SEGA SATURN...SUNDAY & ᴍɪɴɪ TOP 10?! 🔴Full Stream🔴 (5-17)
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A poetic intro about transcending history and seeking deeper meanings, setting a reflective, quest-driven tone.
Maximilian Dood and Simmons riff live about the Sega Saturn, debating top titles, odd omissions, and battling it out over 90s arcade vibes and RAM-cart magic.
Summary
Maximilian Dood teams up with Simmons for a spontaneous “gentleman’s top 10” Sega Saturn list, riffing on favorites, hard-to-find gems, and why some games deserve the spotlight. They call out classic shooters, fighters, RPGs, and edge cases like Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force 3, and Alpha 3 in their highly opinionated exchange. The conversation dives into specific versions (Saturn Alpha 3 vs. PSP/arcade ports), RAM-cart advantages (Lunar 1/2 Meg versions), and the quirks of Saturn’s 2D prowess versus its 3D ambitions. They argue about the best 3D fighters (Virtua Fighter 2 vs. Fighting Vipers vs. Last Bronx), the cultural weight of Alpha 3 on Saturn, and the enduring appeal of titles like Virtua Cop, Sega Rally, and Fighters Mega Mix. The stream also doubles as a hardware-and-collector session, with jacket lore, actual game setups, and side chatter about fan translations, Japanese imports, and the console’s enduring legacy. Throughout, Maximilian and Simmons juxtapose nostalgic reverence with hyper-specific game details, like Saturn’s edge in 2D vs. PlayStation competition and the surprising depth of the Saturn library. The discussion isn’t just list-making; it’s a celebration of what made the Saturn feel ahead of its time for 2D and multiplayer chaos. Viewers get a sense of the era’s fever dream: multi-tap Bomberman chaos, Virtua Cop with light-gun nostalgia, and the live, unscripted banter that makes retro game streams feel like hanging out with friends late at night. The stream ends with a quick tease of trying Alpha 3, UMK3 vs. Trilogy, and a full-on, six-hour-plus Saturn marathon vibe for future streams.
Key Takeaways
- - The Sega Saturn’s Atlantis reputation in North America masks a deep library: about 1,000 Japanese titles with strong fan translations that breathe new life into the system.
- - Alpha 3 on Saturn is highly regarded for its feature richness and the Saturn version’s even deeper mode list compared to PSP/arcade ports.
- - Virtua Fighter 2 on Saturn stands as a flagship: a 2D powerhouse with excellent visuals that predates Tekken 3 and remains a reference point for 3D fighters on the platform.
- - Panzer Dragoon Saga is celebrated for its ambition and atmosphere but is acknowledged as hardware-strapped; the crew argues it’s one of the system’s must-plays despite logistical hurdles.
- - Fighters Mega Mix is discussed for its massive roster and crossovers, though some argue its feature-bloat hurts it as a pure top-10 pick.
- - Saturn Bomberman is valued for multiplayer chaos but is recognized as less ideal for solo play, highlighting the importance of hardware setup (multitap, adapters) in rating a game’s value.
- - Deep Fear is praised as an underrated survival-horror showcase that predates and innovates on Resident Evil-style mechanics on the Saturn hardware.
Who Is This For?
Essential viewing for retro-console collectors, Sega Saturn fans, and fighters/rhythm of the era buffs who want a candid, detail-rich discussion about overlooked gems and canonical favorites alike.
Notable Quotes
"Sega Saturn is the Atlantis of the video game console world… there is actually really, really great stuff."
—Maximilian frames the Saturn’s reputation while acknowledging its hidden depth.
"Japanese games absolutely have to be allowed… fan translations breathe new life into the system."
—Discussion on why imports and translations matter for a true Saturn top 10.
"Alpha 3 on Saturn has more modes than the PSP version… you’ve got dramatic battles, it’s bonkers."
—Specific critique used to justify Alpha 3 placement on Saturn.
"Virtua Fighter 2… predates Tekken 3 by three years and still looks insane on Saturn."
—VF2 as the marquee Saturn fighting game with lasting impact.
"Panzer Dragoon Saga is amazing, but the hardware is crushing the ambition."
—Balancing praise with realism about Panzer Dragoon Saga’s limits.
Questions This Video Answers
- Which Sega Saturn games defined the system for 2D gameplay before the PlayStation era?
- How does Alpha 3 on Saturn compare to the PSP and arcade versions in terms of features and modes?
- What makes Virtua Fighter 2 the standout 3D fighter on Saturn and how does it compare to Tekken 3?
- Are fan translations and Japanese imports essential for enjoying the Sega Saturn library today?
- Which Saturn games are best experienced with multitap multiplayer versus solo play?
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Full Transcript
Transcending history and the world. A tale of dudes and souls eternally retold. We all need to shine to see how far we've come on our journey. You have to go searching for deep in the night. Pray in my heart for that special life to show me with love. Show me with power. I got to get to the edge of s car to carry. Yo, what's up, dudes? All right, Chad, it's just me and Simmons for now. Oh, god. For now. Kenny was on his way. Kenny's on his way. He's uh he's he's coming. Um, let me get the Saturn.
Let me get some background Saturn [ __ ] I wonder if I can stick in Sonic R and actually get the music player to work, you know? I think that'll work. We stuck in the disc in the Saturn BIOS and like just turn that [ __ ] on. I wonder if it would work. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Let me see. Um, let me get out of this from the loader. How do I Is it device? No, that's the card. No. No. Hold on. See device. see option. I'm going to check. I'm going to check.
Can I get to boot BIOS menu? Yes. There it is. Um. Oh, it won't. You know why? We have no disc tray. I'm like I don't know how. I'm like, wait a minute. Does it like take Does it take the the the data and put it into the BIOS somehow? We have no goddamn disc tray. Yeah, you don't have a disc tray with a [ __ ] disc tray, dude. Um, anyway, I'll just let that rock there. Hi, Chad. Yeah, we we were going to do a big modded Marvel night type of thing and then uh see wasn't feeling too great.
So, oh my god, I forgot to take pain meds. I'm fighting a [ __ ] ass cankeraur. [ __ ] ass cankeraur on the back of my tongue. So, I'm going to sound like I got some southern twang tonight. Uh but uh that's where they got the they they got their accent. That's where they got their accent. Nobody Nobody got any sleep. No one got any sleep. It was too humid. It was too miserable. So they all just developed massive canker source. We're going to me and Simmons are going to do it maybe like a mini top 10. Like a real quick quick one cuz we're going to agree on most things.
This is going to be like a gentleman's top 10. This is a gentleman's top 10. Yes. Only only for a handsome gentleman. Yeah. This is this is a make love not war, you know, or just like peace, you know, peace first. Uh, so let's uh let's just start writing some [ __ ] down. Sega Saturn top 10. Red red bad. Nobody can see it. Oh yeah. Let me get the black one over here. Okay. Uh, so gentleman's top 10 for Sega Saturn. I need Saturn music. Uh, I'm wearing a Dreamcast shirt. Do the Sonic 3D Blast OST for Saturn specifically.
Very good. Sonic 3D Blast. Yeah, the 3D Blast. I'm going to go get something accents only. Not the Genesis version, the Saturn version. All right. Gotcha. YouTube.com. Sonic 3D Blast Saturn OSC. Got it. Okay. All right. Now you start you start filling out your side. I have to go get something to uh commemorate what we're doing. All right. So, I have something I have to get. So, I guess I'll I'll just I agree with most of your side anyway. Yeah. I'm going to be listing my style. I'll have a little bit of of like sort of like personal stuff cuz Yeah.
I the one thing caveat I'm going to do we're going to do here. Saturn is first and foremost the Sega Saturn is the Atlantis of the video game console world at least in in say North America maybe even in kind of Europe too where this was a video game system that had an incredible library most of it didn't get localized so it was really unfortunate because there's actually really really good games on the system a lot of them didn't come out or or just better versions of the games that didn't come out in North America or Europe or or really anywhere else was frankly there like the '9s man.
Like you know it was like North America, Europe, Japan at that point. So uh yeah, like 20% or something like there's there is like a thousand games. I'm not even kidding you. Like something close to like a thousand games in Japan. A lot of them aren't really games. Some of them are just kind of like digital museums stuff like but like there is there's some really really really really great stuff. Now, my big caveat is Japanese games are allowed. That's what I'm that's what I'm saying. Japanese games absolutely have to be allowed. Uh especially in a day and age now where it's like, hey, if you want to get into Saturn collecting, you can do that.
And they say you get an OD or something like that with optical disc emulator for your Saturn cuz you know, like disc drives are getting, you know, old and funky. Um there's so many fan translations. So many of these games are fan translated or have English patches now. And it's actually really incredible to see that because it basically breathes new life into a system that had all these great games that didn't in fact there is a game and the name escapes me right now. I' I've played it a little bit uh where they English people didn't uh English modders they didn't just translate the text of a game.
They dubbed it because it had these Star Fox style onscreen like character blips would come in and talk to you, but they didn't even have text. It was just just dialogue only. And uh yeah, bulk slash, thank you. So they So they dubbed it. They got a bunch of uh they got people together, commissioned people, whatever. And they dubbed a game that had dialogue, important game dialogue that was voice only, no text. And they even dubbed it themselves. So there's an there's just so much insane love that that goes into some of the the Saturn library and some of it's really cool.
