Articles by Peter Malek
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Tomb Raider 2 #BestOfSaturn |
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“The Saturn can’t handle the additional complexities of Tomb Raider 2”… so said Core Design in the late ’90s, but no one told modern hero RetroRaider John. Hot on the… | |
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SEGA AGES Phantasy Star Collection #BestOfSaturn |
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SEGA AGES was a single release in the West, but in Japan, it was an entire series of classics from SEGA’s past. Phantasy Star Collection, released in 1998, featured the… | |
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The Joy of Playing Grandia, on SEGA Saturn |
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The Renaissance Period We are living through a Saturn renaissance. Buckets of titles previously locked away in Japan are seeing new audiences, thanks to the herculean efforts of small but… | |
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Digital Monsters Ver. S: Digimon Tamers #BestOfSaturn |
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Late 1998 saw Bandai release Digital Monsters Ver. S: Digimon Tamers exclusively in Japan. An evolution of sorts of the Tamagotchi concept, players hatch, care for, scold, clean up after,… | |
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Radiant Silvergun #BestOfSaturnGold |
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By 1998, the Saturn was gasping for life in the West. Releases had slowed to a trickle before drying up for good by year’s end. Game over… but don’t tell… | |
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Devicereign #BestOfSaturn |
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A fusion of 2/3 visual novel and 1/3 strategy RPG, Devicereign from Starlight Marry Corp hit the Saturn in early 1999. Three high school friends are suddenly accosted by a… | |
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Whizz #BestOfSaturn |
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Whizz is a Flair Software isometric platformer that first saw life on the DOS, Amiga, and CD32 back in 1994 before being ported to Saturn and releasing in Japan and… | |
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Galactic Attack #BestOfSaturnGold |
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Acclaim, Acclaim… once the darlings of American third-party publishing houses, they fell into disrepute in the mid-’90s by increasingly releasing games that simply weren’t the best of Saturn — or… | |
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Metal Slug #BestOfSaturnSilver |
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What hasn’t been said about SNK’s sweet, sweet Metal Slug[question_mark] Initially a NEO GEO game, it was ported to Saturn in early 1997 by Yumekobo and is one of the… | |
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Time Bokan #BestOfSaturn |
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A late 1997 “complete version” of a 1996 PS1 release, Banpresto’s Time Bokan is a colorful vertical cute-em-up featuring all the vehicles from all the Bokan series up until that… | |
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