In 1995 Sega Saturn was released in Europe and North America on July 8th. 5 Great tittles was released along with the console's release. The tittles were Virtual Fighter, World Soccer, Daytona USA, Panzer Dragon, and Pebble Beach Golf. Deep Fear was the last licensed game to be released in 1998. In 1998 the Sega Saturn was succeeded by the Sega Dreamcast. A quick list of games released in 1996 as follows. 3D Lemmings, Actua Golf, Actua Soccer, Andretti Racing, Area 51, Sega Touring Car Championship. These are just a few tittles that were released later in 1996. Now I am not going to spoil it by giving out a major list of games released for Sega Saturn at the moment, as more posts will be on Retro Gamez UK blogsite soon, so please keep a check out for Sega Saturn Games posts in the near future. Also will be included in Retro Gamez UK official magazine soon to be released in November if all goes well. Issue #1 will be floating around the Internet, I will post the details nearer the time, so you can put the date in your Calendar.
Sega Saturn sold a total 9.5 million units worldwide. Sega Saturn was popular in Japan but struggled to survive due to the Nintendo 64 console and Sony's Playstation 1 console. As you know Sega Saturn is a 32-bit console. The graphics at the time was a massive improvement over Sega's Mega CD / Sega CD add-on featuring, 2x Hitachi RISC processor's, 2x Custom VDP processors, 1 for sprites/polygons and the other for backgrounds and video out. 1x Custom System Control Unit, 1x Motorola 68EC000 sound controller, and finally 1x Yamaha FH1 DSP sound processor known as Saturn Custom Sound Processor. Now that is all the processors that is inside of the beast. As you can see Saturn's way of displaying graphics was a lot different to the way Playstation's hardware handled graphics. Also with Sega's double speed CD-Rom drive, the games ran more smoothly. Sega Rally Championship was a great example of this with great car details and track details. Infact I noticed that with Sega Rally Championship you can see the driver and also see through the windows, where as with Gran Turismo on Sony's Playstation 1 the windows were not see through, or transparent as you may call it.
You may not know this, but there was a difference in Graphics for example Sega Rally 1 (to short the tittle) Arcade vs Saturn Graphics. The way AM2 was able to provide better graphics for Arcade use, where as with the Saturn the graphics was very close, through with Sega was able to port the game much more easily compared to let's say Playstation 1. The code for both games was re-written and the track details had to match, but only certain differences were noticeable. More details on Retro Gamez UK in the future.
By 1996 the console was established but nowhere as near as Sony's Playstation 1, even the Nintendo 64 did not come close to Playstation 1, okay I am a big fan of Playstation 1, but only for a few reasons, the console was nice to use, the Analogue controller was a great way to play games in a new style. Infact I remember having to buy a new controller for my Playstation due to Ape Escape coming out, and as you know the game did not operate without Analogue.
Sega Saturn can be emulated on pc but with a bit of work needed. Retro Gamez UK DVD and RGUK USB Hard Drive does feature the emulator for Sega Mega Drive, Mega CD and Sega Saturn. Well I think that is a great start post for Sega Saturn, and you will be expecting more posts about Sega Saturn in the near future. Once the consoles are mentioned, it is easier for us to type up about the games, but first of we feel the need to introduce the console and give a bit of history first to our special readers, and of course I do thank you for coming to Retro Gamez UK once again, we hope to see you again, thank you reading.
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