/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10309839]

What was your reaction when you saw it in a magazine?

[Anonymous No.10309848]

Indifference

[Anonymous No.10309852]

>>10309839
I was born in 91 and I didn't even know the Saturn itself existed at all until the mid 00s

[Anonymous No.10309854]

>>10309852
Not a real gamer.

[Anonymous No.10309856]

>>10309854
Where I live advertising toys is illegal so I've never seen a single Saturn ad anywhere at the time

[Anonymous No.10309862]

I'm not interested in basketball so I'm not sure what this addon can do for me

[Anonymous No.10309867]

>>10309852
This same. I thought the Dreamcast came after the Mega Drive. I was getting Mega Drive games for my birthday up to 1997. Even when I went to game stores as a kid there was ZERO Saturn stuff anywhere ever. Never once saw a Saturn game when I was browsing ps1 and N64 stuff

[Anonymous No.10309898]

>>10309867
My Blockbuster had a Saturn section, didn't really completely understand what it was, and only remember they had their version of Resident Evil, so I thought RE was originally on the Saturn. After a year, the Saturn section disappeared.

[Anonymous No.10309918]

No-one bought a Saturn here so multi-console magazines didn't cover it

[Anonymous No.10310076]

>>10309839
I assume no one cared because they had psx or n64

[Anonymous No.10310165]

>>10309839
I had a Saturn and I didn't even know what this is

[Anonymous No.10310251]

I've literally never seen saturn in a magazine, I didnt even know it existed until I was an adult.

[Anonymous No.10310254]

>>10309839
Not as enthusiastic as yours when you saw it in a video essay.

[Anonymous No.10310264]

I have one, I've actually gotten online with it. Browsing the modern Internet with only 2MB of RAM to work with is a fun challenge.

[Anonymous No.10310282]

>>10309839
I was born in 1996. We had a Genesis (model 2), Game Gear and Dreamcast but I never saw a Saturn until I was an adult and I never played one until last year when I bought one.

[Anonymous No.10310292]

>>10309839
I had a saturn and eventually got a netlink and played sega rally, duke Nukem, and Virtua on over it. Never saw it in a magazine.

[Anonymous No.10310323]

>>10309839
It took me days to download an album when this was released

[Anonymous No.10310330]

The service still works, funny enough. You can direct dial the other player without connecting to a server.

[Anonymous No.10310339]

>>10309839
>Wow. The 1660 really did let herself go.

[Anonymous No.10310356]

>>10309839
"sega is still in business?"

[Anonymous No.10310359]

>>10309839
Wow Sony does it way cooler

[Anonymous No.10310418]

>>10309839
I paid no attention to anything related to Sega Saturn, because nobody had one. I only had vague knowledge that the console even existed. Sega practically disappeared from my mind between 1996 and 1999.

[Anonymous No.10310443]

>>10310359
I remember imagining a similar peripheral for Game Boy. Like, something that connected the link cable slot to a cellphone so you could dial into the internet and trade/battle Pokemon with people from all over the world.

Crazy that it ended up taking Nintendo another 8 years before we got a Pokemon game that could do that.

[Anonymous No.10310452]

My parents bought it for me for my 6th grade graduation, but we had to return it since you needed a credit card to sign up for the only ISP it supported and my parents ruined their credit so they didn't have one anymore.

[Anonymous No.10310496]

>>10310330
Real question is, who the fuck dials up in A.D. 2023?

[Anonymous No.10310589]

>>10310496
There has to be something you can do with a PC modem to virtually connect with someone else online without having a dial up connection

[Anonymous No.10310595]

>>10310076
>n64
How's that Quest 64 treating you

[Anonymous No.10310597]

>>10310589
Telephony

[Anonymous No.10310608]

>>10310595
If you're gonna use some genres the N64 sucks at to make fun of it at least don't use JRPGs. Not having jarpigs isn't a loss

[Anonymous No.10310610]

>>10309852
Lmao me too.
Always thought Sega skipped that generation and that’s why they were the first with the Dreamcast

[Anonymous No.10310613]

>>10310496
Well, if your definition of "dials up" is using that then anyone who uses that, or a similar device. Quite a few people. POTS and dialup internet is still used in places that have the existing infrastructure covering large areas with low population density. Also as a backup connection. When the power goes out and the cel networks are overcrowded POTS often still works fine.

