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And here I am struggling to get my soundbar to reliably switch between five inputs! Need to show this to my wife so she stops calling me obsessed. haha. It does make me laugh that this guy with all these retro consoles (I even saw a Panasonic Q in there) is doing it wrong and connecting them to an HDTV. However, seeing his setup, I'm sure there's a CRT off camera somewhere.

Very cool, but I'm not sure why people continue with these Nintendo fan projects. We all know how they end up...

I applaud the effort, and I did my part in purchasing these games. There are so many PC ports of games that are more or less lost to time. Yes, you can get abandonware versions online and spend an evening trying to get it to work, but this is far more satisfying. Lots of Sega PC releases to be resurrected. I also recall having a version of FF7 for PC that I could never actually get to run properly back then (ah, PC gaming in the 90s..).

Harder than I imagined it would be...

Considering I have waited so long for orders from lrg that I have actually forgotten I even made them in the past, I wouldn't expect them to have a solution in two months. The right thing would have just been to refund everyone and move on probably. That would have done more to put the controversy behind them than a vague promise to make things right.

Not my thing, but I do find it funny that GameCube now has achievements before Switch. For all of its success, Switch feels like kind of a half baked effort from Nintendo. Wii U gets this whole social network, and Switch doesn't even have folders (at least last I checked).

@RetroGames It's called an opinion, and it's okay.

Kudos for the effort on this. I see Burning Rangers as Sega's first step towards the design aesthetic that would be popular on Dreamcast. It definitely does not feel like other Saturn games, and it proves that, if the Saturn had a longer lifespan, games could have been pushed a lot further. Really wish this game had received a sequel. Playing through the Burning Rangers level on Sega Allstars Racing really made me think about what could have been...

The OG Xbox was a legitimately interesting platform. It actually has a LOT of exclusive titles to this day that require me to keep that beast around. They really threw everything at that first attempt. I also find it funny that it only did a little better than the GameCube, yet the GameCube is considered a failure while the Xbox is not.

360 is the last Xbox I bought. Again, there were enough interesting exclusives to warrant it, Blue Dragon, Tails of Vesperia, some of Rare's games, etc, but it got a lot less use than the OG. Haven't seen anything interesting whatsoever about the Xbox One or later. And if there is a one-off title I'm interested in, I know they'll release it on PC.

Absolutely love going back and watching videos from E3 in the 90s and early 2000s. E3 was an event I anticipated all year, and back then, the announcements really delivered.

@Nahhhtendo Indeed. Played through it a few times when I visited the Galloping Ghost a few years ago. It's short and honestly not too difficult. Very grateful to have had the chance to play it "irl."

From what I can tell, at least people know up front what they're buying in this case, whereas there was no disclaimer that people would be receiving a CD-R. The USB-A being phased out claim is plainly nonsense. Just don't buy it if you don't like it.

I will shout out Mighty No. 9 here (don't hear that much!) and state that my Kickstarter pledge included a DRM-free PC version that came on a USB stick, but the body of the stick looked like an NES cart with the character's face on it. Very premium feeling. If Limited run did something like that, people would be happy.

@Gamer_X I think, with the exception of Nintendo, consoles are becoming redundant with PCs. Microsoft seems to care less and less about their Xbox consoles, and Sony is following suit with porting their games to PC now, too. Sadly, I feel the days of console generations and consoles having their own "personality" is coming to an end.

As for this article, how interesting! I did not know there was cross-play between Dreamcast and PS2.

I think I alone would make a Saturn mini or Dreamcast mini a profitable endeavor for Sega. Haha. I love the Genesis minis, but Saturn and Dreamcast are the ones that would really get me. At least one of every regional variant and then a few to give as gifts at Christmas? Come on, Sega! Take my money!!

I guess I'm impressed with the durability of those cases graded games are put in, but yes, games are meant to be played — ESPECIALLY rare and hard to find games.

@KitsuneNight Yeah. I have started the original Tomb Raider on Saturn a few times and fizzled out a few levels in. The lack of checkpoints makes mistakes (which are inevitable) really demoralizing. But that's the beauty of save states. Maybe I'll finally finish this game!

Very impressive achievement! Hopefully this will lure some bigger publishers.

Panzer Dragoon's art direction is still one of the best gaming has ever seen. Truly beautiful and unlike anything that came before or after it.

You know, I view the Gameboy Color as Nintendo's weakest "successful" console. It barely moved the needle beyond the OG Gameboy. Game Gear games look better imo (though NOT the Game Gear's screen!). Most GBC games aren't worth revisiting (again, imo). But man, these screenshots hit me right in the nostalgia. That weird limited color palette! Still not really interested in this game though. Sorry.

