Yikes! Listen to that motor spin and click. This white Japanese Sega Saturn was sold as faulty, and after watching its CD drive behave like this, I can see why. The spindle races away, the laser mechanism moves all over the place and the whole assembly sounds as though it’s about to explode.

The disc even appears to spin backwards, although I haven’t worked out whether that’s actually happening or just how it looks on camera. Either way, this isn’t how a Saturn CD drive is supposed to behave. At least the machine is giving me plenty to investigate.

Easy does it, little Saturn! I’ll have to get inside the CD deck and work out what’s making it behave so strangely before I can do much else with it.

We’ll make you better, faster, stronger! Segata Sanshiro style. Well, that’s the plan anyway.