The Story of The Unreleased SEGA PLUTO - The Controversial Lost Sega Console Documentary

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In today's content, we explore the history of the Sega Pluto, the bizarre lost console that a game hunter stumbled across and purchased out in the wild. What is this strange Sega Saturn variant's history and what is its significance to gaming. Let's find out!
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  • @AdamKoralik
    @AdamKoralik2 жыл бұрын

    Hey, thanks for the shout out. Huge point of clarification though, the Pluto that was sold for $84,000 was NOT the one owned by Roger (KidVid). It was the Japanese unit. He and Roger discussed the sale prior, that is to say, they were in contact with each other. Roger still has his Pluto as we intend to do more tests with it that the pandemic delayed.

  • @LadyDecade

    @LadyDecade

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ahhhhhh thank you so much for this! I hope KidVid manages to get his sale soon!

  • @unorthdoxcleric6953

    @unorthdoxcleric6953

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great thanks for the important info

  • @warehousedave7937

    @warehousedave7937

    2 жыл бұрын

    I would not sell that thing for under 500K if it were mine. Not because I like it, just knowing how obsessive Sega collectors can be. Auctioning is not smart. The man should put it up for $1,000,000 OBO and test the waters that way.

  • @MaffeyZilog

    @MaffeyZilog

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@warehousedave7937 That's idiotic. Nobody is going to pay that price for it and all it's going to do is sit. Not sure if you know how collectables work but they don't just jump in price from thousands to millions just because somebody holds on to them forever.

  • @warehousedave7937

    @warehousedave7937

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MaffeyZilog how is that idiotic? I sell video games for a living and know this business extremely well. If I want to make as much as possible for a one of a kind piece with a TON of historic and collectible merit... What should I do? You tell me, smart guy.

  • @Tom_Van_Zandt
    @Tom_Van_Zandt2 жыл бұрын

    The Sega Neptune is an early example of the Mandela Effect for me...for many years I remembered the Sega Neptune being on store shelves. I remembered seeing it displayed in the glass case. It was a weird period for gaming at that time...the market was flooded with consoles. It was hard to know which one to support. That's one of the big reasons I stuck with Nintendo.

  • @UNPOCOLOCO444

    @UNPOCOLOCO444

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I remember going to Toy "R" Us as a child and being overwhelmed by all the different consoles available during the 90s. I had no idea what was what, and just ended up getting a NES as my first game console. It wasn't the latest console when I got it, but I had tons of fun on it as a little kid.

  • @andrewhanson1180

    @andrewhanson1180

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's possible you mistook it for the Genesis model 2, they look similar.

  • @Riz2336
    @Riz23362 жыл бұрын

    That's crazy it sold for that amount. The Saturn is one of my favorite consoles, I can kind of see why they didn't want to bother with putting this on the market because the Saturn was already expensive enough at the time when it was released without a built in modem

  • @trip2themoon

    @trip2themoon

    2 жыл бұрын

    Considering the rarity of the system $84,000 doesn't seem too bad for a console that has only 2 known working examples in existence. With that kind of rarity the seller can pretty much dictate the price. Reading through some of the other comments it seems that Kid Vid has held on to it. If I was him I wouldn't be willing to part with it for anything under $100,000.

  • @undone14
    @undone142 жыл бұрын

    Just found this channel! Loving the content. I'm a sucker for video game nostalgia and any awesome details/stories (such as this one)

  • @ohbogey
    @ohbogey2 жыл бұрын

    Haven't heard of this system since the days of EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine). U roll pretty deep!👏

  • @WhatGameBefore
    @WhatGameBefore2 жыл бұрын

    Agree with you that it would've been nice going to a museum. Given how many times he tried to sell it though, it was always going to a private collection :(

  • @Katana2040
    @Katana2040 Жыл бұрын

    So glad I found this channel! Cheers!

