Happy Birthday, Dreamcast!

[IErrantVentureI]

Taken from Kotaku.

http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/09/dreamcast.jpg

"Today marks the eighth birthday of one of the most underrated and unappreciated consoles ever to hit the market, The Sega Dreamcast. The little system gave birth to some really great games including Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur, Rez, Wetrix, PowerStone, and many others. Although it didn't do to well commercially and eventually left the market when some heavy competition appeared on the scene, The Dreamcast nevertheless garnered a rabid cult -like following. Despite it's failure on the commercial front, the system still lives on thanks to the tireless efforts of homebrew creators and fans, giving extended life to an otherwise dead system. So, Happy Birthday Dreamcast, we hardly knew ye."

[gh2masterwellalmost]

Taken from Kotaku.

http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/09/dreamcast.jpg

"Today marks the eighth birthday of one of the most underrated and unappreciated consoles ever to hit the market, The Sega Dreamcast. The little system gave birth to some really great games including Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur, Rez, Wetrix, PowerStone, and many others. Although it didn't do to well commercially and eventually left the market when some heavy competition appeared on the scene, The Dreamcast nevertheless garnered a rabid cult -like following. Despite it's failure on the commercial front, the system still lives on thanks to the tireless efforts of homebrew creators and fans, giving extended life to an otherwise dead system. So, Happy Birthday Dreamcast, we hardly knew ye."

This is why I hate Playstation, and refuse to buy any more of their consoles. The DreamCast, I was saving up for that for so long, my mates had em and I was even begging the people I don't like to go round just for one more game of PowerStone... but no. Welcome to capitalism. No refund, terms and conditions apply etc.

[no_direction_home]

the xbox controler is such a rip off of the dreamcast controller

[Xzyliac]

DAMN YoU SONY!!!!

Dreamcast forever.

[battle_axe_of_doom]

ps2 >>>>>>>> dreamcast

my reason?? one acronym : MGS

the dreamcast was cool though

[Kang_Zircon]

I wouldn't blame Sony for the Dreamcast's failure. Sega had long since lost all faith in their consoles. Everything after the Genesis: Sega CD, 32x, Saturn - when Dreamcast came out I knew the same thign was gonna happen. There'd be a few games with the release of the system and then like 10 more over the next year and then basically nothing.

Dreamcast had some awesom games, though.

[Xzyliac]

ps2 >>>>>>>> dreamcast

my reason?? one acronym : MGS

the dreamcast was cool thoughI find it quite ironic that a game meant to be multiplatform, built for the N64, and planned for a Dreamcast port (which they say it's code still floats around the interwebs), can be so ignorantly tagged to one system. Especially since Nintendo got ports of all of them but MGS 3 and MGS 2 was multiplatform. Even worse is when everybody *****es about MGS4 on 360 like it ruins the PS3 version or something.

Sorry but MGS fanboys annoy the hell out of me because they hold onto their PlayStations so snuggly but are so ignorant of the titles history.

[battle_axe_of_doom]

mgs 2 and 3 were released for the ps2 therefore they're ps2 games, i don't care if it was built for 64 or dreamcast, fact is it was released for ps2 and thats the only reason why i bought the damn system.

and i actually like nintendo and xbox more than sony FYI, and i actually hope MGS4 gets ported to the 360 so that i won't have to buy the ps3. way to assume man :rolleyes:

[Xzyliac]

mgs 2 and 3 were released for the ps2 therefore its a ps2 exclusive, i don't care if it was built for 64 or dreamcast, fact is it was released for ps2 and thats the only reason why i bought it.

and i actually like nintendo and xbox more than sony FYI way to assume *******
Apparently you missed the point of my final paragraph. I know I was going off for no real reason, and I never assumed you were a fanboy. I said it annoys me how everybody links MGS to Sony and the PlayStation. If you got offended I apologize.

Why would you call me an *******? What the hell did I do to you? Just wondering on what basis you choose to assume.

[battle_axe_of_doom]

lol i tried to edit it cuz i knew i had gone over the line with "*******", but apparently edits don't work

so sry about that i didn't mean it. will u4give me

[Xzyliac]

lol i tried to edit it cuz i knew i had gone over the line with "*******", but apparently edits don't work

so sry about that i didn't mean it. will u4give me
Nothing to forgive. Just making conversation. I'm not mad or anything. :)

[battle_axe_of_doom]

k :D

well anywho back to the dreamcast i found myself oddly in love with shen mue and sonic adventure 1

[Xzyliac]

Sonic Adventure 2 is my favorite but even still it does not compare to Jet Grind Radio.

[Raider87]

I never had one but a few of my buddies did.... we used to play this one bad ass fighting game, forgot what it was though

[battle_axe_of_doom]

powerstone?? soul caliber??

[jq71586]

powerstone?? soul caliber??

I f'in loved Powerstone. And Shenmue, and Resident Evil: Code Veronica....ah, those were simpler times.

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PSN - jq71586 - looking for PS3 friends.

[Kang_Zircon]

What was the puzzle game where you wrangled mice into rocket ships? That game was crazy.

[Coldplayer]

What was the puzzle game where you wrangled mice into rocket ships? That game was crazy.

Chu Chu Rocket!




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I miss SEGA consoles. :(

[tf5_bassist]

i so miss the dreamcast. i wonder where mine went... i think it's in a box somewhere. some jet grind radio sounds hella good right now. :D

[ThePaska]

Has it really been eight years already? Wow I remember getting it for Christmas, getting Test Drive 6 and Sonic Adventure, so good, I miss my Dreamcast so much, I should take it out again and play it. What an amazing system.

[Smidget]

Loooove me DC. Bought my first game for it before the system even came out (a few were released ahead of time). I still play mine. Tokyo Bus Driver!!!! And yeah, Jet Set (Grind) Radio = one of the greatest DC games period.

[beerman]

Today is my birthday.

[tf5_bassist]

Today is my birthday.

well then happy birthday. :D

I remember playing Chrono Trigger on a disc of ROMS/emulator software... didn't have the actual cart, so it was second best. and it lagged. talk about tedious lol.