And then what is Bulk Slash? It is basically all range mode Star Fox but super hyper anime and and robot. Hey yeah you keep talking about Saturn. I'm interested. I'm not really a Sega Saturn fan in any way at all. I don't really like the Saturn. I don't Where did you get that? What did I get? What? Where did I get what the jacket? The jacket and this hat. Yeah. I get both of them. I don't know. Or I get the jacket. That again. The jacket is actually ancient. I know. I can tell it's ancient.
Anyway, I'm not a Saturn fan. Let me just hear what you have to say. I don't I just I just like, you know, listening to people. That's all. I need Oh, I need a much bigger version of that jacket. It's a medium. It was old. I mean, you can't be bggers can't be choosers on eBay. Right. Right. I need I need to them to remake that. Oh, yeah. Am All right. So, uh, I don't ever get to wear this jacket and we're wearing it today. Uh, so which one are you talking about? You already write stuff down.
No, I was just sort of like giving an overview of this. I was Okay, my caveat is this. Japanese gaming absolutely allowed. There's too much fan translations. There's too much good stuff that we It would just be like mean to leave it off. Let's push this closer so I can read it. Uh, Seagga Saturn top 10. All right. Oh my god. What? What the? Need a different one? Woo. I can't reach [ __ ] Man, that one's good. That one's good. I already about that. Hold on. Let me get a different one. Yeah, I think I got I might have a good one there.
Okay, I have a pile. Yeah, that is probably I don't know if that made the top of the PlayStation list, but it's probably making the top of the Saturn, man. I thought it was X3. X3 is on Saturn, but it's it's not X4. It's not X4. X4 is like one of the best Mega Man games ever. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever. Um, Virtua Fig 2, the next level of delicious ery. Vector man, you fool. fig. Oh man. Okay, let me just I'm just gonna I'm gonna try to be different from you just just just to have them listen.
Yeah, it's a good idea. Just just to like just to show uh differences. I have to go over here to the Saturn chunk and look. Oh, I'm a I'm a stupid dumbass [ __ ] I'm a stupid dumb [ __ ] Right. Jesus, man. MK Trilogy. It's on there. It is on the Saturn. You ain't wrong. Saturn Bomberman. We got four. Okay. You know what? You know what? I own it, so I got to put it on here. Hard arcade. Not bad. Yeah, maybe not the best. Maybe not the best what we're talking about, but I'm like I own it.
So, um, Lunars. Yes. Yes. Yes. Hear me out. Sexy Parodiius is actually a very good very, very good horizontal shooter. Uh, oh man. I we we'll we'll definitely have to think about that. Uh, I guess. Yeah, I was thinking that too, man. That's actually a really good game. Yeah, you and you got to sit and just play it with like twin sticks or something like that stick and it was like this is amazing. This just plays really well. House of the Dead. No, as the biggest House of the Dead fan, Saturn version of House of the Dead is not it, right?
Hey, you know what's amazing? And you you actually would argue, well, one over two. I mean, either one, I think you can't go wrong. I I I would interchange Virtual Cop one over two. Two has multiple has branching paths. It is a little more replayable. But again, I like the aesthetic of Virtual Cop one more. Right. There's there's a there's a charm. Yeah, there's a charm to one. charm to part one that's lost a little bit in two. Speaking of which, you know why we uh put them together? Because they came bundled together. Oh. Oh, snapple.
They literally came bundled together, [ __ ] Oh, snapple. These came together at the same time. Both games in one. Here, can I tell the chat that there was at one time a San Diego Comic-Con cosplay desire for me and Simmons? Yes. where Simmons would cosplay this guy. I was going to cosplay this guy and JJ would cosplay this girl so that no one would know who we were like Rage and Smarty and Janet. Then Janet. Yeah, that would have been fun. Maybe still can't. We give you the lethal weapon versions of it. Too old for this [ __ ] A stall.
A stall is good. But I never I haven't played enough of it to like uh to like love it. I'm putting it on there before it gets forgotten. Vampire Savior, which is that Star Dark Chargers 3. [ __ ] amazing. I'd argue it's like one of the best 3D we I really want to check that out because our um our Megabyte cartridge was actually working without problem. So I really want to check out like Marvel Superheroes and whatever game supports it. Whenever game needs 3D cart support. Or I'm sorry, RAM card support, which is a lot of the Capcom stuff.
Exactly. Deep Fear. Deep Fear. Deep Fear is a game that is classic survival horror, but also has both analog and tank controls at the same time with the 3D Saturn pad, your choice, and has moving and shooting. years before Resident Evil would get to it. Why the Sega Raleigh thing? Um, Sega Bird and Daytona on Saturn. Oh, yeah. No, Daytona on Saturn's kind of butt, sadly. Yeah, it's nice. Daytona's on the list now. Daytona on Saturn runs at like 20 frames per second, dude. And it controls kind of bad. we could show you tonight, but it's not what you think it is, unfortunately.
Um, that's the top 10. And it's only Simmons and Max. Yeah. No one else is going to give a [ __ ] I'm not going to sit here and argue with Steve why Panzer Dragon 2 is better than Panzer Dragon 1. One's just got that amazing opening. It does. Two has the gameplay. Two is just better than That's just kind of the thing. Every other two has the everything. One is is your one is the demo for two. This game is also in widescreen, right? 16 by9 widescreen in 1995. Like what the holy [ __ ] WHO HAD THAT?
who know that be like such a weird uh I don't know. It'd be like saying a PlayStation one game has 4K support. Like what? That makes no [ __ ] sense. I own Dragon Force. I don't know. Part of me is like Yeah. I mean, it's it's it's a really good game, I guess. Oh, I think I think this is worth putting up here. I think this is worth putting up here. Oh yeah, it's the best version. So is part three. It's true. You could put you could put the whole damn trilogy up there. even better. I'll do I'll do you one better on that one.
And condition chat. Look at that [ __ ] My baby. Um, Alpha 3 in Japan was also like very late in the Saturn's life. Very late. And that [ __ ] is crazy expensive. It's like $1,000. Really? If you find a copy of Alpha 3 upper, you have one? No, no, I don't have that. Oh, really? Because it's I I only collect American Saturn for the most part. And yeah, dude. Japanese Saturn Final Fight Revenge and Street Fighter Alpha 3 are crazy expensive cuz they were at the end of the life cycle. They came out like nearly the year like 2000 or some [ __ ] Do you want better?
You know why? This has Alpha 2 Gold on it on Saturn. Yeah, that's a good point. Street Fighter. Well, I mean either one. This has Alpha 2 Gold. the Street Fighter collection, which is a bunch of Street Fighter 2s. You know what? If we were to put any of the old Street Fighters up here, I'd argue Alpha 3 is the best one cuz it's the most featurerich. It is. Yeah. It arguably has more features than even re-releases of the game. I'd be down for Alpha 3. What about MV? MV Street Fighter or X-Men versus Street Fighter or All the Versus?
No, they're they're basic ports and they're like a little weird. Uh the problem with the Saturn version is that also Chad, correct me if I'm wrong, the Saturn version is the is the patch version. So, it isn't the one that everybody plays. it's not version A. It's like the second or third. Yeah, I don't I don't think it's the It's definitely doesn't have the vanilla doesn't have the vanilla corner combos and [ __ ] right? Like that's why most people still ignored it. M um anyway, Alpha 3, probably the best version of Alpha 3 cuz it has dramatic battle reverse dramatic drama.
You go back and play it has [ __ ] everything, dude. Um the only other version of Alpha 3 that now is better is than the collection because dude, if I get a chance to talk to Nakayamasan or Matsumoto, I need to ask them how the [ __ ] did you guys get PSP characters into like an arcade version of Alpha 3? Like how the [ __ ] Like what? Oh yeah. Like that is still the craziest thing. Like those dudes went above and beyond. They retro patched in they they retroactively patched in glitches back into Marvel 2 and also versions of of uh X-Men versus Street Fighter that no one would know except Super Hardcore.
They went back and they added them. So that's like so much extra work for both of those collections. It's insane. I deeply appreciate those collections, dude. Like that. It's honestly some of the best Capcom collections we've ever had, which is Capcom Fighting Collection 2 and Marvel Collection. That shit's nuts. Oh yeah. Radiant. So Oh, yeah. Panza Dragon Saga. You know, you and I, I think, have a kind of similar feel of that game. Where I think it's very ambitious. The combat's cool. And the combat is really cool and the story is cool, but man, too ambitious with the hardware.
The hardware is just dying. It's too [ __ ] You have to use your At least in FF7. Yeah, you got to use your imagination, which is a comparable game, comparable time, but bro, Panzer Dragon Saga is amazing because it's rare, but [ __ ] me, dude. It's like, you really got to stretch your brain a little thin to be like, I guess that's what I'm looking at. No game in the history of gaming needs a remake as much as Saga does. Yeah. Like, no [ __ ] Saga is like this is a really good game that is dying under Dragon Saga Demp is coming out soon.
