Underappreciated Saturn Games
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2021
- Let's take a look at some Sega Saturn games you should be paying more attention to.
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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.
Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured on real hardware.
2. Opening song from Cyberbots. Closing song from Sexy Parodius.
3. Some of these games are quite affordable even now.
4. I had some sound issues playing Pandemonium via the Satiator. I'm finding more and more games that have issues with this device.
5. Three Dirty Dwarves is so much better in multiplayer. I mean orders of magnitude better. I highly recommend you play it with a friend.
6. Elan Doree has some fantastic art. It was a major pain to capture footage for, however. It switches resolutions constantly, causing my Framemeister to drop it every few minutes.
7. Solar Eclipse has the dude from Road House in it. The guy caught banging the bar wench in the closet. One of the chicks from Babylon 5 is in it as well.
8. Casper has a fair bit of voice acting in it, though it's not by the original movie stars.
9. Cyberbots has a Mech Gouki character. Hence the thumbnail. - Ігри
I just love this channel. It's like comfort food. I was never a big Sega kid but something about segalord makes me feel like I got to hang out with my cool neighbor who had a system I didn't as a kid.
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i love stuff like this
its so easy going n light hearted
its kinda relaxing
Well said, definitely echoes my sentiments of the channel.
Great video SLX
Love the saturn,my favorite system, sega lord x seems to have a serious love affair with it as well
I love how he sounds so fair and you can tell just through his voice how much he loves his Sega stuff. And when he talks about stuff he doesn’t approve of, that’s when his disappointment can truly come out. He’s not out to try too hard to be funny. Just a guy with an enjoyment of Sega’s legacy with informative videos and makes you feel like you’re there with him talking Sega with him 😆
Three Dirty Dwarves has been in my top 5 Saturn games for years. Absolutely a classic.
I have no idea how Sega Lord X releases this amount of quality content, this consistently. Another fantastic video, as always.
3 Dirty Dwarves gets overlooked because it's expensive in every region.
I'm yet to play it myself and when I do - it will be a repro
Hell man, I can remember it selling for $10 complete in 2010. Nobody would touch it.
@@SegaLordX That is so true. Three Dirty Dwarves, Guardian Heroes, and Astal were all over clearance at Toys 'R Us and game stores for years (sitting right next to Grid Runner... always Grid Runner...). In 1998-2002 or so, you could clean up on Saturn. I know I did, and am sure glad about it!
@@SegaLordX I wish I could go back to 2009 when I had money and start collecting then.
I'd probably save my money and get a Satiator.
I bought Astal for 10 dollars in Oct 96 from Babbage’s! I bought Guardian Heroes that same month for 30! They were already discounted that cheap, sad to say.
I had a lot of fun with both Pandemonium games when I was a kid, it's a series that I don't see many talking about
Regarding Amok, the Shiro boys have recently interviewed Christian Laursen from the Scavenger days. Fascinating insight to what it was like back then. Real shame they got burnt by the publisher.
@@edy1361 Interesting!
A proud original owner of a Sega Saturn I bought on Launch Day. I was at Tom's presentation informing it's immediate release while we had a booth at E3 95. The Golden Age of gaming.
That Saturn is still going strong along with a huge library I got for nothing during the Saturns life. Sega forever!
Yep. Just upgraded my launch model to a V Saturn and could not be happier!
Casper was one of the games I got with my Playstation - and I fkn LOVED it! I also got Tunnel B1 which is still in my top 15 PS games of all time. So glad to see Casper getting love!
Yeah, I remember really enjoying Casper on my PS1.
3 dirty dwarves is one of my favorite games of all time.. love the humor.. game is super creative.. also really fun gameplay.. love it.. it's one of those games i wish i could still play.. may have to buy a saturn one day.. i haven't had one in decades.. it's also great for co-op btw
Saturn emulation is getting pretty good. I think I will try to find an iso of the game and give it a try on an emulator as it looks pretty fun and I had never heard of it before.
@@Gatorade69 It's pretty cool. What emulator or core do you suggest for Saturn?
It's one of my favorite video game plots. Its absurd and amazing at the same time.
Love watching something and seeing the twelve seconds ago ! I’m sure this will be amazing
Does Sega Lord ever disappoint?
