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6:50 pm
January 20, 2009
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James
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I remember the first time I played that little grey paperweight. I had gotten a copy of rival schools and for the next few weeks, I couldnt stop playing. Well that is until I got Zombie Revenge. The best part about that system though had to be the controller. If you look at it, you can see similarities between it and the xbox controller. But I still think the Dreamcast controller was more comfortable by far. So did anyone else like the dreamcast as much as I did? Or am I typing to an empty room?
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11:14 pm
January 20, 2009
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Dead-Cypher
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Not to an empty room; I loved it as well.
I think the Dreamcast was the first real system I ever put together myself and really spent three-fourths of my day playing. Mostly, it was the Sonic Adventure games because those were popular time. Then came Fur Fighters. That game lit up my world to Conker today! My playing formula was always: Kangaroo + AK-47 = Happy Me.
The Dreamcast overall was the greatest thing that ever happened to me for about 1 year or more. I do agree with your thoughts on its controller being remarkable similar to the Xbox one. When I first saw it, I remember saying, "How in the world does anyone play with this thing?"
Wasn't the Dreamcast the system that SEGA wanted to keep secret until it had a final release date?
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10:22 am
January 21, 2009
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James
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Yes I believe sega did try and keep this under wraps until it had a final date. Personally i think at the time it was the best system out there. Even better then the ps2. But the whole lack of DVD media or the abilities to play DVD's was definatly the downfall of the system. It was just to easy to copy dreamcast games, and the graphics suffered because of the lack of storage space on the disk. Oh well, I still have mine and love it.
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9:40 pm
January 21, 2009
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Dead-Cypher
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Same here, I still have mine, but I cannot love it. For you see, it had this problem with running one game, thus leading it to contaminate the whole system making it incapable of playing any game. I envy you, I really do.
Also, wasn't the Dreamcast the first system to introduce the Online Play feature? I remember watching G4 and seeing a special of Gamer Makers on this, but I'm a tad foggy on the details.
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10:29 am
January 23, 2009
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James
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Yeah the Dreamcast had the first useable online feature. PS2 had the option, but you had to buy a modem for it. And even then you couldn't do much more then play 2 or 3 different games with limited abilites. The lag was horrible and made games impossible to play. Funny enough I saw the same Game Makers. If only they had dvd media, I am sure the dreamcast would still be here today. Or the Dreamcast 2, or the Napcast or something.
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11:35 pm
January 23, 2009
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Dead-Cypher
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Quite possibly, the Dreamcast 360 or even Dreamcube. If only DVD media would work on this mechanism! I would be one happy boy if it did.
I remember first seeing the box for the Dreamcast. My eyes melted and my mouth flodded with… Well, you can guess what. And there was this strange radiance in my soul; such puzzling emotions for just a box containing something that probably inspired the next box including a controller or two. Really, it was Sonic that set me off. First time I had ever seen Shadow, kudos to SEGA for creating him, in a Sonic game. Moreover, it was the first system I ever played a real violence game on. That is "Fur Fighters" which led me to playing "Conker." What was your first reaction in seeing that "little, grey paperweight?"
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7:58 am
January 24, 2009
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James
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When I first saw it, I was a little stand-offish. I was trying to figure how good another sega platform could really be since the genesis ended very quickly and was burried at the end of its run. But when I picked it up I was pleasently suprised. The fast load times, the nice graphics and sound, i was hooked.
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11:16 am
January 24, 2009
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I must say that I also really loved my dreamcast. I played the living crap out of it for about 6-8 months. It was super cool the way i picked it up for $39.95 and could amass a giant game library by purchasing "back-up copies" via various sites. I think I ended up with about 40 games if I'm not mistaken in about a month. Most of which were plain stinky, but some were cool like Zombie Revenge, Sonic, and Bangai-oh! I believe it was definitely the lack of DVD compatibility that drove this into the ground, if it had succeeded we may very well have seem a next-gen sega system instead of the company just producing the slew of mediocre 3rd party titles that it releases periodically. Oh well, I ended up putting it down when I got my Xbox 360. (or maybe it was over when my VMU battery died  ) Still have it and it works perfectly fine, being based on the timeless Windows NT platform and all. Maybe I should have a dreamcast party sometime soon…
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4:32 pm
January 24, 2009
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Dead-Cypher
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Post edited 11:34 pm – January 24, 2009 by Dead-Cypher
Yeah… I remember when video game consoles were not around $300 – $400, but they were only at most $99.