  • @211inprogress
    @211inprogress2 жыл бұрын

    Cool, I've never heard of the Pluto, nice one. 🕹️ ✌️

  • @brxxndon1773
    @brxxndon17732 жыл бұрын

    Love the content. Very well researched and concisely organized. Subscribed look forward to your new content

  • @baconsoap78
    @baconsoap782 жыл бұрын

    I’m so glad I found this channel! Love it!

  • @thefappingfive2170
    @thefappingfive21702 жыл бұрын

    This is the first video that I've seen....I immediately subscribed. Great content!!! Keep it up!

  • @kanecain1981
    @kanecain19812 жыл бұрын

    Glad I found this channel. Hope it goes big!

  • @LusRetroSource
    @LusRetroSource2 жыл бұрын

    Great documentary! Really enjoy your channel.

  • @francescosmith7859
    @francescosmith78592 жыл бұрын

    Another great video! I always enjoy these console videos and will never get tired of learning about Sega and their myriad of consoles and ad ons.

  • @EvaFull
    @EvaFull2 жыл бұрын

    One learning tree that is very easy to sit under & enjoy all the little bits of trivia dug up in your research 🔬. Keep it up 👍. Definitely one of my new favorite channel to wait for new content from. PS Thank You Top Hat Gaming Man for recommending this channel a few weeks ago. Enjoying the content immensely. Even went back to watch some of the legacy content.

  • @slpstrm6952
    @slpstrm69522 жыл бұрын

    Only found you recently, got say as someone who played pong in the arcade I'm loving both you & the nostalgic trips down memory lane. Keep up the great work

  • @ShadowEl
    @ShadowEl2 жыл бұрын

    found your channel from the SEGA Neptune video and immediately subscribed! congrats on 10K!!!

  • @shintok1745
    @shintok17452 жыл бұрын

    Another awesome and informative video. You never disappoint.

  • @burrisvanhulle5606
    @burrisvanhulle56062 жыл бұрын

    Great video and great channel some info I never knew thank you 😊

  • @LadyDecade
    @LadyDecade2 жыл бұрын

    If you fancy supporting what I do, I'll give you a credit and shout out at the end of all of my upcoming videos. Now gimme all your money, fanks x - Support My Work On Patreon - www.patreon.com/LadyDecade

  • @matt8264

    @matt8264

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@HumanRubiksCube Would the system have pink hair, not shave and be overweight? Will it complain that no one would want to play it let alone have multiplayer functionality?

  • @raymondjack4634

    @raymondjack4634

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do you and #top hat gamer share the same game room?

  • @mscottjohnson3424

    @mscottjohnson3424

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@HumanRubiksCube Is Lady Decade a radical feminist?

  • @mscottjohnson3424

    @mscottjohnson3424

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@matt8264 Nah, the system would be great fun with the best games with the best stories, but wouldn't run for antisocial men who feel entitled to play it.

  • @BrechdanHam

    @BrechdanHam

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is some great content. Glad I found the channel

  • @shawn_530
    @shawn_5302 жыл бұрын

    Another awesome and informative video. Keep up the great work! BTW, that console is huge! It looks like the size of an old Intellivision!

  • @kadosho02
    @kadosho022 жыл бұрын

    That was fascinating. Bummer very few exist. But at least those remaining, are in good homes. SEGA's console legacy, so many stories, and some buried treasures. Excellent video

  • @TheHighsea
    @TheHighsea2 жыл бұрын

    I didn’t know nearly enough about this, great video!

  • @buenoblue1
    @buenoblue12 жыл бұрын

    Just found this channel. Great work. Vids are very imformative, concise and edited very well. I'm very picky about who I subscribe too but you deserve it. Keep up the great work.

  • @leigh3307
    @leigh33072 жыл бұрын

    Another great video, you have yourself a new fan here 😀💯

  • @MikeC-ps1tc
    @MikeC-ps1tc2 жыл бұрын

    Wow a grear video! I remember seeing the grey prototype in the mags! Very lucky kid without a doubt, I hope it shows up again soon!