Ooh, that would be amazing. That would be cuz like no game needs it more than Saga because Saga is a game where where the hardware is crushing the ambition down like way too hard. At least with like FF because the reason we compared the two is that they're the first two giant 3D RPGs like of that era like the mid late 90s. It's insane that they wanted to do a full 3D RPG on the Saturn. Like, wo wo. The reason it's four, Dude, the [ __ ] is four discs and the game is like 13 hours. it's not long.
Like, if you know what to do, where to go, it's it's less than 15 hours to beat P. Short RPG. It's really cool. Like the the everyone all about vibes and atmo. That game has insane vibes. Great vibes and ammo, but like yeah, it's the hardware is just not doing it any favors. There's also a funny part of the game where they're speaking at the beginning in the mystic language. Yeah. And then it switches to Japanese and then it just they just stop and they're just speaking in Japanese. Like I'm like what? Liketo mate today and I'm it's like it's like Yeah.
They just gave up. They did it for the intro and then they're like then now back to Japanese and it was like oh okay. Clockwork night I have some attachment to because I really like the demo for Clockwork Knight. It's a competent uh 2D platformer. Mhm. It's really good, but it obviously is like, "Let's make our Toy Story game." Dude, you know what we need to put on here? We're not putting Bug. Not Bug. We're not Who are we? The Cathlete is actually a really Hey, the Cathlete's legit, man. Yeah, like that game was kind of [ __ ] insane.
I'm going to be real. The Cathlete's kind of like an incredible party game. Any more fighting games? Um Oh, there's many more if you want to get in. There's a lot more, but not not that I would consider to be like top 10 sort of quality. Saturn Bomberman. Saturn Bomberman is good because it's like it's got a [ __ ] ton of features. It's like eight players and [ __ ] you know. I got to put it here because I think it should go up here in a sense. This fighter mega mix. It's good to talk about that. Why why Mega Mix would go up there.
The re a big reason is is just roster size is one thing, but also it was the first time you saw like 3D fighters getting a crossover. Yeah. cuz we had and we had just come from from 2D crossover games and Street Fighter. Looking at my I have a Fighter Megaix shirt. What's what's fun and what's really cool about Fighters Megaix is that some of the characters use Virtual Fighter 3 move sets which wasn't even out yet. Wasn't even out yet. Yeah. Right. So like Janet and some of the other characters, they have they they literally you literally were getting like VF3 stuff like early and then you got VF2 and then you got Fighting Vipers and then you had all these stages.
You even had stuff from like Sonic the Fighters in there. It came at a detriment. It looks worse than VF2. It does. So it's it's super crammed. It's kind of Marvel 2 in that way in a little bit. Yeah. Where it's like, okay, we had to take we had to chop more, but they don't they run out of space. Yeah. So yeah. Uh, I I say Fighters Mega. I mean, I think if you have a Saturn and you're just collecting or just playing Saturn games, I feel like you really should play or have Fighters Mega.
Oh, that's a good point. It's Fighting Vipers visuals because I think it was done in the same engine that Fighting Vipers was. And I think Fighting Vipers and weirdly enough, Virtual Fighter 2 are kind of different. Like, they don't function in similar ways. They have a lot of similar [ __ ] but it looks way closer to Fighting Vipers. Yeah. Like whatever version of the model one or model 2 hardware they were running on. Yeah. You know what? Oh, you know what is good? And someone pointed it out and I feel like Yeah, definitely got to go up there.
Maybe it is a fighting game. Burning Rangers. No. Last Bronx. Yeah, that's a technical marble. It's very good looking game. It's like dummy looking. Like I don't get it. Why? Yeah. Do we not? Guardian Heroes is also very good, but it's also like it's like what's that game? Uh Dragon's Crown. It's like a commitment beat him up. chat. I'm not putting Burning Rangers or Guardian Heroes up there. I just don't I'm not really big fans of those games and I don't want to talk about them. I'm not I wouldn't sit here and collect two different copies of Guardians Heroes and Burning Rangers and them behind glass and [ __ ] I would not do that.
I just refuse to put either of these games up there. Um Guardian Heroes is good. Burning Rangers is not I love the vibes of Burning Rangers and what it represents, but playing it is not it, dude. We've tried. Oh, we have tried. It's not it. Uh I think we're good. I think I'm good. I probably like dig deep. There's other stuff that I I've seen thrown in there which is like Yeah. Yeah, that's true, too. Yeah. Powers slave. I mean, Powers Slave is very Oh, man. Some of the some of those uh FPS, not Doom, but like Quake one and Duke Nukem and Powerslave were like really really good um FPS's on the system.
Uh Powersave is basically Metroid Prime before Metroid Prime. Quake is a technical marble on Saturn as well. Yeah, like that that's definitely true. Um I mean Guardian Heroes is I mean I have Shiny the Holy Arc, but that's like How much do you like first person first person dungeon crawling games? Etrian Odyssey stuff. How much do you like that? I I'd argue MK Trilogy is the best on Saturn. Is it? I don't know. Cuz it's pretty much between PlayStation and the Saturn version. They're both 64 has that weird female chameleon or something. I have no idea how the the Saturn one stacks up.
But the problem is the [ __ ] loading, dude. Yeah. Like, if you actually boot that [ __ ] off a disc, even back in the day, the loading is atrocious. Shang Tsung aside, I think we have enough. We definitely have enough. Um, all right. All right, I can start cutting some [ __ ] on I can start cutting some Damn. Cut something on your side. You have more. Uh, yeah. Is it It is It's [ __ ] Die Hard Arcade, dude. But it is like a simple beat him up. It's great, but like it's an afternoon. Yeah, it's like a small session.
Um, and you can be you can get some more value out of it with subsequent playthroughs, but it's cool, but it's not like Yeah. God damn. You know, um I'd actually argue the same thing for Saturn Bomberman. While a really good puzzle game in itself, uh the it is it's pretty much up here because of the multi multitap, right? It's pretty much up here because it is like one of the only games on the system where you can just get that many [ __ ] in a room grinding on a Saturn game at the same time. It's like the equivalent of eight player Smash, dude.
So, you So, you would be arguing that like the the the problem with Saturn Bomberman is is the requirement. Yes, the setup necessary to which is why it's up here. Like it's up here because of its multiplayer, but that's also its worst part cuz you need to multitap. You need like controllers. Seven more [ __ ] Seven more human. Seven more Um I I guess I Hold on. What do we got here? We got like 1, two, three. I can see these definitely stay. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. We're at 20 even. Woo.
We got like And there's We We 21. We put 21. We could have put more. I I could have kept going, but like we got 21 up here and we already down once. We got 10 more to go. Um I could take off the cathlete while impressive and incredibly fun. Also a a it's also like a quick session. Yeah, it is also an afternoon of a game, you know. Um is Sakura's War 2 Sakura Wars 2 better than the majority of RPGs or is it just one of the better one of the good ones? You know, this is a cultural icon in Japan.
In Japan. Yeah, I know. Um, and I played through I've been playing I played a little bit through one that's already fans translated. They're in the midst of translating too for Saturn. Uh, for Saturn. Sick. Uh, and I played the PS4 reboot which pretty much got the Goshi lost his standing at Sega. Um, it's it's kind of one of those you got to be in the mood for it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because there's also like a lot of text and detail. It's a visual it's a visual novel and a strategy RPG. Yeah, I get you now.
How we want to go about this is if we want to say we don't want to have too much genre crossover or too much of the same genre like against Say Anniversary is nowhere near as good. It's nowhere near as good. It it's it's more of like you know what it kind of is? It it like it defines '90s anime gaming. Like anime gaming in the '9s. Yeah. People saying, "Where the [ __ ] is Dragon Force?" It's right there. Dragon Force is right here. It's on there. And I don't know, like this is like more technically accomplished cuz it's like you got to be like really if you're really into [ __ ] strategy, you you goddamn love Dragon Force.
This is more for the more this is this is more webery. Whereas Panza Dragon Saga, we decided not to put it up here because I think it's I think the game for its efforts is too ambitious for the system. I I don't feel like Panza Draon Saga like as a game in its totality is actually fully realized on this system, man. Like it you kind of got to use your [ __ ] imagination when playing Panza Dragon Saga. And I love Panzer Dragon. I think that think the combat system is good, but let's see here. Who are you saying we should probably make?
I don't know. Radiant Silver Gun. I'm not that much of a schmup guy. Even though it is it is one of the better ones on the system. It's a good schmup. That's the thing is like a lot of these things are good. So I I think we're going to say we're actually going to cut Saturn and Bomber Man, right? Yeah. I think it's an easier one to figure out just because the setup is insane. Um how much you have to do cuz that's the thing is like if I also look at it like if you're playing a Saturn now and you're a collector for Saturn now and you're getting into it, you're like, "Let me get Saturn Bomberman." Like what you're going to get out of that as a solo experience is nowhere close to to like the the five player, six player, 10 player chaos you could get.
So did not count. Ah, that's more of a PlayStation game and it's it's a it's a wonky port. It made it made our top 10 PlayStation list anyway. Yeah, it's a I mean it's not it's still really good, but it's also kind of a wonky port. There's there Homebrew people who are making 4meg versions of it. Like they're adding code to the game to make it run good on Saturn, which is insanity. I love it when they do that. I love it when they do that. And um they still work on original hardware. Yeah, that's [ __ ] amazing.
