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[iidesuyo]

CD music... the N64 lacked it so much. Hated the N64 midi sounds, it was worse than the SNES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5otXNJpysc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxpn7Fjiel8

 

[AKingNamedPaul]

I don't recall segata sanshiro ever doing n64 commercials... Hmm seems like a lopsided argument to me.

 

[N4Us]

N64, just because I've had more experience with the library. Saturn has some great arcade ports though.

 

[mr jones]

Another Saturn kid here. Its an arcade game player, basically. If you like arcade shooters and fighters, then the system is awesome. Guardian Heroes is great to play in multi-player, and the Saturn is what got me to like Bomberman. Duke Nukem and Quake STILL play smoothly on the Saturn, and you can't find Dragon Force anywhere else.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

Hilariously lopsided.
Saturn all the way.

For the N64 there was Mario 64..and....Mario 64...and...?

The irony is that at one time I actually sold my Saturn for an N64. Thankfully I rectified that and then some not too long ago.

Unfortunately these days I wouldn't dare attempt to build up a Saturn collection. The prices are absolutely ridiculous for nearly anything worthwhile.

 

[Snuggles]

N64 was amazing. I don't think I've ever even seen a Saturn, so I can't make an official call on this matter.

 

[heyf00L]

I love all the people saying "Saturn" because the N64 only had 3 or 4 good games -- but no two lists of the N64's few good games is the same.

Maybe because N64 actually had a lot of good games. Hmmmmm. Nah.

OK, but seriously, the Saturn is niche, and apparently it's GAF's niche. The N64 was awesome, and I wouldn't even chose a PlayStation over it. I'm just going to pick one genre: racing. N64 had WaveRace, Diddy Kong Racing (or Mario Kart if you prefer that), the Rush trilogy, and F-Zero X just to name my favorites. That's a pretty strong list and the N64 isn't really known for its racing games.

Also, Super Smash Bros can hang with any of the Saturn fighting games IMO.

 

[Anth0ny]

For the N64 there was Mario 64..and....Mario 64...and...?

Not sure if troll.



I'd take the N64 over Saturn any day. So many iconic games there... Saturn has 2D fighters, but besides that, nothing really interested me all that much about it.

=(

 

[Houston3000]

Hilariously lopsided.
Saturn all the way.

For the N64 there was Mario 64..and....Mario 64...and...?

The irony is that at one time I actually sold my Saturn for an N64. Thankfully I rectified that and then some not too long ago.

Unfortunately these days I wouldn't dare attempt to build up a Saturn collection. The prices are absolutely ridiculous for nearly anything worthwhile.

Uh

Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark, Excite Bike 64, Turok series, Banjo-Kazooie games, Smash Bros, No Mercy & Wrestlemania 2000, Mario Kart 64, Jet Force Gemini, Blast Corps, Paper Mario, Space Station Silicon Valley, Wave Race 64, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Star Fox 64, Sin & Punishment, Ogre Battle 64...

Holy shit, there's just way too many good N64 games to name. I can understand someone's love for Saturn but claiming the N64 had no games - especially if you liked Mario... What the fuck?

 

[overcast]

I would go Nintendo 64 quite easily... BUT that's just me.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

I just look at everything in the present.
If I look at a game library and say "This is something I would have enjoyed several years ago." as opposed to "this is something I want to play right now" then the library isn't worth bothering with.

Games age, some worse than others, and early 3D games just happen to age much worse than anything else. Obviously the Saturn isn't immune to that and personally I wouldn't touch NiGHTs, the Panzer Dragoons, or hell let's just say all of its 3D games. On the other hand a fairly large number of the Saturn's 2D games are still excellent.

 

[Dark Octave]

I owned an N64. It was my most anticipated console back in '96. The only console I planed on buying and (aside from a few classics) it turned out to be the worst and least played console I ever owned. Star Fox 64 made it worth it.

I never owned a Saturn and I will always regret it.

 

[BocoDragon]

Japanese Saturn > N64 > American Saturn

 

[Karak]

Both systems are awesome. But despite my love for Nintendo I would still go for the Saturn. So many amazing games and unique titles.

 

[Dark Octave]

CD music... the N64 lacked it so much. Hated the N64 midi sounds, it was worse than the SNES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxpn7Fjiel8

What in the world??

This credits song makes no sense what so ever with this game but it's pretty tight.

 

[hiro4]

Both systems are awesome. But despite my love for Nintendo I would still go for the Saturn. So many amazing games and unique titles.

Me too.
But most N64 games can be played in some form or other on different consoles already. There is the Zelda collection and virtual console that has enough titles to keep you busy.

