RIP Saturn: 5/11/1995 - 11/30/1998
Today marks the 9th anniversary of the last US-released Sega Saturn game - Magic Knight Rayearth, released 11/30/1998.
It’s tempting to rant about how many mistakes Sega made, both with the Saturn and then with the Dreamcast after it.
It’s even tempting to get a little below-the-belt jab in about the current console wars.
But, there’s no way I could do the ranting any better than the folks at UK:Resistance, so I won’t try.
On a more positive note, it’s tempting to post up a bunch of photos, or to go on and on about how great the system was.
But I realized that I don’t need to do that. If you were a Sega fan at the time, then pretty much all you need is the reminder:
Something was great, and you were a part of it, and now it’s gone.
Remember.
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About the author:
I’m a married 30-odd-year-old fanboy, college student, and software QA guy, mostly recovered from an 8-year long Everquest addiction and trying to catch up on the last decade of videogames as a result.
I’m working towards a BA in Japanese and hope to be done by 2011.
This blog contains an awful lot of posts about games as I finish them, occasional rants about keeping in shape, the odd bit of bitching about the antics of the instructors and students I cross paths with, and every once in a while a post or two related to weird things I’ve seen while traveling.
Oh, and the occasional post about videogame girls in glasses because I like making my wife roll her eyes and shake her head at me.
