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Here's a really good article about the history of the system.

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For me the Dreamcast was a new dawn in video games.

When news started flying about the Dreamcast I was so geeked. I didn't own a Saturn. I thought it was a pile of junk honestly.

In early 2009 video's started popping up online of Sonic Adventure. At the time I didn't have a computer at all. I only had one friend who had a computer and the internets. 56k baby. We would spend hours just downloading a couple 20 second long vids just to get a glimpse of the new Sonic game. And it was worth every minute. Even the low res vids just blew us away.

Fast forward a couple months closer to the launch and on of the coolest things in video game history happened to me. Sega announced that it would rent out pre-production Dreamcasts at select Hollywood Video stores around the country. This was an opportunity that I would not let pass up and was genius marketing. I called the closest Hollywood Video, which was 40 min away, and asked when they would be getting them, how much, etc etc. They actually knew right away so this wasn't some decision made on a whim by Sega. I reserved one during that call. I don't recall the day when they started renting them but I do recall I was the first one there. I put down my $300 deposit got a brand new shiny Dreamcast, one controller, and Sonic Adventure for a couple days. My friend was coming over early that day and we were planning on a marathon game day. Seeing the game in all it's glory for the fist time was just jaw dropping. You have to remember this was the first console were polygons were virtually invisible because the poly count was so high. After hours upon hours of playing Sonic we neared the end of the game and we realized something...we couldn't stop at this point because we couldn't save becuase we didn't have the cool ass insert memory card thing for the controller. We ended up beating Sonic three times that day and we loved every bit of it. I had no complaints.

Now jump ahead to 9-9-1999. This shit was huge. Dreamcast ads were everywhere. The phrase "It's Thinking" was embedded in yo brain! The hype machine was at full steam ahead. If you guys haven't figured it out by now, I'm a little extreme when it comes to certain things. I'm the asshole that has to have things before everyone else. This was no exception. I had my system paid off for months prior to the release date and I was damned if I was going to let anyone get it before me at that store. My gf (now wife) and I got to the mall at 5am! Damn right I was the first one there and I claimed my spot. Slowly as the hours passed and it got closer to closing people started lining up...behind me. They ended up opening early at 7am. I was so excited. I don't have a problem admitting how excited I was. I gave the guy my receipt and I had my very own brand new Dreamcast in hand. I didn't buy an extra controller. I bought one Visual Memory Unit, NFL 2K, and Sonic Adventure.

From then on I was just in love with this system. I didn't have a tremendous library of games but the games I did have I played the hell out of.

In 2001 when Sega announced that the Dreamcast was dead and they were going to become a software company I was devastated. The Genesis and the Dreamcast are easily two of my favorite systems ever and I was sad that I wouldn't see what else Sega had in store for us on the hardware end.

I ended up selling it at some point which I regret enormously now.

One of the reasons I loved the system so much is the time of my life when it came out. I was out of HS, working (I didn't got to college after HS), had my own money, a brand new car, and time to spare. This was like the golden age of video gaming for me because of all these circumstances. Hell even after I got my PS2, the PS2 sat there for ever because it had no good games at first. It was just a DVD player.

This also brings me to a game which ultimately brought me to Zilvia, Tokyo Xtreme Racer. This was really my first modern run it with the 240. At the time, I knew a little about cars, but mostly I had shit for brains. This game really introduced me to the import world all together. I spent so much time on that game looking back.

To say that the Dreamcast holds a special place in my heart is an understatement.

Please feel free to add your own retrospective to this thread.

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DALAZ_68

never enjoyed dreamcast...

i went from super nintendo to N64 to PS2...dreamcast games never appealed to me...good to see someone did enjoy it though...

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LeftNutOfGowd

I loved my dreamcast for the simple fact that it was the first system to play burnt games without having to do anything to it. I guess to day I'll be busting out the old DC and playing some MVC2 and Power Stone and some crazy taxi and finish it off with some fishing

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cserrano86

Sega... Pioneers they were.

Tokyo Xtreme Racer was also what made me start liking S-chassis. That god damn Grim Reaper in his stupid S15 that I could never beat.

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backwoods

I'm going to go home and play Tokyo Xtreme Race 2 on my Dreamcast tonight

Happy 10th

exitspeed

It's weird to think I was 20 years old when this system came out.

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S13Boosts

Dreamcast was coo when it was out!! damn sega alwas leaving good systems...

exitspeed

Legacy og Kain: soul Reaver. This game is a classic.