Deep Fear - "the air meter adds a level of stress" *John swims in air grenades*
Finally! A UA-camr that aknowledges the existence and awesomeness of Three Dirty Dwarves! It also got a great PC port with some of the music tracks being changed into better ones and you can put the cd-rom to a cd-player to play the soundtrack of the game.
I remember this game being slammed by critics upon its release, because of its 2d visuals. yet look how amazingly well it's holding up. it's like a badass 90s cartoon and its visuals are on par with many modern mobile and indie games.
I've been championing 3DD for years! Just no one watches my videos lol.
Never heard/seen it before, but it looks right up my alley. Definitely gonna give it a run. ✌️
@@JerryTerrifying +1 views on your 3DD video and subscribed ;)
I mean battling a BUILDING!!? Totally nutty and I love it! I actually got this game new and got rid of it :( I was kind of confused and put off by how to play. I saw the light a number of years ago and was smart enough to get it again. Top 10 Saturn game IMO. Never heard about the PC port but makes some sense. Would like to check it out. Maybe someone did a video about it.
Great video! So happy to see Deep Fear! The ending actually filled me with emocean.
I don't regret buying a Playstation instead of a Nintendo 64 or Saturn, but now I'm going back and discovering all that the Saturn had to offer. Just picked up Magical Hoppers recently at a convention. I was surprised at the new anime cutscenes in place of the CG ones and entirely different characters from the PS version I played back in the 90s.
I see it's a import game? Is it English friendly? I know your comment is months old but I'm really trying to collect for my Saturn and recently got the action replay cart
@@relli3035 Yes, it's very English friendly. It's the Japanese version of Pandemonium, a 2.5D action platformer, that features different characters from the U.S. version and replaced the CG cutscenes with anime cutscenes. All the menus and text is in English, the only thing that is in Japanese is the voice overs on the opening and ending cutscenes.
Panzer dragoon is like THE saturn game imo if you want to appreciate the Saturn it's a must buy
I definitely regret getting the N64 back in the day. That's the most overrated console ever.
@@wyleFTWAgreed. Zwei is fantastic, as well.
AMOK is a real "hidden gem" glad I just bought it. This one is going to go up in price soon I think.
Deep fear also had 3D analog movement via that 3D control pad. Something that Resident Evil never did until the Resident Evil remake.
Although be warned the Retro Fighters Saturn Gamepad with the analog stick does not work that way since the stick just emulates the d-pad.
It's also the only game that I know of that does not prompt to save when changing discs. But with a fenrir ode you simply power off power back on quickly choose the second disc and it works fine
Deep Fear does ask to save in order to switch discs. Would be impossible to finish otherwise, because as soon as you open the disc door you get sent to the main menu.
Resident Evil 2 would copy this idea for its N64 release, so not so late, but the original idea was Sega's. Anyway, I feel like the tank controls are appropriate for survival horror games, it adds to the tension.
Deep Fear. I remember when I had my Hi-Saturn that was one of my first purchases. That voice acting, though. MOOKIEEEEEE!
Me and my bro played 3 dirty dwarves all the time, one of the best on the Saturn, we always used to hope for a sequel
I love getting to these videos so quickly. Also, 69 Likes. Nice!
I saw three dirty dwarves in a kiosk in a Target I think as a teen. Loved how it looked and knew I had to own it many years later when I got my Saturn. =)
I loved Solar Eclipse back in the day, played the hell out of that one. It was a very addictive space shooter with some great FMV video for the story. It was corny but such fun to play through. Long live the Saturn!
wow ... don't come across too many Saturn games that got by me after all of these years, but this Legend of Dragoon aerial fighter surely is one of them ... would definitely like to try it out one of these days! great list, SLx, would like to see this as an ongoing series!
This channel has shown me so many awesome playing and looking Saturn games. Back then we all had the idea that saturn
At the end of your videos, I'm always thinking "You won't catch me next time" but here I am, watching another one of your videos :-)
I remember playing Casper for the first time… I was going to turn it off thinking it was just a kids game with no challenge. But something made me give it another go and I got hooked lol. There are some clever little aspects of the game, like changing into a bouncy ball to get to certain areas and going through air vents as smoke. I ended up completing it in one sitting 😂👍🏻
Oh wow, those transparency effects on Casper look great. Especially for the Saturn, since getting it to work on VDP1 was a real pain. I heard you had to mark each individual pixel for transparency to do it right, otherwise you'd either get transparency that would erase everything else behind it on VPD1 or just use the mesh effect (which is what most devs would end up doing).
