Alright so growing up i had a number of retro consles. such as SEGA Genesis, N64, and Playstation. years later my mom and dad gave both my SEGA Genesis and my N64 away to family members that couldnt afford the PS2 like myself.

So some odd years later i want to get back into collecting, i have a PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, SEGA Genesis ( and all its games).  But i want more, all of them if possible. but  this will have to go step by step.

My first consoles of choice are: Sega Saturn, SEGA Dreamcast, N64.  i cant afford a new SNES :(  anyway which one of the consoles listed should i buy first, heres the prices if you must know   SEGA Saturn: $44     Sega Dreamcast: $20 - $40     N64: $0 - $100.   So which one first???

Do not bother with a saturn, its a noisey slow console that barely can muster psone games. There are a few psone games which look sort of smoother on it at times, like Wipeout can look nicer on the saturn, but other than that it is a complete waste of cash.

For a laugh I set up my Sega Saturn and Gamecube with its GBA player attached and popped my GBA copy of doom and saturn doom in... The Saturn one actually manages to chug along at a slower framerate than the GBA game.

I was saying N64 before I even entered the thread

Well if it's just limted to those three, I'd say either a Saturn or N64. Dreamcast was a nice system, but honestly it's a bit overrated, and was hardly Sega's best console. In spite of the fact that it didn't have an honest-to-god Sonic game for it, Saturn was actually a great console, and had a ton more (in my opinion anyway) cool games than Dreamcast did. Just as a sampling, it had:

Sega Rally, Virtua Fighter, Fighters Megamix, Nights, Clockwork Knight, Bug!, Astal, Guardian Heroes, Shining Force III, Panzer Dragoon, Dragon Force, Legend of Oasis, Burning Rangers, Daytona USA, House of the Dead, Shining the Holy Ark, Albert Odyssey, Saturn Bomberman, Shinobi Legends, etc., as well as a lot of far superior (because of load-times) arcade ports, mainly fighting games.


Then of course the N64 kinda speaks for itself too: Mario 64, Pilotwings, Waverace, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Blast Corps, Body Harvest, Turok, Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie, Star Fox, Perfect Dark, Extreme G, Duke Nukem 64 ("censored", but more content), Doom 64, Mischief Makers, Mario Party, Killer Instinct Gold, 4-player NBA Hangtime (not to mention 4-player for a lot of sports, FPS, and racing titles), Conker, etc.



So I dunno. N64 is likely cheaper to get/collect, because the system and it's games sold better and are more widely available. Saturn would be a great investment, in fact I'd like to get one myself someday, but it's bound not to be a cheap endeavor.

The N64; by far the best AAA games of those three consoles, IMO.

Two things.....

1. It helps to ram expansion cart.

2. While some 3D games didn't run as "smoothly" (as you say) as on PSone, that was mainly multiplats. And when it came to 2D games, Saturn kicked the Playstation right out of orbit. Arcade ports of that era were SO much better on Saturn because of load time issues PS1 had. And 2D games like Mega Man X 4 and Symphony of the Night ran smoother on Saturn in general, plus as I pointed out in my other post, the system had a lot of great exclusives. I'd hardly call that waste of cash, it's just a matter of actually finding this stuff.

One thing you mentioned mate and I'll give it to you for sure, Sega Rally on the Saturn, just how smooth that game runs while it's in splitscreen play, self and a few mates had great fun with it over the Christmas holiday actually, really holds up.

I heard there was some good programming going on during the split screen of a few games on the saturn actually which used seperate processors to basically handle both games but not sure if this is true or not.

I guess I just have about 10-15 Saturn games tho whereas I've well over 60 N64 and DC games so I personally got far more value for money from those systems.

This game.... Kumachan.... once you've seen his smooth fighting style and move set you really can't go back to another fighting game.

Sorry I couldn't find a video which didn't have laughter :D

you do know that you can get an emulator on your pc and have all three consoles as well as any game of your liking... but if you want it because its a classic that's different...Honestly I'd go with sega Saturn because its such a rare! Dreamcast and N64 had better games tho.

From what you listed, N64 would be the easy choice for me. I never owned those Sega systems though :(