The plucky under-dog full of personality. Sure the other systems had some amazing titles but the Saturn in many ways summed up Sega to me. Corbomite and the hidden 7th tank! So many magic moments! Playing Death Tanks Zwei with my housemates for round after round. The 5 parallels of Dark Saviour, whacking in the ROM cart for King of Fighters 95, or creeping through the eerie silent corridors of Enemy Zero with only the motion tracker beep as company. Layer Section/Galactic Attack, Parodius, flying dreamily throught the digital fairytale that is NiGHTS to taking down the enemy airfleet with a perfectly executed lock-on in Panzer Dragoon and Panzer Dragoon Zwei hooked up to the stereo to awesome effect. From shaving milliseconds off lap times on Sega Rally, to multiplayer Bomberman, drifting past the Sonic Wall sidewards in Daytona (I know people thought it scked as a conversion but the conversion absolutely nailed the gameplay spot on) to being astounded at the quality of the Virtua Fighter 2 conversion to the awesome Capcom fighter conversions. However none of this changed the amount of enjoyment I got (and still get!) from my Saturn. However wrong a mis-step they seem to be making they get a lot more right than they get wrong and always seem to make a profit (at this point someone usually points out the Virtual Boy with a chortle) The N64 was a more peculiar beast but all my years in gaming have taught me to never write off Nintendo. I could see that it was going to come third to the other two machines (partly due to the sheer wealth of games PSX was getting, the praise in the mainstream press it was getting (never underestimate how much good coverage a swanky part with artists signed to Sony performing will sway a journalist on the fence!) and more importantly the frequent and numerous demo disks. This was because the Saturn provided me with more of the type of games that wanted to play. However I can honestly say that I never once looked to the PSX library or N64 with envious eyes. Likewise the N64 - a different type of library but the sheer amount of time Mario 64, PilotWings, GoldenEye and particularly Intrnational SuperStar Soccer 64 took up in our flat more than justified the machine. Obviously the PSX is a fantastic machine with a a wide and deep library of games and to dismiss it is a fools games. I was in my first year at uni at the time and my flatmates later got a PSX and N64 and I was working in a videogame shop at the time so had access to just about all the PAL games that came out (and luckily with regards to the Saturn particularly in the latter days also import titles) I bought a Saturn back in the day and never once regretted it.