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Which Console First???

SEGA Saturn 4 5.48%
 
SEGA Dreamcast 22 30.14%
 
Nintendo 64 46 63.01%
 
Total:72
_crazy_man_ on 14 March 2014

For games, Dreamcast or N64.

For rare retro swag, Dreamcast.



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Zappykins on 14 March 2014

Sega CD!

Ha, just kidding, get a Dreamcast or an N64.

Have fun.



 

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Veknoid_Outcast on 14 March 2014
DevilRising said:
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.

I gotta agree with my man DevilRising on this. Saturn is a really cool, underappreciated system. I found one on eBay a few years ago and it's been a great investment. Some of the games are VERY expensive, but you can build a nice collection if you're patient. Panzer Dragoon, NiGHTS, and Astal are especially good.



zippy on 14 March 2014

N64 or Dreamcast would be my first choice for the obvious reason, both have great AAA games. Saturn was a bit of a crap console tbh, however Sega Rally 2, Nights, Saturn Bomberman, Virtua fighter 2, Burning Rangers and Manx tt superbike were pretty good games.



vfguy on 14 March 2014

Sega Saturn all the way.

With an Action Replay Cartridge you can play all of the import games.

The Saturn has a far stronger library than the N64 (The N64 does have some very good titles, but not that many of them). Most of the great Saturn games are 2D so they have aged much better than most N64 games. That said, the Saturn also has several 3D games that hold up well like Dead or Alive.

If you over time assemble 2 multitaps and 10 controllers, then Saturn Bomberman is the ultimate couch-multiplayer experience (2D, Mario Kart clone Street Racer also has 60fps, 8-player splitscreen on the Saturn!).

As others have mentioned, it is far easier to find N64 games on Virtual Console than it is Saturn games. With a Saturn you are in for many more unique gaming experiences.




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Djoeru on 14 March 2014

If i could, i would have vote for the megadrive 2, but that's just the nostalgia who talks. It gave me great memories tho ; Sonic, Shinobi, Gunstar Heroes... x)



 

HylianSwordsman on 14 March 2014

N64 is a staple for any retro gamer. As is Super Nintendo. I'd say go for those first, then Dreamcast. Saturn I don't know, but I haven't heard anything good about it. It kinda just got forgotten, and probably rightfully so. There's a reason people still talk about Dreamcast and Genesis today, they were good systems. People only talk about Virtual Boy because it was bad. Saturn, on the other hand, no one even mentions. If you want gaming classics, then get the N64. If you want some under appreciated classics, go for Dreamcast. Get Saturn only if you really want to dive into gaming obscurity. If you can find yourself an affordable Super Nintendo, forget everything else and get that. Golden Age of Gaming right there.