Sega Rally Championship – (Sega AM R&D Department 3/Sega 1995, Sega Saturn)
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Tempest 2000 (Sega Saturn)
A detailed looked at some of the various modes included on the Saturn’s port of Jeff Minter’s Tempest 2000 for the Atari Jaguar. Which in turn was a remake of the classic Dave Theurer, arcade game Tempest. It has to be said there a surreal, trance and slightly psychedelic feel with the look and music of Tempest 2000. Remaining true to the arcade roots this is a fast paced shooter, that see you blasting monsters rapidly crawling toward you from the ground below. It remains as playable now as it did when the original arcade released and Tempest 2000 updates the format perfectly. The Saturn version is pretty much a perfect port with a few changes here and there, the biggest change is to the audio which now use the official soundtrack version of the music. Our only compliant is the totally lack of boss battles, which would have made a nice break to the format every 20 or so stages.
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Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider was originally released in 1996 for Sega Saturn, PlayStation and MS-DOS.
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Tomb Raider is one of those games virtually everyone has heard of. It is a 3D action adventure game that was originally released for the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and MS-DOS based computers in 1996. It looks and plays somewhat similar to games like Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 but development was started well before that game was released.
The game centers around Lara Croft, an English archaeologist, who searches for ancient treasures. The story involves locating three mysterious artifacts linked to Atlantis. To make things more interesting, she has some nefarious competition. Gameplay is in line with a typical platform game. There is plenty of action but the focus is on solving various puzzles.
DOSAll three of the original versions of the game are very similar. Differences between the Sega Saturn version and PlayStation version are minimal. The PC version does have a couple of advantages though. First, it can be played in higher resolution than the console version. Secondly, unlike the console versions, you can save anywhere. This greatly reduces frustration levels as the console version had fixed save checkpoints that were pretty far apart and dying in between meant you had to redo the level.
PS1Tomb Raider is one of the defining games of the 3D platform genre. It got very good reviews, was commercially very successful, and has influenced countless games since. There have been a large number of sequels, remakes and re-releases. Tomb Raider II and Tomb Raider III were released in 1997 and 1998 respectively. These were released exclusively on the PlayStation and Windows based PCs. While there were graphics and gameplay improvements and changes, they were mostly more of the same successful formula. In 1998, shortly after Tomb Raider II was released, Tomb Raider was re-released on the PC as Tomb Raider Gold with additional episodes. There were a number of sequels in subsequent years, not all of which were as successful. In 2006, the series was rebooted starting a new timeline with a new incarnation of Croft. In 2007, Tomb Raider: Anniversary was released which was a remake/reimagining of the original game. It was released for the PlayStation 2, Windows based PCs and the Wii. After a few sequels, the series was rebooted again in 2013 initially for the PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360, with a much younger Lara Croft. One sequel has been released for this incarnation in 2015 for the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Windows. There have also been a few spinoffs.
SaturnIf you want to play the original Tomb Raider, your best bet is probably an original copy for the PlayStation, Sega Saturn or PC. I prefer the PC version but that one will have a little added complexity to get it to work with a modern system. If you don’t want to go that route, then downloadable versions are available for the PS3 and PS4 and a DRM free version is available for the PC at gog.com.