Sega Saturn facts
While investigating facts about Sega Saturn Games and Sega Saturn Roms, I found out little known, but curios details like:
After the price of Sega Saturn was revealed to be $399, Steve Race (Sony Computer Entertainment America President) took the stage at E3 1995 and only said 3 numbers in his keynote speech : $299 and walked off. The crowd erupted.
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The Sega Saturn had online play capability, and due to not using a service similar to Xbox Live or PSN, is still capable of being played today (assuming you have a phone line still)!
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In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what is a sega saturn worth. Here are 12 of the best facts about Sega Saturn Emulator and Sega Saturn Bios I managed to collect.
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When developing N64s Goldeneye, Rare developers used a modified Sega Saturn controller for early playtesting & originally intended for weapon-reloading to be by unplugging/reinserting the N64 controller rumble pack. Each cartridge also contains a ZX Spectrum Emulator with 10 Rare-developed games
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If you put a disc from a Sega Saturn into a normal CD player, a creepy message warning you to remove it would play. The CD players would play the game data as music and blow out speakers if the disc wasn't removed.
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The Sega Saturn had almost TWICE as many games released than the Nintendo 64
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Sega sent 30,000 units of the Sega Saturn to certain game retailers well before announcing the launch of the console. In response, some of those retailers who didn't get the early launch removed Sega products from their stores. The Saturn was a commercial failure.
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The Sega Dreamcast actually sold less units than the Sega Saturn, despite popular belief that the Saturn was the biggest disaster for Sega, being the worst selling console for Sega, not counting the Sega Pico(which sold 3.4 mil in Japan, 400K in USA). Only 9.13 million units were sold, overall.
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Sega Saturn had a "surprise" N. American launch at E3 in order to get ahead of the Playstation which was about to announce their N. American release date and lower price later that day. Everyone was surprised including retailers, who began receiving systems and games that day, and developers.
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The Sega Saturn was released in Korea under the name "Samsung Saturn"
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In response to the launch price of the Sega Saturn: At the 1995 E3 event a Sony Exec walked out on stage and simply said $299 and then walked away.
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Kenji Eno drove around Japan hand-delivering 20 copies of his Sega Saturn game Enemy Zero for $2000 each
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In Sega's final commercial for their Saturn mascot "Segata Sanshiro", he body blocks a nuclear missile directed at Sega HQ and rides it into space. When spoken quickly his name translates as 'You must play Sega Saturn', and his judo techniques cause enemies to explode.