What what Grand Theft Auto 3 running on a Dreamcast? It's like hell yeah, dude. Yeah, both Lunar 1 and two are on Saturn. In fact, they have there's there's two versions on Saturn. There's the regular and then there's the Meg version because there was a video card that could go in the butt of the Saturn and it would give it Meg codec one MR codec for Meg 1 and you would have full screen, better clarity, better bit rate cutscenes than even the PlayStation version. Yeah, but they're unique to Sat and you need that video card in the back.
Um, remember Meg Chat? MP EG. It was It was I don't know if it was a [ __ ] codec or a container, but it's ancient [ __ ] Yeah. And it was it was like 1.0 version of it. Prempp4, dude. Meg 4. Um, that was like back when you were recording [ __ ] with Fraps, right? All right, so we got to cut 18 more. Um, I'm looking at my side and the only one I see on my side that I would be willing to sacrifice is pretty much Sega Rally, even though it's like a defining ass. I don't know.
I feel like Sega Rally is like kind of one of those eternal games almost in a way. It kind of is. Well, I mean, to me it is. To me, it easily makes top 10, but I can see, you know, I can see it going, but VO I don't know. VO Alpha, I think there's going to be an argument between Alpha 3 and Vampire Savior, which is [ __ ] [ __ ] I don't I don't know who wins. I'm saying I'm just going to cut Last Yeah, let's cut Last Bronx for now. Uh it's it is a very good game and it's a very technically a nice looking game.
However, you also have this Virtual Fighter 2, which is kind of like the miracle 3D fighter. To be real, I'd also cut Fighters Mega. Yeah, that one kind of hurts almost just because it's this is like it's so much content but at a cost. Yeah, you know, you're kind of eating you're you're eating a bit of a, you know, bit of a the honestly one of the biggest contributing factors of Fighters Megaax even having the long running history it does or people that know it is memes. it has a lot of [ __ ] There's a car memes.
You fight as a Daytona car. You fight as a [ __ ] uh you fight as the AM2 palm tree. You fight as a bear with no animation. You literally fight as this palm tree like and they literally don't even animate. They just move on X and Y axis and like shift. and then uh yeah, you're right. Well, what what do we say? I mean, I think Alpha 3 is more accomplished than Vampire Savior. Probably. Vampire Savior's like, "Oh, cool. It has all the different variations. Every [ __ ] character." Yeah. It has all the characters on it. Then Alpha 3 has all that mode stuff.
I think it's I think I think the recency bias of us playing this and being so surprised by how [ __ ] good it was even over the Capcom fighting collection was like whoa. But this version's [ __ ] crazy. Like this shit's bonkers. Like how many mo you you open up the the Saturn version of this and you see even more modes than are present in the PSP version, right? Like it's crazy. The only thing the PSP had was those added characters at that point. And now that well well yeah that now that doesn't matter because you have the collection.
You have better versions of Alpha 3 anywhere else? No. No you don't. This is this is a Japanese only Alpha 3 Saturn. It's crazy. Uh it's not the port you think it is, dude. It has like [ __ ] everything. And the only other versions that got more was when they was it when they hamfisted in uh fighting jam characters and eagle and CVS characters into the PSP version later, but the PSP version was always [ __ ] because you can't play anybody else, right? You'd have to find You have to ad hoc a dude. You have to ad hoc someone with another PSP and another copy of the game.
There is no versus mode in that game, dude. Like, it's crazy. So, we're going to say Vampire Savior. Maybe not. I mean, it's I would take Vampire Savior off. It's definitely the best version of Dark Side because these two are fighting and I think Alpha 3 probably deserves it. We'll check out Alpha 3 tonight. Yeah. Um, probably add here like Resident Evil's better on Saturn over PlayStation. It has more It has more stuff. It has like an extra mode or something, but yeah, it it literally has like a mercenaries mode, but it's okay. It doesn't look as good.
Just five. I think we got to go five more. All right, I'm going to drop 60. Oh, damn. That was under my nose all time. And you know what? I would honestly it's actually really good. It is an incredible co-op uh horizontal schmup. I don't want to discredit it cuz it actually is inc and it's a Saturn exclusive. Sure. And it is a it is a a [ __ ] bonkers wonderful uh museum of Konami. But you know, top 10. Top 10. No, no, I'm down with it going. Is Is Deep Fear that good? Like we didn't even put Resident Evil up here.
Deep Fear is absolutely better than Resident Evil 1. Okay. and absolutely better. Resident Evil 3 is absolutely not better than Resident Evil 2. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, we're just thinking of Saturn, so it's like didn't even make it. Yeah. The other thing is like this had a Europe and Japan, and then there's there's a there's a trade show English version, USC, whatever U version that you can find on on on people, saying, "What about Alpha 3 on Dreamcast?" [ __ ] this is way better. Like Saturn Alpha 3 is actually no [ __ ] way better. Fun fact, Alpha 3 on Dreamcast came out earlier than that one was made by Genki.
It was a port by a different company. This was made by Capcom. It wasn't even internal. That was internal Capcom uh port and it was way late. It was after the Dreamcast. What do you think, Kenny? See, I told you. I called you. I was going to give you Xavier Wood's list. I've seen his list. It's bizarre. Oh, does he have He's probably a He's probably a real fan, dude. He has like Baku Baku on there. W Okay. Baku Baku. Does he have Waku Waku? Oh, that's all right. He's got Sonic Jam, Nights into Dreams.
Yeah, of course. Virtual cop says with no gun. What the [ __ ] I'm going to I'm going to slap this dude the next time I see him. And he is much bigger than me. Arrested me. It's going down. He said, "Shining wisdom, virtual cop, no gun." IT'S ON THE TEXT. WHAT THE [ __ ] IT'S on the text. I got upset. I got upset, man. It's there. No gun. It literally says no gun. Shining wisdom zone. No way. Between holy arc and force that is the THAT IS THE BOTTOM. I RESPECT THIS MAN because in the same top 10 he put knights and then several spaces down was Christmas nights.
Christmas night. This guy's a real Saturn fan. That's the thing that this [ __ ] grew up in the exact same era I did. Fighters Mega Mix. And then he said Clockwork Night 2. The intro alone puts it in its own category. You know what? For for Mr. Xavier Woods. We will fire up Clockwork Night 2 tonight. We have to see what that I have to see what he's talking I never fired up two to see that cuz two came out the same year as the Like one came out in May and then two came out in like November.
Seriously? Yeah. It's bizarre. What the hell? Well, cuz you know how screwed up our launch was. So DOA runs at 704p on the Saturn. Oh yeah. DOA on Saturn is like the best version of DOA1. Oh yeah. No, I know that. We forgot about that. That also could have gone on. A probably could have gone up here too. But the problem is is that when you think of 3D fighters on the Saturn, Virtual Fighter just [ __ ] shits on everything, dude. But you know what's crazy though is as much as this is the undisputed champion, you still got Last Bronx, Megaix, and DOA.
Yeah. Same to think that Saturn actually had like at least four really GOOD 385. MAYBE FIVE IF YOU COUNT. All predated Tekken 3. That's crazy, bro. That's crazy. Burning Rangers. No. Sorry, we tried several times. I own it, dude. But Burning Rangers is is a hard ask. And Fighting Vipers. Jesus Christ. And Fighting Vipers. Fighting Vipers. NVF Remix. NVF Remix. NVF Kids. Well, kids, but like at the same time, there was an insane amount of good 3D fighters on Saturday. There really was like weird. Oh man. Okay. So, we got to we got to gut four in the basement.
And we have a lot of RPGs up here still. Well, it's got to be 10, dude. So, it's got to go. That's easy cuz it's not it's not beating Dragon Force Grandandy or Shining Force. Yeah, cuz I mean like this is like Okay. Then Radiant Silver Gun probably going to go for us from a gameplay perspective. This is like Yeah, this is definitely better than two. This is just it it's like I'm I'm just looking at this so culturally like how much of a big deal it was. How this made the system in Japan, you know?
It's like the game for the system in in Japan. And it is really cool. It is. It's so 90s. I don't know. Forgive me, Sakura Wars fans. We're going on. We're moving on. We have to move on. I want to play Saturn games tonight. Uh um um Okay. So that's I think three more. I'm looking for my copy of Enemy Zero. Chad, I think I have it. It's on the third one. I think third shelf I think then or maybe not. I'm think of Cyber Cyber Sled. Oh, Dark Savior. I get those mixed up. Yeah, Legend of Oasis might be really good, too.
That's that like Aladdin Zelda game. Aladdin Zelda-ish. that whimsical music. Sonic Blast, right? I think. Yeah, Xavier put it on there. Damn. I'm going to tell him he said that. He ain't going to beat you up. Tell him said that. We're playing the soundtrack, but come on. It's Sonic 3D Blast. It's the most seven out of 10 game on a good day. The Oasis sequel. No. Pretty. Um, Whoop. So whimsical. We got to cut three more. And I'm very upset about that. It's almost damn near penis music. Our slave. What a name. What a name.