While Saturn games can only be played on Saturn. Save for some ps2 ports like dragon force. I would go Saturn for titles like Torico, Panzer Dragoon (Saga) Shining Force and Guardian Heroes.

 

[Zimbardo]

ps1>n64>saturn

 

[Chuck (Old)]

It's no contest, N64 all the way.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Everyone who says Saturn is a hipster.

Or has a means of playing Japanese games.

 

[Dark Octave]

Or has a means of playing Japanese games.

Or just realizes that the N64 was a bigger mistake than the Virtual Boy.

 

[shadyspace]

Or just realizes that the N64 was a bigger mistake than the Virtual Boy.

What? The Virtual Boy was awesome, man. Dudes just didn't get it at the time, but now it's finally getting the respect it deserves from the people in the know.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

Or has a means of playing Japanese games.

I wouldn't even go that far.
An American Saturn can still play Galactic Attack, Darius Gaiden, Guardian Heroes, Legend of Oasis, and several other games.
A Japanese Saturn on the other hand is a massive moneysink and after awhile I just don't see the point. Soukygurentai is probably the best pick of the lot in terms of quality and price but most of the other good JP-only titles are way too freaking expensive to bother with. You might as well go MAME at that point.

At least with an N64 it's still incredibly cheap to put a library together(aside from some notable exceptions, thankfully the virtual console covers a couple of them).

 

[MightyKAC]

I'll admit that I got lucky.

I owned a Saturn and my buddy had an N64. Which means that I got a chance to play Mario64 and both Zelda OOT and Majora's mask and he got to play the Panzer Dragoons and Shining Force 3.

And both of us were able to enjoy some of the best gaming that the 90's had to offer.

 

[D.Lo]

Such a great generation. All three systems were very different.

Saturn Alpha 2 might have been my most played game of all time. But Body Harvest, Goldeneye...

 

[BocoDragon]

I wouldn't even go that far.
An American Saturn can still play Galactic Attack, Darius Gaiden, Guardian Heroes, Legend of Oasis, and several other games.
A Japanese Saturn on the other hand is a massive moneysink and after awhile I just don't see the point. Soukygurentai is probably the best pick of the lot in terms of quality and price but most of the other good JP-only titles are way too freaking expensive to bother with. You might as well go MAME at that point.

At least with an N64 it's still incredibly cheap to put a library together(aside from some notable exceptions, thankfully the virtual console covers a couple of them).

I've picked up the core of the N64 library just wandering through thrift stores for a year or so. Collected em all pretty mindlessly.. by accident, really.

In that time I've found 1 Saturn game

 

[bhlaab]

I'm a huge three dirty dwarves fan so, Saturn.

 

[Augemitbutter]

get a multiregion saturn. you can play tons of shooters, shining force III, dragon force, panzer dragoon saga, snk and capcom fighters, shining the holy ark.

N64 is good for the multiplayer games, but if you don't have 3 buddies that don't puke at the graphics, you can consider a N64......sometimes later.

 

[fart town usa]

The saturn is awesome, I own a white japanese one with roughly 200 games, pro action replay and a 2 virtua cop guns. Still hooked up to the television today

 

[DonMigs85]

If you already had a PS1 with its RPG and fighter library, N64 was the way to go. Otherwise, I guess it would depend on your genre preferences.

 

[mj1108]

Both.

 

[apana]

Nintendo 64 was the best console of that generation.

 

[duckroll]

I'm not exactly sure what this comparison is about since the OP has practically not details on what exactly the N64 and the Saturn are competing over here. If anyone is considering getting a N64 or a Saturn right now to play back catalog games, I would say the answer is definitely the Saturn.

Pretty much every good N64 game is available either on another platform, or on the Virtual Console. For those interested in playing their N64 games on the PC instead, N64 emulation is also relatively advanced and games have hi-res texture packs and whatnot.

On the other hand, Saturn emulation is still very much behind, requiring very advanced hardware to play a small amount of games properly. Many Saturn classics are not available in any current platforms, and even games which had ports to the PS1 back in the day were often inferior to the Saturn originals. There are also games like Capcom's D&D arcade brawlers which will never ever be released in any form ever again, because they no longer own the license rights.

 

[Freshmaker]

Saturn for Guardian Heroes alone.

Dragon Force, Panzer Saga, Nights, VF2... That's gravy.

It's not even remotely close.

