Best Of Saturn
An overhead adventure game focused on puzzle solving, Casper hit the Saturn in 1996 courtesy of Interplay. Finding items, hitting switches, and solving puzzles is the order of the day,…
Best Of Saturn
Before the Budokai games, there was Dragon Ball Z: The Legend on the Saturn, an up to 3 vs. 3 fighting game featuring 2D sprites moving about in 3D worlds….
Best Of Saturn
The biggest Saturn release of 1999, the Japan-only Street Fighter Zero 3 is perhaps Capcom’s Saturn magnum opus. Requiring the 4MB cartridge to run, this 34-character fighting game came over…
Best Of Saturn
Released in March 1996 in Japan and December 1996 in America (no Euro release), Virtual Casino boasts 5 popular games to try, including Roulette, Slots, and Blackjack. Featuring a story…
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Fighting Vipers kicked off SEGA’s 1996 year-end assault on gamers’ wallets (or so they had hoped). A 3D vs. fighting game, AM2’s FV uses the same three button layout as…
Editorial
Ghoulish greetings, Shiromaniacs! It’s Halloween time again, and that means time to grease back your jet-black hair, light your dark candles, take out the Ouija board, and ask it what…
Best Of Saturn
A 1995 SEGA/Sims co-production, Blue Seed is a mission-based RPG-style game based on the mid-90s manga. Momiji is a young female officer in a secret government division tasked with investigating…
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Exclusive to North American Saturn Consoles, Corpse Killer: Graveyard Edition is an on-rails FMV zombie B-movie shooting game. Your goal is to team up with a horribly stereotyped driver and…
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After hastily transplanting Shining Wisdom from the Genesis / MegaDrive to the Saturn, Shining the Holy Ark was Sonic Software Planning’s first all-Saturn effort. A masterful dungeon-crawler featuring colorful graphics,…
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Before Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima made Policenauts. Policenauts is a serious science fiction graphic adventure / visual novel – with the occasional shooting scene – that supports both the…
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Liquid Kids saw arcade release in 1990 and an exclusive home port on the PC Engine in 1992… until Ving ported the title to the Saturn in 1997! Japan-only, this…
Best Of Saturn
Paneltia’s Story: Cologne’s Great Adventure is a 1997 TamTam production. A non-linear world-building RPG, you start off on a single small tile of land and create adjacent panels. Fight monsters…
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Sailor Moon Super S: Various Emotion is a 1996 2D vs. fighting game exclusive to Japan. Based on the uber-popular Sailor Moon anime, players fight evil by moonlight while trying…
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AI Igo is the Saturn version of the popular table game Go. A 19×19 square board hosts matches, where the object is to capture more territory than the opponent. Black…
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A Koei production, EMIT Vol 1 (there were 3 in total) is a visual novel meant to teach the English language to Japanese gamers. In the options menu, the text…
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A popular entry of the long-running series, Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire is a Koei release. A deep management and war strategy game, this title demands…
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Black/Matrix is a story-driven strategy RPG released mid-1998, set in an alternate universe where the forces of Hell successfully defeated the forces of Heaven. Full of Judeo-Christian iconography and themes,…
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Sakura Taisen (Sakura Wars) is a 1996 collaboration between SEGA and Red Company. The game, dubbed a ‘dramatic adventure’, is part visual novel, part dating sim, and part strategy RPG…
Best Of Saturn
The game that launched alongside the Saturn 27 years ago in the West. Representing a shift for SEGA and influencing the future of videogames as a whole, VF portrayed real…
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Metal Fighter Miku is part visual novel, part QTE adventure style futu-wrestling game based on the 13-episode 1994 anime. Set in the year 2061 where wrestlers wear futuristic armor, you…
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Always hovering amongst the greatest Bomberman games of all time, Saturn Bomberman doesn’t disappoint. Play through a single player story mode or step up to one of the greatest mupliplayer…
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The earliest effort from what would become the legendary Vanillaware team, Atlus’ Princess Crown is an absolutely gorgeous 2D showpiece action/beat-em-up/RPG. Play as Queen Gradriel and crush the demonic forces…
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The recently unearthed Saturn version of Tomb Raider 2 was actually completed back in 1997 but due to Eidos’ deal with Sony for exclusivity, was buried at the time. ‘Hardware…
Best Of Saturn
One of the more unusual official Saturn ‘games’ that could be bought in North America. Developed by C-Seven, this CD cleaning kit included a soft brush, cleaning fluid, and a…
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Perhaps the finest video pinball game of all time, Digital Pinball: Necronomicon offers three tables rendered in glorious high resolution, 60 fps action, amazing physics, music by John Petrucci (Dream…
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The seventh episode of the Ogre Battle saga, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together is a Final Fantasy Tactics-esque SRPG set in enchanted Valeria. Fight your way through scenarios to…
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Langrisser Dramatic Edition is a compilation / remake of the first two Langrisser games, originally for the Japanese MegaDrive. Strategy RPGs at heart, the player controls over 30 units of…
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Another game based on a successful anime, Mobile Suit Gundam is one of several Gundam games on the Saturn. This one, released in 1995, features plenty of anime cutscenes, in-game…
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A late European exclusive, Rage Software’s Trash It features… bland graphics, ugly sprites, horrendous controls, and banal gameplay. Trash various shapes and buildings and then clean up your demolition. The…
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Pretty Fighter X is a remake of sorts of the SNES original, Pretty Fighter. An all-female cast of fighters square off in a fighting tournament. The game is similar to…
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Bandai’s 1995 Saturn effort based on the wildly popular manga SLAM DUNK, “From TV Animation Slam Dunk: I Love Basketball” is a 1 or 2 player sports sim with a…
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Tomb Raider, the classic action-adventure game from Core, made its worldwide debut on the SEGA Saturn in 1996. Contrary to what the PlayStation Twitter account would have you believe, the…
Best Of Saturn
Batter up! The first World Series Baseball game to hit the Saturn (there were many on the Genesis / MegaDrive, GameGear and the 32X), this was a winner! Featuring both…
Review
A deep-dive into the first Lunar game on the Saturn.
Best Of Saturn
The Segata Sanshiro TV ads were so successful in Japan, that SEGA put together the Japan-only game ‘Segata Sanshiro Shinken Yugi’ as part of the character’s send-off when the Dreamcast…