Unlike the PlayStation, the Saturn is a deeply complex machine, with a dual-CPU setup, and eight processors overall. Initial sales were good in Japan, but Sega ruined its launch in the West, and never really recovered from it. Unfortunately, the Saturn was not well documented and is considered tricky to program, so most games never harnessed the performance the system could have given.
Despite this, Saturn games are aging nicely, and fetch top-dollar on the second-hand market. The Saturn was a beautiful machine crippled by company mismanagement, but that makes the Saturn history’s interesting underdog, with many gaming gems westerners have never heard of.
Unfortunately, all those processors make the Saturn very difficult to emulate, and years later, things are still quite patchy. The favorite emulator is still Mednafen, but…