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Classic Gaming Quarterly awesome job dude! Your work is top notch and your research is always so interesting. Thanks for making these! The level of nostalgia is insane lol
Yeah I get that 100%... Because my sister and I were left with an evil step mother (Step C*** in non PG conversations) who is every bad step mother movie trope rolled into one, I have the Guitar he bought me and a TV...... I don't even have a portion of his ashes from his cremation. The TV started dying recently and while I just moved house (perfect time to bin broken items) I just cant let it go.
I still remember 9/9/99 like it was yesterday. Went to Toys R Us at 9am grab a Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure, Soul Caliber and NFL Blitz. 20 years later I still consider the Dreamcast the greatest home console.
It was pretty good. The best part is that, due to the lack of any real piracy protection, it still has some level of community support. In the future when all games are streamed or otherwise locked down as pure commodities, the Dreamcast and OG Xbox will be the only place where games as a form of creative expression will exist.
@@dstinnettmusic But... that also notably helped sink the amazing console while it was on the market (DC ripping was RAMPANT in the very early 00's). Same thing would happen with the PSP a few years later. The Yin & Yangs of life I guess.
I miss this era of gaming, it wasn't just endless sequels and micro transactions. Loads of original and quirky games to try, hidden gems, cult classics. The industry is so generic these days.
I think the reason it seems this way is because companies like Nintendo, sony etc, has gathered such a big audience that they know that people will buy their consoles and games anyway even if it's not that good, in conclusion they don't have to put that much effort into games anymore because there basically isn't any reason too.
The Dreamcast also supported KB&Mouse, voice chat, VOIP calling (Dreamcall), web browsing, VMU games, downloading saves from other people, free DLC, and other cool stuff.
Dreamcast was a the portal from the 90's to the 2000's in videogaming. I still remember going to blockbuster just looking at the early PS2 and Dreamcast titles!
I think what you really wanted was the PlayStation 2 to bomb/never exist. The DC was successful........Until Sony whipped out its big black box. Yep I did just write that
Some of these games looked incredible graphically for how old they are now. The late 90's-early 2000's were a fun time, everything had so much color and attitude.
For some reason I put off watching this, thinking it was just another casual approach to gaming history. How wrong I was, it's actually very thorough and brought back some good memories 🙂
20 years ago today, at 6 am, I went to Babbage's at my nearby mall for my first and only console launch. I picked up my pre-paid Dreamcast along with Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, Power Stone, and Ready 2 Rumble. I had taken two days off work to get lost in these next-gen games, and I loved every minute of it. The polygon counts, resolution, and textures were incredible. The online connectivity was fascinating; I felt like I had to log in to every game's website to see what information was posted about it. The system's lifespan was tragically short, but the memories I made with it were great. Great video, Chris!
When you saw the dreamcast for the first time it was a holy shit moment. I wasn’t a sports fan at the time but nfl 2k was dramatic for the times. Then getting all those capcom fighters, it was awesome.
Yup, I wish I could go back to early August 1999 and relive that agonizing month long wait for the best time I ever had in gaming for the following 1.5 years. I preordered my DC (along with Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, Power Stone, and HotD2) at Funcoland and picked up a Neo Geo Pocket Color with Metal Slug 1st Mission. All was right in my life at that time for a brief two years....
Those are just the ememories that stuck. My two launch days were GameCube & DS. But there're so many SEGA fans, incl. me, doing so much. DC still got a great HB scene, if not the greatest. I'am not kiddin', the SEGA DC HB scene has made THE most professional Fan/Homebrew games if ever seen. So, if you have a DC, you still get a supply of new Games today. Even little studios developed over the time with the sole purpose of creating new DC games. Truely amazing. Like the C64/AMIGA scene that we've here in germany. Ahh, and then I would mention something 'bout Lunchdays in general. How they've changed... In the good ol' days, you just met ppl with whom you played online afterwards. Friedships developed and these specific 'energy' in air, the excitement. My mom once told me she witnessed the Mega Drive launch day here in Germany with my father. They met some nice folks and took 'em home to play some Altered Beast & Sonic together. - Plus a fighting game, but I forgot the name - Today, you meet just a bunch 'o scalpers who a 'ready to rumble' if the stock runs dry... 🙄
The fighting gamer group in my college hooked up a Dreamcast to a laptop screen that way so they could play fighting games in the cafeteria, bowling alley, wherever they wanted to.
Looks really good through HDMI with a DCHDMI as well, and while it pains me to admit it, I run my DCHDMI at 480p adn through an Mcable and the results are pretty awesome, most games look almost native 720p in this config.
You should really be proud of this one. It's fantastic. Everything you've done here is above and beyond what I would expect from anyone making TH-cam videos. Congratulations on making the best Dreamcast launch video in existence.
this will never happen. BUT u can always wait and pray for a dreamcast mini. That would be SO SO awesome. I wish someone make petition for that. I d totally sign
Titos Vlasakidis Dreamcast classic would be good, however I actually feel bad for the people at Sega in America that couldn’t make the Dreamcast successful.
I was 9 years old in 99 when this came out. I was a huge fan of my Playstation and N64 at the time. But, when i got the Dreamcast i was blown out of my seat. Anyone who played phantasy star online back then, STILL remembers it fondly over 20 years later. This is an amazing video. Ive watched it start to finish a dozen times atleast. All your videos on the system launches are my absolute favorites. Childhood Nostalgia beyond all belief. Thank you for all your time and effort.
I worked at Best Buy at that time as well. It was great, the Dreamcast demo kiosk was directly across the aisle from my department. We would take turns on downtime playing it as long as no supervisors were around. I remember playing Crazy Taxi about 1000 times and thinking that graphics couldn't possibly get more advanced lol
Sega Dreamcast....The system that was the first system to me that was "love at first sight." I remember going to Best Buy as a 4th Grader in September 1999, right after Hurricane Fran and not hearing anything about the Dreamcast prior to my encounter. I had the opportunity to play Ready 2 Rumble and instantly fell in love with the system and it convinced me to get one for Christmas of 1999, along with that game and NBA Showtime - the NBA on NBC (a game I enjoyed at the arcades) and it was very fun!! Then, later on, I would get the opportunity to play NBA and NFL 2K, Jet Grind Radio, Virtua Tennis, Sonic Adventure, Power Stone, Crazy Taxi and several more. The Dreamcast was way ahead of its time and was gone way too soon!!!! Long live Dreamcast!!!!
Yezzir! Its funny that you mention this because Sega easily had the best launch lineup of any console ever. Freaking 19 games! It was insane. I cant remember the last time a console launched with that many games. I think Xbox 360 came close with around 15 games at launch, but im pretty sure it didnt top the quantity that Dreamcast had. On top of that, almost every launch game on the Dreamcast was quality and well made, no shovelware garbage that tends to plague certain other consoles. Man, it was such a legendary console. I'll also go a step further and say that Shenmue was one of the best games ever created for it, along with Sonic Adventure, RE Code Veronica, Crazy Taxi (as you mentioned), and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing.
@@thechosenone2123 2 months late, but well said. I do hope I get an opportunity to play Shenmue and RE Code Veronica. Dreamcast put out so many great games in the two years it was on the market. I'd say if not for Sega's past mishaps with the 32X and Saturn, they'll still be in the market today.
@@thomastripp9002 well I got good news for you. You dont even need a Dreamcast anymore to play Shenmue and Code Veronica. Those games have been rereleased on modern hardware. I agree with the 32X. It was a dumpster fire. However, the Saturn, even though it flopped, had alot of potential, the problem was that Sega was run by a bunch of morons. Sad to say, but it is what it is. The whole internal battle between Sega of America and Sega of Japan is what fucked us all up.
