Last Saturday I won an eBay auction for a Sega Saturn, a console I used own about ten years ago. For a while I had been looking to get another and re-live all the great memories I had with my old Saturn but I find that it's difficult to get one for a reasonable price as they seem to be desirable amongst retro gamers these days. Well last Saturday I finally got one for a good price, and it arrived Wednesday! Boy did it bring back humble, happy memories when I booted the thing up!

The seller threw in Sega Rally and some football (soccer) game (football games go straight over my head). I actually used to own Sega Rally Championship, and it was easily one of my favourites in those days when it came to arcade driving games, and personally I think it's the best driving game on the Saturn. I've bought Daytona USA (another decent arcade racer port thatt I use to own) and X-Men: Children Of The Atom (a superb 2D beat 'em up) as well as two of my favourite PC games, Duke Nukem 3D and Quake, and I've bought these simply because I can't resist just owning ports of my favourite games! I've also got the Saturn version of Doom...yes, this is a terrible port and yes, I already knew that...I got it for collection purposes only (Doom fanboy alert!).

Games appear to be more expensive than I thought. Compared to PSX games, Saturn titles generally go for a lot more on sites like eBay, but I guess this is just the price you pay for getting hold of a relatively unsuccessful retro console for it's time. Anyway, I want to track down the following games, provided I can get decent copies at decent prices!:

• Command & Conquer
• Die Hard Arcade (probably won't ever happen, this is a rare title that tends to go for more than I'm willing to pay!)
• Exhumed
• Sega Touring Car Championship
• Sonic 3D
• Sonic Jam
• Virtua Cop 2
• Virtua Fighter 2
• Virtual On
• Wipeout
• Wipeout 2097

Of course, I won't have ALL of these game soon, they're just games I plan to eventually get hold of at some point in the next few years.