How The WORST Console Launch EVER Happened

Sega's launch of the Saturn console was unprecedented, weird, and messy. Let's take a trip down memory lane.
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• E3 1995
• All US Sega Saturn Com...

[@medul10alpha31]

Stadia be like : Let me introduce myself

[@brytonwallis4817]

Oof

[@_--____--______--___]

Pretty sure you could include PS Now and whatever streaming service that Microsoft provides on the Xbox with the terrible amount of latency. It definitely improved over a couple of years, but not enough for me to start paying for another service.

[@brokenhalo2001]

Ouya: SUP GUYS

[@CheapBastard1988]

Hello latency🤣. But yes they definitely botched the launch.

[@Stealthful_]

@@_--____--______--___ xcloud is the best streaming service I have played on and I have experience alot of different streaming platforms.

[@kronfle111]

I remember my Dad coming back in christmas with a Sega Saturn, altough it was the most expensive one, he bought it with around 8 games, because he knew I love the arcade sega games. Thanks Dad! That christmas of 95 was awesome!

[@paniniweewee5857]

thats wholesome af

[@tfyk5623]

Hope he's doing well

[@paniniweewee5857]

@@tfyk5623 same

[@kronfle111]

@@tfyk5623 Yeah, he is 60 years old and totally healthy, thanks guys for the reply!

[@tfyk5623]

@@kronfle111 love too hear it

[@Uenostation54]

Pretty sure there was a thing back then called Yahoo. I was on a college campus and someone ran from the computer lab with a printout with something about a new console out now. My friend drove me to the bank where I cashed out a bond of some kind I'd won at a HS event and we went to Toys R Us. The guy didn't even realize they had them but they did and I got one on launch day. The next few months were spent showing 3D graphics to the other people in my dorm and hunting/waiting for new games.

[@sonicthehedgehog1606]

Please don't remind me of this.

[@ChulioRCHulio]

It was so bad even Sonic could not escape it entirely! It´s failure still haunts him today

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

hey Sonic

[@ivancerecer5758]

I always liked Sanic more than you

[@mr.kwamid-86_43]

Lol Sanic is sad :(

[@burnthetrolls5971]

Apologize for Sonic 2006

[@Saddened_Editor]

If I remember right, my cousin had one. He also had the add-ons for the Genesis when they came out. He was a bit spoiled XD

[@huntgar]

I was lucky enough to have a generous friend with all that stuff🤘good ol days

[@nieronxp]

Mine too

[@skajohncarter]

Same but a neighborhood kid who even had a Neo Geo for crissakes.

[@ttv__btw__yt4835]

I’m spoiled I have the ps4 pro and Xbox one X iPhone 11 Apple Watch S4 air pods pro

[@C-Jay_Underground]

@@ttv__btw__yt4835 Nobody gives a crap!

[@TheViper4Life]

Yeah my Dad (who was a big gamer at the time) brought home a Saturn one day out of the blue in 1995...as a kid, I had no idea it was even out...like you I knew it was coming at some point, but he just brings it home and......I didn't even care. I was still so into the Genesis at the time (we did have Sega CD as well), that the Saturn literally didn't interest me at all. My Dad barely played the thing too and he eventually got rid of it. The same thing happened with an Atari Jaguar...we had it for like 2 weeks and barely touched it. I honestly remember nothing about mt short lived experience with the Saturn at this point.

[@OhFuckItsOlkv]

Loved me some Sega CD back in th day. Dracula Unleashed was one of my favorites. 🦇

[@cantool]

Wow I bet you morons regret that

[@OhFuckItsOlkv]

🤓

[@yamira.737]

Is he still gaming?

[@TheViper4Life]

@@yamira.737 More like "gaming again". He stopped completely when I was a teenager after he got remarried and had another kid. But started back up again a couple years ago. It's mostly sports games now (though he played those a lot back in the day too).

[@king.apocalypse4357]

Yoda: There is another.

[@Roeclean]

Stadia:HELLO THEIR

[@odinson5911]

@@Roeclean General Stadia

[@gpl3046]

DozerGamingTM another there is...

[@ronnyfc24]

Virtual boy: allow me to introduce myself.

