Looking back on it now with adult eyes, it wasn’t the disaster that 10-year-old me though it to be, but I was just an idiot child at the time and reacted as such. I stupidly had placed all my eggs in the Saturn basket, and low and behold I didn’t get one, thus meaning the gifts I did get were a crushing disappointment by comparison. Yup, I wanted a SEGA Saturn, and to the top of my Christmas list it went.Īh, Christmas 1997, what a depressing one that was. Secondly, Virtua Fighting had made it’s way to English Arcades and it’s combination of 3D graphics and (for the time) revolutionary fight physics had blown my tiny little mind. I spent most of an afternoon playing that game into the ground and left the house enchanted with the SEGA machine. One of my mothers friends lived in Middlesbrough (a town in the North East of England) and her son had a Saturn with SEGA Rally. The reason I had picked the Saturn as my new console of choice back in those optimistic youthful days was twofold.įirstly, I’d recently played one that summer. Yes, in the cool winter months of 1997, I had decided that I wanted a SEGA Saturn, and that is what this feature will be looking at over the coming weeks. The gaming machine that I had hand-picked to succeed my Super Nintendo was a very different one indeed. The funny thing was that originally I hadn’t even wanted a PlayStation.

It wasn’t until October 1998 that I finally got my grubby mitts on one and the system only had about 18 months of relevance left at that point.

I came pretty late to the PlayStation party. Back in the day though, the old SNES was the only gaming platform I had at my disposal for almost half the 90’s. My first console, all those years ago, was a Super Nintendo, but I’ve collected a fair few along the way since then.

I will be reviewing contemporary stuff but I also thought I’d do some Retro Features now and then as I love classic gaming. Been a gamer since the early 90’s and I’m going to be one of the reviewers on this fine site. It’s a large town just outside of Manchester. My name is Mike and I’m from Stockport in Merry Old Great Britain. Welcome to our very first edition of our feature, Rings of Saturn! Here’s a little bit about me, should you care to know it.

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