early Saturn console pictures wanted

I'd like to see some pictures of early Saturn models

1.) a different looking Saturn that was slimmer - I think GameFan had a 3/4 view of it. if not GameFan then some other magazine (damn that doesn't really help)...it was very cool looking. it might have been the Jupiter, but if it had a CD-ROM drive then it must have been a Saturn.

edit: I forgot that in another thread I had posted a picture of the Saturn that I am describing above




but what I am looking for is a different image of it. smaller and from an angle.

edit: ooooo like this sketch



2.) the normal looking full-sized, final Saturn that was silver and didn't get released.

 

Well here is a scan from one of my mags with a (color) pic of that b&w saturn drawing:



I don't have any pics scanned or archived of the silver saturn unfortunatly.

 

Full Scans:
http://www.16bitheaven.com/scans/saturn_preview-mms11.jpg (720Kb)
http://www.16bitheaven.com/scans/saturn_preview.jpg (243Kb)

The first picture is a very strange concept of the Saturn, reminds me a lot of taking the little circular section of the Megadrive 1 and enlarging it.

 

HOLY CRAP...wowzers, that is one strange looking console.....i assume these were all just conceptions, and not ones actually confirmed by sega?

Ryan

 

Hmm I think that they are official concepts from Sega. Mean Machines Sega (the magazine from which the picture is from) seemed to have a pretty good relationship with Sega, and often got a lot of exclusives. As one of the first captions in the article says "Last month we exclusively revealed Sega VR, Mean Machines being the only UK magazine invited to playtest the new hardware...". I could be wrong, but the latter concept image seems to be fairly close to the finished console, and it seems to be of the same art style as the one in question.

 

That 32Bit X4CD thing looks like the PC Engine Shuttle :lol:

Yakumo

 

wow very nice, thanks Fabrizo

 

Did they give their impressions of the VR?

I didnt realise that it saw the light of day, id be quite curious to know if it was half-decent or just a another Virtual Boy

 

If i remember correctly the vr didnt see the light of day.

though it wouldnt be surprising if that magazine paid for the exclusive rights to test it.

 

Got quite a few articles about it, I'll scan them in sometime soon and post back.

 

That'd be great!
Thanks

 

nice. thanks in advance

 

looks like a roomba, genesis 2, and george foreman grill combined.

 

Virtual Racer

is a classic game, bought that new it cost £40, ouch

but back to topic, those images look even better then the finished thing cept for the round one

 

I believe this *might* be the nice silver Saturn that never got released (AFAIK).



it's not one of those grey prototypes of the released Saturn that have been floating around, but I think it is the silver Saturn.

this picture is from EGM. but I'm certain that an early issue of EGM2 *definitally* had a picture of the silver Saturn, and IIRC it was a better picture

 

Yep, that's the original "final" design for the Saturn. Looks really nice but I bet it was too expensive to ptoduce so they went with the cheap looking gray one. The first "final" Dreamcast consoles looked slighly different as well.

Yakumo

 

What are the differences on the "first" final design of the Dreamcast?

 

The jewel that the LED shone through was better looking plus the DC logo was printed on to the machine unlike the sticker version that was finally released.

Yakumo