@@thomastripp9002 the 32x fucked over the Saturn. If Saturn had been able to do better in the west they would have localized more games. There was no excuse for what Sega did with the Saturn. I had one and loved it, but they didn’t send enough games to America.
I didn't buy the Dreamcast when it was still new-ish, but I did remember working at Sears a new employee showed up, a high schooler like me. He said, I'm here just to get paid to buy the Dreamcast and some games. Sure enough 3 weeks later he walked out the store with the console, Shenmue and I forgot what else. We never saw him again lol
I miss my Dreamcast. After I purchased an Xbox, my mother gave my Dreamcast and ALL my games to her friend's son. The game I miss the most...Skies of Arcadia on DC.
Thank you for doing this episode. I’m sure I speak for most retro gamers when I say the Dreamcast will always have a special place in our hearts. This was peak Sega in every way. I still play mine every week and my love for it will never die ❤️👏🏽
I agree this episode was easily one of the best Dreamcast documentaries that I ever seen. Tip for you, if you want the name of another awesome retro youtuber, check out SEGALORDX. Hes a little different from Classic Gaming Quarterly since he focuses only on retro Sega stuff (specifically the Saturn), but the delivery of his content is top notch.
Maybe it's because this was my senior year of high school, but the Dreamcast launch was the most fun console launch in history, to me. The SNES is my favorite system and has the best first year of games, but the Dreamcast was just SO.MUCH.FUN. From the 9.9.99 MTV VMAs stuff to the Official Dreamcast Magazine to the killer selection of Day 1 titles. I bought the unit, NFL 2K, Soul Calibur and Hydro Thunder. I never played as much Hydro Thunder as I would have liked, for some reason, but I wore out the other two.
Wow, you can tell how much research you put into making this. Grabbed myself a drink and a snack and settled in. I remember buying a Dreamcast at launch with Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, and NFL 2K. Even though it had a short run, it was packed with great games.
@@hondamanvtec2894 I see Xbox as more of a Dreamcast Pro to be honest. It was stronger, but lost many features Dreamcast had, like VGA which Xbox 360 brought back, and killer RPGs which the 360 had a ton of and the OG Xbox not so much.
I remember the launch like it was yesterday, I was staying at my friend Mike's house. We went to the mall, walked through the entire store to find the videogames. They had Dreamcasts set up in the middle of the store. We ended up getting one, and a copy of NFL 2K. The same day of the launch we ran back and forth between Sears and GameStop, it was the first time I even knew what a GameStop was and I felt so much nostalgia when I went back to this mall recently. A funny story was we went to a local diner to eat and while we were eating some lady told her daughter to play the basketball arcade machine. She kept trying and it wouldn't do anything. I leaned over and politely advised the lady to press start. She looked at me funny and said that's not how you turn on a basketball machine. I got an eye roll from the daughter, and then they figured it out. They had to press start. Anyways we went back to Mike's house and played for hours. Great system that didn't get the proper attention or respect. I recall Mike had posters of Saturn and Sega stuff everywhere. Also all of his fav t-shirts were from Sega games, and he owned one of the best Sega games ever in my opinion, Crazy Taxi. His parents were really cool too, so they would always let me stay over at his house on the weekend. I'm glad they were so nice to me because I was so shy and always afraid of doing stuff with other kids, even though I loved spending the weekend at his house. I miss him dearly. Thank you for this video.
@FinalNinja Lol, ps2 launch? I was there for the launch and it was pathetic! I remember getting home with smugglers run and thinking what a joke. Looked last gen even! Dreamcast launch titles destroyed it! There was nothing on the ps2 that could compare. Dreamcast was way ahead of its time! I still own a working launch one with an added vga box. Still holds up and looks good! Some of the games even supported wide screen. First console to feature online gaming! It was a revolutionary system with the best line up of games. Nothing else will compare. Ive been witnessing it since the atari 2600, and it still is and will be the best console of all time to me.
When I saw Soul Calibur on Dreamcast, I thought: "Thats it. The arcade days are numbered" It was the end of the arcades as the leadstate of art game technology
T.B.H. arcades were kind of going downhill beforehand anyway, with the 16 bit consoles being their initial real crack in the armor. The Dreamcast was what pretty much signed their final death warrants, when it was the first console that could truly do games at least 95-99% arcade perfect from start to finish. At least there's still many around which have some good games worth playing that you can't have at home, mainly light gun games for me. That despite even if they'll sadly never be these amazing, magical places they were from the 80's to the mid to late 90's ever again, where literally almost every game was worth at least trying unfortunately though.
That and not butchered the Saturn so bad in many ways as well. That of which was when Sega's long, hard fall from grace truly happened, and lost a lot of trust with gamers when the Dreamcast came out too.
@Not Bob I remember very well that being a deal breaker for a lot of people. Ps2s were cheaper than dvd players at the time, and could do both games and movies. It was a no brainer at the time
@@psychotropictraveler514 that was the biggest nail in Segas coffin. The PS2 doubled as a DVD player and could play PS2 games and backwards compatible with PS1 games. Sega couldn't do squat a lot that. Now..... If the dreamcast could play DVDs out of the box and was backwards compatible with the entire Sega Saturn library, that would have been awesome.
Yay, another "The Launch of" video! This series is among the best videos I've watched on YT! So well made, and brings back so much nostalgia! Saving this to watch with the girlfriend on this rainy week-end. Thanks a bunch man!
Dude this is your best episode EVER! No I'm not just saying that cuz I love the Dreamcast, you really did an outstanding job going into detail about the history and hardware.
I absolutely loved my Sega Saturn. Me and my wife who was my girlfriend back then used to play cds on it with the starship popping up periodically. Great memories!
I have very fond memories of this system. I remember picking up my pre-ordered Dreamcast on 9-9-99 from Toys R' Us. I was so blown away by the graphics and couldn't believe that it looked as good and better than some arcade games.
fantastic video. Dreamcast was a fantastic system and I always feel so nostalgic whenever I think about it. I went like a month without ever turning it off because I didn't have memory card and didn't want to lose all the characters I unlocked in Soul Calibur. I was finally able to get one and save my game!
Ha, people of the 90s would look at the present and go, "Can we have what you're having?" Because let's remember, the people of the 90s had the Yugoslav Wars (active war & genocide _in Europe_ ), the multiple genocides in Africa + the Second Congo War, Russia's wholesale collapse and economic depression, and Limp Bizkit. It's that Y2K aesthetic circa 1997-2003 that I want back.
Blue Stinger is a VERY underrated game. It’s combat system is good, the variety of weapons is great, and it never gets dull. One of my faves. And NFL 2K was a system seller for me. I enjoyed many other titles from the launch lineup, but NFL 2K absolutely sold me singlehandedly on the Sega Dreamcast.
>What happened to the industry? Most people lost interest in arcades, which were proving grounds for unique and creative game concepts. Successful arcade games went to home consoles and added diversity to the system library, or home exclusive games were developed partly based on lessons learned about gameplay in the arcade. Now the industry's motivator is the online space which has different rules, mostly based around psychological studies of addiction, rather than the immediate and spontaneous fun required of a successful arcade game. Major video games have literally stopped trying to be simply "fun", instead going for manipulation of very primal human needs, which generates revenue far beyond games of the past. Top-level game design is now a formula which leaves no room for experimentation, why take a chance on something new that may or may not be successful when you know exactly what to do to generate guaranteed riches?
Millennials happened. These dopes destroy everything they touch. They are the reason gaming is basically slot machines masquerading as games. Thanks you dopes.
They will not include any games that had licenses with other companies (NFL, NBA, etc.). I'm sure they all expired many years ago and would have to be reacquired.
for me mortal kombat and berserk game. which ı know both of them will not include if mini come out. games like tomb raider 4 dino crisis and resident evlis will not include too.