[@tyronetyronerson8993]

Xbox one

[@frankcastleisdead7473]

*Soulja Boy had something to do with its failure...*

[@NoThanksnothanks]

Honestly it is the best console of all time. I was gonna get a PS5, but really it has everything I need.

[@YouTubeAddict50]

I was today years old when I realized the ‘Ages’ in Sega Ages Collection is Sega spelled backwards 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@robertstimmel1100]

I never had a Saturn, but i still have my 32x. That was the last piece of Sega hardware I ever bought. I'm still hoping that they'll make another console one day.

[@NatrajChaturvedi]

I also wonder why they don't get back into the game now that their ship is steady again.

[@rangerthederpgoat2326]

I may be wrong, but I heard that after the success of of Alien:Isolation they were talking about maybe releasing a new system, but then Sonic: Rise of Lyric came out and torched any chances of that happening.

[@CleetusVanDamme530]

My last Sega console was the Dreamcast and I actually liked it a lot even though I had grown up in the Nintendo camp.

[@CleetusVanDamme530]

Looking back on the library of titles that never left Japan just made me wonder what could have been for the Saturn.

[@fattiger6957]

Sega doesn't have the money to make another console. Sony and Microsoft have probably spent billions on R&D and marketing for the PS5 and Series X and Sega just can't compete with that. These new consoles from smaller companies (Atari and Intellivision) won't sell well and will get buried by the big three.

[@RedTsarOldChannel-INACTIVE]

"An astonishing failure." Japan and Brazil: *WHAT?*

[@acmiguens]

Did it release in Brazil? I've never seen a Saturn here :(

[@yuranashi]

@@acmiguens me too, from brazil and only heard the legends, to me was Megadrive-sness-ps1

[@DarkusObscurius]

But, Saturn failed in Brazil too. PS1 with piracy took the country by storm, no one even considered purchase Saturn.

[@primalconvoy]

The UK and most of Europe: - "Sega WHO?"

[@mindphaserxy]

No one in Brazil bought a Saturn and Japan...lol Sega wasn't even popular there with the Genesis. Hell the PC Engine sold more.

[@KARIMENT.]

I've committed several federal crimes

[@efafvadffweafbvzagdafs8076]

hell yeah

[@Wbo12]

Cool

[@Vengeance_02]

Nice

[@bnuuycomrade5089]

43 stab wounds

[@gameblast5696]

🍜💥

[@dontfearsilver]

Sega fell so far, from a respected console developer to, the current Sega.

[@MorrisseyMuse]

SEGA will always be respected

[@unclevergil7135]

At the very least, still doing much better than Atari

[@rrad7748]

Nah, man. SEGA's got Yakuza. That's good enough to keep them going forever.

[@fattiger6957]

They still publish a few good games, but yeah they fell far from once being the 2nd biggest player in the industry.

[@Old_Man_Jay]

@@fattiger6957 Agreed. They still have some gems that keep them in business. Currently for me, that's Phantasy Star Online 2. They definitely aren't the Sega I knew as a kid though.

[@KneecapTaker]

Ouya: allow me to introduce myself Edit: this is my most liked comment, thanks guys

[@dardestroy4502]

Apple Pippin: I beg you, pardon!

[@billthefirst2410]

tf is an ouya

[@Geeler]

@@dardestroy4502 Beg.

[@michaelturner4457]

@@billthefirst2410 exactly

[@benedictosamosir9109]

It's not the worst console launch, It's the worst console, period

[@sans1724]

Google stadia: Am I not enough of a joke to you?

[@sans1724]

Well, google themselves has said they have the same standards for google stadia as consoles(key word said), and technically in order to play on a tv you need a controller and a Chrome cast, making this non-hardware based gaming service.... a hardware based gaming service.

[@Old_Man_Jay]

I remember going to my best friends house back in 95 and being AMAZED at seeing Virtua Fighter being played on his brand new Sega Saturn. The problem was I had no idea Sega was even releasing a new console at the time. Besides that one moment, I remember not caring about it at all until around 96 when my dad bought me a Saturn for Christmas. I absolutely ADORED my Sega Genesis prior to owning a Saturn and was (and still am) big into gaming. How Sega came out with a console without me, and many others, being aware of it at the time is beyond me. Could you imagine if Nintendo were to release a New switch without no one knowing about it? Really stupid on SOA's part

[@MiamiSunrise]

So many Sega Saturn games cost so much money now. It's almost impossible to afford to collect for it.