[Anonymous No.10310652]

>>10309852
thats because you are zoomer. you had to be alive to feel hype

[Anonymous No.10310801]

>>10310608
Not having fightan or shmup games, that’s definitely a loss though.

[Anonymous No.10311025]

"Oh man, they're gonna go bankrupt if they keep making shit like this"

[Anonymous No.10311083]

>>10309839
Mild curiosity, then I flipped to the next page looking for more information about Super Mario 64.

[Anonymous No.10311239]

>>10309839
Sega was always ahead of the curve when it came to console and arcade gaming. However, I had Nintendo consoles for mainstream normie games, 2nd hand beat up carts were cheap, and PC for absolute unquestionable superiority. So where does Sega fit in this equation? Their consoles are halfway between PC and Nintendo's "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology." so why bother?

[Anonymous No.10311839]

>>10311239
Saturn is supposed to be the arcade experience at home.

[Anonymous No.10312008]

>>10311839
Supposed to be... Sega and 3rd parties made way more games for the various model 2s than they did for the STV.

[Anonymous No.10312119]

>>10311839
Literally every marketing faggot has made that claim about literally every home system ever made. How clueless does someone need to be to parrot it.

[Anonymous No.10312172]

>>10310801
N64 had better fighters than psx or saturn though. Psx was a noticeable downgrade from arcade whereas N64 was much closer. Not a single shmup that I can think of though
>>10310595
I actually rented that one once. Still better than any Saturn exclusive

[Anonymous No.10312265]

>>10310076
>>10312172
good morning

[Anonymous No.10312274]

This discussion looks like bots arguing with each other

[Anonymous No.10312330]

>>10309839
When I was a teenager I would read about these sorts of devices that I did not understand and it would sort of piss me off. Especially when magazine writers would talk about it as a negative against the other systems. Like in this case they'd talk about how the PS1 and the N64 lack netplay. And I'd think "WHO THE FUCK CARES? NO ONE CARES ABOUT THAT STUPID SHIT! TALK MORE ABOUT ACTUAL FUN VIDEO GAMES".
I was very much a "grafix don't matter! gameplay is everything!" nintenkiddie. Except I was actually kind of a graphics whore when no one was looking and it applied to my favorite series.
I got this way when they'd talk about frame rates, resolution, progressive scan, VGA output, RGB, lots of technical stuff.

Ironically later on I became a huge fag for those sorts of things.

[Anonymous No.10312337]

>>10312119
No?
Don't think the N64 had that as a primary purpose, even counting KI and Cruis'n USA advertisements. Would not say it for the SNES or PS1 either.

[Anonymous No.10312407]

>>10310608
>Not having jarpigs isn't a loss
Today, maybe. In the 90's not having jarpigs would be like a 7th gen console not having shooters.

[Anonymous No.10312460]

>>10312172
you seem to be in an alternate universe where the n64 has good fighting games. what's it like there? does it get a Virtua Fighter 2 port in that universe?

[Anonymous No.10312660]

>>10312337
>I literally don't literally understand literal hyperbole
I guess you never saw an ad telling you it was the hyperbole experience at home

[Anonymous No.10312726]

>>10312660
bruh

[Anonymous No.10312729]

>>10312460
>vf2
>good
Lolmao

[Anonymous No.10312747]

>>10309839
I bet it is as shit or worse than every other dial up modem I ever used in the preceding decade

[Anonymous No.10312753]

>i was born before 1992 and never knew there was a console called saturn
Are you that desperate for attention you come here and spout this garbage nobody believes or cares about?

[Anonymous No.10312767]

Zoomer thread pretending they were born in the early 90s. Trust me, literally everyone knew about the Sega Saturn it's just nobody cared because of the playstation but that doesn't mean nobody knew about it.