  • @tsuikagura
    @tsuikagura2 жыл бұрын

    I remember that Ben Hack video :O I was so intrigued about the console. Love the Saturn. I'll never get over SEGA quitting the console industry... ( meaning I'm still hoping they'd return... just team up with CAPCOM, SNK and Bandai Namco, you know you want to )

  • @trip2themoon

    @trip2themoon

    2 жыл бұрын

    I haven't seen Ben's video yet, but that was pretty decent of him to do those repairs for free.

  • @oliverhale85
    @oliverhale852 жыл бұрын

    Excellent. I do enjoy obscure learning about consoles and peripherals :)

  • @segare-trop-vieux3932
    @segare-trop-vieux39322 жыл бұрын

    Great video as usual. I like the panzer dragoon background music 😉

  • @pika-seb1484
    @pika-seb14842 жыл бұрын

    Very good channel. Thanks from switzerland.

  • @sajmeister
    @sajmeister2 жыл бұрын

    Never heard of this OMG 😲 Thanks for this video, you're a hero.

  • @THE_COCKNEY_COCONUT
    @THE_COCKNEY_COCONUT2 жыл бұрын

    Loving the Radiant silver gun bgm. Cool.

  • @wadereardon6483
    @wadereardon64832 жыл бұрын

    Awsome video. I hadn't ever heard of the Neptune or Pluto.

  • @optimalstate3190
    @optimalstate31902 жыл бұрын

    Wow, nice channel. Love your accent. And the editing is pretty top notch

  • @strangestuff9696
    @strangestuff96962 жыл бұрын

    great video, I have subbed and looking forward to more

  • @herculescelular3278
    @herculescelular32782 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic. Great video.

  • @SlapadelicMusic
    @SlapadelicMusic2 жыл бұрын

    just found your channel, this is a very well made video and Ive never heard of the pluto before also, as an american, I just wanna clarify that as far as I know 'swap meet' and 'flea market' are interchangeable at least from my experience, when I lived in Texas I mostly heard "flea market" but here in the SF Bay Area most people I know say 'swap meet'

  • @divinedeva84
    @divinedeva842 жыл бұрын

    This was a good video... You got a new sub!.

  • @Yup712
    @Yup7122 жыл бұрын

    I had no idea that any actual consoles of the Sega Pluto actually existed! Great video!

  • @Retrocidal
    @Retrocidal11 ай бұрын

    Another Awesome retro video

  • @jameshuntley1320
    @jameshuntley13202 жыл бұрын

    @Lady Decade - I enjoyed this video a lot, great commentary, and love the accent! Keep up the good work and looking forward to the next video 🙌🏽💪🏽😎💯

  • @jennyholiday88
    @jennyholiday882 жыл бұрын

    Will NEVER forget my SEGA Saturn. I went to a pawn shop and found a model 1 Saturn and a model 2 controller for $60. My God was it such a premium console- I still have so much onstage for the late 90s gaming aesthetic and the saturn embodies it more than just about anything. Such a neat system

  • @AngryCalvin

    @AngryCalvin

    11 ай бұрын

    I love Saturn. PlayStation classics are very accessible. So many hidden gems for the Saturn and great arcade ports you can’t even find anywhere.

  • @manuelhung7571
    @manuelhung75712 жыл бұрын

    Dreamcast for me is the best console SEGA ever made. I bought one brand new which I still have to this day and it was far ahead of the competition back then. Still have every peripheral for it, only weak bit of Dreamcast design was the VMU's battery life, coincell batteries were expensive in the 90's. It is an impressive design tech wise in a solidly compact unit, just need to retrobrite mine because of sun fade. House of the Dead with the lightgun was epic. 1st games machine I ever used on a PC monitor, pin sharp display. 1st device I ever used on the Internet. It should have put SEGA back at the top of the tree but sadly, that was not to be. CEX still sell them for £60 which is crazy cheap for such a low selling unit, PS2's are £dearer£ and they sold over 100,000,000 units.