YouTube - Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Dreamcast

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enkei2k

the dreamcast lasted 2 years only? damn i didn't know that...i honestly thought it felt longer, probably because they always had the kick ass games that the other systems never had...never got into dreamcast personally though...i was content with my playstation, n64, whatever the heck was in back then. everything except dreamcast. i have no idea why.

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HyperTek

yeah i hever had a dc, had a genesis though... n64 then traded that to my bro for his ps1.. had a chance to buy a dc from my friend for $50 back in 00 or 01 but i slept on that.. I do miss sega in the console market though. I remember kids in highschool always talkin about tokyo xtreme racer etc. I was mostly pc gaming back then.

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exitspeed

Well officially it was around for 3 years. They announced that it was dead after 2. Games kept coming out a year later though.

I'm kinda bummed I didn't order a new one when someone made that thread on here.

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exitspeed

The more I think about it the more games come to mind.

Sega GT was a very good Gran Turismo competitor. There's still some things I wish GT would adopt from that game, like the sponsorships.

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kingkilburn

I absolutely love the Dreamcast. I got one at launch. Sadly it was stolen from me a few years ago with 20 plus games.

Now I'm waiting for emulation to catch up.


That reminds me, I'm dying to play Shenmue and Sonic Adventure.

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BustedS13

ten years ago, i walked into a Best Buy, past a line of hopefuls who hadn't reserved it, waiting to see if they'd have any left at the end of the day, and picked up my Dreamcast. unfortunately, they were sold out of all the worthwhile launch titles, so i spent the next few weeks playing Trickstyle.

OBEEWON

Rush, I loved that game. I destroyed anyone that picked up a controller. I think Im giong to buy a Dreamcast.

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exitspeed

I just checked and you can still get new ones on Amazon and Ebay.

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nisco

Dreamcast is still my favorite system to date. So many sentimental memories with it..
Countless hours of playing PSO on dial up (and crazy phone bills.... lawl), countless ours playing the mini-games in Shemue, running people over in Crazy Taxi, jamming to Jet Grind Radio. I wish those days would come back...

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exitspeed

Damn you were 10. So Dreamcast to you was like NES to me. That is nutty to me.

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HyperTek

dam these guys are freaking nerds lol
they make gamers look uncool lmao
you can be a secret nerd but they even dress like typical nerds

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SimpleSexy180

the system way ahead of its time.

yeah, thats it.

I mainly played it for Phantasy Star Online, Power Stone 2, Jet Grind Radio

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kingkilburn

I had got an NES from my uncle when I was like 4 or something. After the first time I played a SNES I begged my mom for one and got it that Christmas.

I played both until my brother decided to take them apart and destroyed them. I still have the games for the SNES so I think I'll replace it one of these days.

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Walperstyle

Dreamcast was ahead of its time. Its unfortunate that sony had no idea how to organize the project better. There was only a handful of games. I guess thats the hazard of pioneering something. Takes forever to get it out there where people will buy it. I never did.

N64 had the games, thats why most got it.

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shishcabobers

Nah man I got gamecast. Jk. I really enjoyed playing crazy taxi.

kingkilburn

Dreamcast IMO had more quality games. Tons of good action games plus a few hardcore rpg and adventure games.

When I think of N64 games outside of first-party stuff I always come to Quest64. Fuzzy graphics and boring gameplay. I can't think of a single third-party game I owned for any lengthy period aside from rouge squadron.

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Bushido

dreamcast was the shit.

best console ever.

I have one with a clear blue case, clear blue vmu, and clear blue controller. been thinking of putting it on ebay, wonder how much i could get for it...

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Manuelitoohno

+1 for you sir.

good vid

meteorite_flo

I have a dreamcast I would really like to play it, but I can't find my A/C adapter. Sonic never gets old!

Ares240SX

I remember my Atari... and my Commodore 64 computer... I did Atari, NES, Sega Genesis, PS1, and than I stopped playing with console video games...

BustedS13

what the hell did you just say?

1.) Sony makes the Sony Playstation line of consoles, not the Sega Dreamcast.
2.) N64 came out in 1996. it was late to the party by two years. the Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn were of the same generation as the N64. Dreamcast was of the following generation, and came out in 1999.
3.) of the N64 generation, the Playstation was the system most people bought. Sony has sold over 100 million Playstations, while Nintendo sold just over 30 million N64's.
4.) The Dreamcast's demise was caused by the release of the more robust Playstation 2 in 2000, and then the Microsoft Xbox in 2001. You could also make the argument that due to poor sales of the last few Sega offerings (32x/Sega CD/Saturn), people were reluctant to purchase the Dreamcast.