What a name. What a game. It has a different name in other regions. In America, they gave it that specifically. Power slave. The name is something. So [ __ ] The name is something, isn't it? You've chosen. What's your favorite game of Power Slave? You've chosen Power Slave. It's an Iron Feather Touch. Well, that's true. Feather Touch or Power Slave? What? Oh [ __ ] Anyway, what do you think? Should we? It's an exclusive, but do we got it? Which one? Radiant. So, we're going to I mean, cuz we're just not big schmup guys. It's a great game. Yeah, I guess it's our list, but it would be like I gota make it to the top of the Dreamcast list.
I mean, it's a great game. Mhm. So, two got to go, I think, um to make to a top 10, I Think so. I think it's one, two, three. Damn. One, two, three, four, five. Carmelo's power slave. Five, dude. Well, okay. That's staying. That's staying. I'm going to argue this stays. three Dirty Dwarves. Like, these are these are arcade games. Hell no. We played Three Dirty War. [ __ ] that game. That game sucked. We tried it. It was more of a porno. It's It was up there, dude. I haven't. Go look it up. Three Dirty Dwarfs is over there.
Okay, I [ __ ] that. I thought that was a porno. Um, you know what? I really don't in my personal top 10 cuz you've already made sacrifices. I would definitely put Virtual Cop 1 in a top 10, but I can understand it not being there. I can't. Oh, man. Really? If you want if you want to be with me on that. No, I'm I I this game this game is like it still plays [ __ ] summer of 98. No. Summer of 99. Yeah. You know, is like that that is like that's a Brian Adams song like No, it's it's actually summer of 96.
Well, well, I'm saying when I played it when I played it was like summer of 98 or 99 and I'm like Yeah. Virtual arguably the best home version of this. Is it really? Damn. The only tough part about the Mortal Kombats is loading. That's the only problem. But the the craziest thing is that the Saturn was the only system to get MK2, UMK3, and MK Trilogy. Yeah. Was the only system a trilogy. So, apparently MK2 came out in Japan on PlayStation 1, but not here. But not here. What the [ __ ] dude? Japan or Europe or something like that.
Yeah, I just found that out. What? I got to find a copy of that. So, I was like, "Yeah, MK2 only came out." And like, actually, there was this other country that got MK2 on PS1. I'm like, "What? What?" For me, X4 is a Saturn game. Yeah. No, I agree. Was uh Chad, anybody want to retroactively go back to the PlayStation top 10? Mega Man X4 doesn't make it to PlayStation top 10. There's just too many [ __ ] bangers. Oh, okay. For and I Okay, I [ __ ] own this game. Full sealed copy in mint condition, but since it's our list, I've never played it, so I don't know.
It's really good, but god damn is it is it intense. Like, you have to be That is one of those like you sitting at at home in your office for like 8 hours uninterrupted, like [ __ ] you know, building your Sim City kind of almost thing. It's it's it's a crazy good game. It is a crazy good game. Who the [ __ ] is Mr. BONES? MR. BALL ON A TOP 10. I don't know. I don't know, man. I'm looking at it. I'm looking at my copy. Uh, we need one more off. I think so. There's 1 2 3 4 and then 5 6 7 8 9 10 11.
Do we think Deep Fear is better than Virtual Long or Sega Rally? I feel Deep Fear is so underrated. Like it was a game, but it was a game that was actually better than a couple most of its contemporaries. Yeah. and then even better than some of its contemporaries at the time. Um, it's surprising. I want to I want to see it tonight. I surprisingly I've seen it in screenshot form only. It's a [ __ ] treasure is what it is. It's It is It is the [ __ ] definition of a a hidden gem. You thought it was virtual on?
No, no, no. It's been virtual fighter virtual racing. Virtual on. I think Yeah, virtual on was that got the L. Virtual on. Yeah, I can understand how that's confusing. I love this word, by the way. Virtua. I [ __ ] love this word. Like a copyright reason. Was it really? Yeah. There was like some copyright reason they had to drop virtual. I love this word. So they're like virtua. Like this word does so much for me. Virtua tennis, virtua racing, virtuous sex. Whoa. man, I don't know, Simmons. I don't know. I can't believe you were kind of sitt sitting there thinking about like Sega Rally even.
Well, I'm trying to like I'm trying to get your two big RPGs into the top 10. Trying to Yeah, that was kind of like my thing was like, man, these things were like best in class. Like I can't like to me Saturn like I mean this is on PlayStation and there is like an HD version, but man, these games are like just Mhm. quintessential. Quintessential. Um do we do deep fear or virtual cop? It is [ __ ] virtual cup. Say top 11. Yeah, it makes it made it as close as it possibly could. We just We could just say it's the top 11.
It's the top 11 Saturn games. Okay, do it. Do it. Let's move on so we can play some of this [ __ ] Do it. You do it. Well, what's 11th? What's 11th? You do it. I'm letting you figure it out. What was 11? Oh my god, that's mean. I think deep fear for 11 is good. Yeah, sure. Let's say it 11. Okay, we'll just say 11. 11 artistic. What would be 10? Uh, so now we're in now we're in the hairy territory. Cross out deep here. I think number 10 probably goes to virtual cop at that point.
you know. All right. And just put 10. Yeah. And to be real, I think Virtual On could be nine. Okay. Yeah, I'm down with that. But I want to put Sega Rally above it. I'll put Rally above. I think Sega Rally is too influential. Virtual on is cool. Granted, Virtual On [ __ ] created like the arena shooter. Literally arena fighters. It created arena. made them. So, and it's funny when people talk about like the history of arena fighters and stuff, and there's Sega even did weird [ __ ] with 2D arena fighters way back in the day, but like the first actual executed fighting game that you have in an arena environment with projectiles and 3D space management.
The the first arena fighting game is this. It's the It's the first [ __ ] one, dude. So So you want to make it higher? Psychi's better. You think Rally's better? I think Sega Rally beats it. Okay, so we said so I' I'd be down for I'd be down I can put it in nine uh nine and eight. Eight. What's seven then? What is seven? Does Shining Force 3 beat out many of the others? Oh yeah. I think Shin is one. There's my Is it better than Grandia? Top 10 games of all time. In fact, I probably rate it higher than Grandia.
So, but that's it's also like three games a little deep. So, but whatever. Um, I'm definitely going to argue this one in the top five. cuz I was going to say maybe that for seven just because I mean it's really good, but it's also I don't know. Like this is the problem. It's like we're already in the top seven. It's already like like hard. It's already like pulling. I'm down to move things forward and put knights at number seven. I'm down. I'm okay with it. I mean, maybe it'd be higher if you were calling nights Christmas nights.
I don't know. It's both. That's both, dude. That's both. Uh, so we're down to top six. If you were not barring mine that you haven't played, what would you what would be your lowest between like between these two of mine left? I would say Grandia is lower than I think my lowest in this spot is alpha 3. Alpha three. And then then it comes a question of alpha 3 versus grandia. And it's like I kind of I mean I want I want people to understand the greatness of Grandia, but uh I think Alpha 3 is such an accomplishment on Saturn 2.
So I'm down to put Grandia and uh Alpha 3 first. Let's put six and then put Grandia at five. Six. Uh and cross that out. Um, and then so now we got Mega Man X4, Virtual Fighter 2, Shining Force 3, Panzer Dragon 2's VI. That's it. Yeah. Right. Five. So it's 43 4 321. Yeah. Um, you know what? Guess what? I nominated number four. X4. I think that's I think that's as far as that gets. I think that's as far as that gets. Okay. Yeah. And then we're going to have to argue between do we think Shining Force 3 or Panza Dragon 2's VI one of Simmons favorite games and one of my favorite games?
Well, the thing is is that 4 32 almost one, but it's part two. I mean, it does kind of write itself a little bit. A little bit, you know, between them. Um, I do think this is one of top 10 games all time, period. End of story. But it is it is three games long. You have to have like three discs or like three different games, three different campaigns really. And and parents of Draon 2 is like it's the game. It's just the the best um rail shooter. Like in my opinion, this is just the best rail shooter of all, right?
Uh and this is the best strategy RPG of I'm like I don't even I'm not even capping. I'm not being weird or or or just like you know no Shining Force 3 is like the best strategy RPG all time. And and like you're saying here, arguably the best rail shooter of all time. Yeah. Predates Star Fox 64 and probably is better than it in many ways. Yeah. So, top three, you know, we'll just Yeah. Three. Three. Three. And then uh two and then two. And then obviously we know number one is Virtual Fighter 2 is number one.
Yeah. Yeah. Ain't no [ __ ] way. I You just know, right? It's like arguing what's the best PlayStation game and it's like dude this is Metal Gear RF7. We know where this is going. Maybe someone's going to try to button and be like Castlevania and it's like yeah I could get it. Symph Night. But it's like the same thing on uh like several systems. You start to think of like what is the best [ __ ] game on the system? And it's like that's definitely the most accomplished too. But I also want to say too here is like there's this is a personal list.
So, if you're like, I am a strategy fiend, like I love RTS, you love realtime strategy. Force 3 just wins or or Dragon Force. Like, I could definitely see someone going like, I love realtime strategy. I love like Ogre Battle OG, not not so much the turnbased. Oh, man. Dragon Force is going to be like, you're going to love this game, you know, more than your your own child kind of thing. What is the best Saturn game? It is unequivocally Virtual Fighter 2. Like, there's not I don't even know if there's much of an argument for it.