 

[rbenchley]

Saturn by a country mile. The N64 had some outstanding games, but not a lot of depth to the system library. Pretty much everything that Nintendo published was terrific and every other game was dreadful. You can make an argument that the Saturn didn't have a game a good as Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask, but it had the Panzer Dragoon games, the Shining games, Dragon Force, Guardian Heroes, Burning Rangers, Nights, Mega Man X4, and a slew of arcade ports featuring some of the best 2D and 3D fighters. I'd say that the US Saturn library beats the N64 pretty handily and when you figure in the Japanese imports like Princess Crown, Grandia, Castlevania, Soul Hackers, Policenauts, Radiant Silvergun, Tactics Ogre ,the Langrisser games, the Lunar game, ELevator Action Return and the Dungeons & Dragons Collection it's not particularly close.

 

[BruceLeeRoy]

Damn lot of Saturn love. 64 for me hands-down.
M64 and Zelda OOT.

 

[shadyspace]

On the other hand, Saturn emulation is still very much behind, requiring very advanced hardware to play a small amount of games properly. Many Saturn classics are not available in any current platforms, and even games which had ports to the PS1 back in the day were often inferior to the Saturn originals. There are also games like Capcom's D&D arcade brawlers which will never ever be released in any form ever again, because they no longer own the license rights.

I haven't had any problems emulating Saturn games for at least the past 4 years. I have a relatively modest machine, as well.

 

[DidntKnowJack]

Even with all it's faults, I have to give the nod to the N64. The 32/64 bit days are my favorite among all generations. I loved and played both the N64 and Playstation equally. I had so many great times with the N64. Plus it spawned my favorite racing game of all time - Waverace 64. (And racing games are my favorite genre.)

And though I understand the appeal of all those great but fairly niche Saturn games, I never even got a Saturn until after it was pretty much dead. But I do love me some Sega Rally and Daytona USA.

 

[dwu8991]

The saturn is fantastic for the 15 minutes of arcade fun. Pure arcade awesomeness.

 

[duckroll]

I haven't had any problems emulating Saturn games for at least the past 4 years. I have a relatively modest machine, as well.

All games? 100% speed with no bugs?

 

[outunderthestars]

N64

Goldeneye, Mario Kart, and Mario 64

vs Nights, Saturn Bomberman, and not much else

 

[Magnus]

Always blows my mind to see how many games were released for now defunct systems. I don't think I could list even a 100 off the top of my head for the N64, nevermind the Saturn. I suppose that means the Playstation 1 and 2 libraries each hit a thousand?

How many NES/SNES games were there for that matter? lol Crazy.

 

[shadyspace]

All games? 100% speed with no bugs?

Every Saturn game I've tried (which would be, like, 10+ games?) has ran more or less perfectly, yes.

 

[DidntKnowJack]

I suppose that means the Playstation 1 and 2 libraries each hit a thousand?

According to Wikipedia, the PS1 alone had 2,418 games. (Worldwide.)

 

[duckroll]

Every Saturn game I've tried (which would be, like, 10+ games?) has ran more or less perfectly, yes.

Sounds like it's time to give my library another try some time in the future. My Saturn still works though... unlike my Dreamcast. Too bad Dreamcast emulation is in the stone age...

 

[Cipherr]

Sounds like it's time to give my library another try some time in the future. My Saturn still works though... unlike my Dreamcast. Too bad Dreamcast emulation is in the stone age...

Yeah saturn emulation has come a long LONG way. Youll search harder for games with conflicts than you will for games with them (for the most part). I still have my saturn though and it still works so I dont bother. That and the saturn controller is just better than the pc controllers I have for games.

 

[duckroll]

That and the saturn controller is just better than the pc controllers I have for games.

I have a PS2 saturn pad too, which I got for the Sega Ages games. Soooooooooo good.

 

[shadyspace]

Sounds like it's time to give my library another try some time in the future. My Saturn still works though...

My PC specs are an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4gb RAM and a GTX 260 btw.

unlike my Dreamcast. Too bad Dreamcast emulation is in the stone age.

Really? I've had an even easier time with Dreamcast emulation than I have Saturn in the past. Have you not checked out the emu scene in a while? Things have really progressed.

 

[oatmeal]

N64 because the Saturn was only 32-bit.

"He's got Nintendo 64-bits"

 

[duckroll]

Really? I've had an even easier time with Dreamcast emulation than I have Saturn in the past. Have you not checked out the emu scene in a while? Things have really progressed.

About a year ago, I found out my DC wasn't reading discs anymore. So I tried to emulate Mars Matrix, and it didn't work. I was sad.

 

[NewFresh]

I would side with n64 but by a very narrow margin.
It had more games I liked
But i still love my Saturn