Matrix is a story-driven strategy RPG released mid-1998, set in an alternate universe where the forces of Hell successfully defeated the forces of Heaven. Full of Judeo-Christian iconography and themes,…
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Sakura Taisen (Sakura Wars) is a 1996 collaboration between SEGA and Red Company. The game, dubbed a ‘dramatic adventure’, is part visual novel, part dating sim, and part strategy RPG…
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The game that launched alongside the Saturn 27 years ago in the West. Representing a shift for SEGA and influencing the future of videogames as a whole, VF portrayed real…
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Metal Fighter Miku is part visual novel, part QTE adventure style futu-wrestling game based on the 13-episode 1994 anime. Set in the year 2061 where wrestlers wear futuristic armor, you…
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Always hovering amongst the greatest Bomberman games of all time, Saturn Bomberman doesn’t disappoint. Play through a single player story mode or step up to one of the greatest mupliplayer…
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The earliest effort from what would become the legendary Vanillaware team, Atlus’ Princess Crown is an absolutely gorgeous 2D showpiece action/beat-em-up/RPG. Play as Queen Gradriel and crush the demonic forces…
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The recently unearthed Saturn version of Tomb Raider 2 was actually completed back in 1997 but due to Eidos’ deal with Sony for exclusivity, was buried at the time. ‘Hardware…
Best Of Saturn
One of the more unusual official Saturn ‘games’ that could be bought in North America. Developed by C-Seven, this CD cleaning kit included a soft brush, cleaning fluid, and a…