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Ah, Full Motion Video (FMV) games. How the world loves to hate you. Lunacy was not your typical FMV game. The events here are played out with animated video rather than actors. Yeah, it is pre-rendered animation but it is EARLY rendered quality. While I remember back in the day wanting to play Lunacy when […]
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Bug Makes Sega Saturn Buggy – May 11th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
May 10th, 2016 
Carl Williams Bug! is typical Sega in the 32-bit era. Right engine, wrong characters, still unique and fun. This is Sega. A company that is held close to many a gamer’s heart. This is a company that used to be awesome. A company that only once almost became the bride instead of the bridesmaid of gaming. They […]
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Iron Storm Brought War Grognard Gaming to Sega Saturn – Today in History – April 1st, 1996
April 1st, 2016 Carl Williams Working Designs, I miss you. There, with that out of the way, I can get on with this historical article on one of their more hardcore releases. If you are a war gaming grognard then you will be right at home with Iron Storm on the Sega Saturn. This is hardcore beyond belief. Iron Storm […]
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Die Hard Arcade Updates Brawlers with Movie License, Hits Sega Saturn Hard – Today in History – February 28th, 1997
February 28th, 2016 Carl Williams Sega were known for doing the quirky thing with their games, this was true in the early days. Titles such as Alex Kidd had you fighting bosses with “rock, paper, scissors”. Later titles did cool things that we see today though no fighting game has revived the Daytona car like Fighter’s Megamix featured. In Die […]
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Virtua Fighter 2 Earns Ring Out Victory on Sega Saturn – December 30th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
December 29th, 2015 Carl Williams Sega continued their arcade in the home initiative with Virtua Fighter 2. Other arcade titles they brought into the living room included the first Virtua Fighter and Sega Rally Championship. Virtua Cop and many other titles that came later continued defining Sega’s dominance in this area. While Sony was busy focusing on original titles and […]
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Sega Rally Championship Slings Mud on Sega Saturn – December 28th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
December 28th, 2015 Carl Williams Sega Rally threw the gauntlet of mud down and for the most part, Sony and Nintendo had nothing to counter with on this level.
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Finally Dragon Force II for Sega Saturn is Available in English
April 7th, 2015 Carl Williams Dragon Force may not have been met with record breaking sales in North America when Working Designs released it in 1996 for the Saturn it still garnered a sequel in Japan. A Japan only sequel, until now. The team over at Verve Fanworks has been working on an English translation of Dragon Force II for […]
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Unleash Your Inner Mutant in X-Men Children of the Atom for Sega Saturn – April 6th, 1996 – Today in History
April 6th, 2015 Carl Williams The X-Men have had a very good history in gaming, at least starting in the 16-Bit era. Let’s ignore the Nintendo Entertainment System games for the sake of this article. When Capcom got the license they immediately took it in a new direction, adding the X-Men characters into their popular Street Fighter II engine was […]
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Hardware Hack: Sega Saturn to Receive SD Card Drive
October 18th, 2014 Carl Williams Okay, the Sega Saturn, nearly a blacker sheep than the Sega 32X in many gamers minds, is finally getting some love from hardware hackers. We have seen the Sega Dreamcast receive the bulk of the interest from hardware hackers in recent times while the Saturn just sits all lonely in its own corner of shame. […]
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Hardware: Flash Cart for Sega Saturn In Development
June 26th, 2014 Carl Williams The Sega Dreamcast and Sony Playstation both have, or are have in development, flash cart type devices. For those that do not know what a flash cart is, these are devices that have some memory onboard and hold homebrew games. The flash cart is seen by the console as it would see whatever format it […]