[@ejgeldart4820]

Unless you try and collect the Japanese Saturn from what I understand is much cheaper than collecting for north American version

[@dennismartin5821]

They were suppose to have a game called "Digital Pinball Necronomicon," and I always wanted to play that. I guess it was never released. I mean who wouldn't want to play "Digital Pinball Necronomicon?"

[@SpartanX360]

Hit these pawnshops or flea markets I got a Saturn from the pawnshop complete with 3D controller, OG controller with Sonic 3D blast...for $50..

[@nilus2k]

Yeah, it hurts that I sold of gave away a ton of games back when the system died. I had Panzer Dragoon Saga! The thing goes for 1 grand these days

[@MiamiSunrise]

@Will Pack Yes, however its not as much ways to play them but moreso collecting them as that's a hobby of mine. I never really got started on collecting for this console and now I'm kind of regretting that. However, I did target one game I do have complete and that's Panzer Dragoon Saga, thank goodness I picked that up about 8 years ago.

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

Virtual Boy. I love the system, but it was a Nintendo portable that flopped so bad, only 13 games were released. Saturn was a PS competitor for several years.

[@omegawolf2589]

Why I can imagine Sony learned from Sega mistake.

[@XENOS_Indie_Game_Dev]

No. Everyone and their dog could see that Sega was failing, except Sega themselves. They basically shot themselves in the foot, and Sony just walked over the finish line and won.

[@Stinkyremy]

Ironic that sony got into the console race because nintendo employed them to make an add on like the sega CD, then quit the contract to make the next gen, sony then thought fuck it lets get in the race and now here we are. So it was actually nintendos mistake.

[@Msf1011]

@@Stinkyremy Actually after that Sony tried to strike a deal with SEGA, but president of SEGA Enterprises, Hayao Nakayama declined the deal because of Sony's inexperience in the console market. He literally said ‘That’s a stupid idea, Sony doesn’t know how to make hardware. They don’t know how to make software either. Why would we want to do this?’ O u c h... yeah Nakayama was a terrible businessman lol, he was in big part the reason why the Saturn failed.

[@lovespringfreshness]

Msf101 Wow, that really puts it all into perspective. They all assumed Sony had no idea what the fuck they were doing, and now they're all gum on the bottom of PlayStation's boot.

[@ahmadkazan7994]

@@Msf1011 yeah I heard about that,pretty sure sega of america is stil pissed at him.

[@TimmyJoePCTech]

I must have rented the Sega Saturn 10 times from my local Microplay. LOVED it Doo Da Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo doo DOO DO!! DAYTONAAAAAAA

[@Magestrix]

Rrrrolling Staaart!!! Lol

[@muliechaser1618]

That was the best game for that system

[@coltenrobinson3248]

I rented one from blackbuster all the time. I was addicted to panzer dragoon(spelling correct?). Played it way too much. I also miss the dreamcast. Res evil code: veronica and code veronica X. I have ver X on my xbox one.

[@metalapollo]

Microplay!! The coolest stores at the time.

[@TheFreshSoundsFlorida]

Daytona USA was such a fun game. I must've played that game for hours

[@legionk]

The Die Hard game on Saturn, followed by Dynamite Cop on Dreamcast, hold some of my favorite childhood gaming memories. EMPTY YOUR POCKETS!!

[@Fanimei]

Saying "another CD based console by Sony called Playstation, you might of heard of it" reminds me of when Jacob Collier said "This is Chris Martin, my friend. He's from a band called Coldplay"

[@spyfromteamfortress2921]

Sega does what Nintendon't including bad launches

[@BCS86]

@ItHz2p I was just about to say that lol

[@Zombieshark420x]

@ItHz2p also laughs in Gameboy Advance SP.

[@randomcharacter6501]

64 and Wii U

[@randomcharacter6501]

@Francisco Campos That one was so bad I forgot it existed lol

[@jordancromwell]

@Catzilla64 Sonic is one of the most iconic and best video game mascots so keep smoking that crack 😂😂😂

[@dropdeadder]

Great video by the by the way! Brought back memories.