When I got this notification just a moment ago, I was unboxing all of my Dreamcast stuff after moving into a new place. I really appreciate your Perfect-Timing-Enthusiast Tone.
No problem. I’ll be sure and write a letter to my local congressman, to ensure that you’re appropriately forced to replace the thumbnail with something more to my liking.
Yeah, and you could literally play that entire lineup up until Christmas that year, and still not be bored of the console. That being with how much it had just about each and every single game genre covered at first. Bummer that the DC had to die so soon after it's promising start, and when third party support began to level off, as the PS2, and later GameCube & original Xbox launches began to fast approach. That of which was when Sega realized it simply wasn't going to have the resources to compete with the console market any longer, and saw the writing on the wall unfortunately.
Fantastic video about the launch of the Sega Dreamcast! My launch titles were HydroThunder sonic adventure and blue stinger. I remember how some of the games were sold a few days before the console was available which I thought was really cool and I’ve never seen that before. I took the day off work and you can bet I picked mine up first thing in the morning 9-9-99!
It's a double standard in the west because SEGA of America was so anti-Saturn. When the PS2 and 3 do something bad, it's because they're hard to code for, but when Saturn does it, it's because "it can't".
The Dreamcast could only render 3 million polygons per sec, compared to 60 million on the play station 2, so you ultimately tell me which one is more powerful than the other.
WOW brotha, this video is by far the most professionally and researched of all of your console release documentary style videos!!!!! Even though all of your content is amazing, this one has to be the best so far. A bit long but it is very true to understand the downfall of Sega hardware and the lack of distribution it had by the Dreamcast life, you did have to go into details of why with the Saturn. I do feel bad for Peter Moore as he was heavily involved in the attempt to make Sega come out of the whole the last regime put them in with Dreamcast and to be honest, they had a fighting chance but companies and many fans had a sour taste for Sega after the fallout of Saturn and the mixture of the 32x here in North America. Peter Moore was so excited for this project he said in an interview about Dreamcast so yeah I do feel bad it went the way it did. I wish that I had a Dreamcast growing up but never did. I see all of the shooters like Ikaruga and Mars Matrix style games and I hate that I never had one growing up. This console did have a chance to shine but the power of the PS2 was inevitable to ignore. Plust with the DVD capability, Jeez. Though PS2 did have many issues early on with that feature as I had friends who had one and they said that their PS2's would randomly quit playing games or DVD's. Anyway, I am amazed at this video and maybe one day you and Norman Caruso could do a collab video. I don't see you both as competitors, but more fellow video game enthusiasts who love putting out content in this level of professionalism!!!!!!! Ya definitely got ma like!!!!!!!
This was a super amazing documentary. Thank you for representing the Dreamcast in such a great way! I have just a tiny tiny tiny minuscule correction about the GD-Rom space size. The actual space for game data was actually around 984MB. The Audio layer was around 35MB so in a sense games didn't even have a 1GB of space to use for storage. I believe this statement was made around the 15 min mark.
The Dreamcast as well as the Sega Saturn, and the Nintendo GameCube, was one of the most underrated and under appreciated systems. Those systems shocked me when I saw them. I wish more people had (because like most, I didn't have one either, and only one of my friends had the Dreamcast) more of em. The detail and graphics, and music were awe-inspiring. I wouldn't mind getting one myself and playing House of the Dead.
This video is truly amazing, and brought back so many great memories for me of 9/9/99! Thank you so much for the incredible amount of work that you put in to make this! I'll briefly say, that the disc not working issue was mainly regarding the Midway software. I bought Hydro Thunder, Ready 2 Rumble, and MK Gold on launch day... but none of them worked! However, Babbages soon called me to say that the new batch of disc's came in, and they gladly exchanged my defective games for ones that read "Hot! New!" on the case (in funky green coloring that I'll never forget). NFL2K was my most anticipated Dreamcast launch game, but it actually was delayed until about a week or so after 9/9/99, or so that's what all of the videogame stores in both South Florida and the Baltimore suburbs said (I lived in both places). I remember vividly though the day that it actually came out, and I was so completely blown away by it. Thanks again sir for brining the memories flooding back to me of the Dreamcast's launch!
Hi from France. I think it's the first video from your channel that i'm watching and it's perfect ! You did a great job and you took your time to speak about the line up games which is very interesting and also brings back good memories ! I completely agree with Blue Stinger which is quite underrated and very fun to play with an unique atmosphere. I will watch your other videos, they all look great ! Thank you for the hard work !
Consoles are now off the shelf PC hardware with proprietory software to lock the games to the systems. Sega won't invest into a platform and lock its ip out of other platforms it would lose to much income short term and cost to much money to produce. They would have to be very different from microsoft sony and Nintendo. Nintendo has a larger catalogue to bring people back and makes a console with enough differentiation that is why they are successful, they did not stop so never had to break back in. Sega breaking back into the market successfully would be remarkable. Only companies like Samsung or a Chinese backed company have a chance to break in right now due to economic reach. Ultimately I think the future lies in cloud based consoles like Shadow doing the heavy processing with your mobile acting like a Nintendo Switch portable unit whilst utilizing existing mobile to tv control. All games would be like steam or origin ect. This may be close or a decade away, I am unsure as tech is moving so fast right now.
Great video! I own my Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast. Sega will always have a special place in my heart. So many great times and fond memories, from sleepovers as a kid playing Sonic to a young adult drinking beers with my buddies and playing NBA 2K1. Although they are no longer in the console business I'm happy they are still around making great games. Hopefully one of these days they'll decide to take those old titles so many people missed back in the day and bring them back to life for the new generation(looking at you Burning Rangers).
What an incredibly meticulous and informative video. I thought I knew everything about Sega but learned quite a bit I never knew. I also love how you actually show footage of the video games you talk about, unlike many other game "enthusiast" channels. Can't wait for your Xbox video!
@bigevilworldwide1 The Dreamcast had online before the PS2 and truly was ahead of its time when it came out. It was a great console and if Sega weren't idiots back then. The Dreamcast could have kept Sega in the console market if they handled it right.
TH-cam trying to sneak this by me! HA! Not today, Google. I remember importing my system with Virtua Fighter 3tb from Buy Rite, felt downright magical.
This video earned you a sub. Very well produced and through and over an hour! Very well done. Dreamcast will always be one of my favorite systems of all time
Really great video, it brought back a lot of memories of the whole Dreamcast experience. I had a great experience with the console and man when I figured out how to use those old free ISP's for dial up connection to the internet Phantasy Star Online became a constant grind in my house. Great video, thanks for helping me relive some of these amazing memories.
Great video. Cant imagine how much time it must've taken to make this. I remember buying dreamcast on launch day with. Blue stinger and ready to rumble and i loved them both.
i hate watching long youtube videos, but you edited it so good and the subject of the video and its back story were so good I couldnt believe i finished the video. good job man
Your channel is amazing! I have watched several videos of yours, but this one is my favorite so far! I never had a Dreamcast (or any Sega console, actually) and I never realized how cool the Dreamcast was. I do remember playing Sonic Adventure at Target while my Mom was shopping. I may have to find one!
Wow Dreamcast had 19 titles on launch @21:00. Just look at all those classics! Even the date was perfect 9/9/99. Just fell right in place. By far the best launch ever in a console.
I was at the launch. I got the System along with House of the Dead 2 and Soul Calibur 2. Such a great time. I drove 2 hours from college to get it and 2 hours back. So much excitement.
