Electronic Arts on the Sega Saturn
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Electronic Arts had been an important part of my Sega Genesis experience in the early 1990's. They would also play a strong role on the Sega Saturn, at least in the beginning.
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Episode Notes:
1. If you plan on buying EA games for the Sega Saturn, be sure to also buy a Memory Cartridge as well. A single EA game game could swallow the entire Saturn internal save area alone.
2. EA is often forgotten on the Saturn because of so many sports games, but there are other games very much worth a look.
3. The vast majority of these games tend to be very cheap. Only the shoot'em ups command any real money.
4. All games captured on a Framemeister via RGB SCART.
5. EA was also responsible for a Shogi and Mahjong game for the Saturn. The Mahjong title was a Japanese launch game.
6. Music:
0:16 - Palm Desert Road Rash (Genesis)
1:35 - Madden Title Theme (Genesis)
1:48 - Madden 97 Theme
4:16 - Loaded On the Go
8:38 - NBA Live 98 Menu
10:35 - Road Rash 32-bit Track 2
13:34 - Viewpoint Neo Geo MVS
14:41 - Road Rash Redwood Forest (Genesis)
Ending theme is from Batman for the Sega Genesis. Opening 'SEGA' jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.
Saturn's Road Rash with Soundgarden's great soundtrack was one of the first games I owned for the system and I still love it!
Sold! My brothers and I loved the genesis games and we just got our Saturn a few weeks ago
I just played mine today. It's awesome.
Try it on Sega Cd. You got licensed soundtrack songs during gameplay not only between stages
Jungle Strike and Urban Strike were two of my favourite game on the Genesis, along with Road Rash 3. Good times indeed.
Road Rash 2 was the best of the series in my opinion, but I liked all of them and the "Strike" games were awesome. I wish both of those series would get resurrected
Jungle Strike is still one of the best games ever!
EA was really awesome back in the day.
And now they're cunts, shame
It's crazy how lame they've gotten. But unfortunately they're not the only ones.
Back in the day, the worst Video game company was GT aka Atari. They are bad as what EA doing today. Atari also ruined the developer and they forced devs to finished their game in a rush way and didn't give their much time to developed and finished it properly. The game like ET was an example. Atari just gave the devs a 5 weeks to developed it. Hell it was painful for the developer that deal with them and not enough time to polished their game as well. They need to rushed their worked so bad. Then when the game came out, it is horrible failure and became the worst game ever release at the time. Same happened on Blood 2 though. So Atari is responsible of this tragedy. FUCK ATARI
And now it's EA turn to be like Atari, the worst video game company............... Shame that EA was really awesome but then they changed so badly to be an evil company
Back when saying the name EA didn't conjure up hate deep within heh. Road Rash on the Saturn is Crom tier and that port of Need for Speed is amazing for the Saturn. Great video as always.
When EA was ECA they were pretty damn great. Unique games being made and published. Amiga ports and overall a fantastic reputation. Too bad they're the Comcast of gaming now.
I got my saturn before my playstation and as far as Road and Tracks Need For Speed the Saturn version cars sounded more realistic than the playstation. Saturn was always my fav port of the game.
Ur ghey
For some reason I never owned a copy of Loaded. It looks like a worthy addition to the Saturn library. It’s on my list for sure.
Agree. Yes mine too
Same for me. I didn't own Loaded when the console was new and didn't get around to picked it up until like 2010 or so. It's a pretty fun game and I remember two player being fun. It's been a while since I've played it but the two things I really remember from it is that it can be hard as hell and that I wished the camera was zoomed back just a bit. It's really right on top of your player almost the whole time.
Just a note: Madden '97 was done with Sega's easy-but-underpowered SBL libraries. For Madden '98 we completely rewrote the Saturn version on the bare metal, with hand-tuned assembly where needed and a few Saturn hardware tricks like the smooth crossfade from the main menu into Play Now (the PlayStation doesn't do that). We had Madden playable on the Dreamcast (and EA Canada had FIFA running) when the call came down to pull the plug, and we were not pleased when EA's official excuse was that its developers couldn't understand the hardware.
Road Rash is the greatest motorcycle game ever! better than Tourist Trophy even!