[@SnipeMD]

1:03 This statement physically hurts me. Nobody was safe on Mortal Monday. No matter if you had a SNES, Genesis, Game Boy or Game Gear, you were playing Mortal Kombat on Mortal Monday.

[@justinclark1737]

Yep, skipped school that day and grinded all day. Havent put the controllers down since.

[@StubzTurner]

When I was a kid, I totally thought that the Dreamcast was Sega's follow up console to the Genesis. I actually didn't know the Saturn was a thing until I watched a youtube video about it.

[@juju6018]

Were you mind blown of what you learned😂

[@StubzTurner]

Yeah actually. Not enough to find a way to play it though.

[@zacharygrgich7410]

please keep doing these kind of videos! I am new to your channel so i dont know if these are common her but keep them coming

[@Emelenyt]

I remember going to a friends house and seeing the Saturn. I had no idea a new console had come out as I had a PlayStation after the Mega Drive. Sega had so much potential

[@Zathren]

What ever happened to the Dreamcast? Falcon, tell us the tale.

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

PS2

[@NatrajChaturvedi]

I bought it 6 months before it was discontinued! Then had to wait a couple of years before I could get a ps2!

[@michaelturner4457]

I know the Dreamcast case moulds ended up been used to make a dental sterilizer.

[@michaelturner4457]

Dreamcast could have been good, but after Saturn I don't think Sega had enough money left to properly launch and support it

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

@@michaelturner4457 I think that's the Atari Jaguar.

[@XalenMaru]

Never bought one even though I had both the Genesis and Nomad. Sega was doing some confusing stuff around that time with their releases. Ended up getting a PS1 later instead.

[@BuzzSX]

Man it was ironic to see the guy unloading the van wearing a face mask. I had to rewind it back a second to make sure that’s what I saw... lol

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

Saturn was basically my bridge to PlayStation. There were a few good games in addition to Virtua Fighter, including Daytona.

[@jayski87]

“Genesis” 🇬🇧 Mega Drive 🇬🇧

[@shivalah]

Jayski87 🇪🇺 Sega Mega Drive🇪🇺

[@abelbelleta9870]

Sega mega drive II

[@DavidCowie2022]

Jayski87 Mega Drive is an objectively cooler name than Genesis.

[@retrosoul8770]

I call it the MDG

[@skywho1117]

Dreamcast is still going kinda strong today there’s like 5 games coming this year for it

[@N1qhtw1nq]

I got a Saturn back in ‘97, had come in a bundle with 3 games. But my favorite games to play on it were SF alpha 2, and Guardian Heroes.

[@kristopherartillironjones3442]

My dad bought me a Saturn and I absolutely loved it, Clockwork Knight, Nights, Virtue Fighter 1 and 2 rocked, MK3 which wasn’t held back it felt great...loved it

[@nexusvideo]

I remember when the Saturn came out it was really expensive and the "need" to buy it wasn't there. I got rid of my Genesis stuff and bought a Windows PC.

[@shadowxd910]

video gets posted 9 seconds ago: 1 view and 36 likes KZbin: *stonks*

[@dennismartin5821]

I got one in late '95. It came with 3 games. Virtual Cop, Fighter, and Racing. I had it for maybe a month or two, and the terminals in the back, where the cables plugged in, were faulty. The sound would go out, and it was pretty annoying. I took it back to Walmart, and they gave me a full refund. I never regretted returning it, but I'm glad I had one for a while.

[@TheJohnold]

My dad and I went to Toys R Us one day at the beginning of Summer in 1995, and both of us were completely floored by seeing the Saturn in there. We both thought it was just the new Display unit, and that the Tickets that Toys R Us used for the Customers to buy games led us to believe that this might just be a Pre Order ticket. We had Pre Ordered a couple of games before, so if we got to the counter and thats what it was, then forget it. We knew the system was coming out in the Fall, so this just had to be a Pre Order slip. Well, we walked out of the store with a Saturn that day, and as a kid, I was in shock! My dad and I were both big time gamers, and still are to this day (I'm 37, and hes 70), so the whole experience felt really cool. I felt kind of guilty, because a couple of weeks after that I was leaving to spend the Summer with my mom, in a different state, and would be taking that Saturn with me! To this day, the Saturn has been looked at fondly by our family. My dad finally inherited the system from me, about a year later after I had a Playstation, and he bought every Light Fun, and game imaginable for the Saturn. We have them all in the gaming closet to this day, ready to be hooked up to this old 36" Sony Wega CRT in my dads house, that will never be moved again!