Now that's an adventure. I sort of did something similar when the 3DS came out. Walked to the store from my college to get it and walked back since I didn't have a car at the time. It was a pretty decent walk. That was probably 8 years ago? That was the first system I bought on my own up until that point. I didn't get a Dreamcast growing up because my exposure to Sega was pretty minimal. I had a friend who had one, but he didn't do a great job of selling the system or Sega to me, so I was never interested in it. Now that I'm older and out of college, I've been going back to the late 90s to play games that I missed, mostly Sega and PC. Now I have a Dreamcast and I love it. The system has some of the coolest concepts I've ever seen for a 3D system, like Jet Grind Radio. Even the football games are better than most of what we have today, like NFL 2K2. It's such a blast of a game and the game's penalty system is more realistic because the NFL didn't really control what went into the games back then as much as they do now. Now Madden can't show anything that the NFL doesn't want it to.
@@michaelsguitars3079 I'm two years late on this response so please forgive me. TH-cam does a sucky job of letting people know when others reply to them. Anyway, that was such a great time to be a gamer. It was probably the most excited I had ever been gaming wise. I didn't care that I had to spend 4 hours on the road as I was going to get that sucker no matter what.
@@Hatemode_NJ You're right. I was on a "2" kick when I was writing that comment. It was the second game in the series, but not the second Soul Calibur. I was never great at the game and my roommate in college and I would button mash our way. By the time I got rid of the system I had 90 games for it. I sold it though to buy a new Xbox 360 that red ringed outside of warranty in 7 months time. The dumb stuff we do as young adults. However also necessary when you've got nothing but lint in your pockets and you just have to have the next thing out!
@@EDFCentral No worries. I was deep into the N64 at the time, so I can relate to that experience. Most of my favorite experiences at that time was just renting games from a local mom and pop rental store. The N64/Ps1/Saturn/Dreamcast era is by far my favorite era of gaming.
This was my favorite console system, the graphics were awesome, the console just felt right. Sega should have held on before tossing the towel so quickly with this system.
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Classic Gaming Quarterly awesome job dude! Your work is top notch and your research is always so interesting. Thanks for making these! The level of nostalgia is insane lol
Chris, is it possible, down the line, that a bluray collection of launch videos be released? I understand it would be lots of work, but just an idea.
We are going to need four more launch videos. Just slap them together. Our expectations remain the same though. Just kidding. I'm not my boss.
Best launch video yet! Thanks
I wish you had a channel on television! I miss G4 back in its prime lol
The Dreamcast was the last thing my dad bought me before passing away... I still have it and I will never get rid of it.
heartbreaking. Im sorry man.
Dreamcast is awesome and that means that your dad is awesome too. May he live on 4 ever
@@jeromethompson5848 what a lovely comment
Yeah I get that 100%...
Because my sister and I were left with an evil step mother (Step C*** in non PG conversations) who is every bad step mother movie trope rolled into one, I have the Guitar he bought me and a TV...... I don't even have a portion of his ashes from his cremation.
The TV started dying recently and while I just moved house (perfect time to bin broken items) I just cant let it go.
@@ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI fix it and keep using it
This could easily air as a documentary on TV or some streaming service.
Agree! His content is top notch.
@@mmurphy3608 Agreed excellent research, production and presentation
Remember G4TV?
@@MajorrBison It could've easily aired on that or TechTV. It's better then a lot of the programming they had.
Well im glad its on youtube because i have none of those😂
I still remember 9/9/99 like it was yesterday. Went to Toys R Us at 9am grab a Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure, Soul Caliber and NFL Blitz. 20 years later I still consider the Dreamcast the greatest home console.
It was pretty good.
The best part is that, due to the lack of any real piracy protection, it still has some level of community support.
In the future when all games are streamed or otherwise locked down as pure commodities, the Dreamcast and OG Xbox will be the only place where games as a form of creative expression will exist.
That's a lot of nines
1:35 Is that Andy Dick?
@@dstinnettmusic But... that also notably helped sink the amazing console while it was on the market (DC ripping was RAMPANT in the very early 00's). Same thing would happen with the PSP a few years later. The Yin & Yangs of life I guess.
That's my b'day. But didn't get at launch got one the next year. Soul calibur was solid it had some other games that were good also.
I miss this era of gaming, it wasn't just endless sequels and micro transactions. Loads of original and quirky games to try, hidden gems, cult classics. The industry is so generic these days.
In alot of ways, the video game industry went backwards as time went on.
Much agreed, my friend. DLC and greed brought the gaming industry to some of its lowest of lows, morally speaking.
I think the reason it seems this way is because companies like Nintendo, sony etc, has gathered such a big audience that they know that people will buy their consoles and games anyway even if it's not that good, in conclusion they don't have to put that much effort into games anymore because there basically isn't any reason too.
At least not "everyone" are like that. We do get some amazing games still.
The Dreamcast also supported KB&Mouse, voice chat, VOIP calling (Dreamcall), web browsing, VMU games, downloading saves from other people, free DLC, and other cool stuff.
Dreamcast was a the portal from the 90's to the 2000's in videogaming. I still remember going to blockbuster just looking at the early PS2 and Dreamcast titles!
CD disks Killed blockbuster.
You put a lot of work in this video and it shows.
He always does
I love these types of vids!!! So much nostalgia....
I agree. CGQ has some of the best retrospectives on YT.
My #1 YT channel for childhood gaming :)
25Hz to Life yeah
Watching this on 9/9/19. Happy Birthday Sega Dreamcast.
Seriously love the Dreamcast and wish it was far more successful
It was and still is pretty successful, There are still new games being made for it.
Jeff V yup, Sony does it every generation.
I think what you really wanted was the PlayStation 2 to bomb/never exist.
The DC was successful........Until Sony whipped out its big black box. Yep I did just write that
@@ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI dreamcast had better graphics, but ps2 had better software support. No more racing.
Sony's "lies"... writen by a Sega Fanboy...
Some of these games looked incredible graphically for how old they are now. The late 90's-early 2000's were a fun time, everything had so much color and attitude.
Notice how everything was better before mainstream internet and social media...
@@Alextheskater91yet here you are on the internet😂. Don’t use the internet if you’re gonna complain about it.
@@adewilson132 the internet is fine and great. It’s social media that made everyone stupid
For some reason I put off watching this, thinking it was just another casual approach to gaming history. How wrong I was, it's actually very thorough and brought back some good memories 🙂
20 years ago today, at 6 am, I went to Babbage's at my nearby mall for my first and only console launch. I picked up my pre-paid Dreamcast along with Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, Power Stone, and Ready 2 Rumble. I had taken two days off work to get lost in these next-gen games, and I loved every minute of it. The polygon counts, resolution, and textures were incredible. The online connectivity was fascinating; I felt like I had to log in to every game's website to see what information was posted about it. The system's lifespan was tragically short, but the memories I made with it were great.
Great video, Chris!
When you saw the dreamcast for the first time it was a holy shit moment. I wasn’t a sports fan at the time but nfl 2k was dramatic for the times. Then getting all those capcom fighters, it was awesome.
@@capcomfan82 It was! Probably the last time I was really blown away by a graphical jump.
First Time I ever waited in line early for a console release. I did not take off work though :).
Yup, I wish I could go back to early August 1999 and relive that agonizing month long wait for the best time I ever had in gaming for the following 1.5 years. I preordered my DC (along with Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, Power Stone, and HotD2) at Funcoland and picked up a Neo Geo Pocket Color with Metal Slug 1st Mission.
All was right in my life at that time for a brief two years....
Those are just the ememories that stuck. My two launch days were GameCube & DS. But there're so many SEGA fans, incl. me, doing so much. DC still got a great HB scene, if not the greatest. I'am not kiddin', the SEGA DC HB scene has made THE most professional Fan/Homebrew games if ever seen. So, if you have a DC, you still get a supply of new Games today. Even little studios developed over the time with the sole purpose of creating new DC games. Truely amazing. Like the C64/AMIGA scene that we've here in germany.
