Happy 15th, Dreamcast! - Polidicks

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Dreamcast_logo.svg/220px-Dreamcast_logo.svg.png[/IMG] [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Dreamcast-Console-Set.jpg[/t] [I]It's dreaming...[/I] [Quote]It was 15 years ago today, on the memorable date of September 9, 1999, that the Sega Dreamcast made its debut in North America. Although the console dwindled out fairly quickly, many still have fond memories of what would turn out be Sega's last console--and that includes EA chief operating officer Peter Moore. Moore, who served as president of Sega of America at the time of the Dreamcast's launch, sent out a tweet today calling attention to the Dreamcast's anniversary, saying, "Fond memories." He later sent out another tweet with screenshots of a message that he describes as "late-night musings on the Sega Dreamcast." These include recounting some of the console's innovations, and noting how former Sega employees (including Moore) sometimes still get together to talk about what could have been.[/quote] [url]http://www.gamespot.com/articles/dreamcast-turns-15-former-sega-boss-peter-moore-wi/1100-6422209/[/url]

The little console that couldn't..

4 years on sale and 11 years of people talking nonstop about how utterly fantastic it was.

I still have one of these, fully functioning, with several games for it.

[QUOTE=Chrisordie;45935251]4 years on sale and 11 years of people talking nonstop about how utterly fantastic it was.[/QUOTE] maybe it actually was shit but people are blinded by nostalgia

I have one these, bought for the exclusive purpose of playing the best version of Soul Reaver 1. Maybe I'll hook it up today.

The Dreamcast is sort of an enigma. Its like some weird cross generational abbaration that was too early and too small an improvement to really be groundbreaking.

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;45935365]maybe it actually was shit but people are blinded by nostalgia[/QUOTE] It was actually had decent features, rendered shit differently if i remember correctly and had online play. Had pretty good games too.

Only games I have for mine are SA1 and SA2.

happy birthday best console <3

[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Sega-Dreamcast-Sports-Black-Console.jpg[/t] Sega sports Dreamcast best Dreamcast

thank you for causing the creation of SA1 and SA2 and by extension, bring SADX and SA2B to the gamecube, which I played the shit out of as a kid

thank you sega for producing the wonder known as chu chu rocket

MvC2 and Crazy Taxi <3 also a port of HL1 that never came to be

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;45935365]maybe it actually was shit but people are blinded by nostalgia[/QUOTE] Well I mean feature-wise it was pretty impressive for the time, but the third party support was pretty bad. [editline]9th September 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Oizen;45935532]Only games I have for mine are SA1 and SA2.[/QUOTE] I remember some pretty fucking weird games on my dreamcast. I mean I had SA1/2, Soul Calibur, Phantasy Star Online, Ooga Booga, some weird sonic version of mario party and crazy party but then there was this fucking game [thumb]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/4231/242418-seaman.jpg[/thumb] seriously, what the fuck. I actually owned that game

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;45935365]maybe it actually was shit but people are blinded by nostalgia[/QUOTE] The console itself was, in many regards, ahead of it's time: it was the first home console to include a modem as standard; it was the first to offer full RGB progressive video through VGA as standard; it was the first to include second screen (albeit limited) functionality through the VMUs; it was one of the first to use parts that were considered "off the shelf" rather than specially developed. Unfortunately, it was everything else that was problem: Sega had no momentum coming off of the Saturn; Sony had all of the momentum coming off of the PS1 as well as the promise a DVD drive in the PS2; lacklustre third party support, particularly with sports games (EA famously pledged allegiance to the PS2). The market just wasn't there for the little white box of dreams.

I remember playing Quake lll on this when it first came out because I had a god-awful Win98 PC.

Still waiting for a next-gen Seaman.

I still boot the ol' console up for Toy Commander/Dino Crisis now and then. I guess it's nostalgia but it is really sad when your childhood doesn't live up to the modern age.

I often imagine an alternate universe where the Dreamcast was successful enough to stay afloat, but it was just too little too late in the console cycle with PS2 and Xbox around the corner. Shenmue was one of my favorite games, I know a lot of people didn't like the amount of QTE's in the game but honestly there is so damn much to do in that game, even down to buying little figurines from coin-operated machines and collecting them if you want. Later in the game you could even go to an arcade containing a bunch of old Sega arcade games, it was awesome and pretty groundbreaking at the time due to the amount of content. Power Stone, Sonic Adventure, The Floigan Bros, Quake Arena III, and Crazy Taxi along with Shenmue were some of my best gaming experiences when I was young, and I can honestly remember just how devastated I was when it was discontinued. I may just be nostalgic, but the Dreamcast was pretty incredible to me at the time and I still play it every once in a great while to play a quick Quake III Arena match with friends, I know it sounds stupid but even if it was a financial failure it was definitely a success in my eyes and a huge influence on my gaming today.

I still fire up Soul Calibur from time to time.

The world wasn't ready for the Dreamcast.

Too bad that is was way too easy to pirate games for it.

[QUOTE=Xubs;45939570]That's one of the big contributions out of many that lead to the Dreamcast's downfall. Publishers didn't wanna touch it when they got wind of the news it had a rampant piracy problem compared to even its predecessors and the upcoming competition. If software pirates ever tell you piracy has no ill effect whatsoever, the fate of the Dreamcast is an easy counterexample. It wasn't its only problem, but it mounted up in a grocery list of issues that lead to the inevitable withdrawal from the console industry by Sega.[/QUOTE] On the upside, you could get Half-Life 1 mods to work on the Dreamcast since the source code for that version leaked.

Toy Commander, Powerstone, Crazy Taxi, SA1 & SA2. Thank you Dreamcast.

The Dreamcast is still my favorite system of all time, and it's not really nostalgia. There's just something about it that I really enjoy. I like the games, and just the way it feels.

My dreamcast sits next to me at my desk, it hasn't left my side since i got it. Wish i still had games for it though, can't remember what happened to them. All i have left is Sonic Adventure 1.

Shenmue

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;45935473]The Dreamcast is sort of an enigma. Its like some weird cross generational abbaration that was too early and too small an improvement to really be groundbreaking.[/QUOTE] I'll have to disagree, the Dreamcast hardware wise was nothing like a small improvement. Soul Calibur is far beyond what the PS1/N64 and even most PCs at the time.

Looking at the lifetime of the Dreamcast is depressing. For the first few months it sold really well, better than a console coming off the Saturn had any right to do, it had good games, and was the most powerful machine of its generation for a while. And then a few months into its promising life the PS2 came along and smothered it to death. In a world where Sony didn't decide to make their own console, the Dreamcast probably would have won that generation. I never owned a Dreamcast but I've always wanted one, and some day I'll buy one and love it along with my Megadrive.