It is VF2. It's the bestselling game on the system. It is one of the most influential games of all time. Um, it literally is impossible. Yes, Saturn did have Ko Techmo strategy. Actually, we have one over here. One of the Nobody or Romance of the Three Kingdoms. We do have it. It's over there somewhere. Not to me. I mean, I don't know. I think this is like obviously like this is the game that shows the system off like defines a system. This also wars that defines an era. Yeah. Yeah, it's so 90s anime gaming everything encompassing of that time and place, you know, like so like if you're into like that that like if you're into like deep '90s we like this might be a top 10 game, you know, or or if you're into just multiplayer like Saturn Bomber Man could easily be like, "Oh, it is top 10 game if you have the the the you have that many friends." What's mind-blowing about VF2 is how good it plays and looks, right?
Like still like this game looks better than almost all PlayStation games, Chad. Like it looks better than Tekken 3 cuz Tekken 3 is like interlaced also. It's interlaced and it's doing the flat plane with the rotating 2D background. And VF VF2 actually has some 3D to its background environments to a certain degree. Like it is bonkers how good this looks and how good it plays and how it predates Tekken 3 by literally three [ __ ] years. Like it's crazy, bro. So, I don't know, dude. Virtual Fighter 2 is We did not put Kota up here. We didn't put Kota or or or any of the first four because they're not the the vanilla arcade versions.
They they are fixed versions. They're like updated versions. So, some of the craziest [ __ ] you can do, as Max was saying, you can't do it on the Saturn version cuz they it's patched. Saturn Kota is also like a great option back in the day, but now it's a it's a rough port. It's like severely cut in animations. And Marvel Superheroes also got the ability to use the RAM expansion, but it is a severely compromised game. Like it looks rough. So that's why getting KOD and MSH was great because we've never had good versions of these games, bro.
Like Like except the Marvel Origins Collection when we got MSH finally. I mean, for the longest time, X-Men versus Street Fighter, Marvel Street Fighter, the Saturn was the best best version of those games. Yeah. For the longest time. For the longest time, like pretty much until the collection came out. Like, no And this is arguably still the this might even be the best version of Darkstalkers 3. I know there was that PS3 version and the PSP version. Darkstalkers Resurrection. Resurrection, but like I mean, they might be better versions of that. It's hard to I don't know if they had um like the entire roster.
Yeah, I don't know. It probably did. The PSP one probably did, but um but yeah, cuz like the one the fighting collection Darkstalkers does not have a version of Vampire Savior with every character in it. Yeah. No, PS3 was just Vampire Savior and um the second game. They ignored the first one. So, there's there's also Darkstalkers like Legends or some [ __ ] like that like on PlayStation. It was Japanese only compilation. uh for Darkstalkers, but I don't know if it's in there. Surprised you don't mention Ray. Wrath isn't I Man, Nico is my witness. We tried to go through that game one time.
Yeah, it's it's all right. It's okay. It It's I I don't know. I know Sega Lord X is like big on it and I don't know why cuz it's it's okay. It's like six out of 10. Maybe seven. Maybe seven. But yeah, I I don't know, man. That's a medium. Shining for Grandia [ __ ] annihilate that game as far as RPGs go on the So yeah, Chad, this is actually a vintage set Saturn jacket from some promotional thing. Like ain't no date on it, but it's old, dude. And it's from either a localization team that Sega had back in the day or something with a mail in.
You know what's really weird because I know it's with the the Fighters Mega Mix shirt over there. Um my wife bought me a shirt recently like a like like a a Disney shirt to wear it in. Right. And it came from this third party seller and I forget the name of the company but their their whole thing is we make stuff out of material shirts used to be made out of. Oh yeah. So they don't they don't die. Right. So if and I and I felt it and I held it. I'm like, "Oh, this is like the old stuff." Cuz in the '9s, t-shirts were made out of way sterner stuff, dude.
Like most of the shirts we have over the past 10 years, yeah, they did great. Get holes in them and [ __ ] like that. All of our old promotional shirts that we had from the store back in the day, Simmons, guess what? They're all [ __ ] fine. Like literally our old Virtual Fighter 4 shirts and Devil May Cry and all of that [ __ ] the Soulcalibur 2 shirts, they are literally intact still. Well, if you go back and like you go to the stores that like the vintage stores that sell the shirts that are like in pretty good conditions for shirts that are like 40 years old.
Yeah. It's crazy that they still hold up. 30 40y old shirts. The only thing that is bad about them is when a moth gets to it. And that's it. And then they start getting holes. But like dude, several of the shirts I have that I've bought over the past like 10 years from like websites and [ __ ] just like print tes, dude, they all fade out. Yeah. like within a few years. Like within a few washes, like I don't even think I've washed this that much. Dude, it's so like I like I make sure I have to have like extra deodorant, like be extra clean, not spill anything because you don't want to wash the shirts that many times now because the [ __ ] just fades really quick.
It's a bummer. It's It's like, "Oh, this is such a cool collectible shirt. I can't wear it." I literally have to let it sit, you know? Yeah. That's why I got you uh that marble shirt. No, that's one of the good ones. Yeah. I never I never wore it. Nope. So, you have like a a What should we um And what do we start with? What do we [ __ ] start with? Let's show it in Savior's game. Yeah. I'm curious to see what the hell the beginning of that line. Oh, Clockwork Night. Clockwork night. Clockwork night two for the intro for the intro alone.
Sorry, Chad. Sorry I blasted you with the intro. Wake up. LET'S GO. LET'S GO. YEAH, CHAD. CLOCKWORK NIGHT TWO. HI, CHAD. Sorry about that. Wait a minute. I think we should Let's go. Sorry about that. Oh, my back to breathe. So, um, let me uh fire this [ __ ] up. Go. You go. I think I have a new gag. I just got to press that button every time I want to wake people. Pull the [ __ ] up. Let's What? I'm not doing it. Get this [ __ ] looking good. See what Xavier's game is like. What the hell is this game like?
Casper. Full playthrough of Casper. You would only find that on um what's his name? My life in gaming. No, no, no, no. Who? The guy who works hard, has muscles. No, the goddamn Matt McMuscle's friend. Liam. Not Liam. No, Dino. Yeah, Dino is the only one that you would find that would do a 100% playthrough of Casper on Sega Saturn. He plays the weirdest [ __ ] He plays like Game Boy Color games and stuff like that. I'm just like, what the [ __ ] dude? Moon moon. Thank you. Happy New Year. Hey, we got a new What are we getting into here, Chad?
Damn. We're going to have to fire up uh Dark Seed again. It's just us. The movies back. Yes, Steve hasn't Dark Seed. Full Dark Seed continuation. You can go play part two here. Go for There's thing called the movies. Welcome. Enjoy your favorite scenes. Play. What the [ __ ] No bulges here. Opening scene from part one. Why? Scene from Kevin's room. Timmons, we're getting in too deep. Opening scene from part two. Play it. This is what This is what Xavier Woods says is a defining opening cut scene. We're going to judge it harshly. Okay, it's good so far.
I'm into it. This Jazzy Oh my god, they got keyblades. They literally have keyblades, bro. Psuya Namura is a hack. This is the keyblade war. The Toy Story part of uh Kingdom Hearts part one is the intro. He said King Clockwork Knight 2 for the intro alone. That did not seem like an intro. Exit. Just start the game. Yeah, let's just start the game. Let's just see this [ __ ] This cannot be If he was here, I'd love him to argue why that was it. He said virtual cop without the gun. For Christ's sake. I I I'm like I'm confused as all we're going to do is criticize this top 10 now.
Wait a minute. So, what the [ __ ] Could you play Clockwork Night one? Is that what they're getting at? Dennis is this is what Kenya plays in his car and then he gets into his car. That's what I hear. And then he quickly tries to turn it off. Oh, what? What's that? And he changes it to Drake. Yeah, the new Drake album. This is it. Bro, this is actually it. This is legit it. The [ __ ] are you looking at? I mean, look at it. Look at the full motion video, my dude. Well, you know, to be fair, this wasn't a thing.
You know, this is 95, I guess, but still. Oh, okay. So, PlayStation This predates Toy Story if you ignore Well, this came out like literally the same time. Toy Jesus Christ. Like, part one came out before Toy Story and this is like at the same time as Toy Story. Clockwork Night One did not come out before Toy Story. Yes. [ __ ] you. Yes, sir. No [ __ ] way. Uh, check. I don't know. Check the dates, man. Was Toy Story not early '9s? I was like 95, dude. What? I don't believe that. I can't believe that Toy Story is that old.
Yeah, Toy Story 95. 1995. What the hell? Came out May 95. Sega created Toy Story before Toy Story. This This potentially predates Toy this predates all those like SNES ports and Genesis ports and stuff like that of Toy Story is what you're telling me. Sega was on some [ __ ] dude. They always being always got to be ahead. Always got to be ahead of everybody but not reap the rewards. All right. I'm a little upset. How do I get back to them the mode? Why don't we not the first one? No, I just We saw the intro.
Wait. Oh, yeah. We saw the intro. We did see the intro. I mean it it's uh press all the face buttons and start off. All six. Yeah. Hey, look at that. Holy [ __ ] I remember this. You probably remember Do it one more time. You probably remember Clockwork Night from the Sega demo. 95. Try it again. Try press it twice. [ __ ] it. We have to get up now. Oh, that lovely intro. Dude, if you want to see intros, let me show you the Shining Force 3 intros. Good lord. Sega just predicting the future. Damn it. We need a hard boot because it's loaded into flash memory now.
