The SEGA Saturn’s eccentric European exclusives

The SEGA Saturn had one of the more peculiar game catalogues. More diverse than the N64’s library and with far less slop that the PS1, it largely consists of scrappy but reasonably faithful arcade conversions, a small selection of system showcases from SEGA themselves, a seemingly random bunch of third-party titles, and a wealth of …

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The SEGA Saturn’s Last Christmas

SEGA’s decision to drop the Saturn more than a year before the UK launch of the Dreamcast – giving them little to no presence within Europe during that time – could be seen as a mercy killing. The much-maligned 32-bit system scraped through the first half of 1998 with very few third-party releases, forcing SEGA …

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Old football games should be kicked into space

Every month we trawl eBay’s completed listings to find stuff of interest that has sold for vast sums. Why? Because the voices told us to. What would you do with 192 copies of This is Football on PlayStation 1? Apart from using them to play a giant game of Jenga, I can’t think of any …

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