  • @olissboat73
    @olissboat732 жыл бұрын

    Hi. Firstly, I am absolutly loving your channel, secondly, do you have a link to the video where it is opend up? Regards xx

  • @lacquerware6962
    @lacquerware69622 жыл бұрын

    You are very good at this.

  • @AcornElectron
    @AcornElectron2 жыл бұрын

    Keep up the good work lass and stay safe. Hope Richard and the sproglets are well.

  • @sergejacinto
    @sergejacinto2 жыл бұрын

    I've been watching videos about retro gaming for years. WHY DID KZread WAIT SO LONG TO RECOMMEND THIS CHANNEL???

  • @ssmldjmiigamers5408
    @ssmldjmiigamers54082 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I never even knew about the Neptune, but I heard a bit of the Pluto, which was the Saturn's successor. I found your channel, and there's no doubt that it is amazing!!

  • @greenkoopa
    @greenkoopa2 жыл бұрын

    So much first 🏰🐢

  • @VideoHeadMan
    @VideoHeadMan2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for that. I thought I knew about this console but I guess I didn’t at all. Appreciate the vid.

  • @Gigatech151
    @Gigatech1512 жыл бұрын

    Here in Mexico, arround 1995 - 1999, we used to have a tv news show calles CYBERNET, it presented gaming news and technology. The voice of this lady, remainds me soo much of that anchor lady in that old news show.

  • @ElricSowrd
    @ElricSowrd2 жыл бұрын

    I think I remember about Sega Pluto. 6:51- Oh no.

  • @Commodore128
    @Commodore1282 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting, I always wondered if there were more "planet" consoles out there. Imagine a whole Sega solar systrem!

  • @miked820
    @miked820 Жыл бұрын

    Yeah it's rare and a cool story of how he stumbled across it. Super cool!!!!!

  • @SpencerCageStudios
    @SpencerCageStudios2 жыл бұрын

    I actually played the Sega Pluto at a Games Expo in Sacramento the game it was playing was Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams

  • @xarrassashenstar9834
    @xarrassashenstar98342 жыл бұрын

    You sound an awful lot like Lucy Longhurst from Cybernet back in the day....and that's really cool! - I really miss that show :( .Anyway , keep up the good work. Subbed

  • @BlameThande
    @BlameThande2 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Sega does seem to have been ahead of the curve when it came to internet connectivity. Also, it's refreshing to have a British source that refers to car boot sales and weighs consoles in stones so I don't have to translate in my head ;)

  • @kevinwoolford123
    @kevinwoolford1232 жыл бұрын

    My carboot episode 😁 that stall was so killer I don't think I will ever run out of cash on 1 stall again 🤣 miss them days. Nes SP for £1.50p!

  • @PoutingTrevor
    @PoutingTrevor2 жыл бұрын

    Wow! How cool is that!

  • @8ullfrog
    @8ullfrog6 ай бұрын

    ugh, another disappearing rarity. Glad Ben got to document it first.

  • @emac8381
    @emac83812 жыл бұрын

    If you find gold you don't sell at a bronze price, only 2 in the world!. Don't blame him one bit, wait for the right price. A once in a lifetime find

  • @versatyledc
    @versatyledc2 жыл бұрын

    a while back i had a dream that i walked into a game store and saw the Sega Pluto. The funny thing is that i had never saw the Sega Pluto before until i watched this video

  • @TPRES_74
    @TPRES_742 жыл бұрын

    SEGA probably bought it. But used a 3rd party to buy it. They felt stupid leaving something like that out in the wild.

  • @thesegacampgamerandwerecam7504
    @thesegacampgamerandwerecam7504 Жыл бұрын

    0:54 are you forgetting something? The Sega 32X was Project Mars too! Sega must like Naming their Systems off of Planets in the Solar System!