I needed this video, I'm looking for some good Saturn games to grab because my Saturn is getting dusty
Man, I haven’t heard of a single one of these game! I want to play them all now! Even Casper. Great list
Ah! I had Three Dirty Dwarves! That's my jam, man!
Great unappreciated Saturn games left in Japan: Groove on Fight, Wachenroder, Blackmatrix
X-Men Vs. Street Fighter and Marvel Vs. Street Fighter also.
Mr. Bones is one that comes to mind for me. Loved that game.
I have such fond memories of playing Mr Bones with my sister back in the day. I don't understand why it get so much hate these days. I still have the Icy Lake song burned into my mind. I could never finish that stage though.
@@Estorium The Icy Lake is one of the most evil and vile things to ever have graced the earth.
@@SuperChaosControl Yes it is! I am glad that I am not alone in thinking this.
@@Estorium as a kid, the icy lake is where my journey ended. Could never pass that stage, and when I grew up, I still couldn't pass it. I found a cheat code that allowed me to bypass the stage because I really wanted closure and see what the rest of the game had to offer. Wasn't disappointed.
@@SuperChaosControl I should tackle this game again sometime soon I think. I wish I still owned a physical copy of it, but I guess emulation has to do. I will definitely be using a cheat code too :)
Amok is amazing. I love the control and challenge. The secrets and secret levels, even the coop is pretty great. Music so addictive. The graphics always reminded me of blood with the vocals. Love voxels they are so pretty. Even quake champions doom edition has voxel weapons.
I had friends over playing SEGA Saturn and we loved the system. Many great memories!
I am go glad I bought a Saturn years ago. I snagged Bust a Move 3 for $20, and I can't believe what it's selling for now.
I’ve always loved pandemonium and cyberbots
3 dirty dwarfs is a game i never played but always wanted to. Wish sega would do a sega saturn collection and have all these unseen gems to a wider audience.
3 dirty dwarfs, sounds like my bachelor party
Among the general public the console itself is underappreciated but further within that scope I'd say Legend of Oasis, Rayforce/Layer Section, Darius Gaiden, Shining the Holyark, and Mystaria/Blazing Heroes off the top of my head.
Part of the reason why the Saturn gets overlooked is because some of their fans seem to be their best to scare people away. Many like to act extremely elitist and only care about expensive stuff and frown upon people who burn games or use ODEs while others can't stop shitting on other consoles like the PS1 and N64 for no reason, which is not exactly the best way to get people to appreciate the Saturn.
Those games you mentioned are definitely some of the games a enjoyed the most on the Saturn BTW.
@@RetrOrigin Honestly that kind of bickering and infighting has happened with every generation originating from the 16-bit era and through the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox generation. I guess I couldn't speak for any later consoles since I only had a PSP and PS Vita (both because of Ys releases primarily) before moving onto a PC with Steam since that time. The Saturn failed to gain any traction at the time of release (In part due to Sega's own strategies and management) and was barely noticed by anyone other than enthusiast type gamers, thus the increased expense of trying to purchase hard-to-find games now which only had limited and short-lived distribution even back then. Not a good financial investment in my mind.
I love Pandemonim,best 2,5 D platormer ever.Its also on Ps1 and PC.
Last Gladiators pinball was my underappreciated Saturn game. Great game play and music.
Ten. Pin. Alley.
Best family/fun game on the Saturn. I loved it as much as Wii Bowling. It had so much charm, and unlike the PS1 version, it didn’t require three strikes in a row to get the good bowler reactions.
I love the hand drawn aesthetic of Three Angry Dwarves. It actually reminds me of Ralph Bakshi. Assuming anybody here is old like me and knows who that is... Animator who made Fritz The Cat, Wizards, Cool World, Fire and Ice.