[@randomcharacter6501]

One thing that doesn't get mentioned when talking about their failures is that Sega was too reactionary. The Master System was made in reaction to NES, when that failed to take off they slapped together the Genesis to compete with the NES. People forget those Nintendon't commercials were aimed at the NES not The SNES which wasn't out yet. That was the whole purpose of the Sega CD and 32x, to give the Genesis capabilities SNES had right of the box with sprite scaling, orchestral sound, and with modded carts the ability to render simple polygons. The Saturn was supposed to one up the SNES and be a better sprite based console. Because they reacted to the short comings of the Genesis they didn't see the shift to polygons. Although the Saturn was capable of 3d it wasn't as good as Sony's machine. Which brings us to the Dreamcast. Yet another underpowered machine meant to compete with the previous gen. Of course it was going to be better than PSX coming out 5 years after the thing but wasn't ready for PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube. Sega was never as good at hardware as we'd like to believe

[@jamiegreig9699]

I'm glad to see someone else finally saying this. I actually didn't know those Nintendon't commercials came out before the SNES. But I've seen many of the knee jerk reactions that came out afterward. The 32x was a direct reply to the super fx chip, as you mentioned. Also, the complications that came with the programming in the Saturn were a result of Sega adding an extra processor to keep up with the Playstation's capabilities. Sega was an amazing developer. But when it came to hardware they were basically kids seeing what was out there and saying "We need this for our games!!". They recognized good hardware after it was on the market, but not before. I wish when they finally become a third party developer they would have continued making the great games they were always known for. Alas, those seem to have gone by the waist side as well.

[@randomcharacter6501]

@@jamiegreig9699 I gotta add their arcade division was top notch. I don't understand why they didn't try to apply what they learned building arcade cabinets to their consoles. Not saying they needed to go the NeoGeo route but at least make sure your 16 bit console can do the super scaler stuff from the arcades.

[@jackcutter2]

Remember the OUYA? yeah no one does except for the memes and Chris O'Neill

[@robertt9342]

I don't remember the memes, but I remember the ouya.

[@FlyingVGoddess]

I had the option to get a game console one year (pretty sure it was 1996). My first choice was the Saturn because I was really into Virtua Fighter, but my parents bought me a SNES instead. It mostly had to do with price because we were poor and Best Buy was selling the SNES was like $99 because the N64 has either launched or was about to launch. But if I remember correctly my parents were also told the Saturn wasn’t a good choice because it wasn’t doing that well. My parents didn’t want to get an expensive console with a limited library that would fizzle out in a year-which is exactly what happened. Even though the SNES was essentially obsolete when I got it, I could still get games for it and our video store had games to rent for it (they did it have Saturn games). Plus it’s THE reason I got into Zelda and got a Triforce tattoo that plays into the story of how I met my husband. So not getting a Saturn kind of worked out in the end.

[@1234_Flux]

Imagine being in Toys R Us on the day of release and stumbling across the Saturn not even knowing that it existed.

[@lordsith8319]

I still have my saturn lol.

[@666ZX]

I've heard this story 937,000 times.

[@muliechaser1618]

You should have stopped listening at 4800

[@pacobatracio]

Falcon: what are your memories from Saturn? Me: uuuuuuuhhhmmmmmmm... i had Nintendo and PlayStation consoles. Falcon: sooooo..... no Sega consoles? Me: DREAMCAST!!!!

