About this game
Cotton 2: Magical Night Dreams, released on Sega Saturn in December 1997, is the sequel to Success's Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams (1991) — a horizontal shooter centered on a young witch named Cotton who flies on her broomstick collecting candy, powered by fairy companions. The Saturn port followed only weeks after the arcade release due to the game running on Sega's ST-V board (essentially Saturn hardware in arcade form), making the home version exceptionally faithful. The game features fighting-game-style command inputs for magic spells and a chain-kill scoring system.
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The Cotton series is a rarity in Japanese gaming: a female protagonist-centered shooter with a deliberately comedic, non-serious tone in a genre dominated by space fighters and military hardware. Success Co. developed several shooters in the 1990s; Cotton 2 and its remixed follow-up Cotton Boomerang (1998, Saturn) represent the series at its peak. Complete-in-box copies of Cotton 2 Saturn are increasingly sought after by collectors of late-era Saturn titles.
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A remixed version called Cotton Boomerang: Magical Night Dreams was released in Japanese arcades in September 1998 and also ported to Saturn, adding playable characters and revised scoring. The original Cotton (1991, PC Engine CD-ROM²) is also registered in this museum. Together, the two Saturn entries represent the series' console peak — and are now among the harder-to-find Saturn titles in the collector market.
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Region & Compatibility
Japan exclusive. No official Western release of Cotton 2 Saturn.
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Hand-cleaned and tested units shipped worldwide from Toyohashi, Japan. HP direct purchase exclusive: we include a printed shop owner's note card with every order.
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