  • @DiabolikalRA
    @DiabolikalRA2 жыл бұрын

    Top hat wrestling man is one lucky sob Great videos Lady Decade 🤘

  • @SonicStation
    @SonicStation2 жыл бұрын

    So let's see if I get this right. A channel THIS GOOD only appeared in my recommended tab today after posting videos for 2 years? Why KZread, WHY??? Either way just found this channel, watched a couple of videos and I must say I am loving the experience until now! Wish you a ton of success and hope to see more incredible content coming soon ;)

  • @jonathanlamb9024
    @jonathanlamb90242 жыл бұрын

    Anyone remember watching games master, watching these videos takes me back to those era's.loved that show back in the day.

  • @manic_exposure
    @manic_exposure2 жыл бұрын

    almost spit out my coffee when she mentioned stone. haha, nice.

  • @joshhasnogame
    @joshhasnogame2 жыл бұрын

    I was just looking at some info... It seems like there were (at least) two prototypes in the US and you may have confused the story of the two consoles. One is the one owned by KidVid, and the second was in the possession of a “former Sega employee”. The second one (which had “Sega Saturn” emblazoned on its top, and not just the S logo, and is pictured in your video’s still image) is the one that sold for $84,000 last year. Either KidVid still has his, or he made some sort of a private sale.

  • @Gatorade69

    @Gatorade69

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are right. Kidvid still has his Pluto.

  • @Civonos
    @Civonos2 жыл бұрын

    Where did you get the video of the Sega Channel collection at 10:15?

  • @ExplodingMusicSyndrome

    @ExplodingMusicSyndrome

    2 жыл бұрын

    Its a video on KZread called "finding the sega Neptune in doom"

  • @mikeylovespizza4012
    @mikeylovespizza40122 жыл бұрын

    Never knew about this console!

  • @mr.g-sez
    @mr.g-sez2 жыл бұрын

    never heard of your channel but when i saw the info and this video alone made me click that sub button. your probably the only girl talking about this kinda stuff. edit: 5:29 if you look carefully in her eye you can see 2 pupils!

  • @spankboogie1503
    @spankboogie15032 жыл бұрын

    How am i just now finding this channel?!?! Binge time lol

  • @FarmerSlideJoeBob
    @FarmerSlideJoeBob2 жыл бұрын

    Coolio 😃 Pretty interesting about sega's lost hardware 🙂

  • @jagergerg9771
    @jagergerg97712 жыл бұрын

    I doubt he would give the money to his parents.

  • @lakojake4215

    @lakojake4215

    2 жыл бұрын

    It was probably just a way to get more money for it. He seems like a pretty greedy guy.

  • @oriongurtner7293
    @oriongurtner7293 Жыл бұрын

    Another lil fun fact about that Pluto: it’s the only Pluto remaining with a black case, the one at the NVM has a white case, making it even rarer

  • @akyeolol2554
    @akyeolol25542 жыл бұрын

    this is a neat video on the sega pluto and also will you create a discord server in the future?

  • @howtocreateresilience7009
    @howtocreateresilience70092 жыл бұрын

    Watching this reminded me of the Sega CD2, that I desperately wanted when I was 9 years old or something like that, but didn't know at all what it was good for, I just really wanted it besides already owning a mega drive 2..

  • @Atais_UKBM
    @Atais_UKBM Жыл бұрын

    It belongs in a museum!

  • @richhall3925
    @richhall39252 жыл бұрын

    Okay wait did I see a Seagate harddrive there too? Is that something from the Pluto repair video? Did the Pluto have a harddrive in it like most consoles now and what was it used for???

  • @lilithreignmusic
    @lilithreignmusic2 жыл бұрын

    The one that I saw was some guy accompanied Adam koralik from Chicago took it up to Madison Wisconsin so Ben heck can work on it and get it running they also found out the Prototype we have here in the United States used to be white and it was just painted black

  • @atomiswave1971
    @atomiswave19712 жыл бұрын

    I like your channel.. will keep watching..

  • @floralpoboop
    @floralpoboop10 ай бұрын

    The Neptune was a 32x before it was a addon. The Saturn had a crazy amount of variants with the Brazilian market being the weirdest. Kidvid

  • @deepblue8143
    @deepblue81432 жыл бұрын

    I like how you say Pluto! :)

  • @julianjv7325
    @julianjv73252 жыл бұрын

    Great video girl.