Ahh, and then I would mention something 'bout Lunchdays in general. How they've changed... In the good ol' days, you just met ppl with whom you played online afterwards. Friedships developed and these specific 'energy' in air, the excitement. My mom once told me she witnessed the Mega Drive launch day here in Germany with my father. They met some nice folks and took 'em home to play some Altered Beast & Sonic together. - Plus a fighting game, but I forgot the name - Today, you meet just a bunch 'o scalpers who a 'ready to rumble' if the stock runs dry... 🙄
It's crazy how good some Dreamcast games look to this very day through VGA especially on a pc monitor
Soul Calibur looks super on CRT VGA monitor.
@@snesfan8935 And Shenmue 1 and 2.
The fighting gamer group in my college hooked up a Dreamcast to a laptop screen that way so they could play fighting games in the cafeteria, bowling alley, wherever they wanted to.
Looks really good through HDMI with a DCHDMI as well, and while it pains me to admit it, I run my DCHDMI at 480p adn through an Mcable and the results are pretty awesome, most games look almost native 720p in this config.
I use mine primarily on a CRT pc monitor through vga. I also have the Akura box and looks amazing on my Modern tv as well. But I do prefer the CRT
You should really be proud of this one. It's fantastic. Everything you've done here is above and beyond what I would expect from anyone making TH-cam videos. Congratulations on making the best Dreamcast launch video in existence.
Thanks Josh!!
Outstanding video. Dreamcast was an amazing system. 9-9-99 was a great day!
Still waiting for the dreamcast 2....I'm a dreamer.
this will never happen. BUT u can always wait and pray for a dreamcast mini. That would be SO SO awesome. I wish someone make petition for that. I d totally sign
Titos Vlasakidis Dreamcast classic would be good, however I actually feel bad for the people at Sega in America that couldn’t make the Dreamcast successful.
@@MorganNye true. And what about the petition I m talking about? Hasn't anyone made one yet? Can't believe that
i see what you did there... and i liked it
Robert Sandstorm oh so you’re talking to him and not me?
I was 9 years old in 99 when this came out. I was a huge fan of my Playstation and N64 at the time. But, when i got the Dreamcast i was blown out of my seat. Anyone who played phantasy star online back then, STILL remembers it fondly over 20 years later. This is an amazing video. Ive watched it start to finish a dozen times atleast. All your videos on the system launches are my absolute favorites. Childhood Nostalgia beyond all belief. Thank you for all your time and effort.
Worked at Best Buy during Dreamcast launch. Good times. Great job as always with this video
Busy time. Final fantasy 8 came out the same day on PS1.
@@remybien3277 I think in those days lots of computers flashed the "Intel Inside" sticker!
I worked at Best Buy at that time as well. It was great, the Dreamcast demo kiosk was directly across the aisle from my department. We would take turns on downtime playing it as long as no supervisors were around. I remember playing Crazy Taxi about 1000 times and thinking that graphics couldn't possibly get more advanced lol
Sega Dreamcast....The system that was the first system to me that was "love at first sight." I remember going to Best Buy as a 4th Grader in September 1999, right after Hurricane Fran and not hearing anything about the Dreamcast prior to my encounter. I had the opportunity to play Ready 2 Rumble and instantly fell in love with the system and it convinced me to get one for Christmas of 1999, along with that game and NBA Showtime - the NBA on NBC (a game I enjoyed at the arcades) and it was very fun!! Then, later on, I would get the opportunity to play NBA and NFL 2K, Jet Grind Radio, Virtua Tennis, Sonic Adventure, Power Stone, Crazy Taxi and several more. The Dreamcast was way ahead of its time and was gone way too soon!!!! Long live Dreamcast!!!!
Yezzir! Its funny that you mention this because Sega easily had the best launch lineup of any console ever. Freaking 19 games! It was insane. I cant remember the last time a console launched with that many games. I think Xbox 360 came close with around 15 games at launch, but im pretty sure it didnt top the quantity that Dreamcast had. On top of that, almost every launch game on the Dreamcast was quality and well made, no shovelware garbage that tends to plague certain other consoles. Man, it was such a legendary console. I'll also go a step further and say that Shenmue was one of the best games ever created for it, along with Sonic Adventure, RE Code Veronica, Crazy Taxi (as you mentioned), and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing.
@@thechosenone2123 2 months late, but well said. I do hope I get an opportunity to play Shenmue and RE Code Veronica. Dreamcast put out so many great games in the two years it was on the market. I'd say if not for Sega's past mishaps with the 32X and Saturn, they'll still be in the market today.
@@thomastripp9002 well I got good news for you. You dont even need a Dreamcast anymore to play Shenmue and Code Veronica. Those games have been rereleased on modern hardware. I agree with the 32X. It was a dumpster fire. However, the Saturn, even though it flopped, had alot of potential, the problem was that Sega was run by a bunch of morons. Sad to say, but it is what it is. The whole internal battle between Sega of America and Sega of Japan is what fucked us all up.
@@thomastripp9002 the 32x fucked over the Saturn. If Saturn had been able to do better in the west they would have localized more games. There was no excuse for what Sega did with the Saturn. I had one and loved it, but they didn’t send enough games to America.
I didn't buy the Dreamcast when it was still new-ish, but I did remember working at Sears a new employee showed up, a high schooler like me. He said, I'm here just to get paid to buy the Dreamcast and some games. Sure enough 3 weeks later he walked out the store with the console, Shenmue and I forgot what else. We never saw him again lol
I've known of most of these games, had no idea they were all launch titles! Dreamcast might have the best launch lineup out there.
Don't say it so!!!!
its cause the american release came almost a year later. The Japanese launch was nowhere near as good
@@skurinski they should have waited in Japan. Japan bought the Saturn and got a TON more games on it then we did here.
Yeah, it's insane how amazing the launch library was. So insane.
@@Thor-Orion what do you mean Japan bought the Saturn?
Thank you for showing the VMU play selection on NFL 2K-- still one of the greatest video game features of all time
But he forgot the best feature, that during two player you could pick your play in the VMU so your opponent couldn’t see what play you were making.
@@MadDogHoek23 that’s the feature i was talking about- there’s a brief clip near the beginning that demonstrates it
I have so many good memories of playing the Dreamcast as a kid with my best friend. It had such fun quality games;
Still have my launch Dreamcast and games and still play them regularly. Easily my favorite console.
i still got mine too, depending on the year its made usually the first model like mine can play burnt games with no chip
I miss my Dreamcast. After I purchased an Xbox, my mother gave my Dreamcast and ALL my games to her friend's son. The game I miss the most...Skies of Arcadia on DC.
@@whatwasisaying1338 By far Skies of Arcadia was one of the best rpgs I have ever played. I loved the GameCube version as well.
House of the dead 2 I still have my DC with 2 controllers and a green memory card
@@topshotta2000 I still have my white DC and Black sport DC as well. I will never gry rid of them
Thank you for doing this episode. I’m sure I speak for most retro gamers when I say the Dreamcast will always have a special place in our hearts. This was peak Sega in every way. I still play mine every week and my love for it will never die ❤️👏🏽
I agree this episode was easily one of the best Dreamcast documentaries that I ever seen. Tip for you, if you want the name of another awesome retro youtuber, check out SEGALORDX. Hes a little different from Classic Gaming Quarterly since he focuses only on retro Sega stuff (specifically the Saturn), but the delivery of his content is top notch.
