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Golden Axe: The Duel #BestOfSaturn
The three 16-bit Golden Axe games were the bee’s knees… so is Saturn Golden Axe: The Duel the cat’s meow? Switching to a 2D 1:1 fighting game, the game retains…
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The Lost Vikings: Norse #BestOfSaturn
Sequel to the 16-bit original, The Lost Vikings: Norse by Norsewest is a 2D action platformer featuring prerendered visuals. Here, the player controls three characters and needs to take advantage…
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Layer Section 2 (RayStorm) #BestOfSaturn
Playing like its predecessor but making the leap to quasi-3D, Layer Section 2 (a.k.a RayStorm) is the Japan-only sequel to Galactic Attack (a.k.a Layer Section 1 a.k.a. RayForce). The player…
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The King of Fighters ’96 #BestOfSaturn
Although only released in Japan, an English language option exists in this SNK port. Making use of the 1MB Cartridge, this is the 2nd of three KoF games on Saturn….
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I love Mickey Mouse / I love Donald Duck #BestOfSaturn
SEGA AGES I love Mickey Mouse / I love Donald Duck is a Japan-only SEGA AGES compendium of two Genesis / MegaDrive Disney games, Castle of Illusion and QuackShot. Reproduced…
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Bulk Slash #BestOfSaturn
Many of the Saturn’s best games remain locked away in Japan… until they receive the fan translation treatment! Bulk Slash is the hybrid arcade action mech dating simulator you never…
SHIRO! PODCAST
The SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! Podcast Re-Launches!!
We’re BACK!! We here at SHIRO! bring you the many worlds of SEGA Saturn in a bunch of different ways. Whether you tune in every Friday for The SHIRO! Show,…
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Doom #BestOfSaturn
Doom… A revolutionary game comes home on Saturn, however, at the insistence of John Carmack, the game is written primarily in software and the result is a low framerate, missing…
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Sky Target #BestOfSaturn
Sky Target is an arcade Model 2 experience with a Saturn port released in the first half of 1997. Converted by Appaloosa (Ecco series), the title is like a slow…
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Tilk: Girl from the Blue Sea #BestOfSaturn
Move over Fire Emblem! Tilk: Girl from the Blue Sea is a light-hearted tactical RPG that tells the tale of young Billy and his friends’ exploits on the sleepy tropical…
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Wing Arms #BestOfSaturn
A seldom-mentioned arcade-style flight game, Wing Arms is set in a fictional timeline shortly following the conclusion of WW2. Fly various planes through six missions that focus on dogfights as…
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Alien Trilogy #BestOfSaturn
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…
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F1 Live Information #BestOfSaturn
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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Sentimental Graffiti #BestOfSaturn
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 #BestOfSaturn
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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Saturn’s ‘Silver Lining’..?
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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Primal Rage #BestOfSaturn
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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Discworld #BestOfSaturn
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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Casper #BestOfSaturn
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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Dragon Ball Z: The Legend on the Saturn #BestOfSaturn
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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Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3 #BestOfSaturn
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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Virtual Casino #BestOfSaturn
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 #BestOfSaturn
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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The Great SEGA Saturn Halloween Round-up
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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Blue Seed #BestOfSaturn
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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Corpse Killer: Graveyard Edition #BestOfSaturn
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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Shining the Holy Ark #BestOfSaturn
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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Policenauts #BestOfSaturn
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 #BestOfSaturn
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 #BestOfSaturn
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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Sailor Moon Super S: Various Emotion #BestOfSaturn
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 #BestOfSaturn
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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EMIT Vol 1 #BestOfSaturn
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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Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire #BestOfSaturn
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 #BestOfSaturn
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,…