Did you know that the Sega Saturn was the first Sega console to display 3D graphics

 Did you know that the Sega Saturn was the first Sega console to display 3D graphics

Sega is one of the biggest names in gaming, and they have been making consoles for decades.

The Sega Saturn was Sega’s sixth console, and it is known as the failure of Sega.

But how can a pioneering piece of technology be viewed this way?

Here are ten facts about the Sega Saturn.

Welcome to the 3D era! Well… sorta. Sega enjoyed quite a success with the Megadrive so there’s no reason to force developers to write 3D games right now.

Just in case developers want the extra dimension, Sega adapted some bits of the hardware to enable polygon drawing as well. Hopefully, the result didn’t get out of hand

Just like its close competitors drowned with options during the RISC fever, Sega had to go through all the conundrums of choosing a vendor that could bring up the next generation of games (including those with ‘3D’ capabilities). In the end, the company chose a fresh CPU whose creator was desperately looking for an adopter, the Hitachi SuperH or ‘SH’.

Hitachi’s new creation implemented modern arts such as a RISC instruction set and a pipelined data path, however, Sega wasn’t satisfied by the final product, especially due to the small 16-bit multiplier. Thus, Hitachi synthesised a second revision with a larger multiplier unit and other requirements on Sega’s checklist ^[1], leading to a new CPU called SH-2.