Maybe it's because this was my senior year of high school, but the Dreamcast launch was the most fun console launch in history, to me. The SNES is my favorite system and has the best first year of games, but the Dreamcast was just SO.MUCH.FUN. From the 9.9.99 MTV VMAs stuff to the Official Dreamcast Magazine to the killer selection of Day 1 titles.
I bought the unit, NFL 2K, Soul Calibur and Hydro Thunder. I never played as much Hydro Thunder as I would have liked, for some reason, but I wore out the other two.
Ikaruga was the whole reason I wanted a Dreamcast. That game was so awesome.
Still have my copy ;-)
Didn’t Ikaruga only come out for the Dreamcast in Japan?
Wow, you can tell how much research you put into making this. Grabbed myself a drink and a snack and settled in. I remember buying a Dreamcast at launch with Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, and NFL 2K. Even though it had a short run, it was packed with great games.
I don’t think I’ve loved any console more than my Dreamcast. It was so good. Can’t believe it’s been twenty years since launch.
For me its the OG Xbox then Sega Dreamcast
But like many say... the first Xbox was the "Dreamcast 2"
Dreamcast was my favourite as well.
@@hondamanvtec2894 I see Xbox as more of a Dreamcast Pro to be honest. It was stronger, but lost many features Dreamcast had, like VGA which Xbox 360 brought back, and killer RPGs which the 360 had a ton of and the OG Xbox not so much.
We had a SEGA Dreamcast party yesterday! It was so fun!!! Played Sonic Adventure, Powerstone 1 & 2, Spawn: In The Demon’s Hand, and Quake 3.
No Cannon Spike?
Power Stone!!!! Underrated game that's for sure
We?
@@boricuadude26 And one of the most expensive, especially 2.
Told my mom to buy me a dreamcast she went home and my brother with a ps2 I was so happy
Great review of the sega dreamcast..cant believe its been 20 years already since it launch
Would absolutely love to see a video in this style on the demise of the Dreamcast.
I remember the launch like it was yesterday, I was staying at my friend Mike's house. We went to the mall, walked through the entire store to find the videogames. They had Dreamcasts set up in the middle of the store. We ended up getting one, and a copy of NFL 2K. The same day of the launch we ran back and forth between Sears and GameStop, it was the first time I even knew what a GameStop was and I felt so much nostalgia when I went back to this mall recently. A funny story was we went to a local diner to eat and while we were eating some lady told her daughter to play the basketball arcade machine. She kept trying and it wouldn't do anything. I leaned over and politely advised the lady to press start. She looked at me funny and said that's not how you turn on a basketball machine. I got an eye roll from the daughter, and then they figured it out. They had to press start. Anyways we went back to Mike's house and played for hours. Great system that didn't get the proper attention or respect. I recall Mike had posters of Saturn and Sega stuff everywhere. Also all of his fav t-shirts were from Sega games, and he owned one of the best Sega games ever in my opinion, Crazy Taxi. His parents were really cool too, so they would always let me stay over at his house on the weekend. I'm glad they were so nice to me because I was so shy and always afraid of doing stuff with other kids, even though I loved spending the weekend at his house. I miss him dearly. Thank you for this video.
Incredible episode, man! The Dreamcast had an amazing launch and I honestly can't think of a better one since.
Pretty much every console sense has had a better launch.
@@duelingfattiesgaming2130 Maybe from a sales standpoint, but this was by far the best launch lineup of games for a system in North America.
@@duelingfattiesgaming2130 nah it had tons of games
@FinalNinja The PS2's launch lineup was awful. The Gamecube is the only other launch lineup worth discussing.
@FinalNinja Lol, ps2 launch? I was there for the launch and it was pathetic! I remember getting home with smugglers run and thinking what a joke. Looked last gen even! Dreamcast launch titles destroyed it! There was nothing on the ps2 that could compare. Dreamcast was way ahead of its time! I still own a working launch one with an added vga box. Still holds up and looks good! Some of the games even supported wide screen. First console to feature online gaming! It was a revolutionary system with the best line up of games. Nothing else will compare. Ive been witnessing it since the atari 2600, and it still is and will be the best console of all time to me.
Happy 20th to the Dreamcast! I still have my EGM issue of the Dreamcast launch somewhere at my relatives
The Dreamcast had it's own monthly magazine too! The magazine was top notch as well! I think I had 8 issues before it died with the system!
When I saw Soul Calibur on Dreamcast, I thought: "Thats it. The arcade days are numbered"
It was the end of the arcades as the leadstate of art game technology
T.B.H. arcades were kind of going downhill beforehand anyway, with the 16 bit consoles being their initial real crack in the armor. The Dreamcast was what pretty much signed their final death warrants, when it was the first console that could truly do games at least 95-99% arcade perfect from start to finish. At least there's still many around which have some good games worth playing that you can't have at home, mainly light gun games for me. That despite even if they'll sadly never be these amazing, magical places they were from the 80's to the mid to late 90's ever again, where literally almost every game was worth at least trying unfortunately though.
If Sega would've skipped the 32X then the Dreamcast may have a fighting chance. It would've held up better against other consoles.
That and not butchered the Saturn so bad in many ways as well. That of which was when Sega's long, hard fall from grace truly happened, and lost a lot of trust with gamers when the Dreamcast came out too.
@Not Bob I remember very well that being a deal breaker for a lot of people. Ps2s were cheaper than dvd players at the time, and could do both games and movies. It was a no brainer at the time
@@psychotropictraveler514 that was the biggest nail in Segas coffin. The PS2 doubled as a DVD player and could play PS2 games and backwards compatible with PS1 games. Sega couldn't do squat a lot that.
Now..... If the dreamcast could play DVDs out of the box and was backwards compatible with the entire Sega Saturn library, that would have been awesome.
The Dreamcast, to this very day, still has the best lineup of launch games for a console EVER.
Yay, another "The Launch of" video! This series is among the best videos I've watched on YT! So well made, and brings back so much nostalgia!
Saving this to watch with the girlfriend on this rainy week-end. Thanks a bunch man!
Dude this is your best episode EVER! No I'm not just saying that cuz I love the Dreamcast, you really did an outstanding job going into detail about the history and hardware.
@@stevenmills6502 Whoo... Uh, yeah... Commence the jigglin'
I got me these night vision goggles
IDK why I have these goggles
Ok nap time then...
I've noticed that to. And also his color correcting and style of the history videos have greatly improved since his first console launch video.
I bought the fishing controller in box from cd game exchange a few years back. Still play it. The kids love it. Still playing Starlancer too.
pound 4 pound the Dreamcast is one of the best systems ever, easily. top 3.
Right up there with the Gamecube.
@@Maverick.D. These two systems are legendary and were sorely overlooked and underappreciated in their official run time.
I absolutely loved my Sega Saturn. Me and my wife who was my girlfriend back then used to play cds on it with the starship popping up periodically. Great memories!
Bought it on the release and to this day one of my top 3 consoles. Soul Calibur is still one of the best beat em up games!
Chris White Fighting Games* and I got mine on 9999 also. Such a memorable console launch
I have very fond memories of this system. I remember picking up my pre-ordered Dreamcast on 9-9-99 from Toys R' Us. I was so blown away by the graphics and couldn't believe that it looked as good and better than some arcade games.
Electric Flesh. Same. 9-9-99. Toys R’ Us. I did it up BIG at launch.
The dreamcast was an arcade machine...just look at the game library. Many fighting, racing, and shooter's.
fantastic video. Dreamcast was a fantastic system and I always feel so nostalgic whenever I think about it. I went like a month without ever turning it off because I didn't have memory card and didn't want to lose all the characters I unlocked in Soul Calibur. I was finally able to get one and save my game!
The Dreamcast was underrated and under appreciated in my opinion. It was a concise we didn’t know we loved until it was gone.