[@CJ_Pharaoh]

To this day . . . John Sega shudders in fear . . . whenever he hears . . . a shriek from the sky 🦅 Be safe and stay blessed team GameRanx 🙏 And thanks for the video Talons

[@datagrab]

*Ouya: Hold my beer.*

[@peepeebandit]

Looking at the title i said ‘halo infinite ?’ Then i realized the craig memes existed

[@darrinweston2057]

The worst part (for me, at least) of SEGA completely dropping the ball on the Saturn's release was that the Dreamcast kind of had to pick up the slack. I mean, they did botch the Dreamcast release too by releasing it only months before the PS2, but the Saturn could be seen as a big nail in the coffin of SEGA console releases. It also seems ironic that Sony now has the publishing rights to most of SEGA's games now.

[@TKMRacer28]

I love these deep dives by Falcon ❤️

[@shockem9786]

SEGA- never heard of it till now any ideas

[@iCeddybear94]

Denis more like Generation Z. Millennials were around for sega.

[@jayski87]

Denis boomers were mid 40’s - 60’s millennials are early 80’s onwards. We grew up on Sega and Nintendo 😂

[@dropdeadder]

Generation X......I'm 43 and I remember all of this madness, I'm a Sega man

[@rogue_4tw763]

Who would win Halo - Flood Or Gears of War - Lambent

[@evil7260]

Flood

[@GenesyssOmega99]

I've always been a Sega fan. I secretly wished so many times they would go back to their roots and make kick ass consoles.

[@ClayJitsu]

I loved those ads!! I loved the Saturn girl!! The ads were right up there with the awesome PS3 ads later!!!

[@fattiger6957]

Yeah, maybe it wasn't the best idea to hire David Lynch to make commercials for video game consoles.

[@medul10alpha31]

Never been so early

[@beni8482]

Damn you are first

[@flyforce16]

Early bird gets the worm

[@aminbahrami2526]

me too

[@MaazMathers]

They were up against PlayStation the gonna be King of the consoles they didn't stood a chance,Sony came in and conquered

[@fattiger6957]

I heard that Sony had 10x bigger marketing budget than Sega.

[@robertt9342]

Sony had a better strategy, as this video points out, Sega wasn't well organized and Sony beat them by default.

[@bossking2877]

Sega saturn games were better than ps1

[@jebaited4418]

Charlie Vetsworth PC is not a console. Nice try sounding smart though

[@gamebit9063]

I worked at TRU at the time and still remember unloading the truck and seeing these sega boxes. After opening them up right away I couldnt believe my eyes, the Sega Saturn!!

[@ssgssbeet4133]

Yo I love this gaming/gaming companies history videos

[@simonsayswhat4250]

gameranx don’t pin this

[@bsavage5128]

I remember getting a Saturn early. I also remember it coming with a demo disc with games like Virtua fighter and home run derby and myst. Gex was a favorite. Wasn't allowed to play Mr.bones...

[@paulraider2001]

I had the 32bit expansion. Then my friend bought a Playstation and I saw Final Fantasy VII, after that Sega had no hope of ever seeing my money again (for hardware of course).

[@SakaGames]

The time between Genesis and Playstation was huge for me. I had the Genesis, and when we got the Sega CD my mind was blown. Sewer Shark, Loadstar, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, and the first RPG I ever played, Lunar 2 Eternal Blue. Then we got the 32X with Doom 32X, Virtua Racing, Star Wars 32X. We had Fahrenheit, a 32X Sega CD game about firefighting in a limited scope. We ended up getting a Saturn when we saw Nights Into Dreams. That was the only game we had for it, but I played the crap out of the demo disk that came with it. For some reason, the Clockwork Knight 2 theme song is still something I can sing today.

[@nilus2k]

I worked at Babbage's at the time and the Saturn was my first real console release. I actually knew about it coming out the day before the E3 announcement. My district manager had shown up to the store right before closing and talked to me and the manager and let us know we had to basically prep the store for a new display so that when it arrived the next day we could get it up right away. We were the district managers "home" store so we were often the test bed for new products(I have a ton of stories about being the first Babbages to sell anime, toys and for a while even comic books) so we were getting the console before anyone else. My boss even called me in sick from school that day, saying he was my dad, so I could be their to get everything set up. On top of the overtime for the work that night and the extra hours the next day, at the end of my shift my boss and the district manager gave me my own Sega Saturn. It was pretty cool.

