I’ve had this box sitting around for a while, it’s an awkward shape and I wanted to have it gone! Sure it’s an unboxing video, I try to avoid doing these, but this one had a bonus in it I wasn’t expecting!

First, a refreshing drink of Mountain Dew. Right, time to see what’s inside this Sega Saturn pack-in games box. I’ve been looking at the thing sitting on my shelf for ages, and I don’t even know whether all the games are actually in there.

It’s still shrink-wrapped, so at least we’ve got that lovely late-1990s packaging to contend with. Open it up and there’s an impressive amount of paperwork hiding inside. Sega certainly didn’t believe in sending people home with just a few discs!

The three games are Virtua Fighter 2, Virtua Cop and Daytona USA. That’s a rather nice selection, especially if you’ve got a television that works with the Saturn light gun. I really should get myself an arcade cabinet one of these days. Where on earth would I put it, though?

The box also contains the individual game manuals and various promotional materials. There’s a mail-in offer with a deadline of 31 March 1997, which certainly helps establish the era. One of the promotional prizes appears to have been a Virtua Fighter 3 arcade machine. Imagine having one of those in your bedroom back in 1997!

There’s also plenty of advertising for Sega’s other Saturn accessories, including the NetLink, 3D Control Pad and Stunner light gun. It’s a nice reminder of just how much equipment Sega was trying to get people interested in around that time.

But the real surprise is the poster! A lovely big Sega Saturn promotional poster with plenty of familiar games and characters scattered across it. I’ve barely got any gaming posters up around the house, so this might finally give me something more appropriate to put on the wall.

I don’t normally collect sealed software simply for the sake of keeping it sealed. I like being able to use the things, so opening this box doesn’t worry me particularly much. It’s nice to see all the original bits and pieces together, though.

Now I’ve got three more Saturn games, a rather wonderful poster and a heap of paperwork to put somewhere safe.

Which leaves one important question. What do I do with the enormous empty box?

Ah, the collector’s dilemma!