Sure wish I could go back in time to 1999, when the world was still somewhat sane
If you figure out how, take me with you.
Somewhat sane, but I remember people were paranoid about Y2K.
@@CGQuarterly make that a double on my part
Ha, people of the 90s would look at the present and go, "Can we have what you're having?" Because let's remember, the people of the 90s had the Yugoslav Wars (active war & genocide _in Europe_ ), the multiple genocides in Africa + the Second Congo War, Russia's wholesale collapse and economic depression, and Limp Bizkit.
It's that Y2K aesthetic circa 1997-2003 that I want back.
Shut up Boomer
Blue Stinger is a VERY underrated game. It’s combat system is good, the variety of weapons is great, and it never gets dull. One of my faves.
And NFL 2K was a system seller for me. I enjoyed many other titles from the launch lineup, but NFL 2K absolutely sold me singlehandedly on the Sega Dreamcast.
Found this channel by chance and now I watch it all the time, the best channel on you tube for going down memory lane.
Dreamcast is when console 3D graphics went from passable to damn great
Back when 2K was amazing
What happened to the industry?
>What happened to the industry?
Most people lost interest in arcades, which were proving grounds for unique and creative game concepts. Successful arcade games went to home consoles and added diversity to the system library, or home exclusive games were developed partly based on lessons learned about gameplay in the arcade. Now the industry's motivator is the online space which has different rules, mostly based around psychological studies of addiction, rather than the immediate and spontaneous fun required of a successful arcade game. Major video games have literally stopped trying to be simply "fun", instead going for manipulation of very primal human needs, which generates revenue far beyond games of the past. Top-level game design is now a formula which leaves no room for experimentation, why take a chance on something new that may or may not be successful when you know exactly what to do to generate guaranteed riches?
It got better
The sandbox era happened...
Millennials happened. These dopes destroy everything they touch. They are the reason gaming is basically slot machines masquerading as games. Thanks you dopes.
It got too popular.
I hope they include sega xtreme sports and 2k sports in dreamcast mini.
They will not include any games that had licenses with other companies (NFL, NBA, etc.). I'm sure they all expired many years ago and would have to be reacquired.
have you played the playstation 1 version of nba live 2001
@Brandon Smythe yeah and they're still hella cheap too, including the games.
for me mortal kombat and berserk game. which ı know both of them will not include if mini come out. games like tomb raider 4 dino crisis and resident evlis will not include too.
@@UNPOCOLOCO444 The good games are NOT cheap outside of the 2K stuff. Just look at Sonic Adventure 2.
When I got this notification just a moment ago, I was unboxing all of my Dreamcast stuff after moving into a new place.
I really appreciate your Perfect-Timing-Enthusiast Tone.
Sorry that the thumbnail doesn't have me making "Dreamcast enthusiast face".
No problem. I’ll be sure and write a letter to my local congressman, to ensure that you’re appropriately forced to replace the thumbnail with something more to my liking.
Great video! I can remember renting the Dreamcast from Hollywood Video and maxing out a credit card to buy it around launch from an EB games.
LIke always a very in depth and high class analysis. Thank you for all the time and effort that goes into these projects!
That was fantastic! Fabulous memories, brilliant console, brilliant time for gaming, brilliant Dreamcast! Thanks for amazing memories Sega.
The Dreamcast was and still is a gem in my opinion. Ahead of its time and just great fun.
The Dreamcast still has the greatest launch ever. Just amazing games
Yeah, and you could literally play that entire lineup up until Christmas that year, and still not be bored of the console. That being with how much it had just about each and every single game genre covered at first. Bummer that the DC had to die so soon after it's promising start, and when third party support began to level off, as the PS2, and later GameCube & original Xbox launches began to fast approach. That of which was when Sega realized it simply wasn't going to have the resources to compete with the console market any longer, and saw the writing on the wall unfortunately.
Agreed it was the most stacked lineup too this day and I still feel hasn’t been beat since.
I waited until today to watch this so I could see it on the Dreamcast's 20th birthday :)
Fantastic video about the launch of the Sega Dreamcast! My launch titles were HydroThunder sonic adventure and blue stinger. I remember how some of the games were sold a few days before the console was available which I thought was really cool and I’ve never seen that before. I took the day off work and you can bet I picked mine up first thing in the morning 9-9-99!
The Sega Saturn could render 3d graphics fine. It was just difficult to code for having two cpus and 2 gpus.
It's a double standard in the west because SEGA of America was so anti-Saturn.
When the PS2 and 3 do something bad, it's because they're hard to code for, but when Saturn does it, it's because "it can't".
Dreamcast was ahead of its time and more powerful then the ps2, people wasn't ready for the dreamcast
Nobody cared. So it failed. You can make the best product in the world but if nobody wants it then it doesn't matter.
Lol it was far weaker than the ps2
More powerful than PS2? Lol it was barely more powerful than N64
It was def more powerful than ps2. Just didn’t have enough time for developers to work the kinks out and use the console to its full potential.
The Dreamcast could only render 3 million polygons per sec, compared to 60 million on the play station 2, so you ultimately tell me which one is more powerful than the other.
WOW brotha, this video is by far the most professionally and researched of all of your console release documentary style videos!!!!! Even though all of your content is amazing, this one has to be the best so far. A bit long but it is very true to understand the downfall of Sega hardware and the lack of distribution it had by the Dreamcast life, you did have to go into details of why with the Saturn. I do feel bad for Peter Moore as he was heavily involved in the attempt to make Sega come out of the whole the last regime put them in with Dreamcast and to be honest, they had a fighting chance but companies and many fans had a sour taste for Sega after the fallout of Saturn and the mixture of the 32x here in North America. Peter Moore was so excited for this project he said in an interview about Dreamcast so yeah I do feel bad it went the way it did. I wish that I had a Dreamcast growing up but never did. I see all of the shooters like Ikaruga and Mars Matrix style games and I hate that I never had one growing up. This console did have a chance to shine but the power of the PS2 was inevitable to ignore. Plust with the DVD capability, Jeez. Though PS2 did have many issues early on with that feature as I had friends who had one and they said that their PS2's would randomly quit playing games or DVD's. Anyway, I am amazed at this video and maybe one day you and Norman Caruso could do a collab video. I don't see you both as competitors, but more fellow video game enthusiasts who love putting out content in this level of professionalism!!!!!!! Ya definitely got ma like!!!!!!!
This was a super amazing documentary. Thank you for representing the Dreamcast in such a great way! I have just a tiny tiny tiny minuscule correction about the GD-Rom space size. The actual space for game data was actually around 984MB. The Audio layer was around 35MB so in a sense games didn't even have a 1GB of space to use for storage. I believe this statement was made around the 15 min mark.
oh baby a CGQ dreamcast video, today just got a whooole lot better
The Dreamcast as well as the Sega Saturn, and the Nintendo GameCube, was one of the most underrated and under appreciated systems. Those systems shocked me when I saw them. I wish more people had (because like most, I didn't have one either, and only one of my friends had the Dreamcast) more of em. The detail and graphics, and music were awe-inspiring. I wouldn't mind getting one myself and playing House of the Dead.
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This video is truly amazing, and brought back so many great memories for me of 9/9/99! Thank you so much for the incredible amount of work that you put in to make this!
I'll briefly say, that the disc not working issue was mainly regarding the Midway software. I bought Hydro Thunder, Ready 2 Rumble, and MK Gold on launch day... but none of them worked! However, Babbages soon called me to say that the new batch of disc's came in, and they gladly exchanged my defective games for ones that read "Hot! New!" on the case (in funky green coloring that I'll never forget).