Always got time for this style of video. I think there is actually a ton of interesting stuff on the Saturn that's gone unexplored, it's just that a lot of it is locked behind a language barrier in Japanese. Terra Phantastica, which had Phantasy Star staff working on it, is more impressive looking than Final Fantasy Tactics was. I've never, ever heard it mentioned in the West. The Japanese Saturn's rpg library goes DEEP. There's also a mountain of colourful puzzlers on the system with a ton of personality (a lot of match 3 clones too). Even the sketchy looking bikini girl jigsaw puzzle games are a pretty chill time. There might be enough puzzlers to rival the system's fighter & shmup libraries. Then there are just weird oddities like Hyper Golf, and the epically named "Big Thanks - Super Keirin - Dream With Keirin 50 Years" (which is the only cycle racing videogame I've ever seen).
Not to mention all those mech fighting games I wish we got the Japanese library
This is great! I didn't know about a lot of these.
I happened to pick up a special edition of Cyberbots when I visited Japan in 1999 ... I got so many used videogames especially in Akihabara that trip.
Great video, i love to discover new games. Definitely going to add some to my list.
Loved Pandemonium on PS1 back then. I kinda considered it always in the same world as Legend of Kyrandia because of the Jester character.
Been on a Saturn kick lately and always love the content. Good job!
Great video! Bunches of games I've never tried before & will probably now give a shot. Thanks!
I'd like to give a shout out to the game 'Mr. Bones'. Developed and published by Sega and remains a Saturn exclusive. Just like you said with Casper, back in the day I played the game for 60 seconds and shut it off. Decades later I came back to it, and found it to be a very unique game. It almost feels like an amped up Sega CD game. Some levels have FMV backgrounds (like Sewer Shark or Silpheed). Every level plays completely different and the cutscenes are top quality. Great voice acting and music.
The only thing that is working against the game is the frustrating difficulty. Even the first level makes you want to shut off the game in rage. Best to grab the manual to see what the goal of each stage is or get a guide for pointers. But if you stick with it, the game really pays off with a VERY entertaining story.
I just bought a Saturn a couple of weeks ago. I love it. Not so much the $780 burning Rangers. Or the $325 resident evil.
@retro game fan need US packaging….no, I’m not sane😝😅
Ah three dirty dwarves. The first saturn game i ever played.
Three Dirty Dwarfs looks amazing, and like you said the concept is out of this world. Would really like to play it.
OMG I love the new intro!!! Great video as always. Indeed there are titles i never knew!
Three dirty dwarfs, i would never remember this great game if it weren't for you lord X! thank you for that!
I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THREE DIRTY DWARVES!!.....WOOOW!! Now THAT'S some damn nostalgia right there! ❤ I remember playing that when I used to work at Funcoland.
Awesome vid, would love to see a part 2!
Machinehead is my vote for underappreciated Saturn game, lots of speedrun potential good 3d graphics no slowdown and the controls are mapped fine, playing the game is reminiscent of operating machinery and when you get used to them it's really fun to race around and fly off jumps and shoot things with your variety of weapons
The Saturn had its issues but there was certainly a lot to love. Videos like this are great. Thanks for the great content man.
This guy is a content machine
Amok is one of my favs on the system. The voxels landscapes look like nothing else that exists at the time and i love the Jesper Kyd soundtrack.
Great video! Played Casper this year liked it a lot. Only game i have finished this year. Congrats
Games I would also add to your list are Shining Force 3: Premium Disk, Powerslave, F1 Challenge, Mr Bones, Purikura, Sengoku Blade, Steep Slope Slides, Virtual ON, Warriors of Fate 2, Willy Wombat and Winter Heat.
Mr. Bones is brutally difficult because you only get a single life like with Comix Zone, but a secret button input at the title screen lets you skip ahead to pick up where you died.
Trust me, I have never slept on Parodius, have them all, including the MSX version for my Saturn, all the SNES/SFC ones, the Game Boy one, the PSP collection, and most of them for my PS1. EGM magazine back in the day introduced me to the seriews via their Import Games section, so have known about the for decades. I swore in those days I'd play and one day own the entire series, and have had them for several years now.
OMG Casper! I played this one the 3DO or Playstation...and I had so much fun with it. I made good progress, but either lost my save file, or the disc stopped working or something =(
But it's really fun. I'd definitely recommend it.
I really really enjoyed this episode.
Saturn looks so good in hd.
does anyone else wish sega went and actually released an exclusive sonic for the saturn after all those years?