[@CODmontages110]

Even if it didn’t manage to compete with the PlayStation 1 or 2, I love my Saturn and Dreamcast. There’s still a lot of great (expensive) games on both systems that I’m fortunate enough to own. Saturn games like Nights Into Dreams, Panzer Dragoon, Shining Force III and X-Men Children of the Atom. And Dreamcast games like Sonic Adventures, Jet Grind Radio, Skies of Arcadia, Marvel vs Capcom 2 and so much more. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and play some of my Sega games.

[@Striker9]

Omg i loved my saturn nights into dreams, panzer dragoon, Bugs, daytona usa, other games i still have the cd for somewhere in storage.

[@ForHeShallSave]

Who ever skipped this console missed out. Virtual on was a MASTERPIECE of a game as was toy soldiers and virtua fighter.

[@Mouritogaia]

SEGA Mistakes in the past is the mistakes of the XBOX Present and future.

[@MichaelN77]

Gosh, I cannot believe that was TWENTY FIVE YEARS ago. Yes, I asked my parents for it and got it the day it launched. I do not remember how I knew about it but I was there the day it launched on "Saturnday" June 10th, 1995. It was available at Electronics Boutique and Software Etc. as well (funny both stores are now Gamestop). That was the BEST childhood summer ever. I remember playing Virtual Fighter, Daytona USA, and Panzer Dragoon. They were pretty much the only games my friends and I played over and over AND OVER again all summer long. When we were not playing Saturn we were going to the cinema to see "Clueless". Watching Michael AND Janet Jackson perform in the "Scream" music video, trying to memorize and recite every single line Left Eye spat out in the rap break for TLC's " Waterfalls" and rocking out to Alanis' first hit "You Otta Know", Yup best childhood summer ever and all of it Orbited around Saturn. :)

[@BMiller627]

I have 2 Saturns. Got my first in 1996 and bought another about 10 years later on eBay. I had about 40 games for it, over the years they disappeared, which was heartbreaking when I finally set up my game room and realized that around 100 disc based games were missing.

[@2cool4u06]

*virtua boy exist Sega: hold my controller

[@comog]

I really want to see a video like this about the dreamcast. Amazing system

[@mohammedamine7051]

My favorite gaming channel

[@Theedgecrusher93]

I was at Disney World on summer vacation during this time. SEGA had a huge gaming exhibit at Epcot with tons of Genesis and 32X games to play. In the corner they had a demo set up on a counter with a Saturn running were you could play Panzer Dragoon. I was hooked! I told the attendant I couldn't wait until the fall to get a Saturn, and he replied "it's out now at Toys R Us." I was very confused/surprised. When we got home from vacation I had my parents take me to Toys R Us right away to get one. I loved the SEGA arcade games of that era. I had no regrets not having a Playstation.

[@Jeykey91]

The Sega Saturn was my first console ever and I had a blast with it. Without the Sega Saturn, I wouldn't be a gamer today. I played mostly Panzer Dragoon II, Nights into Dreams, Sonic 3D Blast, or Space Jam. They all were great games especially Sonic and my all-time favorite Space Jam, where you play basketball, but every 2min you played a mini-game kinda like Mario Party today. I also remember that I had a disc with like 12 games on it where you could try out lengthy demos of different games.

[@slickriven]

I got one at Christmas '96 when they teamed up with MTV and sold the console with 3 additional games (Virtua Fighter 2, Virtua Cop 2 and Daytona USA). I enjoyed the console and ended up with around 2 dozen games, after buying a set off eBay in the early 2000's.

[@TheGriffonscribe]

I got a Sega Saturn for Christmas when it first came out. Loved it, but didn't have any games for the first couple of days, so we just fooled around with the CD player screen (it was also my family's first CD player). My brother gave ours away years ago, but I just recently got another one off of Craigslist for only 20 bucks! Unfortunately, Saturn games are super expensive now :( I only have 4: Dark Saviour, Sim City, Cyber Speedway, and Solar Eclipse.

[@PunkRockZombie205]

Funny thing is, the day I bought the saturn at toys r us, it was because they had no n64s or ps1s in stock, lol

[@JonIceInternational]

I still have my Sega Saturn. Guardian Heroes, Myst, D, Panzer Dragon, Lunacy, Daytona USA, Cyberia... I still have all those games and I still love them. It is the console I have the best memories of.