Boot that hard ass. Back when demos were on discs. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Freaking X4 intro. There you go. 1995. That was a good intro. X4 is [ __ ] amazing. All right. What do we want to start this off with? Like Kenny. Were we starting this off with something? Are you playing? Uh what did we want to CC? You just need to let me play Panera Draon right now. Just let me play. Just let me play Panzer Draon right now. Like so I can show people. I got to see what ultimate is like. It's not on the list, but I got to see how it plays.
UMK3. Yeah, I got to see it. Like, [ __ ] me, dude. Chad, just listen with your ears and feel with your eyes. Like, open your heart, you [ __ ] Listen with your eyes and see with your ears, Chad. All right. Listen with your ear or no eyes. My bad. B. So, extremely high resolution opening menu. Wow. Uh, TV mode. Extra wide. Uh, let's do normal. player data. I don't think I have anything on here. 2 seconds played. Nice. [ __ ] me. No, there's no way to save. That's why there's no Saturn save thing. It was a It was a memory cart.
Well, yeah. Or a watch battery in the back, remember? Yeah. But once that goes out, you're It's gone. It's all gone. It just erases everything. Uh, I'll skip the opening intro. You know, that's it for the story. So, Chad, this is the game that I'd say is better than Star Fox 64. This is the game that I stand the [ __ ] out of. Dude, this is the one that they're remaking as well, but not as good. It's crazy how it plays better, too. It's crazy. It actually plays better than other things. Oh, we have the score There it is.
Listen with your eyes. The lore. The lore is guy found a little baby dragon and he hit it. The story is literally how to train your dragon. That's ridiculous. Story is like no [ __ ] How to train your Guns with a guy that has a gun. Except the dragon is technically like a boweapon like Right. The Empire found out it's there and it's attacking your village real quick. This acts as an introductory level, so it's not like the craziest. Just listen to the music, [ __ ] Sega innovating even more [ __ ] Oh, there's like things I can actually shoot.
Yeah, that's where the hidden ones are. Yep. And then you get full like 3D looking around. And the sky boxes in this game are actually amazing. For Saturn, they're crazy cool looking. Shoot it. And then every time you beat a level, like depending on how good you do, this is like a slow one, but depending on where you go and what you do, um the dragon gets upgrades and then you can evolve and turn into big ass winged like walking titan creature. Look at the morphing ass side. these You see ass. This is big chilling.
We do have this. So yeah, they uh the [ __ ] like show up and they blast the whole village and then main [ __ ] shoots you down. The same theming as like the first game. There's always like this lead dragon that whoops your ass and then the dude runs away suddenly running at like 60. There's that one part where you're running in the cavern water. Not on the water, but like the water around you and it's like running like really high frame rate. That one part. What the [ __ ] is this dude saying Eclipse? Thank you. So, there's a there's a moment.
This is what the demo is for uh Zai. I don't know if you if you saw the Z remake and it just misses like a lot of I was trying when you hear someone talking and you're like what? So, now this is the part of the game where it actually matters which ways you go and what you do. It's doing like a little bit. Everyone has has to stop talk stupid. I like shooting the [ __ ] out of this guy. These dudes bombing more towns. I really like the painting mechanic. It just feels great. There's like a little bit of a delay to it and then it locks on and you you grab them.
Feels great. This is here to distract me from going the right way. Going a way. Uh, left or right. Let's go right. Route one. Right one. Andy, take the left tunnel. Shortcut. Just take the left tunnel. Bust the [ __ ] out of his guy like bails out. Maybe a Japan. No, dragon was never an arcade game. It's Saturday. Again, the skybox, the mood, the atmo. It's cool. I just really dig it. That's cool. First time you ever fly. And he sucks at it. If you go the other way, he actually retains the flight and he keeps going.
I think the scale is what's impressive to me cuz you know what was [ __ ] up in the uh the remake? The scale. Everything looks small. This looks big as [ __ ] Looks like Wow, this is this massive fortress. Go. Should be big happening. It's so hard to get all the targets in this [ __ ] My god. Doing that, huh? Yeah. I just don't want to miss anything. Want to get the first big upgrade. impressive. And if you see like on the remake, it misses like all this action, all this like the feels of this [ __ ] is all gone.
It's really unfortunate. Tweak 22 for 120 months. God damn it. This feels like an onslaught in this. The music because you always go at the same pace. The music is specifically designed to play out in specific ways at the right time. So, because you can't like slow down or go faster, it always like hits these cool musical beats and notes. Ow. And I think they're they're honestly of very similar quality. Like I don't think it's like this massive like gulf between the two. I think they're both very very good games. I just I've always said Paner Dragons like Star Fox just a billion times more interesting like setting and story-wise.
Star Fox is much more arcadey. Yeah, look at look at the look at the 2D ass Saturn system trying to like render distant objects in a way and it's all like coming across as like tiles. here is road rash and three dirty dwarves. No, we're going to play three dirty dwarfs. Uh 100% play through. Road rash though. Road rash is a good game, but three dirt we've played three dirty dwarfs. We're not We're not playing three dirty dwarfs. I watched the movie. Three dirty dicks. Where does it pop up? It's like over All the bats pop out.
Damn, that's cool. This gets off the top layer. Did I just shoot now? I can't remember. Blow this thing off its butt. There we go. They are cook them. Please, please die. There you go. Yeah. And they do this in every single game where it's like you're this little thing and you take out this like massive entity in some way. It's like it's that power fantasy that they try to go for. So, and now the cool [ __ ] starts happening where all of your what you did 99.3. Holy [ __ ] Your route points were zero. Yeah. I don't know what that means.
Depending if I get the good alternate route. Yeah, cuz I could have gone to route two, right? You went like the basic route. route two is the one where he falls. As you play and what you do determines how your dragon morphs. So, you're not It's not the same thing the whole game. It's different every every level. It's going to morph depending on what you do or don't do. And some levels get multiple routes and I missed that one goddamn enemy. Yeah, I'm cranking this [ __ ] because the music on this level is bonkers. This [ __ ] is what I want to see in the remake.
I want to see like how they handle this and what it sounds like. So good. Holy [ __ ] All the cool ass Saturn light rays coming through stuff. we're trying. God rays. Yep. You know, it's wild. That guy has like the keyboard that made all the Sega music. Yeah. The actual device. Yeah. Yeah. Actual device that made so much Sega music. That's a crazy collectible. I don't have to have the whole Saturn collection. This is the keyboard that made a lot of the music. I hear you stupid bats. I think there's more [ __ ] that I can shoot around here.
I just don't know where it is. This level goes by so quick and there's so many targets that you miss it. Then the cool [ __ ] starts happening. Yeah, you just like the original dummy ship. I like the dummy ships. I miss when um Kingdom Hearts was pure. I tried Kingdom Hearts one. Kenny did not age well. I tried. Sure. I wanted to like it, but I like when it was just simple. Simple. yeah, simple and clean. Yeah. The point, you know, and then it just became like all this weird [ __ ] [ __ ] I I absolutely agree with you, but also I think on retrospect too, it's also the problem is Kingdom Hearts 1 also has a lot of similar problems.
Like, yeah, the story is way more simple and clean, but the levels still Stop saying that. You simple and clean. Stop it. I'll [ __ ] slap you. But the level design still kind of butt in the No, the level design over where it's like, "Oh, this sucks." Oh my god. Having to play the Tarzan level. I'm like, "This [ __ ] sucks." The Alice Wonderland isn't good either. It's a bunch of boxes. Yeah, that's where I went after it. I was like, "This [ __ ] sucks." The level design isn't even good in the even in the original. But Travers Town has good music.
Well, like that's and that's the the franchise. No, the music's great. The rest of it two was good, but then that two hours long [ __ ] skip incoming. Maybe we can skip the first two hours. That story starts to get bonkers. You know, story got bonkers immediately after one. So [ __ ] synth wave [ __ ] now. Got him. Knock him down. Yeah, I like it. Like handsome and you see like handsome and you're like and it just gets jumps to shark with story like all crazy. What? No, I don't think Fox. Knock down. Get him down. I did not know that.
There he goes. This [ __ ] is cooked. He didn't even do the ending animation. He usually goes. You blew his ass up. Took pieces of him. I might have gotten a good upgrade for that. No, I got the wrong route. Am I the red dragon? Yeah. Yeah, this is normal. And now now it gets like Star Warsy as [ __ ] on this mission. One enemy missed again. I know. The [ __ ] [ __ ] The camera work on stage three is sick. I love it. This stuff is so sick with the music. I love it. There's some very difficult paths to get in this one as they are not obvious.
Yeah, chat. This isn't one of my favorite Saturn games. This shit's one of my favorite games of all time. Like, I [ __ ] I can always play this game. Makes me feel like the same feelings I got when I watched like Never Ending Story as a kid. Overex sinks and all the weird crazy [ __ ] Artex, you're sinking. Vortex, you're sinking. Never going to land. Yeah. You want your kids to trauma? There you Kids need trauma of some kind. The wolf is actually the scariest [ __ ] thing in that movie. Is that bitch's name is the nothing. Yeah, I will tear your flesh a lot of character.
