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Kyle stumbles into a battle being waged between Lagi and the evil Dark Dragon. It’s a sci-fi/fantasy rail shooter game in the vein of StarFox and Space Harrier set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland world and centered around a young desert hunter named Kyle Fluge (alternately spelled Keil), and a mysterious armoured blue dragon (named “Lagi” by fans after the name Lundi gives his dragon in the prequel game Panzer Dragoon Zwei). Panzer Dragoon was released for the Sega Saturn by Sega itself in 1995 as a Saturn launch title. Life’s a bitch and then you’re suddenly making games for the guys you ran a multi-million dollar ad campaign snidely mocking.

Then Nintendo released the Nintendo 64 in 1996 and the Sega Saturn imploded into a gaming history footnote. For a brief stretch in the mid-90’s, when Sega was still known around the world as a console making company, Panzer Dragoon was the Sega Saturn’s flagship console-selling game, eclipsed only by its successor Panzer Dragoon Saga in terms of critical prestige.