[@ZeniusFox]

I had a Saturn as a kid. Didn't regret it at all. It was the system that introduced me to imports because I had to have Xmen vs. Street Fighter. Eventually got a Playstation in the summer of 98 because the RE2 port to the Saturn got cancelled. That was a damn good summer.

[@chuckdontjudge]

"$299" Fuckin ICONIC!!!! 😂😂😂

[@JessInThe999]

I like this history lesson type content, pretty neat

[@flymachine014]

Sega Saturn is the worst launch ever Stadia: am I a joke to you?

[@giannaseye]

More memory lane vids narrated by Falcon please. These are great for old gamers like myself.

[@oneuptheextraman]

The saturn is a key example of how to not do a console; launch too early (not enough systems), launch too early (not enough games), be hard to program for, have no killer game (anything good sonic), have crappy marketing. The PS3 went through some of this too, but straitened it self out in the end.

[@producerevan88]

I went to a FuncoLand with my dad in 1995, the Playstation had just come out and I was really excited for the Saturn. I remember vividly, the guy working there said to my us "the Saturn will fail, you want the Sony" I was playing the Saturn kiosk and had my mind set... We left with the playstation, Crash Bandicoot, Jumping Flash and Twisted Metal, I forever thank you FuncoLand guy it was just cars killing cars!!!

[@13thGeek]

Never had the Sega CD of the Saturn BUT I did have a subscription for Sega Channel for the Genesis. Funny how things have come full circle with that concept.

[@mattock1233]

I remember going to my older cousins house once when I was younger, him an his wife didnt have kids yet at the time so I just had to dig around for things to do and an old Dusty Saturn is what I found...didnt even get to play it got told put it away, I think that was my only interaction with a Sega Saturn much preferred my 64 and playstation as far as I know

[@1000BabyRage]

My oldest brother bought it. Although I don’t remember that event exactly, I do remember playing many games on the Saturn for many hours - good times. It became my mainstream console for a while until we got a PS1. Although I had had consoles up until then, I was too young to really appreciate and understand what was going on in those games. So my memory of consoles before the Saturn isn’t as vivid - but the Saturn - I definitely remember that. Dragon Ball Z: Legends FTW!

[@tompkinssquaretrackclub]

my roommate in the dorms freshman year's dad was the former CEO of Sega USA - the man who made the infamous E3 presentation he never told anyone

[@fleshtaffy]

Do you tell people this story when you drink

[@bearthechair2789]

Imagine going back in time and showing Sega this video

[@ThunderJunkOC]

I had a Saturn. I got it like a year after launch for my 16th birthday. I loved that damn thing. Was my favorite console. NIGHTS was my jam back then I still have the boxed copy with the controller around here somewhere, buried in a box in my basement. Probably right next to my other old school consoles.

[@frankbenham1745]

I think my friend may have gotten the Sega Saturn around launch. Even though I was a Sega Genesis owner and fan, I wasn't aware that it had launched. He may have gotten it later though. It's hard to remember as he is literally the only person that I knew who had a Sega Saturn. There were some pretty cool games related to Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance. He also played this game that I've been trying to recall... "Three Dirty Dwarves" It was 'Three' something something and they were either Dwarves or well I don't think Elves, but some sort of fantasy thing. I don't think it was a fantasy game or at least I remember one them wielding a shotgun

[@nomeaknat]

I got one for Christmas that year. So many presh mems of my siblings and I playing it. Especially Worms.

[@abicus1234]

I loved my Sega Genesis! Of course I am a lot younger so I wasn't playing it till 1998ish but it is one of the few systems I actually remember playing and loving as a kid. I always just watched my brother play games on the other consoles.

[@Acesclan1230]

More stuff like this please

[@brucelincoln3781]

I had a Saturn in 96, and a football game. That football game was awesome

[@Dexter-ix1cx]

i actually still have a working saturn, my very first console alongside my very first game sonic r and probably the major reason i became a sonic fan x'D good memories of that time

[@Halifax1337]

As one of the 3 people that bought Virtua Racing as a kid, that game was indeed pretty great.