My collection - please read Disclaimer!

[Skykid]

Skykid, I got my first supergun in Dec 07, so I've been buying/playing PCBs for the same amount of time. I don't have room to keep everything, but I've had or still have so many of the same titles. The one you have that I most want to get eventually: Progear. Probably my favorite hori after R-Type (which I have).

So I want to ask you: How do you feel about your Saturn collection now that you've started collecting PCBs? Once I got a good set-up for PCBs and emulation, I started looking at my Saturn collection very differently. As you know, the vast majority of the shooters are ports from the arcade. I strongly prefer the PCB when I can afford it/find it, and emulation is just fine for the rest. I've kept a few games for the Saturn, but I just can't get excited any longer about a collection of ports. Do you feel the same way or do you still have a love for that part of your collection (if you ever did)? The Saturn was my first import system and I got it just for shooters, so I will always have a certain nostalgia, but it has really faded.

Hmm, that is an interesting question!

I'm not sure really, since I've started getting into PCB's that has been my main point of focus. There's something so special about playing the 'actual' arcade game as opposed to ports.
In the case of my Saturn stuff though, I've always really loved it. With the exception of RSG (which I actually think is superior on Saturn anyway) I haven't duplicated many of my Saturn shmups in PCB form.
I still play my Saturn actually, I still love it (was playing Parodius: Forever with me last night) and there's a great variety of games that are exclusive like the Panzers, the Princess Crowns, Guardian Heroes, Taromaru's etc.
I view them as two seperate fads really - I have no compulsion to oust my Saturn collection - but if something does get replaced on PCB, that would give me a good reason to sell the Saturn copy, yes.

As for the bio-degradeable thing, I suppose any games collector is in the same boat - PCB, DVD or Cart (or cassette!). It's just not something I spent much time thinking about: the videogame apocalypse!

Let's hope that comes after my time and my Rolling Thunder PCB is still working in 50 years.

[professor ganson]

Yeah, I bought an ST-V set up to play RSG and Souky, selling my Saturn copies in the process, and I ended up pretty disappointed. Although RSG was one of the first games I bought for the Saturn, I ultimately decided, playing the arcade version, that RSG just isn't my cup of tea. (I guess I prefer more pick-up-and-play style shooters; RSG's chaining is just too arduous for me.) Plus, the versions of Souky on the Saturn are great, so I ended up trading my ST-V set up for Ibara (PCB) and SF Alpha 3 (phoenixed).

With the Panzers, I came to the series by way of Orta, which I love, and could never get past the inferior graphics of the Saturn games.

Parodius ...forever with me...! I love this game and the Saturn port will be forever with me.

[Skykid]

Parodius ...forever with me...! I love this game and the Saturn port will be forever with me.

It's great!.... until that stage with the fruit which is all rendered and looks really ugly. It's a really annoying stage that's very difficult and doesn't look right in the game. Bit of a let down that, otherwise, it's great fun.