Feature articles, including game showcases, detailed retrospectives and reviews.
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This article includes machine translated text from Japanese interviews. The original Japanese text will be shown beneath each translation. If you are fluent in Japanese and believe there is a…
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Saturn homebrew development has seen a flurry of new activity over the past few years, as tools have improved and interest in the platform has grown. Projects like XL2‘s HellSlave…
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On the “playing field” of life, the toughest opponent is often ourselves… A simple mistake can have punishing results, but it’s only in learning from our most painful mistakes that…
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By now, it’s more than likely that most gamers have glimpsed this old test-build demo footage of Shenmue (originally Virtua Fighter RPG) running on the Sega Saturn and featured in…
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It’s been 25 years since the release of Team Andromeda’s follow-up prequel to their highly successful, ancient-future dystopian rail-shooter, Panzer Dragoon… Released March 22, 1996 in Japan, Panzer Dragoon II…
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Let’s Play Together! Reflecting SEGA’s build-anything, arcade-rich 90s heritage, the Saturn boasts a plethora of hardware expansion options that enhance the end-user experience. Complimenting a healthy number of mainstream accessories…
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When Time Grows Short… 1998 would be remembered as one of the most fertile years for revolutionary gaming experiences… but not, at first glance, for western Saturn fans. With SEGA’s…
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The US city of Atlanta played host to the 1996 summer Olympic games, a quadrennial event showcasing the pinnacle of human achievement in a variety of sporting events. This traditional…
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Published July 2020; updated August 2023, June 2024 Show me Door #3! The Floppy Disk Drive remains one of the more obscure, misunderstood, and underdeveloped pieces of SEGA Saturn hardware…
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… and quickly becomes Old News. The story of the Saturn’s launch in Europe isn’t nearly as dramatic as its American counterpart – there were no ‘$299’-style surprises – yet…
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The First Console MORPG! Did you know that Phantasy Star Online wasn’t the first console MORPG? Dragon’s Dream (ドラゴンズドリーム) was an MMORPG jointly developed by Fujitsu & SEGA and published…
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… and skids off the runway 11 May, 1995 marked the opening day of a brand new, annual industry event – the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3. Here, companies big…
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Living off the Grid B-sides. In the days of records and cassettes, these were the lesser, lower-end, ‘secondary’ tracks of an artist’s album. The idea was to have the best…
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* THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW! You can relax… SONIC the Hedgehog is a GOOD movie, but that’s not the only reason you should go see it… Can you believe…
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We are now a quarter century past the launch and all-too-brief lifespan of our beloved SEGA Saturn. That’s long enough that, shockingly, there is a cross-section of Saturn fans that…
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The Glory Days 1998 was simultaneously a grim and a glorious year for the Saturn’s fortunes. In Japan, the machine was going strong with just over 200 titles released during…
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25 years ago, our favorite Japanese gaming giant launched what would end up being its’ most successful console in its’ native market, and it did so with five titles available…
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Initially released in Japan in May 1995 and subsequently in the West, D is renegade studio WARP’s breakout title that put them and their maverick boss Kenji Eno on the…
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Greetings, fellow Saturn aficionados! A quick report on the 2019 edition of the Portland Retro Gaming Expo (PRGE) which took place this October 18-20 at the Oregon Convention Center in…
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Let’s face facts: Saturn titles are amongst the most expensive retro games around, and unless you were keen to collect them when they were current or shortly thereafter, money becomes…
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In the lead-up to the May 1995 release of the Saturn in North America, it became clear that there would be no Sonic game to push sales of the new…
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Panzer Dragoon. if ever there was a series that was synonymous with the Saturn experience, this is it. Keil Fluge and the dragon begin the journey to the Tower. Panzer…
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In 1996 Capcom released what would go to be one of the most influential games of the entire 32-bit generation: Resident Evil. The title garnered immediate praise from critics and…
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Playing with others on the Saturn Ah, multiplayer. The staple of today’s gaming. It’s no thought at all to jump online and take on (or work with) players across the…
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SEGA Saturn, Shiro! prides itself on providing our fans with coverage of not only the Saturn’s greatest and most memorable, but also the obscure and little-known – especially if the…
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As a youngster, my parents didn’t approve of video games – I got the classic ‘games will rot your brain’ dose of parental sensibility. Getting a Nintendo NES or a…
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Over in Japan, SEGA released a long and successful series of games for the Saturn under their retro SEGA AGES label: these were titles from SEGA’s rich back-catalogue of both…
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Love him or hate him, Sonic the Hedgehog is synonymous with SEGA. Sonic was a force to be reckoned with during the 16-bit days, delighting players everywhere and striking fear…
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It’s Tea Time, Witches! Great video games are often the kind that are quite easy to pick up, but soon reveal layers upon layers of depth that ultimately take a…
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Hot on the heels of their worldwide hit Tomb Raider, Core and Eidos pushed out a curious little game titled Swagman. Being of a British software house, it made its…
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Back in the mid to late 2000s, I (Peter) made a commitment to go for a North American Saturn full-set. Of course, this meant picking up all the filler games…
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Originally published 2018-09-24. Updated 2022-01-29. The very first Tomb Raider, programmed by UK-based Core Design, started its life as a SEGA Saturn project – not a PlayStation game, as convention…
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Say what you will about the quality and quantity of the two western Saturn game libraries, but it is widely accepted that the Japanese library is vastly superior, both in…
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‘The Coolest Game on Earth’ was the National Hockey League’s late ‘90s advertising tagline, as they made a concerted push to promote the game of ice hockey. During the Genesis…
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As we all know, Sony’s PlayStation secured a decisive victory over Sega’s Saturn in all regions in the 5th generation console war. There were many reasons for this; Sony’s stellar…