Many gamers today will never understand that EA was once a reputable company.
EA had the best PC and Sega games of the 1990s, I don't know what the fuck happened.
@@ironroad18 They were alright till like 2010.
It changed forever and many people hate them since EA shut down Westwood Studio(the first studio that got shut down) and also introducing the Pay2win and microtransaction system in their game
EA was always crooked. They had sega thinking they could illegally make games for the Genesis through reverse engineering. That's why their cartidges look different and they got a higher percentage of sales then other 3rd party companies. Sega wouldn't normally allow anything different but they had sega by the balls. They was also trying to get a monoply when the genesis started.
@Fellow accelerationist EA was always dirty. They wanted to be the sole 3rd party company back in the genesis days.
The problem was not lack of support from EA for the Saturn, it was lack of support from Sega Sports which is Sega's bread and butter when it comes to sports titles.
I still fire up the old Saturn just to play nfs and road rash.
Sad to think the EA of the 80s & 90s have become something completely different, corrupted.
Back then we would look at EA titles as a sign of quality. They had an aura about them, also the way they treated there studio and dev teams were way different, they were like music artists you would know who developed what in a game even by face. Hence why they are called Electronic Arts.
RIP EA from the 90s we miss you.
They were good until early 2000s. After 6th gen gaming era, they are completely out of touch
@@ytanonymity3585 once they made exclusive deals with NASCAR and the NFL their quality started to tank.
My man! I feel so blessed. Another ringer so quickly preceding your last video. I don’t know how, but you keep putting out such amazing videos. Thanks so much brother!
Appreciate the positive feedback. Thanks. ;)
I had recently asked if you can use the 68k for sprites and then use the 2 Vdps and the 2 SHs for all else...someone stated that you can only if the 68k has access to the frame buffer. Does anyone know if this is the case
Loved their Genesis games.... they all had this slightly “gritty” look to them, compared to other games on the system. And who can forget the amazing music from Rob Hubbard on several of their titles?
I have to go back in time like Terminator and put an end to Evil Arts.
Yeah so Bioware will not be crap and star wars games would be better
Aww croc is so cute though. And the music is great
Wow this is pure nostalgia to me especially road rash i literally forgot about it until this video but now i remember the pure joy back when i was kid back when gaming was my life when i used to swap games with people in school and would run home to play it
This video makes me want to play Sega saturn.
There's always time for Sega Saturn games. ;)
EA became pricks the moment they stopped supporting Dreamcast. Then Sega pwned them with their own sports games until the Madden monopoly making them even more unbearable.
Agreed. NFL 2k1 and NBA 2k1 were far better products than the EA offerings of the time in my opinion.
I think they was always pricks the opportunity just wasn't there early.
The entire reason EA shunned the Dreamcast was because of Sega repeatedly dumping their consoles after they [EA]made a commitment for games. Let's be fair
@@FIXTREME BS, EA tried that monopoly crap on the dreamcast and Sega told them to shove it where the sun don't shine. Now EA has Sony and Microsoft by the balls. PES dropped on PS plus EA cried out of fear of people knowing about the superior game and it gets pulled right away.
@@FIXTREME Also EA ports their games. That's not even a knock since everyone damn near does it. That's why new consoles mean nothing to me and its like video games are dead in my opinion.
Back when it was a respected company.
Virtual cop and World Series baseball best games I ever played on Saturn and worth playing today
Love the channel! This video was a bit too rapid: my suggestion is do the little overview of each game and then show maybe 5-10 seconds of gameplay without comments to give us a taste of the sounds and visuals
First time watching this channel. Has a similar style to Classic Gaming Quarterly, which isn't a bad thing. Quite relaxing to watch!
I like the cover of Madden 98, like he's saying "Sorry about the last one guys... Sorry.".
You think you could do a video on Atlus games on Sega platforms? They've released a few notable Shin Megami Tensei games on the Sega CD and Saturn.
1. I had no idea Altus did
2. Judging by your profile picture, I can tell you are a man of good taste. Narukami is one of my favorite Persona protags
Your content is criminally underrated, I hope you see a lot more views coming your way soon.
