Best Of Saturn
April 1997 saw the Japan-only release of Jaleco’s Fantastep, a 3D adventure game featuring 2D sprites. Heavy on the language barrier, the adventure is more of a point-and-click affair and…
Best Of Saturn
Based on a manga (as so many Japanese Saturn titles are), Crows: The Battle Action for Segasaturn is a very late 1997 Japan-only delight. A beat-em-up featuring super-deformed characters, it…
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Technosoft’s awesome ThunderForce series arrives to 32-bit gaming, with the fifth installment featuring all-new 3D visuals coupled with traditional 2D gameplay. Master your forward and rear shots and take advantage…
Best Of Saturn
Dating back to 1978 (!), Space Invaders is a simple game of timing as you try to shoot down a horde of invading aliens that are descending ever closer. The…
Best Of Saturn
Developed by Technosoft and released in Japan in the summer of 1995, Fantastic Pinball Kyuutenkai is an anime-based pinball adventure. Select one of three heroes of Flipperland and play pinball…
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World War 2 has just ended, but the belligerents must unite against a mysterious new foe known only as C.A.D.Y. Strikers 1945 is the first of the series, receiving a…
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Iron Storm is a World War II battle simulation game that supports the Saturn mouse. Players command armies and participate in various clashes from WW2. The play field is a…
Best Of Saturn
The Mortal Kombat craze had crested by the time Mortal Kombat Trilogy came out in 1997, and of course, the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 versions came out first. Fashionably late…
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A direct sequel to Mystaria/Blazing Heroes, Riglordsaga 2 never left Japan, sadly. Set years after the events of the original, you play as Mieu and must help a princess escape…
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The Psychotron is a 1995 Japan-only port of a 1994 American PC FMV game. The in-game text and original English voices were translated / dubbed, meaning the language barrier is…
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Released mid-1998, Wachenröder is a Japan-only steampunk SRPG. Dark and gritty, the game features quality FMV sequences, very nice still pixel art, and standard 2D SRPG battles that switch to…
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Elevator Action Returns is a game that should have been picked up for Western release. A Ving port of the Taito arcade original, this 2D run-and-gun gem appeared in 1997…
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The three 16-bit Golden Axe games were the bee’s knees… so is Saturn Golden Axe: The Duel the cat’s meow? Switching to a 2D 1:1 fighting game, the game retains…
Best Of Saturn
Sequel to the 16-bit original, The Lost Vikings: Norse by Norsewest is a 2D action platformer featuring prerendered visuals. Here, the player controls three characters and needs to take advantage…
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Playing like its predecessor but making the leap to quasi-3D, Layer Section 2 (a.k.a RayStorm) is the Japan-only sequel to Galactic Attack (a.k.a Layer Section 1 a.k.a. RayForce). The player…
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SEGA AGES I love Mickey Mouse / I love Donald Duck is a Japan-only SEGA AGES compendium of two Genesis / MegaDrive Disney games, Castle of Illusion and QuackShot. Reproduced…
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Many of the Saturn’s best games remain locked away in Japan… until they receive the fan translation treatment! Bulk Slash is the hybrid arcade action mech dating simulator you never…
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Sky Target is an arcade Model 2 experience with a Saturn port released in the first half of 1997. Converted by Appaloosa (Ecco series), the title is like a slow…
Best Of Saturn
Move over Fire Emblem! Tilk: Girl from the Blue Sea is a light-hearted tactical RPG that tells the tale of young Billy and his friends’ exploits on the sleepy tropical…
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Alien Trilogy hit the Saturn in mid-1996 to positive reviews. Based on the events of the first three Aliens films, the game is a first-person missions-based shooter. The game features…
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1995 saw the release of the racing game F1 Live Information in Japan, which was localized as F1 Challenge and released the following year in the West. Licensed by FOCA,…
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An NEC production, Sentimental Graffiti is a 1998 Japan-only dating sim. As a young man in high school, you receive a mysterious letter that states “I want to meet you”……
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Arcana Strikes is a 1997 Japan-only hybrid RPG / card battling game. You are drawn into an ethereal world where people’s dreams give power to cards… but people have stopped…
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The final System Sacom FMV adventure on the Saturn, 1996’s Lunacy / Gekka Mugentan Torico is an engrossing 2-disc game. You are Fred and you awaken in Misty Town’s jail…
Best Of Saturn
2D one-on-one fighting games exploded in popularity in the mid-90s, thanks to the immense success of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Keen to grab a slice of gamers’ dollars, Atari’s…
Best Of Saturn
An entry in the long-gone point-and-click genre, Discworld released in Japan and Europe in 1996. Terry Pratchett’s world comes alive in this adventure that sees the player take control of…
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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,…
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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…
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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…