Sega Dreamcast

[kududoodoop]

Man i miss that thing, i LOVED it, it had great hardware, and a fantastic lineup of games. going from an N64 to a dreamcast was a huge leap in graphics and my jaw was literally on the floor when i first popped in Sonic Adventure (which that game alone was absolutely amazing). i was hooked and dreamcast was now my favorite system and i loved each moment of it.

and then i hear the dreamcast is going under and they stopped production. But why, it sold great when released, had a nice lot of developers and a superb list of games. It seems they lost all their steam to Sony.

did anyone else here like the dreamcast as much as i did?

[TriggerOfDemise]

the first time i saw that Dreamcast Sonic game where killer whale was going after Sonic, i thought that was amazing stuff. Also, that game Powerstone was fun.

[rand0m]

have one, play it, love it

fucking pissed off that it crashed

[Just Spurplin]

Never cared for it. I played it a couple times, and it was good, but with PS2 being released so close to it, and that being better then it in just about everyway, I never understood why anyone would bother with it.

[navid]

i loved it, and still do. just download the games and burn them, thats why they got fucked over. my fav games are my cds of NES roms, and my cd of SNES roms. soul calibur was cool too

[EvaMonkey]

I loved my DC... I was sad the day I found out they we're stopping making games for it.

Last game I played for it: Shenmue II

What a cliffhanger.

[blank_109]

I just laughed when I first heard of the Sega Dreamcast.

I began to loose faith with them when they shoved their greedy hands into the consumers mouths. The 32X, Sega CD, and eventually the 'Saturn' failed. I knew they were in trouble during their run with Saturn. Sega's success was only in the Genesis.

I'm sorry, but your a moron if you bought the Sega Dreamcast. You should research the company's background before buying.

[EvaMonkey]

I'm sorry, but your a moron if you bought the Sega Dreamcast. You should research the company's background before buying.


You can't cite personal opinion as fact.

I enjoyed my DC, I loved every game I played on it (especially PSO which holds a special place in my gamer soul) and I would hapily buy it again if I had too... if enjoying a games console that gave me hours, days, weeks and months of pleasure, without listening to backroom politics makes me a moron then I guess I'm a moron.

But then that'll make you a close-minded fan-boy.

[harold]

and get this we almost have enough money from the teeth for a ..... segggaaaa dreamcast

[Mr. Heskey]

It was too early for its time. Couldn't compete with the ps2...:wah:

[brevcom]

I never bought it, but enjoyed playing Sonic Adventure and Soul Reaver on my friend's system. It is too bad it crashed so soon, but it was released too close to when the PS2 was getting hyped.

[USB]

i never brought it or played on it. But some guys in my old school used to hav it and they loved their's

[Meio]

I'm gonna come over like a major Sega fanboy now. I'm not, but the cease in production of the Dreamcast was a bad thing.

This is what did for the Dreamcast:

Never cared for it. I played it a couple times, and it was good, but with PS2 being released so close to it, and that being better then it in just about everyway, I never understood why anyone would bother with it.

I just laughed when I first heard of the Sega Dreamcast.

I began to loose faith with them when they shoved their greedy hands into the consumers mouths. The 32X, Sega CD, and eventually the 'Saturn' failed. I knew they were in trouble during their run with Saturn. Sega's success was only in the Genesis.

Devs and consumers didn't like the Saturn, the 2D era had died, Sega needed to move on. They pulled their finger out with the DC but the devs and the consumers were convinced it was gonna be Saturn mk2.
When it was released the Sony propaganda machine kicked in and sold everyone on the idea that the PS2 was gonna be "better then it in just about everyway(sic)" which, when it was eventually released a year later, wasn't.

Get this:
The graphics on the PS2 weren't better.
The PS2 was more expensive.
The PS2 was more difficult to programme
The PS2 was less reliable
The PS2 wasn't online capable until years later

It did have a DVD player

Both their advertising campaigns were stupid.

I've said it before but check out this Sega fanboy site (http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/), because they're still going, even though Sega don't produce hardware, in order to jokingly debunk the bullshit. They have archives of their 'news' articles going back to before the launch of the DC: http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/saturn/archive.htm.

Oh, and games are still being made for it. Mainly Naomi ports.

[LegendaryU2K]

Own 2 dc systems, own about 90 or 95 games, play it like every day or so. At the moment, i am playing SF Rush 2049, Virtua Cop 2, and Zombie Revenge.

[Metalocalypse]

I don't even think ive ever played one.

[Axel]

I had one and only had three games for it. The only game I played on it was NFL 2K.

[kledster]

for me it was soul calibur and ready to rumble and shenmue. in retrospect, those years (99-2001) seemed almost like a magical time. everything was so new. i remember i was the only kid in the neighborhood who had it for a while, everyone else was still playing their 64 bit-or-less machines. damn those were some good memories. i still think it's the coolest console ever.

[kududoodoop]

for me it was soul calibur and ready to rumble and shenmue. in retrospect, those years (99-2001) seemed almost like a magical time. everything was so new. i remember i was the only kid in the neighborhood who had it for a while, everyone else was still playing their 64 bit-or-less machines. damn those were some good memories. i still think it's the coolest console ever.

for me it was all about sonic adventure, nfl 2k, bass fishing (with fishing controller), crazy taxi, power stone, soul calibur, shenmue

great memories.

[Cereal Killer]

i still play my dreamcast reguarly

[Meio]

Has anyone else's started suffering from 'switch-offitis' yet? Where a DC that's been used for more than a few years will play for half an hour or so, then overheat and shut down? I put mine in the cupboard when it started to do this even though I have read many fixes online.

[sebastianzx6r]

I just bought one again. It has the best games on there. Sonic, quake 3, powerstone 1 and 2. Did you all ever play with the light guns and play House of the Dead 2, Confidential Missions, Virtua Cop? The system was really great. The timing was just bad.

[firepiss]

Dreamcast was actually a good system with a good price tag on it. I never bought one, considering the fact that I was still in high school and was too damn lazy to earn a penny.

DC was a over looked system. The sales didn't take off because I believe the consumers thought of Saturn, 32X, Nomad, Game Gear and Sega CD's failures which reflected on the innocent DC. Dreamcast could have been great if people were willing to give it a chance.

[Garbeck]

I bought a dreamcast at a garage sale for $30 that came with a couple sonic games. Pretty fun for a while. Load times takes forever and it sounds like its going to explode everytime.

Anyone play Sonic Shuffle? It takes at least 3 hours to play one friggin round! A very long, boring, frustrating, drawn out game.

[Meio]

I bought a dreamcast at a garage sale for $30 that came with a couple sonic games. Pretty fun for a while. Load times takes forever and it sounds like its going to explode everytime.

Anyone play Sonic Shuffle? It takes at least 3 hours to play one friggin round! A very long, boring, frustrating, drawn out game.

Play MSR, the multitasking on the loading and saving is pretty cool.

[cushlinkes]

I believe Dreamcast was and still is the coolest video game system. I picked up Shenmue for $2.99 at my local videogame store. I used to play this game with my friends all the time... I'm finally actually playing it on my own. I'm on the 3rd disc, just finished racing fork lifts!

Load times takes forever and it sounds like its going to explode everytime. .

Wow, you must have picked up a really shitty Dreamcast. Mine never takes long to load, it loads in seconds.

[Kazimierz]

It's the winner in my book.

I've recently been playing Worms Armageddon and Crazy Taxi with my friends. God damn it's a great system.