I’d recommend to anyone reading this to visit Adam Koralik’s YouTube page. I went to YouTube to look at videos relating to the Saturn. Reasoning that I’d probably never see an offer as good as that again (£35? A mere 7 Bison Dollars? What a steal!), I went away to mull over whether I should get one.
It’s a store that sells retro games and consoles, and would you know it, they had a SEGA Saturn for sale with three games for £35. Not soon after deciding I wasn’t going to get one, I passed by a shop in Stockport called “Retro, Reload”. However, the thought of buying a Saturn still lingered.
Recently, I saw one online and thought about purchasing it, but eventually chose not to. However, it lingered at the back of my mind for the remainder of my childhood and into adulthood. And thusly, I forgot all about the SEGA Saturn. As luck would have it, SONY reduced the price of the PlayStation in late 98, meaning it was now more affordable and my parents eventually relented and bought me one. So I nagged, and nagged, and nagged and nagged. I now wanted a PlayStation, mainly because no one else I knew had a Saturn and thus I felt it would be better to go for the system that everyone else had (Because then I could borrow games from them). In fact, I’d say I reacted appallingly.Īs a general rule, I didn’t tend to nag my parents for things as a child. Thusly, I was hit with a double whammy of not getting what I wanted but also having to deal with another set of kids of who had on a daily basis. I used to go to their house daily as their mother looked after us before and after school until my mum returned from work. The matter was worsened for me even further due to the fact that two children who lived near to me had wanted a PlayStation for Christmas and had got one. In fairness to them, they had made their stance on the matter of gaming quite clear and I should have seen it coming. They had even gone so far as to deliberately lock my SNES away in the attic one summer as they didn’t want me playing it throughout the summer holidays.
Ultimately, my parents didn’t like the idea of spending a sizable sum on another gaming machine for me, when they were already of the opinion that I played my SNES too much. Looking back on it now with adult eyes, it wasn’t the disaster that 10-year-old me though it to be, but I was just an idiot child at the time and reacted as such. I stupidly had placed all my eggs in the Saturn basket, and low and behold I didn’t get one, thus meaning the gifts I did get were a crushing disappointment by comparison. Yup, I wanted a SEGA Saturn, and to the top of my Christmas list it went.Īh, Christmas 1997, what a depressing one that was. Secondly, Virtua Fighting had made it’s way to English Arcades and it’s combination of 3D graphics and (for the time) revolutionary fight physics had blown my tiny little mind. I spent most of an afternoon playing that game into the ground and left the house enchanted with the SEGA machine. One of my mothers friends lived in Middlesbrough (a town in the North East of England) and her son had a Saturn with SEGA Rally. The reason I had picked the Saturn as my new console of choice back in those optimistic youthful days was twofold.įirstly, I’d recently played one that summer. Yes, in the cool winter months of 1997, I had decided that I wanted a SEGA Saturn, and that is what this feature will be looking at over the coming weeks. The gaming machine that I had hand-picked to succeed my Super Nintendo was a very different one indeed. The funny thing was that originally I hadn’t even wanted a PlayStation. It wasn’t until October 1998 that I finally got my grubby mitts on one and the system only had about 18 months of relevance left at that point. I came pretty late to the PlayStation party. Back in the day though, the old SNES was the only gaming platform I had at my disposal for almost half the 90’s. My first console, all those years ago, was a Super Nintendo, but I’ve collected a fair few along the way since then. I will be reviewing contemporary stuff but I also thought I’d do some Retro Features now and then as I love classic gaming. Been a gamer since the early 90’s and I’m going to be one of the reviewers on this fine site. It’s a large town just outside of Manchester. My name is Mike and I’m from Stockport in Merry Old Great Britain. Welcome to our very first edition of our feature, Rings of Saturn! Here’s a little bit about me, should you care to know it.
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