Saturn

The Sega Saturn was a 32-bit video games system released by Sega in 1994. It is notable in providing Virtua Fighter, the first three dimensional fighter, and Sonic R, the first true 3D Sonic game and first 3D Sonic racing game as well as kick starting the ever popular Panzer Dragoon series and becoming a solid base for Sega's arcade conversions such as Sega Rally, Daytona USA and the Virtua Cop series.

Despite being significantly more powerful than it's contemporaries at 50-MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) compared to the mere 30-MIPS of Sony's PlayStation, it was less successful than most of its rivals in the US and Europe. But was highly successful in Japan for Segata Sanshiro.

It was also the only Sega system not to have a Sonic platformer other than Sonic Jam, which was a compilation of past Sonic games which had previously been released to the Megadrive.

Only 240 Saturn games saw release in Europe, and only 245 in the USA.

Sega ceased support for the Saturn in 2000 as support and development shifted completely to the Dreamcast.