  • @TheRealDustinNunn
    @TheRealDustinNunn2 жыл бұрын

    The Sega Pluto, aka the model 3 Sega Saturn.

  • @christopherkelly577
    @christopherkelly5772 жыл бұрын

    What a fox🦊 THGM is a lucky gentleman indeed to have such a savvy queen

  • @lazerpeabody8062
    @lazerpeabody80622 жыл бұрын

    Anyone ever tell you that you look a lot like Daphne moon from Fraser ? ( just discovered you love your vids )

  • @CB-py1xh
    @CB-py1xh2 жыл бұрын

    The gaming world just wasnt ready for online gaming on a scale where it would justify an expensive hardware revision just for that purpose back in the mid 90s. At least not in Europe. What they really should have done instead of 32x, CD, Neptune and Pluto is a deluxe Saturn with Megadrive backwards compatibility. That would have been it! Go 32bit and take your 16bit library with you. Nobody else offered that, all obsessed with polygons.

  • @STICKOMEDIA
    @STICKOMEDIA2 жыл бұрын

    Cool

  • @reemademashki7656
    @reemademashki76562 жыл бұрын

    Wow never knew it existed

  • @daveguiney3437
    @daveguiney34372 жыл бұрын

    i got the megacd in the early 90s i had never seen it ever i had birthday money and the currys was shutting down i know now its rare i played it and loved it like every women goes omg a guy with his toys i cashed it out for 15 ps1 games awsome console

  • @bruceaskew2107
    @bruceaskew21072 жыл бұрын

    Ain't that the sonic song that summons the tails doll 🤣🤣, i would have loved to try some of these unreleased Sega's , and I wish the Sega channel would come back lol

  • @rogerkreil3314
    @rogerkreil33142 жыл бұрын

    Crazy! 😛

  • @madcommodore
    @madcommodore2 жыл бұрын

    There were only 5 Saturn games that had any Saturn Modem/Netlink Modem so didn't make any sense to re-tool manufacturing for this additional console to be manufactured and complicating Sega's production. If people really wanted to use the Saturn on the net they could buy the modem for a regular Saturn. There was no killer app of an internet game for the Saturn, bit of a problem.

  • @doaldox
    @doaldox2 жыл бұрын

    I bought an apple pippin but then i found out the games were more expensive than the system itself so i sold it (it was supposed to work with burn blank cd games but it almost never did) i got a bootleg power rangers Zeo game to work once and never again 😂

  • @CookyMonzta

    @CookyMonzta

    2 жыл бұрын

    With only 2 Plutos left on the planet, the new owner of KidVid's Pluto could get more than $300,000 for it in 10 years... Now, if Steve Jobs hadn't come back to Apple (c1997), to overhaul its operation and redesign macOS when he did, and Apple had gone belly-up sometime between 2000 and 2005, that Pippin of yours (if you still have it) might be worth at least $5,000 now.

  • @jacobbaranowski
    @jacobbaranowski2 жыл бұрын

    I love SEGA!

  • @trip2themoon
    @trip2themoon2 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to know about the original owner and how the heck did they ever manage to get their hands on it and why on Earth did they sell it for a dollar? Due to how ridiculously rare it's turned out to be I was glad to hear that Kid Vid still has it. He would have been seriously screwing himself if he'd let it go for under $100,000. A possible scenario: I just got home from school, "Mum, where's my Sega?". "what? That one you rarely ever use? I sold it at the car boot sale today". "aww, that disappointing, please tell me you got a decent price". "I got a dollar for it". WWWWWHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTTT..............

  • @TheFLOMAN76
    @TheFLOMAN762 жыл бұрын

    This sexy woman brings some old ass technology to light, that has not been seen, mostly forgotten, or never was a thing, in many years! Lady Decade is my new fave! Cheerz!

  • @thetezz0001
    @thetezz00012 жыл бұрын

    Interesting