The Saturn Junkyard - ANOTHER PLAYER HAS ENTERED THE ARENA!

Hello,

As a new poster to the Saturn Junkyard I would like to extend my thanks to FK for his gracious welcome. I hope to add some interesting content to this blog and hopefully provide some helpful info for those interested in the retro systems left behind in the console wars.

I got my Saturn at a flea market type sale in Buffalo NY. It came with 3 analog controllers and 15 games. I paid 20 bucks for the whole shebang. Damn good deal. I have been picking up games for it here and there for awhile and collected quite a few of the weirder games and less known stuff but nothing that is worth a great deal of money or is rare.


As an introduction here is some general info about my Saturn preferences and what games I would like to find...

What controller?

Well there is some variety in the controllers you can use. I have two main ones at the moment.


The regular model.



The fancy analog model. (Ever notice it looks like the dimwitted cousin of the Dreamcast controller?)


I have both and I have to say that I do not like the analog controller. Maybe it's good for games like NiGHTS and such but I really think the analog control is off a bit. For most of the games I play on the Saturn I would go with the regular controller. However the analog controller does make a good replacement for a light gun if you want to play a shooter and currently are not "packing".

The Game I would love to have:




Panzer Dragoon 2...I actually have a copy of this game but it crashes after the intro video. Hold it up to a light and you see that the top layer has been scratched. *Dammit* This is actually one of the things that shows that I am an honest person. Rather than try to sell it to some poor unsuspecting person I kept the disk. I might try yet again tonight to make this game work. However, as some of you know, a disk scratch from the top means TOTAL DEATH for a CD.

The Game I am ashamed I would play:



Hexen, Yeah I played through this game once on my 386 and I would love the chance for another shot. It's a fun game to play IMHO. If you love Doom try this out.

The Game I would love to have but I will never be able to afford:





Shining Force 3. The name says it all. I have played all the Shining force games except this one...
$100+ American is what this will run you most places. Hopefully one day I will run into a copy somewhere.

Random Links:

Here is a weird link that I found for a Sega Saturn FanMag.

http://saturn.classicgaming.gamespy.com/magazine/index.shtml

Sadly it seems to be a dead site now.

They had some decent articles. A few of them of them are still up.

http://saturn.classicgaming.gamespy.com/magazine/article_1.shtml

http://saturn.classicgaming.gamespy.com/magazine/games/fmm/ss_reviews_fmm_ryan.shtml
I have no idea if the site is dead or not so enjoy while you can.

That's about all for now. Stay tuned for some reviews and other cool stuff.