Editorial

Shining Force 3 Begins

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…

SEASON 5: EP 1 – “Horizontal Shmups”

Welcome to a new season of Sega Saturn, Shiro!

This week, we expand on our last discussion of shmups, by covering Horizonal Shmups!

We also talk about the Satiator, XL2’s newly titled, “HellSlave”, Balan Wonderworld, VGC Online cases, and Game-tech….

Editorial

Secrets of the Floppy Disk Drive

Updated August 2023 Show me Door #3! The Floppy Disk Drive remains one of the more obscure, misunderstood, and underdeveloped pieces of SEGA Saturn hardware ever released. A SEGA-branded external…

SEASON 4: EP 8 – “Command & Conquer”

Welcome to another great episode of Sega Saturn, Shiro!

This week, we are talking about the legendary RTS title, Command & Conquer!

Join Patrick, Dave, Peter, Nick, and Ben on their quest for world domination, talking the ins and out of this game!

We …

Editorial

Dragon’s Dream

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…

Editorial

Saturn Lands in America!

… 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…

Editorial

Grid Runner

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…

Editorial

The Congo Conundrum

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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PRGE 2019 Round-up

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…