Dreamcast 9th Anniversary Thread

[Magus]

Go.

[Goufunaki]

Re: Dreamcast 9th Anniversary Thread

I've had that baby since Day 1 of it's release.

Hasn't broken down on me yet.

Great little machine.

[Alex]

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Great machine in theory. My first one had the Laser Lens Drive problem where the spokes get annihilated over time. It starts out as a weird noise, followed by disc errors, skipping, louder weirder noises then eventually death.


Jet Set Radio
Sonic Adventure
Space Channel Five
Shenmue
Chu Chu Rocket
Phantasy Star Online

9-9-99 never forget.

[Perversion]

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LOVELOVELOVE the Dreamcast.

In my top 3 favorite systems (the original Xbox and the PS3 are the others). I bought my first one when I got a $400 credit or whatever from Best Buy for signing up for MSN or whatever as a service provider. It killed two birds with one stone for me...got a free Dreamcast, extra controller, DC keyboard, PSO and maybe one other game, a few VMUs....and to top off my credit, a copy of Dr. Strangelove on DVD. I got it about a month after PSO came out, and used the service from MSN to get my Dreamcast online to play PSO and browse the intarwebs.


My fave games for the console were PSO (obviously), Seaman, Jet Grind Radio, Space Channel 5, Shenmue (which I bought on 9/11 when it had just dropped to $20), Ooga Booga, Worms World Party, Coaster Works, and of course, one of the best RPGs of all time, Skies of Arcadia. Most of those games I no longer have, but I subsequently procured most of them for other systems (Space Channel 5 and Grandia 2 for PS2, the latter being as horrible as everyone always claims; PSO EP I and II and Jet Set Radio Future for Xbox; Skies of Arcadia Legends for GC).


I'd like to find Ikaruga and Rez as imports, but I'm not kidding myself on that endeavour....plus, I'd have to mod my system.


All in all, I miss the DC and all my old DC games.

[John Mora]

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That system was the secret best system of all time.

[DK]

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The dreamcast signifies a period of my life I can only call "romantic".

[Perversion]

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The Dreamcast signifies a period of my life I can only call "Lonely alcoholic with an internet addiction."

[JLaCroix]

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The dreamcast is amazing. I still have mine.

Although it's great, I'm very sad that I can't find any games for it. Also, whenever my Dreamcast dies, it's not like I can go to the store and replace it, so that SUCKS.

[John Mora]

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It stinks that I bought Tech Romancer and only played it once. But it's just too much trouble to haul the DC out again.

[Gustaff 13]

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Ecco: Defender of the Future, and D2!


PSO with Serge and Nixon. There was really nothing quite like it...

[Duel]

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I...lost my Dreamcast...he was my only friend in this world.

[Tintenfisch]

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SEGATA (SENSHIRO) SEGATA (SENSHIRO) SEGASANTA, SHIROOOOOOO






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joNwYPdEBTc

[Kefka Jr.]

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Lately I've been starting to think that the Dreamcast wasn't everything I cracked it up to be?

I mean, there were good games, to be sure, but I don't think any of them would be on my top 10, or even my top 20. I'd give nods to Soul Calibur, Grandia 2 and Project Justice, maybe. But, like, I totally did not like Skies of Arcadia or Shenmue, Smash Bros. obviates the need for Power Stone 2, and, honestly, I did not like starting a level all over in Jet Set Radio just because I could not push the analog stick at precisely the right angle to make the jump to make the last tag without falling off of a building or something.

I will say this, though. I believe that the Dreamcast was the first console on which 3D realtime graphics were actually aesthetically pleasing. I mean, before, we really just put up with muddy textures and jagged character models with Popeye arms - there were games that looked good, sure, for a 32- and 64-bit games. The Dreamcast was the first time that games didn't HAVE to be sold on screenshots from an FMV in order to cover up how unimpressive the in-game graphics are. Some of that early Sonic Adventure footage just made me wonder, "Holy ****, I can actually run on that beach with that awesome water at that speed?" I mean, Jet Set Radio made "cel-shading" a household phrase. And Soul Calibur? God damn.

The Dreamcast was a damn colorful system. Like, even when bad games were coming out, it was so great to just see all the primary colors they were using.

[Toaster]

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DEJA-VU PAVILION.

YESTERDAYS TOPICS, TODAY.

[DK]

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Who invited boxer boy.