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Shanghai: Triple Threat
SEGA Saturn, Shiro! prides itself on providing our fans with coverage of not only the Saturn’s greatest and most memorable, but also the obscure and little-known – especially if the…
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Retro-bit Controller Review
Packaging: I commend Retro-bit for doing an EXCELLENT job of following the SEGA templates from back in the day. The Saturn boxes are somewhat larger than the original boxes but…
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The Lost Art of the Video Game Manual
As a youngster, my parents didn’t approve of video games – I got the classic ‘games will rot your brain’ dose of parental sensibility. Getting a Nintendo NES or a…
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SEGA Ages in the West
Over in Japan, SEGA released a long and successful series of games for the Saturn under their retro SEGA AGES label: these were titles from SEGA’s rich back-catalogue of both…
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Sonic R, Superstar
Love him or hate him, Sonic the Hedgehog is synonymous with SEGA. Sonic was a force to be reckoned with during the 16-bit days, delighting players everywhere and striking fear…
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Cotton 2: Magical Night Dreams
It’s Tea Time, Witches! Great video games are often the kind that are quite easy to pick up, but soon reveal layers upon layers of depth that ultimately take a…
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Retro-bit Saturn Controllers
Greetings, Saturn fans! As you know, the 2018 Portland Retro Gaming Exposition (PRGE) has just come to a close. Shiros Ke and Ben were on hand at the show as…
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Swagman
Hot on the heels of their worldwide hit Tomb Raider, Core and Eidos pushed out a curious little game titled Swagman. Being of a British software house, it made its…
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Skeleton Warriors
Back in the mid to late 2000s, I (Peter) made a commitment to go for a North American Saturn full-set. Of course, this meant picking up all the filler games…
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Tomb Raider
Originally published 2018-09-24. Updated 2022-01-29. The very first Tomb Raider, programmed by UK-based Core Design, started its life as a SEGA Saturn project – not a PlayStation game, as convention…
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Shining Wisdom Translations
Say what you will about the quality and quantity of the two western Saturn game libraries, but it is widely accepted that the Japanese library is vastly superior, both in…
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Anime Stream with Patrick and Claire!
Magic Knight Rayearth, created by the studio CLAMP, began as a manga series that debuted in 1993 and was later adapted into two anime series in 1994. In 1995, Sega…
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In the Surgery Room…
In the surgery room… Shiro team member Natalie Marie is quite handy when it comes to operating on the innards of your favourite console. In the first of a series…
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NHL Hockey
‘The Coolest Game on Earth’ was the National Hockey League’s late ‘90s advertising tagline, as they made a concerted push to promote the game of ice hockey. During the Genesis…
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WipE’out’’ – now on Sega Saturn!
As we all know, Sony’s PlayStation secured a decisive victory over Sega’s Saturn in all regions in the 5th generation console war. There were many reasons for this; Sony’s stellar…
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Panzer Dragoon Saga 100% Complete Playthrough
Claire Sawyer and Peter Malek sat down with Chaz Picardy to discuss his recent 100%-completion playthrough of the seminal Panzer Dragoon Saga (you can catch his video playthrough series finale…
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NHL Hockey on Saturn
‘The Coolest Game on Earth’ was the National Hockey League’s late ‘90s advertising tagline, as they made a concerted push to promote the game of ice hockey. During the Genesis…
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Blue, Blue Skies
Greetings, racing fans! If you haven’t listened to the S2E2 ‘Rolling Start’ Shiro Podcast (and you should do, it’s GREAT!), it focused on racing games. In keeping with this theme,…
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NiGHTS into Dreams…
I sat down to play an hour or so of NiGHTS into Dreams… (NiD) the other day, and whilst flying around in Stick Canyon, I noticed that one of the…
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Getting the Most out of Panzer Dragoon Saga in 2018
Monday, January 29, marked the 20th anniversary of Azel: Panzer Dragoon RPG’s original release in Japan. Panzer Dragoon Saga – as it would later become known to English-speakers in the…