It was not easy to be a SEGA Saturn fan. Almost every success of the 16-bit blockbuster Genesis was undone through a series of poor decisions, from marketing to treatment of third-party publishers.

30 years ago, on November 22, 1994, the Saturn games console was launched in Japan. Sega wants to overtake Nintendo with it – but things turn out differently. In the early 1990s, the Mega Drive ...