Saturn The dumbest, coolest, rarest Saturn ever made.

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Hey. Hey you. Yes… you.
You like dumb variants? You like weird gaming history? You like companies in the late 90’s trying to fuse technology together like a mad scientist? You like learning about hardware you’ll never own, just because it’s interesting and fun?

Well, get a load of this thing.

Navi Hi - Saturn
You can learn more about it here!

In short: it’s a GPS device, Video CD player, Audio CD player, and SEGA Saturn. The Saturn alone can be three of those things, two of them out of the box, but the GPS functionality is the insane part to me. Like… this goes in your car. Why? Why would you put a SEGA Saturn in the front of your car? Why would you put this non-skip protected CD player at the front of your vehicle and trust it to navigate the landscape for you? What’s the methodology behind this? I don’t know. But I love it. It’s a fusion of tech that wasn’t meant to be put together. Imagine navigating the mountains and then playing Virtua Fighter at the top. Imagine driving and your passenger seat driver is level grinding in Grandia. Imagine popping Panzer Dragoon Saga into this thing and having the most unique road trip experience ever.

A Japan exclusive console variant. Should be obvious. Not to say other regions didn’t have some awesome variants too! Respect to Brazil for getting the white model 2 Saturn. They know game. But this weird system variant takes the cake for the most insane idea ever pitched. SEGA’s deal with Victor and Hitachi to make Saturns was an odd one in practice, especially after the system sold so well in Japan. Yet, I’m glad it happened. Because it led to this, and that’s really awesome.

Edit: I forgot to add that it’s a karaoke machine. Because of course it is.

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

This looks like if you poured a bunch of Mutagen on a GBA SP, I love it

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

This looks like if you poured a bunch of Mutagen on a GBA SP, I love it

This is what happens to a GBA SP when it comes in contact with The Ooze from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lmao

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

Hey. Hey you. Yes… you.
You like dumb variants? You like weird gaming history? You like companies in the late 90’s trying to fuse technology together like a mad scientist? You like learning about hardware you’ll never own, just because it’s interesting and fun?

Well, get a load of this thing.
View attachment 83877

Navi Hi - Saturn
You can learn more about it here!

In short: it’s a GPS device, Video CD player, Audio CD player, and SEGA Saturn. The Saturn alone can be three of those things, two of them out of the box, but the GPS functionality is the insane part to me. Like… this goes in your car. Why? Why would you put a SEGA Saturn in the front of your car? Why would you put this non-skip protected CD player at the front of your vehicle and trust it to navigate the landscape for you? What’s the methodology behind this? I don’t know. But I love it. It’s a fusion of tech that wasn’t meant to be put together. Imagine navigating the mountains and then playing Virtua Fighter at the top. Imagine driving and your passenger seat driver is level grinding in Grandia. Imagine popping Panzer Dragoon Saga into this thing and having the most unique road trip experience ever.

A Japan exclusive console variant. Should be obvious. Not to say other regions didn’t have some awesome variants too! Respect to Brazil for getting the white model 2 Saturn. They know game. But this weird system variant takes the cake for the most insane idea ever pitched. SEGA’s deal with Victor and Hitachi to make Saturns was an odd one in practice, especially after the system sold so well in Japan. Yet, I’m glad it happened. Because it led to this, and that’s really awesome.

Edit: I forgot to add that it’s a karaoke machine. Because of course it is.

o d d i t i e s R f y r e

also good to see someone daringly outspoken in a provocateur-esque way like mehself. we get ppl to react n think whether they likes it or not xD nah my bad - that's me jumpin to conclusions. n conclusions are off a cliFF - SHADOW DANCER BONUS STAGE on ze way down w0000 and suddenly I'm back in jaiL ^_^

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

o d d i t i e s R f y r e

also good to see someone daringly outspoken in a provocateur-esque way like mehself. we get ppl to react n think whether they likes it or not xD nah my bad - that's me jumpin to conclusions. n conclusions are off a cliFF - SHADOW DANCER BONUS STAGE on ze way down w0000 and suddenly I'm back in jaiL ^_^

Hey! I can’t lie about my feelings on this thing!
Basically this:

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Reminds me of the Dreamcast a so-called "expert" tried to sell me once: the lid was broken and wouldn't close, so they mounted a tiny screen on top of it and then worked a switch to the side to fool the console into thinking it was actually working as normal.

Just... Why? Was any of that shit cheaper than actually fixing the lid?

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Reminds me of the Dreamcast a so-called "expert" tried to sell me once: the lid was broken and wouldn't close, so they mounted a tiny screen on top of it and then worked a switch to the side to fool the console into thinking it was actually working as normal.

Just... Why? Was any of that shit cheaper than actually fixing the lid?

Modern problems require modern solutions.

They really said “we won’t fix the issue, we’ll build around it.”
They really said “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.”
They really said “what if we did a goofy and made you pay for it?”

 

[NeonWastelander]

I love seeing all these variants of consoles.

