Favorite non-Nec system

[khyrox]

The Saturn was sorely underrated. It's too bad that by the time Saturn really started to strut its stuff, it was too late to make any real impact.

I posted this on another forum, but here's a link to footage of Shenmue running on Saturn:

http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=178

I thought it was really impressive!

[mamonohunter]

I choose snes as my favorite non-pc engine console. One of my alltime favorite games Super Metroid is featured and lots of other classics I like such as Super Turrican, Contra III, Street Fighter 2, Ganbare Goemon, Ultimate Parodious, Axelay etc. Im also very impressed by the powerful quality on Hardware and Software, I was very violent on my SNES stuff when I was a kid but still it never failed working no matter how much violence I gave it.

After that I add Sega Genesis, Saturn and Neo Geo as my other favorite non-NEC consoles.

[RCduck7]

The Saturn was sorely underrated. It's too bad that by the time Saturn really started to strut its stuff, it was too late to make any real impact.

I posted this on another forum, but here's a link to footage of Shenmue running on Saturn:

http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=178

I thought it was really impressive!

Very amazing what the developers could do with the saturn wich was actually more of a 2D machine.  

[khyrox]

The Saturn was sorely underrated. It's too bad that by the time Saturn really started to strut its stuff, it was too late to make any real impact.

I posted this on another forum, but here's a link to footage of Shenmue running on Saturn:

http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=178

I thought it was really impressive!

Very amazing what the developers could do with the saturn wich was actually more of a 2D machine.  

The Saturn was a capable machine, it just took a lot more effort to produce quality 3D visuals. Effort that many developers didn't think was worth it given the beating Sony was giving Sega at the time.

[RCduck7]

The Saturn was sorely underrated. It's too bad that by the time Saturn really started to strut its stuff, it was too late to make any real impact.

I posted this on another forum, but here's a link to footage of Shenmue running on Saturn:

http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=178

I thought it was really impressive!

Very amazing what the developers could do with the saturn wich was actually more of a 2D machine.  

The Saturn was a capable machine, it just took a lot more effort to produce quality 3D visuals. Effort that many developers didn't think was worth it given the beating Sony was giving Sega at the time.

i suppose it was due not giving it the effort.
Sega Rally was a good conversion while daytona and touring car were utter crap compared to the coin op.
I think it made many wonder if the saturn was capable.
Sony was without a doubt an other nail in sega's coffin.
For instance Tomb Raider was first released on the saturn, still it was sony getting all the credit and succes with the tomb raider name.

[khyrox]

For some great reading about the history of the Saturn check this out:

http://www.eidolons-inn.net/segabase/SegaBase-Saturn(Part1).html

(Copy and paste the URL since the parentheses seem to mess up the link above.)

Two-part article. Great stuff. Sad story.

[RCduck7]

Intresting... shame about he dismiss of sonic x-treme...

It's all the little bits that went wrong that add up to the commercial failure of SEGA.

They did made very good games but bussines wise they were not as clever.