Road rash is by far my favorite EA game on Saturn
Man, your Sega Saturn videos are the best. You really show your love for this amazing system. A question: is the Saturn your favorite console? From your videos, I get the vibe that this might be the case, 'cause you talk with a real passion about it. On a side note, I had no idea EA published this much on the 32 bit Sega machine. As usual, this video was amazing.
The Saturn is indeed my favorite console. It came along at a pivotal point in my life that immediately endeared it to me.
@@SegaLordX Likewise for me. Here in South Africa, it was never officially released, however there was a shop not too far from me that imported the Japanese system. I was 13 at the time and saved for what seemed like an eternity to buy one. The shop owners tried to dissuade me, telling me the PS1 was a far superior console, but I was not swayed. I loved my Saturn and it is to this day my favourite console ever.
@@SegaLordX I forgot you already talked about this on your "Ranking the Sega Consoles" video (one of your best, without a doubt). I was not lucky enough to own a Saturn - in my country the system was extremely expensive (most consoles are even to this day) and there were not many units available for sale - but it was the first 32 bit console I played, and it blew my mind. I remember seeing Panzer Dragoon and being shocked at how good it looked. The PSX never caught my attention in the same way. Since I loved fighting games and most PSX ports were awful, I rented the Saturn a lot and played the hell out of most Capcom games. Great times.
I had recently asked if you can use the 68k for sprites and then use the 2 Vdps and the 2 SHs for all else...someone stated that you can only if the 68k has access to the frame buffer. Does anyone know if this is the case
@@SegaLordX
Can you control and command sprites using the Motorola 68k inside the Sega Saturn, while both sh1/sh2 and vdp-1/vdp2 run backgrounds?
Does the 68k have access to the frame buffer?
Agree 100%, couldn't imagine Genesis without EA.
Looking back on the 90s I realize I played a lottttt of EA games, for better or for worse! Some awesome titles in the mix, for sure. Very interesting video, I hadn't really thought about how huge EA was back then.
Incredible work as always. Lots here I wasn't aware of. More publisher showcases in the future please!
Never been a fan of EA games but I really enjoyed this another awesome episode! Thank you Sega Lord X
Great overview. I like the themes you pick. Small note, it is Bullfrog Productions not Bullfrog Software.
Didn't know that I should thank EA for being able to have Theme Park on the Saturn, back in the day. Loved it. Also, I end up getting lots of shoot'em ups inadvertedly recommended from your videos! Thank you. Spotted the Viewpoint theme ;) good choice
Congrats for 30k and more subscribers! Yaaay!
Rick Deckard thank you. Been growing pretty fast here lately. Grateful for every person who supports me.
Sega Lord X, next time you get a chance, make sure you look up a guide for Battle Garegga and access the menus. Leave it in Japanese because there are more options to choose from.
You can:
1. Turn on small hurtbox on your ship so you can't get shot down as easily. Enemy bullets have to connect with the center of your plane to hit you if you turn this on.
2. Turn on "red bullets". That way most of the enemy bullets will be red and you can see them easier. The default gray bullets blend in with the backgrounds and are harder to see.
3. Choose the arranged soundtrack by toggling the BGM option. The arranged soundtrack is even better with real guitars.
Also, the game uses a dynamic difficulty and basically punishes you for getting points and staying alive. So one thing you can do is to avoid getting the bright yellow rank items because they're just points and when you get those you're turning up the difficulty. The darker yellow round items with the single line in the middle are the shot power up. Try to avoid picking up any unnecessary items at all once you're sufficiently powered up because that just increases your rank/difficulty. I recommend you give yourself as many lives as you can in the options menu as well and/or simply turn down the difficulty a notch or two. A more advanced strategy is to die on purpose and use your ship's exploding parts as a weapon because that's the only thing you can do to lower the dynamic difficulty and bring your rank down while playing. :)
Great stuff. Your videos are must watch content!
I DID A WHOLE PLAY THROUGH OF CROC IN 97'😃
sucks that the saturn version of magic carpet ends after stage 25 whereas the ps1 version ends after stage 50
(even though the farthest I ever made it was to stage 33)
Yo, i noticed what you have on your profile picture. Respects man
I used to love FIFA 98 on the N64, I suspect the Saturn had a "Legacy" edition like EA have more recently made clear. It doesn't look anything like the N64 and PS1 versions of the game did so likely a cheap roster update?
