A couple weeks ago, we celebrated 25 years of Tomb Raider, first appearing on the SEGA Saturn on October 25th 1996. North American Tomb Raider fans remember Tomb Raider coming out on Saturn, PC, and PS1 on the 14th of November in 1996. EU fans got a nice early treat, enjoyed the game a couple weeks earlier, exclusively on SEGA Saturn.
Sadly, 25 years later, many fans are under the impression that it came out on PlayStation first:
While some of these range from explicitly wrong, to completely wrong, many people sadly just associate Tomb Raider with the PlayStation. Unfortunately, it’s understandable, in the eye of public opinion, Saturn was a, “Failure” and many people’s first experience was playing this on PlayStation…
This is enforced by the fact Tomb Raider II was a console exclusive on PlayStation, with Sony paying EIDOS for that exclusivity. Removing the ability for Saturn fans to enjoy Tomb Raider II on their SEGA Saturn consoles, a massive slap in the face to what was once planned as a franchise Saturn exclusive.
The discussion is an interesting one, and brings up the idea that if you pay enough money, you can potentially rewrite history, and if you are successful enough, you can indeed rewrite history…
Some folks are seriously NOT happy about this…
What are your thoughts on Tomb Raider? Do you still see it as a Saturn child, or a PS1 juggernaut? Let us know in the comments!
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