I am a huge Sega Saturn fan for many reasons, as well as being a fan of "Shenmue" on the Sega Dreamcast. Although a somewhat well known fact, Shenmue was actually first developed on the Sega Saturn, but unfourntally the game was scrapped and moved over onto the newer much more promosing Dreamcast.
Those of you who are fans of the Sega Saturn probably know what kind of potential the system had in the correct developers hands, and also know what the capabilities of the system were. It's not until you see shenmue running on the Saturn that you realize what an extraordinary achievement this game would have been.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh2WtGUCQbI
As you can see, development must have been pretty far in, because there are clearly parts from Shenmue 2 shown in the clip. This video is mind blowing when you consider what a technological achievement this would have been compared to all the other games on the Saturn at the time.
Maybe in the end it was for the better, because of the move to Dreamcast we probably received a much better game than the Saturn version would have been. It is also sad that playable copies of this game are probably sitting in some random desk somewhere never to see the light of day.
Those of you who are fans of the Sega Saturn probably know what kind of potential the system had in the correct developers hands, and also know what the capabilities of the system were. It's not until you see shenmue running on the Saturn that you realize what an extraordinary achievement this game would have been.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh2WtGUCQbI
As you can see, development must have been pretty far in, because there are clearly parts from Shenmue 2 shown in the clip. This video is mind blowing when you consider what a technological achievement this would have been compared to all the other games on the Saturn at the time.
Maybe in the end it was for the better, because of the move to Dreamcast we probably received a much better game than the Saturn version would have been. It is also sad that playable copies of this game are probably sitting in some random desk somewhere never to see the light of day.