[Anonymous No.10312785]

>>10312767
Some of them are late-comers/posers/cocksuckers who only got into serious gaming as adults but like to think they were hardcore.

[Anonymous No.10312790]

>>10312729
What's bad about it?

[Anonymous No.10312797]

>>10309852
>>10310610
were you guys too poor to afford magazines or even watch TV ads? or is it a third world thing?

[Anonymous No.10312806]

>>10312767
I know it's a larp from personal experience anon... But if that were my kitchen I'd probably have never have time for /vr either.

Verification not required.

[Anonymous No.10312807]

>>10312797
Can't be since Sega was dominant in those.
In Brazil specifically the Saturn was marketed everywhere despite none buying it.

[Anonymous No.10313535]

Its a fact the Saturn flopped in the west and barely anyone knew about it
It was marketed terribly and had nogames if your werent a hardcore nippon importer
why are these facts so hard for /vr/ to grasp

[Anonymous No.10313546]

>>10312797
See
>>10309856
So probably a thirdworld thing.
Though to be fair, I'm an American born 3 years before that guy, and I wasn't aware of the TG16/PCE until the very late 90s.

[Anonymous No.10313578]

>>10313546
>thirdworld
I live in a G7 country
>I'm an American
lmao you're the one living in a 3rd world country where just going to the grocery store can get you shot

[Anonymous No.10313603]

>>10313578
>I live in a G7 country
nta, but lmfao at your cope.

[Anonymous No.10313606]

>>10313603
>nta
Sure thing buddy

[Anonymous No.10313608]

>>10313578
>he says, while posting AIslop
Your brain has rotted.

[Anonymous No.10313616]

>>10313608
grasping at straws

[Anonymous No.10313630]

>>10313535
>its a fact the Saturn flopped in the west
I won't argue with that.
>barely anyone knew about it
Completely false. If you were an actual video gamer (as opposed to a casual who plays a video game every once in a while or a clueless little kid playing his same four games he owns for hours a day) you were very familiar with the Saturn even if you didn't own one.

[Anonymous No.10313638]

>>10313630
The saturn was on the market and getting games for less than two years outside of japan
It was very forgettable if you didnt own one or knew anyone who did

[Anonymous No.10313859]

>>10309856
>Where I live advertising toys is illegal
what in the name of Communist Russia is this

[Anonymous No.10313884]

>>10313859

[Anonymous No.10313896]

>>10313859
>>10313884

[Anonymous No.10313901]

>>10313638
You must not have been born until after the 90s, everyone knew about the Saturn. I started kindergarten in 1997 and my peers knew what Saturn was. Even when I was in 11th, 12th grade the freshmen knew it. You don't have to lie on the internet.

[Anonymous No.10313910]

>>10309839
It won't work with our 28.8Kbps Dialup. And by the time we got 56Kbps the rest of the country was already on Cable and DSL speeds.

[Anonymous No.10314018]

>>10309839
Why so many Saturn threads lately? This console sucks. At least the Dreamcast had a reason to exist unlike this glorified stopgap.

[Anonymous No.10314162]

>>10313884
>>10313896
I still don't know what country this is.

[Anonymous No.10314173]

>>10314018
It's more interesting to delve into than the PS1 or N64 if you've been in this scene since the 90s.
This is also why the 3dO is seeing more attention.

[Anonymous No.10314185]

>>10313638
>The saturn was on the market and getting games for less than two years outside of japan
This is false.

NA Release: May 11, 1995
NA Discontinued: March, 1998

2 years, 9 months, 18 days

Slightly less than 3 years != "less than two years".

Get your facts straight.

[Anonymous No.10314193]

In order for print advertising to work, you need to understand conceptually what the ad is trying to convey or evoke. You need a certain level of consciousness that I didn’t have as a 10 year old in 1996. And you need a willingness to engage with it long enough to read the copy. I probably would have glanced at the picture and not registered it at all.

[Anonymous No.10314690]

>>10314162
I just checked, and I'm pretty sure it's from Quebec. I remember seeing advertisements for game consoles back in the day though since they were targeted at adolescents.