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

makeshift ramshackle project abominations, Waffles brvh

 

[Adrastia]

Reminds me of the Dreamcast a so-called "expert" tried to sell me once: the lid was broken and wouldn't close, so they mounted a tiny screen on top of it and then worked a switch to the side to fool the console into thinking it was actually working as normal.

Just... Why? Was any of that shit cheaper than actually fixing the lid?

Maybe they really wanted to create a frankenconsole to show off how cool they were.

Didn't the PS1 have some kind of screen add-on? Or was it something built in? I remember seeing it.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Maybe they really wanted to create a frankenconsole to show off how cool they were.

Didn't the PS1 have some kind of screen add-on? Or was it something built in? I remember seeing it.

Sure did:

 

[trickybus]

You like companies in the late 90’s trying to fuse technology together like a mad scientist?

My theory is that companies in the 90s were trying to hasten the world into the Jetsons future simply by means of Frankenstein-ing technology together until the end product was more than the sum of its parts.

Like… this goes in your car. Why? Why would you put a SEGA Saturn in the front of your car?

Do we know if Sega sold a car mount for this thing?

Also, holy shit!

The winning bidder was like "That belongs in a museum!"

 

[Sunnyside]

Sure did:

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The PS1 I had back in the day came with one of those attached. Bought it for cheap. I used the screen once out of curiosity and never again. PS1 gaming's just not the same on a tiny screen.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Do we know if Sega sold a car mount for this thing?

Sure did:

(This allegedly is the photo of it, but it looks to me like them just balancing the thing on the console between the seats lol)

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Also, I think that eBay listing says it was from 03. Either I can’t read, or that’s 2003. Who knows how high the prices run now?

 

[Bonkers225]

This is designed mostly for the wealthy. I know people that have PS5/X-Box installed in their cars, with wide screen tvs in the back. It's for those types of people.

 

[χKai]

Is this the Saturn's final form?
Does it really have enough addons?
Perhaps only the tiny little screen knows for sure..

 

[Varyag]

But of COURSE it was also a karaoke machine. I thought the tiny lil screen would be to play games but no, why would it be so simple. Thanks a lot Japan!

 

[Pearly]

This was definitely not keeping any type or portability in mind, overdesigned pointless novelty, It wouldn't be sega during that era if it wasn't though, they really toned it down with the dreamcast but it was too late.

 

[solnK!]

The more I learn about the Saturn, the more I love it.
Do anyone around here wanna join me on a road trip playing Bulk Slash on the go?

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Hey. Hey you. Yes… you.
You like dumb variants? You like weird gaming history? You like companies in the late 90’s trying to fuse technology together like a mad scientist? You like learning about hardware you’ll never own, just because it’s interesting and fun?

Well, get a load of this thing.
View attachment 83877

Navi Hi - Saturn
You can learn more about it here!

In short: it’s a GPS device, Video CD player, Audio CD player, and SEGA Saturn. The Saturn alone can be three of those things, two of them out of the box, but the GPS functionality is the insane part to me. Like… this goes in your car. Why? Why would you put a SEGA Saturn in the front of your car? Why would you put this non-skip protected CD player at the front of your vehicle and trust it to navigate the landscape for you? What’s the methodology behind this? I don’t know. But I love it. It’s a fusion of tech that wasn’t meant to be put together. Imagine navigating the mountains and then playing Virtua Fighter at the top. Imagine driving and your passenger seat driver is level grinding in Grandia. Imagine popping Panzer Dragoon Saga into this thing and having the most unique road trip experience ever.

A Japan exclusive console variant. Should be obvious. Not to say other regions didn’t have some awesome variants too! Respect to Brazil for getting the white model 2 Saturn. They know game. But this weird system variant takes the cake for the most insane idea ever pitched. SEGA’s deal with Victor and Hitachi to make Saturns was an odd one in practice, especially after the system sold so well in Japan. Yet, I’m glad it happened. Because it led to this, and that’s really awesome.

Edit: I forgot to add that it’s a karaoke machine. Because of course it is.

This the typa shit they’d have me use to negotiate with demons in post apocalyptic Tokyo

 

[χKai]

The more I learn about the Saturn, the more I love it.
Do anyone around here wanna join me on a road trip playing Bulk Slash on the go?

If it got me out of here, I'd go in a heartbeat.

 

[Varyag]

The more I learn about the Saturn, the more I love it.
Do anyone around here wanna join me on a road trip playing Bulk Slash on the go?

holy shit yes

 

[MemeAlert]

This is what happens to a GBA SP when it comes in contact with The Ooze from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lmao

You mean to tell me it takes the ooze from TMNT2 starting Vanilla Ice "BABY!!!" for a god damn Gameboy Advance SP to have not 1 but 3 audio jacks!?!?!?!?

 

[Bonkers225]

The more I learn about the Saturn, the more I love it.
Do anyone around here wanna join me on a road trip playing Bulk Slash on the go?

That depends. Are you Mick Taylor?

 

[bjork]

I like that I clicked on this thread thinking, "this better be about the Hi-Saturn"