EA publishing Battle Gerega feels like a factoid from some alternate mirror universe xD
I guess they were just simply a different company back then. It makes what the company is today even sadder :(
I'd agree. Almost sounds made up.
Exactly, they were primarily a developer who sometimes published other people's games too.
I am like GEEKING OUT over this Saturn version of WARCRAFT II .. I had no idea it was released on the Saturn! that was my favorite PC game for several years
Saturn version is damn good too. Easy to play for a PC port.
Sega 4 Life
Oh EA if only you had not joined the dark side!
If they didn't joined the Darkside, I believe ME 3 Andromeda, and Anthem would not failed me !! Westwood, Pandemic, Mythic, Bullfrog and MAXIS would not be dead too !! They could be far better than any game company if they always care about creating many good game !!
Back in the good old days when they weren't trying to nickle and dime everything in the game
EA on the Saturn was truly a mixed bag, some games like NFS, Road Rash and Soviet Strike were very good (and in a few cases better than the PS versions). As time went on however , it was getting pretty clear that EA's efforts were being focused more on the PS1 and PC, with games like FIFA98 being pretty bad (despite stellar PS and PC versions).
To be fair, their N64 efforts were also pretty mixed , so its not even a Saturn specific problem.
Big fan of your content bro, keep it up.
To put those brutal ports of NHL 98 and NBA Live 98 in perspective the PC versions of those games on a blazing fast Pentium 233 with 32MB of RAM and a 4MB "video accelerator" ran smoothly at ~720p with facemapped player models, reflections and motion capture animation. The Playstation ports are far better but in NHL 98 instead of face maps every player had Brendan Shanahan's face IIRC.
A video on the brief Segasoft era would be cool. I remember being really hyped for Vigilance (1998) but never being able to find a copy. I did get Rocket Jockey though and it was one of my favorite games of that period. Last Bronx was fun too. The anime intro theme was in .AVI format on the CD so I ran it in Windows Media Player with my boom box connected to the aux port of my sound card and recorded the song onto a cassette tape.
Fun and cute fact: Despite Trip's overall vitriol he had against Nintendo for their harsh licensing policies back in the day, he does have a soft spot for Mario!
EA was a great game company back then.
4:11 that red Supra didn’t like you winning
Awww EA back in the late 90s, at least then you knew you were getting a mediocre at best game if not awesome game. And they weren't trying to monitze the heck out of you.
Mediocre at worst * if it was at best there would be no awesome games.
But I agree.
Dark Castle and Sword of Sodan were absolutely horrendous though!
Amazing job again. I still have my NBA live 98.i regretted not buying NBA action 98 for sooo long.
I owned Darklight Conflict on the Saturn! I really loved it, and I died an awful lot but I kept going until I could reliably beat those last levels. The storyline got pretty dark, though I won't spoil it 😁
Wow amazing work. Thank you.
Sega we need a Saturn collection for PS4 xbox one and the Switch
Can we get a spin off Nintendo Lord X? Arcade Lord X?
Seriously, Sega Lord X is Arcade Lord X.
However, Nintendo Lord X....
You should do a piece on Sega sports for the Saturn
EA was a staple of every system in the 80s and 90s. I remember usually preferring the Amiga versions over the consoles, but The 🪐 and PlayStation upgraded the quality on some games.
You've been busy this summer. Great job on these videos.
I recall I purchased fifa98 rtwc back in the day because of the good reviews from Italian press, it was ok but miles away from wws97, one thing it had, a wonderful soundtrack which led me to discover the Crystal method and the American electronic music scene.
there road rash game's and strike series on genesis those are my favorite ohhhh EA how low have you fallen like konami
Interesting topic -- I never knew Battle Garegga was published by Electronic Arts. Soukyuugurentai is pronounced like the words "so"-"cue"-"goo"-"Ren"-"tie", by the way.
