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Post by Ex on Feb 27, 2018 21:05:37 GMT -5
I refer to the company as either SEGA or Sega. When I talk about SEGA, I mean the company that existed from the Dreamcast and back. When I talk about Sega, I mean the company that existed post-Dreamcast. I love SEGA, I am a SEGA fanboy. I owned a Master System long before I owned a NES. Sega on the other hand? Very hit or miss. Mostly miss.
SEGA > Sega.
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Post by Xeogred on Feb 27, 2018 21:13:16 GMT -5
I refer to the company as either SEGA or Sega. When I talk about SEGA, I mean the company that existed from the Dreamcast and back. When I talk about Sega, I mean the company that existed post-Dreamcast. I love SEGA, I am a SEGA fanboy. I owned a Master System long before I owned a NES. Sega on the other hand? Very hit or miss. Mostly miss. SEGA > Sega. This should be in the rules and on Wikipedia. I tend to think SEGA capitalized like that just looks cooler.
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Post by Ex on Feb 27, 2018 21:22:48 GMT -5
I tend to think SEGA capitalized like that just looks cooler.
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Post by anayo on Feb 28, 2018 8:12:59 GMT -5
When I was in high school in the mid-to-late '90s, I knew literally no one who owned a Saturn. A few people I knew had PlayStations. I knew one dude who had a 3DO. I knew one dude who had an N64. A couple folks were into PC gaming. But almost everyone had a Genesis or SNES, those two 16-bit platforms were very prolific. Speaking personally in my high school years (1993-1997) my own gaming platforms were Genesis/SNES/PC). It wasn't until I was well out of high school before I started meeting people in real life who owned Saturns. But even then, I only knew two people who owned a Saturn. The last time I remember seeing a Sega Saturn in real life in the 90's was shortly after the N64 came out. There was a store display with an N64 (with Mario 64), Playstation (don't remember the game), and Sega Saturn (with Panzer Dragoon 2) arranged around each other in a ring to show off "the big 3". But after that I have no recollection of ever seeing one. That's why it was probably better I got a Genesis than a Saturn. I didn't really have a reliable way of reading game reviews at that age. Every once and a while I'd get a lone Nintendo Power or cheat code book at the newsstand but that was it. Also ordering games by mail wasn't really something I was aware of. With the Sega Genesis and later N64 I'd just buy or rent whatever looked cool in the store, which mostly worked. If I had tried that with Sega Saturn I'd have been plunged into the gaming dark ages. It was fun getting into it in the early 2000's though, cause I felt like I was experiencing some hidden treasure trove no one knew about. I had to shop on eBay because the games never turned up in thrift stores, but I got NiGHTS into Dreams, Die Hard Arcade, Dragon Force, Guardian Heroes, Shining Force III, Daytona USA, Sega Rally Championship, and Panzer Dragoon. For Christmas of 2004 or '05 Chibby ordered me a 4-in-1 action replay, which I used to get the more affordable Japanese versions of Virtua Cop II, House of the Dead, Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers Revenge, and Panzer Dragoon 2. I have a mod-chipped Saturn now, which I've used to play Bulk Slash, Elevator Action Returns, Night Striker S, Soukyugurentai, and Shining Force III Scenarios 2 and 3, but I'm most fond of those titles I bought on eBay and played for the first time as a teenager. It left me with this weird misplaced sense of nostalgia where I associate Sega Saturn with the early to mid 2000's.
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Post by dunpeal2064 on Feb 28, 2018 9:15:38 GMT -5
I had this one friend growing up that must have had rich parents or something, because this dude had every console (Well, all of em I knew about), so I got to spend a bit of time with the Turbo CD, Sega CD, and Saturn as a kid. Sadly, though, he didn't really have good games for them. I fondly remember playing Sonic CD and Nights, and then just a ton of FMV games. I currently have a Saturn and Dreamcast, which I'll likely hold on to even if I move away from collecting. I need to mod the Saturn though, I've just been doing the swap disc method this whole time I have a Sega CD as well, but thats more easily emulated, so I'll probably sell it at some point. It plays burns naturally, though, so it might be worth hanging on to.
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Post by anayo on Feb 28, 2018 9:28:38 GMT -5
I had this one friend growing up that must have had rich parents or something, because this dude had every console (Well, all of em I knew about), so I got to spend a bit of time with the Turbo CD, Sega CD, and Saturn as a kid. Sadly, though, he didn't really have good games for them. I fondly remember playing Sonic CD and Nights, and then just a ton of FMV games. I currently have a Saturn and Dreamcast, which I'll likely hold on to even if I move away from collecting. I need to mod the Saturn though, I've just been doing the swap disc method this whole time I have a Sega CD as well, but thats more easily emulated, so I'll probably sell it at some point. It plays burns naturally, though, so it might be worth hanging on to. If you're proficient at the disc swap trick, you should have no problem flashing a Saturn Game Shark or Action Replay with Pseudo Saturn. If you weren't aware, it turns whatever's plugged into the Saturn's RAM slot into a mod chip without the need to solder anything.
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Post by dunpeal2064 on Feb 28, 2018 9:45:01 GMT -5
I was not aware of that, that is very handy. After about 2 years, I'm pretty much 10/10 on getting games to boot off the swap method, so looks like I just need to snag a cart to flash. Thanks for the info!
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Post by Ex on Feb 28, 2018 10:01:08 GMT -5
It left me with this weird misplaced sense of nostalgia where I associate Sega Saturn with the early to mid 2000's. Ha! Yes that is weird. Personally I've never been much of a Saturn fan. That doesn't mean there aren't great games on it. I've honestly not played very many of them (only beaten a handful). There are a few I keep meaning to play. #1 is Assault Suit Leynos 2.
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Post by dunpeal2064 on Feb 28, 2018 10:21:55 GMT -5
I've heard great things about that one, particularly when it comes to its mech customization.
I'm in a similar boat when it comes to the Saturn. Its shmup library is impressive, but also mostly MAME'able, which is true for a ton of those arcade ports. Some of those arcade games did get Saturn-exclusive treatments that make them desirable though (Silvergun and Hyper Duel come to mind). Blast Wind is probably my favorite actually-Saturn-exclusive shooter on the console.
Psychic Killer Taromaru is really damn good though, one of the standout games on the console for me.
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Post by anayo on Mar 1, 2018 10:24:46 GMT -5
Anyone else heard of the British TV show " Bad Influence". It touts itself as a video game magazine you watch on TV, I think it ran from 1992 to around 1997, and I'm pretty sure I learned about it from the YouTuber The Nostalgia Nerd. It's aimed at kids but the hosts are still pretty charming and funny. I've only watched 1 season, taking me from early 1992 to late 1993. So I haven't gotten to the part where they unveil any 32 bit systems yet. That's OK, though, because in 2018 I'm most passionate about 16-bit systems for some reason. The show is split up into game reviews, cheat codes, and a glimpse into the future of computers (like virtual reality, special effects in Hollywood and TV, and CGI used for scientific visualization such as NASA mapping out the surface of Mars on an SGI work station). It's more than just a show about games, it really gives a wide-open look into where computer technology was heading in the early 90's and what people expected over the near horizon. Also, the mascots for this show have got to be the most 90's thing I've ever seen:
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