Happy Birthday, Dreamcast. - Other Gaming Forum

Deleted · 2009-09-09T17:12:16+00:00

That's all I'm here to say today, it's all the reason I've logged in today after all this inactivity. It's been 10 years since the Dreamcast launched. All those years ago, being wowed by the demo of Sonic Adventure at Toys 'R Us and playing my friend's sister's boyfriend's Dreamcast and Crazy Taxi, seeing a Japanese commercial for Chu Chu Rocket on the internet (I downloaded it, somewhere... this was before YouTube and the popularity of embedding videos, remember those days?), and getting one as a Christmas gift. As most of you hopefully remember, the Dreamcast, like a lot of Sega stuff, was dangerously ahead of it's time. Just now are we able to browse the internet on our consoles, but the Dreamcast had it before the Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox were even around, much less Wii, PS3, and 360. Online gaming itself was taken seriously from the get go, with heavy hitters like Phantasy Star Online and Chu Chu Rocket. Not to mention, the VMU. The days of memory cards are over, and so the VMU has earned what may be a permanent fixture in gaming history as the indisputable greatest memory card ever made. You could play mini-games on the go, have a personal screen during gameplay for multiplayer games, each game had it's own little screen on the VMU, link up with other VMU's for games and trading saves, or even set an alarm and manage your saves. Sadly, a lot of it's potential was never tapped, but the GC-GBA connectivity in games like Pac-Man Vs continued showed us a little more of what could have been. The Dreamcast homebrew scene was very big, thanks to the incredible ease of burning and playing any CD-R, and was probably the biggest to date. It really started what's still going on with the likes of Gamepark, DS, PSP, and of course Wii, which are all pretty incredible homebrew platforms. Unfortunately, the Dreamcast died a tragically early and unpredictable death, but because of it's cult fanbase and in part because it just died waaaay too early, it's been kept alive in the background with periodic homebrew releases, as well as private servers for games like Phantasy Star Online (which has also been kept alive on Gamecube, Xbox, and PC), which in turn has made the broadband adapter a little coveted. X_X So today, predictably, I'm gonna put Hexen 64 on hiatus and play way too much Chu Chu Rocket with my friends, among other things. Just when you thought I was back again, I'm gone like it's 1999. Did I just say Hexen 64? I pulled out my Dreamcast out only two months ago to play some MvC2 and Garou. (and by pull out, I mean took the cords and plugged them in, the Dreamcast never moved). I mostly play Virtual Console on the Wii, and the last thing I played on Wii was Herzog Zwei with a friend via a Genesis emulator. I'm not even sure me and this millennium are well-met at all! Talk about Dreamcast here all you want. I'm sure if there's a gaming god (and he probably looks a lot like Segata Sanshiro), he'd be pretty miserable (read: vengeful) if this place didn't end up FLOODED with Dreamcast topics by the end of the day. Just remember, my Dreamcast topic is the best one. ;)

Topic: Happy Birthday, Dreamcast.

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Reala
Sun 13th Sep 2009

That's right it did have DLC, you could get extra items on Shenmue, and I'm sure Phantasy Star had DLC too.

Reala

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Metang
Sun 13th Sep 2009

Can't believe I missed this...
Happy belated birthday, DC.

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