Everybody's talking about EA in such a negative light, every day they do something bad, it seems. And here Sega Lord is showing how good the company's output was historically
I don't know about the Saturn version, but at least on PlayStation, Croc is a really good 3D platformer. The tank controls just take a little getting used to, and it's well worth the effort. 👍
Can you do an EA video for the Sega Genesis thank you for all you do
No wonder many games from eletronic art or ea didn’t translate well to the saturn, the saturn was not easy to programm and it required more time from game dev’s to get it right, wich costed them more money to do so, so with that in mind i do actually respect those many misserable ports on the saturn!!!
Crusader no remorshe, road rush ,soviet strike are my favorites
I'd like to see Strike series remake and Wingcommander come back
Sega rally was solid as well
God bless you man keep up the good work
I would kill for another DESERT STRIKE game!
Great vid SLX 💯💯
When EA was all about the Game. Now they are all about the Benjamins XD.
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@Equinsu Ocha that's their main issue now
I hope they will die like Atari. Atari was the bad company too at the time. They were EA before EA be like them
I'd say EA was always about the money back then they just made quality games to please the customer so they could make money now they just try to squeeze every dollar out of the customer with DLC cut content and lootboxes.
Hi-Octine! Thank you so much i been thinking and wondering what this game was called. I loved it.
Diablo may be compiled for the Saturn in the future, since its Playstation source code was reverse engineered :)
Oh man, it would awesome to have a Saturn Diablo Netlink addition. (it probably will never happen, but one can hope)
road rash!!! a love one!!! my favorite!!
EA was definitely the joint back then. I CAN'T stand them now.
Man. Lots of fond memories of the Saturn ports of Soviet Strike and Crusader: No Remorse. It's unfortunate that the creator of the Crusader franchise had a falling out with EA, as it precluded any console versions of No Regret.
SLX, did you see that recent documentary about all the developers of Dreamcast
I actually fell asleep to it!
RIGHTO! Send that peasant to build! Lol
Kids....this was EA at their best....giving quality games to the fans.....but now EA is just screwing up with pay to win, lootbox crap.
I see you with the steelers on madden. Well done
Can't beat EA's Genesis days. They were easily one of the most important developers on the console. It's a shame that Sega helped build EA's empire (while competing against them to be fair) only to be abandoned and then stomped on by backroom deals. And now we have the cold and soulless corporate entity that EA is today.
That which once was... When I see EA’s logo on a current gen game I do an immediate 180. Might as well say “Disney” for all I care.
I palyed Road Rash and Hi-octane on PC
That would have been sick to see viewpoint on the Saturn?
EA was all Genesis for me. Didn’t play much of their 32 bit and beyond games...
I noticed there were no games developed or published by EA on the Dreamcast. Most likely the failure of the Saturn in North America.
Modern gamers: EA is evil
Old gamers: Oh you poor silly child. You know nothing of the good days.
I've never owned a single EA game that I bought to play on a Sega console, so I can imagine a Sega world without EA. (Explicit) Electronic Arts!
Even in they're early day they were overrated.
@@dontdoittoyoself6786 Overrated? Maybe, but they were at least respectable with their good sports lineup. "Madden '98," "Triple Play '98," and "NHL '95" will remain some of my all-time favorite sports games.
The EA logo in the title card should have been their AT&T logo.
Loaded needs to come back. It was like smash tv.
May I mention that the Playstation version of the original Need For Speed actually looks washed out as compared to the Saturn version. The colors seem alot more vibrant on Saturn. I remember me and my brother playing both and I actually got to see that first hand. A victory for the Saturn here..of coarse in my nm opinion.
Battle Garegga and Soukyugurentai are the only EA games I own. Apart from those and maybe the odd Road Rash game EA could be scrubbed from the planet and I'd never notice.
Awesome channel dude
Thanks, Rodrigo. :)
I still disappointed Soukyugurentai never had John Madden as a secret pilot character with his jet called "The Ace". Ace is the place!
Sadly they were usually shite graphically on the Saturn. But nowadays I tend to blame this on Sega not helping third party developers enough. I think what Sega should have done is develop genre-specific engines (like a sports game engine with great VDP2 planes, transparent clouds overhead etc.), then give these to third party developers so they'd get a head start. Sadly, Sega wouldn't even have done this internally within its own divisions, let alone to a third company.
Nice!
Played the hell out of madden and nhl 97 as well as Warcraft 2