Sega Saturn Bust-A-Move 2
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Bust-A-Move 2 on Sega Saturn is an Acclaim-published port of Taito's arcade puzzle game, released in North America in 1996. The jewel case edition is the standard retail configuration for Saturn software from this period, and complete-in-box copies with the original disc and manual in solid shape are harder to move through than you might expect. This one comes from the 1990s arcade-to-console conversion wave that put Taito's best coin-op work in living rooms.
Taito built Bust-A-Move, known in Japan as Puzzle Bobble, around the same bubble-shooting mechanic that had already proven itself in arcades across the early 1990s. The sequel added puzzle stages and a versus mode, with enough content to justify a home release without feeling like a thin port. Acclaim handled North American distribution for the Saturn version, which put it in the same pipeline as their other mid-90s Saturn catalog titles. Saturn was the serious collector's console in 1996 on the import and arcade-conversion side: the hardware had a natural affinity for 2D games that the PlayStation never quite matched, and Taito's sprite-based puzzle work came through cleanly on it. The box art on this version ran with a hard-purple and deep-blue palette, moon-face character front and center. The tagline "So Addictive It Should Be Illegal" printed across the top dates the marketing to a very particular mid-90s attitude about games and youth culture.
The moon-face still glares out, splitting friendly mascot from fever-dream cryptid.
This copy is CIB, meaning disc, manual, and jewel case are all present. Jewel cases from this period crack at the spine hinge and at the tray clips, so the structural question on any Saturn CIB is always the case first, disc second. The manual should be fully intact with no water damage on the staple binding. The disc label on Saturn software from this period can show edge wear if the disc was handled without the case for any stretch of time. Run a finger along the inner jewel case spine where the hinge meets the back panel to confirm no hairline fractures before you commit.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm the disc and manual are both present and the case shows no spine or tray-clip cracks.
The moon-face still glares out, splitting friendly mascot from fever-dream cryptid.
The Sega Era
Sega's 90s catalogue moved fast and took risks. Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, the arcades that fed them, the merchandise that trailed each launch. The blue-ribbon years produced cartridges, plush, promotional cards, and magazine inserts that rarely made it past the living room floor. What landed here was stored carefully enough to survive two console generations.
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Inspected in Las Vegas on June 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This sega saturn bust-a-move 2 originates from the 90s era[01], represents Sega[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
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Super excited picking this up over the weekend I was a big collector of magazines as a kid but this programme was a no brainer. The official survivor series 89 event programme Thanks as always to the team keepitclassiclv for looking after me
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