With it being "Saturn Month," if you care to travel back to April/May of 1995, you can gaze upon the very issue of SEGA Visions that revealed the Saturn to the U.S. It's pretty hilarious to read now, since it aggressively endorses the Saturn as the best thing that will ever be.
I was 14 at the time, so I ate it up. I had no idea this was coming in the mail, no notion that the system existed, and I thought SNES games, Doom, and arcade games were the peak of game technology. When I saw the arcade games on this system, I was instantly sold.
You can download a zip with all the Saturn pages
from here. It talks about the specs and highlights Panzer Dragoon, Daytona, Virtua Fighter, Clockwork Knight, Virtua Cop, and Deadalus. There are more pages in the issue, but I only included the ones that were lengthy enough to bother scanning.
This issue was very much the spark that ignited my interest in the system, and without it, I probably wouldn't have the collection shown below.
(Left to right) SEGA Rally, Daytona C.C.E, Panzer Dragoon Sample, NiGHTS, Christmas NiGHTS, Virtua Cop 1 & 2, Bug! Sample, Amok, Dark Savior, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Virtual On, Street Fighter Alpha, Quake, Duke Nukem, Alien Trilogy, Herc's Adventures, Sonic Jam, Bug!, Virtua Fighter Remix, Virtua Fighter 2, X-Men: Children of the Atom, Powerslave, Guardian Heroes.
Feel free to share stories, other magazine ads or issues, game collections, or Saturn-related rants. I will likely include more Saturn-era SEGA advertisements in the next few days. Some of them are pretty silly.