It's an excellent version of Tetris that doesn't get enough attention. So awesome that it is back online!

Excellent article, and I agree that the narrative around Saturn has been overly negative. Yes, it was a failure, but so was the GameCube. It only shifted twice as many units, and you have to consider that the industry was a lot bigger by 2002 compared to 1994. And I'm not knocking the GameCube either. I think it's probably Nintendo's best home console.

The Saturn has become frankly an obsession for me. I am fortunate that I started collecting before prices went mad, so I got a lot of the heavy hitters on the cheap. I "only" paid $300 for Panzer Dragoon Saga and scored Magic Knight Rayearth for $80. But I'm still collecting, so I am grateful for an understanding spouse who doesn't complain about my hobby.

I prefer real hardware 90 percent of the time, and so the extra features/convenience that software emulation offers are really the only thing that can convince me to not use real hardware. I'm sure FPGA is great, but if I want an authentic experience, I'll use authentic hardware.

Especially since these limited run companies pride themselves the idea of game preservation, a burned CD-R is not acceptable. In fact, they should be using the best possible media to ensure longevity. Excluding the exceptionally long wait times for orders, I've been happy with my Limited Run orders, but I'd be demanding a refund if I bought this.

@N64-ROX Godzilla Generations was a launch title for Dreamcast in Japan, aka 1998, before even Sonic Adventure hit the console. It's not a stretch to call it a tech demo made into a game. The fully destructible buildings would have been impressive at the time. Very tedious game. The sequel is actually pretty interesting and better because they made that one a rail shooter.

@smoreon Right. And compression is a thing, too. I need to point no further than Angel Studios (which later became ROCKSTAR) and RE2 on the N64, a two disc game on one N64 cartridge.

@UK_Kev The guy in the article literally said he thinks it could have run it, so I'm going to go with that. If it had been developed from the ground up for the Dreamcast, it obviously would have run on it!

@Uncharted2007 Indeed. Similar to how RE4 couldn't reverse the fortunes of the GameCube. Capcom couldn't wait to port that to the PS2.

I'm always a little sad we never got to see the Dreamcast's true potential. Later PS2 games look so much better than early titles, but the Dreamcast didn't really last long enough for devs to squeeze every drop out of it. I suspect GTA3 would have run on it.

Japan loves their mobile games. It makes sense. When my wife and I went to Japan in 2015 (can't believe it was so long ago ;_;), she took her 3DS and got more street passes walking in Akihabara than she received since getting the 3DS in the United States. I also recall the sheer wonder of walking in a store and seeing a LARGE display of PS Vita games. It was nice to see the Vita getting the respect it deserved for once.

I have been paying handily to rediscover the magic of the Sega Saturn for years now. The game prices are insane! I love those completely impractical longboxes. So fragile, but they really command respect on a shelf!

When I saw Creatures, I thought they meant the old PC artificial life game. But nope. That probably would not translate well to Evercade anyway. I'll be passing on this one.

I hope future cartridges include some of the more obscure survival horror titles from the PS1 era. Also a Jazz Jackrabbit collection. They ported Duke Nukem. Now give me Jazz!

I wonder what other changes are made to the exp, like maybe a screen downgrade. I do like the color scheme, but already having the exp and vs, I have no reason to buy these.

I do have this game, including its mammoth box, though it's the US version, which does not look quite as classy, I must say. It's interesting looking at Nintendo's pre-Wii dabbles with motion control. I find Kirby Tilt N Tumble pretty difficult and have never gotten very far. But I am seemingly one of the only people that enjoyed Yoshi Topsy Turvy. I'm not saying it's Yoshi's Island good, but I think it's pretty fun.

@Blast16 Yeah, for as popular as the Genesis was, a lot of its games have fallen into relative obscurity, things like this or Beyond Oasis or Landstalker. I find that a bit weird, but I have enjoyed discovering the games I missed when I was a kid and relying on birthdays and Christmas to get a new game.

And yeah, I'm grateful to have experienced those console generations in person. Every new generation brought games that literally couldn't be done before, unlike now where we're just talking about a fancy reflection or higher resolution. In my opinion, gaming peaked in the sixth generation. There have been good games since then, of course, but you just can't capture that magic again.

I got Dinosaurs for Hire back when it was released, despite no prior knowledge about the IP. I was probably just intrigued by the inclusion of dinosaurs and that they reminded me a bit of TMNT. It's a game that I enjoyed then and still revisit. Not a legendary title like Gunstar Heroes, but still a good time.

