The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console (Part 5)

System Spotlight: Saturn Controllers

Saturn Feature Index:
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Many would argue that one of the Saturn’s finest aspects was its controllers. The basic controller was the Final Evolution of the Mega Drive/Genesis pad; it took the overall shape of the 16-bit version, added an extra row of three [...]

The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console (Part 4)

System Spotlight: Sega NetLink

Saturn Feature Index:
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- Part 5

Before Xbox 360. Before Xbox. Before PS2. Before Dreamcast. As early as the 32-bit generation, Sega became the pioneer in the console online gaming revolution with the Sega Saturn. In 1996 Sega released the NetLink (or Seganet as known in [...]

The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console (Part 3)

System Spotlight: Internal Memory

Saturn Feature Index:
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- Part 5

OK.. You’re launching one of the first consoles on a completely new game medium. Veteran gamers have all grown accustomed to battery back-ups on their cartridges, a luxury which CD-format games cannot manage. The main option is some [...]

The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console (Part 2)

System Spotlight: Cartridges Galore!

Saturn Feature Index:
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- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- Part 5

You know, it’s one thing when a system comes out and you find an expansion port on it. Ah, can’t you remember the one you found on the bottom of every Nintendo system you’ve ever had? Or the one [...]

The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console

Ahhh the Sega Saturn. My beloved, underappreciated 32-bit Sega Saturn. In time, it would become the first truly successful CD based gaming console to market, although not without its growing pains. Rushed to stores just a few weeks ahead of its rival, the Sony PlayStation, the Japanese Saturn was released on November 22nd, 1994. Following [...]