There was one disc that probably came with, or maybe I purchased it later after I was used to the games and how they worked, the Dreamcast and it was this disc of all different games; one of those demo discs. It had some really nice Arcade classics that you would probably still find in an Arcade somewhere. Just your basic first-person shoot 'em up game. Nothing all too special, but it was definitely "it" back in its days.
Hehe… You should host a gathering. What games would be available for play at this event?
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9:55 am
January 25, 2009
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Andy
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Well let's see, I've managed to find most of my collection in boxes from "the move." and we have:
Resident Evil 3:Nemesis, Powerstone 2, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, San Francisco Rush: 2049, Chu Chu Rocket, Daytona USA 2001, Ecco the Dolphin, Sonic Adventure 2, Godzilla, Virtua Striker 2, Quake 3 Arena, Incoming (which sadly is where I probably spent most of my dreamcast days), Last Blade 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Bangai-Oh!, Puyo Puyo 4, Guilty Gear x, Hydro Thunder, Starlancer, Sonic Adventure, Zombie Revenge, Outtrigger, Psychic Force 2012, Dead or Alive 2, AIR, Virtual On: Ontario Tangram, Maken X, Tokyo Extreme Racer, and Tomb Raider: the Last Revelation (who I have never known anyone who was able to get past the tutorial in the beginning, making it a actually possibility that they never made the whole game, just left the tutorial broken so no one would ever know…)
…and that does not include the stack which i traded in for Dead Rising when I got my Xbox 360…
Oh and the CD – X (the disc that allows you to play international region games), Gameshark (game cheats disc, sorry no level select for tomb raider…), and the boot disc which allows the play of game copy discs….
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11:33 am
January 25, 2009
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CountingGardens
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Dreamcast will probably be one of my favorite systems of all time. Somewhere between the PS1 and the PS2. I bought it around the time of its death, brand new for 99.99 and it came with Sonic Adventure and Sonic Shuffle. Around this time, all the games were massively cheap or going on clearance, so it was an awesome time to get it. I played tons of Shenmue, Power Stone, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Capcom vs SNK 2, Sonic Adventure, Berserk, and honestly the list just keeps going on and on.
I definitely agree with the smoothness of the controller. It's by far the best format for a game controller I've ever held in my hand. The VMU was innovative, and if it didn't suck watch batteries all day long, probably could've been a great idea since digital pets were very popular back in the day. I didn't think the graphics were honestly that bad, and the fact that it used CDs instead of DVDs didn't really bother me too much. The big downfalls were that games were easily pirated and copied, and the really amazing games, at least the ones that I loved, didn't even come out in this country, or were underprinted and rare. You talked about owning Rival Schools? Holy crap, I'd hang on to that. It was also annoying that Shenmue II never got printed for the American Dreamcast library, but only for the European one. I grabbed it later on the Xbox for 10 bucks, so I didn't really care, but it was rather annoying.
Long live the Dreamcast, but it still sits with my Wii, PS2, and 360 on my entertainment cabinet.
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11:13 pm
January 25, 2009
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James
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Rival schools was such an addicting game. And after finally unlocking all the characters, I managed to lose the VMU my games were saved on lol. Shenmue was by far my favorite game for the system though. Other then Final Fantasy, this was my only other RPG and will always hold a place in my gaming heart. The only thing that aggrivated me was the fact that the ending didnt give me anything. Just a setup for part 2 which I never had the chance to play.
Like most people, I picked up mine at gamestop for 39.99 when they announced it was being discontinued. And it was the best purchase I had ever made. Like Andy, I was able to get the games offline for relativly cheap and amassed a huge library. Im gonna have to digg that bad boy out of the "Games of Yore" plastic tub and fire it up again. I kinda miss playing Marvel v Capcom 2 and Zombie Revenge.
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