The first scene includes a giant dinosaur enemy that I believe you could either defeat or lose and the game continues regardless. But if you win, it makes some mention of an error in the blast processing unit or something. Obviously a joke, but it's the only in-game mention of "blast processing" I've ever seen. That always stuck with me for some reason.

Obviously the 32x was a mistake, and everyone agrees. I think Saturn was a case of perception becoming reality. I recall at the time having the perception that Saturn had no games. I remember teasing the one classmate we knew that had a Saturn that he had the bad console (Obviously considering it's now second behind Dreamcast as my favorite console of all time, I was a very misguided child, and I admit this). I was legitimately shocked years later when I decided to revisit the Saturn after falling in love with the Dreamcast just how many games it had. In fact, its North American library is within striking distance of the number of releases on N64 (Saturn's Japanese library of course putting it WAY ahead of N64, though both obviously massively below PS1). This perception issue comes down to bad marketing. I was a kid in middle school at the time, so I was basically their prime demographic, yet I didn't know.

I would love a new survival horror Dino Crisis with limited ammo and tank controls, but that will never happen, so no thanks.

@wiiware Amen. Would buy in an instant. I used to make a yearly pilgrimage to an arcade about two hours away (also at the beach, so it was for that, too), and I'd play all the way through The Ocean Hunter. Love that game! I did get it working on an emulator with the Sinden light gun, but honestly, it's just a lot of hassle.

@Uncharted2007 It's their arcade and toys division, which mostly focuses on the Japanese market. I know Sega Toys was a thing, and I guess arcade was separate, too, and now they're combining them. At least that's what I think happened.

With the recent news about Clockwork Knight 2 secretly containing the entire first game on the disc and only getting discovered recently, this didn't seem too far fetched. Haha. Nice one.

Okay. Now release a home version of House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn.

It's an obvious choice, but the correct answer is Shenmue.

Also have to say I miss the old Game Informer, before Gamestop gutted their staff. Spent a lot of time watching their YouTube content. Still go back and watch it sometimes, especially their Super Replays of "bad games," like Overblood and Blue Stinger. Had a subscription for a while, but since their magazine focuses on modern games unlike their YouTube content, I really didn't find it interesting.

The complexity of the Saturn hardware was a factor, sure, but that was not what sunk it. PS2 was famously MUCH harder to develop for than the other consoles (and weaker), but it dominated the market in a similar way to the PS1. In an alternate universe where a huge Japanese corporation (Sony) with limitless cash didn't enter the console market at that very moment, Sega Saturn would have dominated, thanks to Nintendo's mistake of sticking with cartridges. But that's not what happened, and the Saturn is still best in my opinion.

@DestructoDisk Oh, I'm sure there are quality of life improvements that can be made. But playing the original games on original hardware as I did 20+ years ago just give me warm nostalgia feelings, so I need something significant to pry me away from that. But I love these games, and more people should play them. So a collection, even if I pass on it, is a good thing.

I remember buying the first game on or around its release day. I want to say it was sold at a bargain price, like $20, probably because they had low expectations. Glad that the series is still going, though I do feel like it kind of peaked with the second game.

Sadly, Game Arts has been coasting on past glory for a long time now. I expect a collection. Already have the Working Designs releases for SCD and PS1, so I'm not sure I'd pick up the collection, unless they do something like localize Magic School Lunar for the first time...

With oddballs like the Gamate, Super Vision and Gizmondo on here, I wish the GP32 had been included. Though it didn't sell huge numbers, it was pretty much the grandfather of all the emulation handhelds that exist today, and a lot of the emulators on PSP got their start on GP32. You could even buy digital versions of the few commercial games that existed for it. Really groundbreaking. Wikipedia is claiming 30,000 sold, so on par with the Gizmondo but actually on the market much longer.

What a weird list. I've literally never even heard of Re:Verse, and it's above the original PS1 title! For me, this series kind of ended when RE4 came out. RE4 is a fine game, but they've essentially been action games since then. Revelations was a nice halfway point between the two genres, though I never finished Revelations 2.. some day. My list would go:

1. Resident Evil (PS1/Saturn)
2. Code: Veronica
3. Resident Evil 2
4. Resident Evil 3
5. Resident Evil Zero

At this point, I've played the first game so many times I can complete it in a single evening. I did enjoy some of the side games, too, like the light gun games on Wii. Also Dino Crisis is essentially an RE game with a different theme, and I love it.