I feel smack. Missed one. Those statues. There's a super high-res background. Speaks ladies. Remember they tried to make a part two. We made a part three. Wow. Jack Black. Jeez. It's Al's Hero's favorite movie. Get away from me. Get away from me, you [ __ ] Hitting everything. Everything. I'm just sort of chill on this big ass elevator for a while. Good work. Long while I remember this. You killed that thing too fast. I did. There's a funny It's an interesting like 3D thing they do here. It looks really smooth for Saturn. Music build up. Check this [ __ ] out.
So sick. All right. Uh, I think that was it. [ __ ] in the water to kill. this area is neat because it looks so big. For like Saturn, having an environment that looks this large is actually really cool. We got to download that one guy's like N64 open world game that he made. Oh, like he literally designed an open world game on N64. Transparency. Yeah. Yes, Saturn can do transparencies. It was rarely done because of how hard it was to do. I'm impressed. Yes. Monster big fish. Wolf run. There's just the gun. Cool effect, This thing's up my ass.
It's hella hard to dodge. God damn. Oh, I'm trying here. Oh god. All right, that was F of Dragon 2. There's a There's a couple more levels after that. It's not a super long game. Damn, do I love it? I love it. Uh, should you play Resident Evil 1 or Bug? No. No. I want to see what UMK's like. Neither. Kenny's going to play bug play through. I'm I'm going to say no to resol and save that just for deep fear. Oh, feep deer. Yeah, feep deer. How's the P dragon one remaster? It's okay. It's a remake more than a remaster.
If you want the remaster, it's actually on PlayStation 2. I wouldn't Yeah, I would not call the remake a remaster in any way, it is a remake. It remake t you want to see I want to see Virtual Cop one. We're going to have to check that out at some point. Do you want to see UMK3 or Trilogy, Kenny? Trilogy. I like UMK3 better. Okay. I think I pressed start too fast. I think I pressed the button too quickly. Too fast. Da can only move so fast. But apparently, yeah, there is a PlayStation Mortal Kombat 2 in Japan.
Trilogy is better. Well, Trilogy does have more [ __ ] Too Furious. too fast, too furious. kind of like gameplaywise like you know I love uh Trilogies. Love it. It's It's Mugan. MK Mugan. Let it load. Okay, there we go. All the thumbnails load. All right, now you press start and then it goes. There we go. Does UMK3 even have an intro? I don't even know. I don't know if it does. I don't even know if it does. Still might have the MK3 intro. Is Saturn trilogy great on N64? Did you miss something? Um, not really. I think N64 is largely considered to be the best one of all of them, even though it isn't visually the best because there's no [ __ ] loading.
Yeah. Like there's a lot of loading ink games. Electronic fun for everyone. Prepare for combat in 20 seconds. This did not have the HD. Um bones, dude. Batman Forever Arcade is bonkers. [ __ ] The actual arcade version's way better, too. Yeah. Like NK4. No, we were waiting for an intro that doesn't exist. It just takes a long time to load everything. Look at this menu. Look at this DVD menu. Control, configure, sound and music. You try to make it arcade style. I don't know. I'll just put a button. You could on that technically. Technically not. Middle button.
Yeah. Well, you're just going to have to choose between B or Y. Which one's the middle button? My neck. Ow. It is UMK3. MK MK3 is on PlayStation. UMK3 is on Saturn. Smoke, right? There was a SNES version of this. I rented it. It doesn't look as good as the latest collection though, right? No. It's very quiet. This is also loud in the arcade. It's not here now. Low adding. Please wait 45 seconds. Fight. I wonder if this this version of the game actually looks like it's running at 60, which MK doesn't. MK runs at 50.
Yeah. It's weird. It's just a weird thing about it. Chad, does anybody know Does anybody know if this version of the game or like the console ports actually run at 60? Yeah, they it's like 54 53.95 FPS is what the arcade version runs at or some I'm not even kidding. So if you get actual correct versions, uh you you know it's not a 60 fps game. I'd imagine. Do you want a PlayStation controller? Um that would help. Yeah, I'll try one more. I can give that to you really easily. I can give it to you.
Thing is, you're going to have to figure out what the button correspondence is, though. No, I mean, yeah. Smoke. I played so much of this um on a plane not that long ago after the trilogy came out, after the collection came out, and yeah, dude. Hermac is [ __ ] bonkers. Oh yeah, it's so funny that you tack a throw at the end of a combo and it doesn't add the damage to the combo, but it gives you the damage of the throw. So even if you like do a button in the throw at the end and it's like 54%.
It's actually 70%. Because the throw doesn't count in the damage numbers, doesn't it? It doesn't say it. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus Christ. I hear so many things happening. Yeah. Yeah. This This is going to have This is not UMK3 arcade, man. The The home ports are like weird. So, they act different. I I think I can get them in the loot. Jesus Christ. There's a chance it might not even work. Maybe I'm I got to try to get them. A lot of friends wins. Well, the music's really good. Backgrounds look great. UI's in the right place.
UI. Was that a problem at all? Appropriately located. Well, like it was, but like the the names were outside of the Oh, I see. You know, little small things that are anning on them. They just never I didn't get it. He's like, "Where's my head?" The [ __ ] What the [ __ ] is that down there? Uh, rage quitting jacks. Yeah. You want to see an upscale version of this that doesn't use geni? Yeah, like the KI thing we looked at. Yeah, that would be cool. See what it does just to make this higher resolution. It was wild to me.
I was looking at comments where it's like people were saying this just looks like arcade Killer Instinct or Killer Instinct 2. And I'm like, no guys, like Killer Instinct arcade ran at like 360p or some [ __ ] even less. This is what it looks like in your head. In your head. That's what I said. Like in my head, this is what Killer Instinct always looked like. But go back and look at Arcade Ki or KI. It is It is shockingly low resolution, dude. TLSS5 on Saturn might have actually looked really good. Yeah, they had the hardware for it.
Stage one got hands. What are you going to fire up Simmons? I'm wondering I'm wondering when we should get to BF2. That's going to be a It's going to be a thing cuz I'm like, okay, like we got to spend some time to actually play deep here a little bit. a little bit, dude. I mean, I played like a year ago or something about like this. They also block [ __ ] everything. Yeah, they don't. But even though like I couldn't like I couldn't jump kick and do the air teleport. Let me see what it feels like with a plastic.
I can plug in a thing and find out. Use this. E. Okay, I'll use that. Trusty Xbox controller. Thank you. buttons. I don't Yeah, don't know what it's going to map buttons. Don't know. Yeah, or if it's even going to work, it's working. Control configure. I mean, good luck. Good luck. I can you can try to go in and press buttons first. Yeah. Yo, Noxics, thank you. Makosza, you don't appreciate it. Did you see they're turning the Chinese theater into Castle Grey Skull? What? I missed that. The whole [ __ ] Grey Skull right in the beginning.
I'm going to take care. Go see it tomorrow. It's out out. No, I think they're getting ready for the premiere. I thought it was coming out like like a month or something. Well, the premier's not happening yet. Fire lord. Thank you. It's like uh No, actually like couple weeks. It's two weeks. Two weeks. Anybody else looking forward to He-Man? June 5th. Me and Kayla are He-Man fight. Let's kick. This is a thousand times better. better. I just got to get used to my buttons. I'd rather play with these [ __ ] up I'll just do um isn't blocking as much as.
Yeah, but I can actually do my You wish the Skeletor voice was sillier. Everybody does. That's a universal request. I'm playing with the crazy smoke. I can get past back rooms. You You still want to watch that? Yeah, I think I'd like to see it when the pizza heat man eat it. When does the Odyssey come out? Is it this summer? Next year, I thought. Or is it? That's got to be out in like a month or two. Oh, maybe it maybe it's soon. It was it was like next year when we saw Oenheimer or some Yeah.
It's July 17th. Yeah. I guess it is almost done, HUH? Hard counter. You know, I should get a regal pass. [ __ ] Just, you know, chill and go watch [ __ ] window. I like it. I wonder if they build the premiere in the same place. Mortal Kombat. Oh, that will premiere at the Chinese res. Dude, that like counter up does so much goddamn damage. Now we're going to see if I could UM We'll see if I can trick the computer. Oh, wow. Wins. If they put PS2 MK games on the PS5, ain't going to happen. PS2 emulation not really a thing that's effective.
People people go back and re uh pretty much Yeah. PS6 port games, no, dude. [ __ ] Even they said the PS1 emulator of MK Trilogy was mad hard to do. Yeah. Okay. The computer's not falling for um different game. Yeah, I could do it on the um all the other ones. Yeah, but the collection is based on the arcade. This is Thank you, dude. Appreciate it. I think 30. Holy [ __ ] On um Super Nintendo like me jumping back, they're supposed to um they they they walk forward and let up off guard. No, no, they uh throw a projectile.
Ah, you jump back and they'll Yeah. Okay. Damn, he hates me. Now loading the fatality. I don't know if I've ever seen that before. And if I have, I forgot it. If I have, I forgot it. Next game. Fatality. Back to Sat controller for you, Simmons. Yeah. What are we playing? What do we want to make? We want to We want Do we want…
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