It's a shame they didn't make a Sonic CD 2 that pushed the 2D capabilities of the Saturn, a Saturn 2D Streets of Rage should have happen also.
I had no idea that second fighting game existed. 1999 on Saturn? That's beyond obscure. 🤯🤯🤯
Your final comment about tastes changing and how a great game can be hidden away behind a bad opening level was spot on. There's a tonne of games where the 1st level is just plain crap, but level 2 is amazing. Those are easy ones to overlook and consequently miss out on a nice experience. Also, as I've aged, I have slowed down considerably. Having kids too has contributed, and also made me appreciate different types of gaming experience. I would've never even considered playing The Little Mermaid as a teen, but when my 11 year old daughter spotted it in a ROM list recently, we absolutely HAD to play it...
"I don't like this game, Daddy." She said.
"Good girl." I agreed. 😆
Wish I'd have kept my Saturn. I loved it. Sega rally and NBA jam was my favourite Saturn games.
Parodius did release in Europe. I got a copy of it recently.
Dang I loved Solar Eclipse! The pacing of the game was great and never felt a dull moment!
Good luck finding Elan doree its very rare. I've been searching for a copy ever since the video was uploaded. I ended up burning a copy. It's a very fun game that pushes the Saturn ability. Definetly belongs on this list. Oh and three dirty dwarves aswell.
Dude your intro is so beautiful and awesome!!
Fantastic content as usual
Congratulations on 100k + subscribers.
Great work segalordx
Had Casper back in the day!!!! Just a random purchase, don't even remember getting it but it really was a lot of fun!! Love the channel👍
X-Men Children of The Atom is good, just set the speed to fast during fights. Anything normal or slow tends to really slog.
Any of those fighting games are great, the imports w/ ram cart are pretty much arcade perfect
Great intro
Casper may be the best Hangover game ever. slow paced, easy and brings your brain back to life!
I loved seeing pandemonium on this list, I played this one a bunch. When I reaquired a Saturn this past year it was the 2nd game I got. I would have added Crusader:No Remorse to the list. That was the first game I looked for when I got a Saturn.
Christmas '96 I got Mario 64, Cruis'n USA, Wayne Gretzky's 3d Hockey, Tomb Raider, and Pandemonium. Those five games will always be linked in my mind
A very nice list man!
definitely a few of these I've heard of but never checked out... may have to rectify that soon!
Awesome!Love the Saturn content!!!!
I always love Storytime with Sega Lord X !!
Loving that new intro.
Clockwork Knight... nobody ever talks about Clockwork Knight 😔
Bloody *loved* that game
Were you playing the PAL version of Pandemonium!? It seemed slower than I remember, it's a great game, I think most people passed this one back then, it's also available on the PS1 and PC.
The PAL version runs quite a bit faster than what you see in this video. I think the Saturn version is simply struggling with bouts of slowdown, which halves the framerate in certain places.
Since RetroArch released on iOS I’ve FINALLY been able to play the SEGA Saturn😁
& so far I’ve not been let down!!! I played Panzer Dragoon & it was sooo fun! Now I downloaded Zwei & Saga & other games like Magic Knight Rayearth & Guardian Heroes
Now I can finally play Policenauts & Snatcher 🙌👏
Love ❤ the content man. Appreciate it so much.
Your commentary about the current state of games and perspective shift with age is spot on man
Thanks to this video I just bought Cyberbots on ebay. Cheers dude!
Solar eclipse! That was the first 32 bit Game I ever played when we rented the Saturn and I’ve been looking for it ever cents but all I could find is total eclipse you made my day sir because I couldn’t remember what it was called
This video is why I like this channel.
Tempest 2K was a real standout.
saturn has so many great games 🥺
I'm always on the lookout for obscure, underappreciated games, regardless of the platform! Thanks, SLX!
I would avoid the PS1 version of Casper because in the PS1 version, there is a glitch somewhere in the game which causes the game to freeze up.
Really? I've had the ps1 version since I was a kid and never had that happen lol, and I've played through it several times
I played orginal Tempest on Amstrad Cpc,from cassette.
Awesome video, please make a follow up for other systems! Spot on about dwarves, pandemonium, and I never heard of legends of dragoon so I will def check it out.
*saw first game * pursues to find rom