[Anonymous No.10314815]

>>10312337
There were more Namco System 11 & 12 games than Sega STV. So which platform was the arcade experience at home? LOL

[Anonymous No.10314895]

>>10314018
Overflow discussion from the email leaks a few months ago.

[Anonymous No.10315000]

>>10314815
The numbers are not in question here. The marketing is.
I'm getting so tired of ESLs who have poor reading comprehension.

[Anonymous No.10315015]

>>10315000
you should refer to the following post.
>>10312119
Every company said they were making the arcade at home experience. You clearly weren't there if you didn't see Nintendo and Sony making those claims. Because Nintendo was and so was Sony.

[Anonymous No.10315023]

>>10309852
Same. Sega was big in my country back in the early 90's, but the moment the saturn came out it's like it disappeared from the face of earth and playstation took it's place.

[Anonymous No.10315057]

>>10309852
Saturn was like a cryptid I caught site of few times at Hollywood video and blockbuster before disappearing into weeb land.

[Anonymous No.10315106]

>>10312797
Saturn had damn near no presence in the US due to their surprise launch pissing off all the retailers that didn't get to be part of it. I was vaguely aware of Sega Saturn's existence, but practically forgot about it for the entire generation. It was in the same boat as shit like the Atari Jaguar, and barely more well-known than the 3DO. N64 and PS1 were the only two consoles that mattered.

[Radiochan !!8R5IcuH3PgQ No.10315129]

>>10309839
"So can I use this to surf the Internet without a computer?"

[Anonymous No.10315136]

>>10315129
you could use it to play some games like Daytona netlink version

[Anonymous No.10315139]

>>10313606
The "buddy" coper strikes again

[Anonymous No.10315169]

>>10315139
Nta but righto buddy

[Anonymous No.10317194]

>>10310589
dreampie can probably do it

[Anonymous No.10317404]

>>10315015
Once again, ESL-san you fail to grasp the nuance of the discussion. It's not about every single little blurb ever put out by Nintendo or Sony, it is about the primary marketing campaign for the console.

The Saturn, compared to the PlayStation and N64, was by far pushed harder on the arcade-at-home aspect by the company supporting it (SEGA).

[Anonymous No.10317530]

>>10317404
Primary marketing campaign where? And by what channels?
Are you so naiive to think every form of media everywhere had the same message?

[Anonymous No.10317560]

>>10317530
Contrarian.

[Anonymous No.10317672]

>>10317560
Ooh zing.
Sega love to push the arcade at home stuff but not universally. New console ads often focused on the console specs and magazine ads were tuned differently to tv.

Now back up your bs and post a few or relish in your lack of credibility

[Anonymous No.10319452]

>>10317672
Contrarian.

[Anonymous No.10319460]

>>10319452
Because that was worth the bump 16 hours later.

[Anonymous No.10319559]

>>10310608
>Not having jarpigs isn't a loss
N64 dregs grew up with edgy fps slop and mario sharty, which is worse off than growing up with jrpgs and fighting games

[Anonymous No.10319563]

>>10312172
>N64 had better fighters
Like what?
KIfags can't shut the fuck up over how dogshit KI Gold is and nobody fucking played Flying Dragon

[Anonymous No.10320157]

>>10309839
I used the netlink to get on the internet for the first time. I didn't have the keyboard so you had to use the joypad on a virtual keyboard to type stuff out in the chatrooms.

[Anonymous No.10320354]

The first time I've seen a Saturn was in 2003, because the PS1 was much more popular in Latin America. The brother of one of my friends asked for some games (he knew I had a PS1). On the other day, he said the games didn't work, and when I saw the console, I recognized it was a Saturn, because I saw it on magazines.

[Anonymous No.10321418]

>>10319460
Concession accepted.

[Anonymous No.10321449]

>>10309852
I was born in 92 and I only knew about it thanks to my older step brothers who had one. It broke and ended up being replaced by a PS1 since by that point (98 I think) it was clear which had the better selection of games.

[Anonymous No.10321581]

>>10309839
Saw the real thing boxed at a store behind glass but never saw anyone buy it

[Anonymous No.10321658]

>>10319563
Mortal Kombat