NFL2K was my most anticipated Dreamcast launch game, but it actually was delayed until about a week or so after 9/9/99, or so that's what all of the videogame stores in both South Florida and the Baltimore suburbs said (I lived in both places). I remember vividly though the day that it actually came out, and I was so completely blown away by it.
Thanks again sir for brining the memories flooding back to me of the Dreamcast's launch!
I adore these videos. The sheer amount of detail for all games, fun facts, history, and tone setting is so great. Thank you
Hi from France.
I think it's the first video from your channel that i'm watching and it's perfect !
You did a great job and you took your time to speak about the line up games which is very interesting and also brings back good memories !
I completely agree with Blue Stinger which is quite underrated and very fun to play with an unique atmosphere.
I will watch your other videos, they all look great !
Thank you for the hard work !
If Sega announced and launched a new gen console I'd be camping to purchase it, just like an iPhone guy.
Consoles are now off the shelf PC hardware with proprietory software to lock the games to the systems. Sega won't invest into a platform and lock its ip out of other platforms it would lose to much income short term and cost to much money to produce. They would have to be very different from microsoft sony and Nintendo. Nintendo has a larger catalogue to bring people back and makes a console with enough differentiation that is why they are successful, they did not stop so never had to break back in. Sega breaking back into the market successfully would be remarkable. Only companies like Samsung or a Chinese backed company have a chance to break in right now due to economic reach.
Ultimately I think the future lies in cloud based consoles like Shadow doing the heavy processing with your mobile acting like a Nintendo Switch portable unit whilst utilizing existing mobile to tv control. All games would be like steam or origin ect. This may be close or a decade away, I am unsure as tech is moving so fast right now.
I’ve watched a lot of Dreamcast videos but this was the best and most thorough i’ve seen. Excellent work 👏
Great video! I own my Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast. Sega will always have a special place in my heart. So many great times and fond memories, from sleepovers as a kid playing Sonic to a young adult drinking beers with my buddies and playing NBA 2K1. Although they are no longer in the console business I'm happy they are still around making great games. Hopefully one of these days they'll decide to take those old titles so many people missed back in the day and bring them back to life for the new generation(looking at you Burning Rangers).
What an incredibly meticulous and informative video. I thought I knew everything about Sega but learned quite a bit I never knew. I also love how you actually show footage of the video games you talk about, unlike many other game "enthusiast" channels. Can't wait for your Xbox video!
Aaaah the wonderful dreamcast! Still to this day, the most innovative console of all time!
Not really. It did nothing no other console hadn't done before.
@@duelingfattiesgaming2130 errrr online
@bigevilworldwide1 The dreamcast came out before the PS2
@bigevilworldwide1 The Dreamcast had online before the PS2 and truly was ahead of its time when it came out. It was a great console and if Sega weren't idiots back then. The Dreamcast could have kept Sega in the console market if they handled it right.
i came here to mash the like button and i’ll come
back when i have time to watch it. god damn cgq! yeah!!
I'm surprised you guys dont have a spot on other major outlets. Production and directorial direction quality has Netflix level documentary potential.
It's alive!!! :D
CGQ always puts out great content man. Glad to see ya here showing some love.
it’s thinking
It's thinking.
TH-cam trying to sneak this by me! HA! Not today, Google. I remember importing my system with Virtua Fighter 3tb from Buy Rite, felt downright magical.
Let’s just imagine a brand new version of this incredible console!!!!! I might cry 😭
This video earned you a sub. Very well produced and through and over an hour! Very well done. Dreamcast will always be one of my favorite systems of all time
Really great video, it brought back a lot of memories of the whole Dreamcast experience. I had a great experience with the console and man when I figured out how to use those old free ISP's for dial up connection to the internet Phantasy Star Online became a constant grind in my house. Great video, thanks for helping me relive some of these amazing memories.
I can tell you put a lot of work into this video, thank you.
Damn, this is top notch quality as expected from CGQ. Absolutely stellar video!
You should have your own TV channel at this point. Wonderfully done, sir!
well this is a youtube CHANNEL soo.. XD
Happy 25th Anniversary
Sega Dreamcast 🌀🎮
1999-2024
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Great video. Cant imagine how much time it must've taken to make this. I remember buying dreamcast on launch day with. Blue stinger and ready to rumble and i loved them both.
Finally! This is the system I always wanted to know more about.
its a shame because sonic adventure felt SO ahead of it's time back then
It did it blew my mind
It was, It just aged bad.
@Dave Stephenson For you, not for 150 mio other gamers.
Great work as always! The Dreamcast will always remind me of a great chapter of my childhood memories!
LOVED IT! Never had a Dreamcast but I remember playing it at friends. I grew up with the Sega Master System and Sega Mega Drive
i hate watching long youtube videos, but you edited it so good and the subject of the video and its back story were so good I couldnt believe i finished the video. good job man
Thanks for the upload. Always attention to the details. I got a Dreamcast for my high school graduation. Best gift i got.
“Pick up a six pack of Zima and head over.” Haha! I love your videos CGQ! Lots of information packed in
Your channel is amazing! I have watched several videos of yours, but this one is my favorite so far! I never had a Dreamcast (or any Sega console, actually) and I never realized how cool the Dreamcast was. I do remember playing Sonic Adventure at Target while my Mom was shopping. I may have to find one!
The Dreamcast was far and away the most beautiful gaming system. We didn't deserve it. Sega always made fun games.
Wow Dreamcast had 19 titles on launch @21:00. Just look at all those classics! Even the date was perfect 9/9/99. Just fell right in place. By far the best launch ever in a console.
I was at the launch. I got the System along with House of the Dead 2 and Soul Calibur 2. Such a great time. I drove 2 hours from college to get it and 2 hours back. So much excitement.
Now that's an adventure. I sort of did something similar when the 3DS came out. Walked to the store from my college to get it and walked back since I didn't have a car at the time. It was a pretty decent walk. That was probably 8 years ago? That was the first system I bought on my own up until that point.
I didn't get a Dreamcast growing up because my exposure to Sega was pretty minimal. I had a friend who had one, but he didn't do a great job of selling the system or Sega to me, so I was never interested in it. Now that I'm older and out of college, I've been going back to the late 90s to play games that I missed, mostly Sega and PC. Now I have a Dreamcast and I love it. The system has some of the coolest concepts I've ever seen for a 3D system, like Jet Grind Radio. Even the football games are better than most of what we have today, like NFL 2K2. It's such a blast of a game and the game's penalty system is more realistic because the NFL didn't really control what went into the games back then as much as they do now. Now Madden can't show anything that the NFL doesn't want it to.
Soul calibur 1 I think you mean? Still awesome game I always beat my friends asses at. One of my favorite fighting games to this day
@@michaelsguitars3079 I'm two years late on this response so please forgive me. TH-cam does a sucky job of letting people know when others reply to them. Anyway, that was such a great time to be a gamer. It was probably the most excited I had ever been gaming wise. I didn't care that I had to spend 4 hours on the road as I was going to get that sucker no matter what.
@@Hatemode_NJ You're right. I was on a "2" kick when I was writing that comment. It was the second game in the series, but not the second Soul Calibur. I was never great at the game and my roommate in college and I would button mash our way. By the time I got rid of the system I had 90 games for it. I sold it though to buy a new Xbox 360 that red ringed outside of warranty in 7 months time. The dumb stuff we do as young adults. However also necessary when you've got nothing but lint in your pockets and you just have to have the next thing out!
@@EDFCentral No worries. I was deep into the N64 at the time, so I can relate to that experience. Most of my favorite experiences at that time was just renting games from a local mom and pop rental store. The N64/Ps1/Saturn/Dreamcast era is by far my favorite era of gaming.
Just in time for September 9th 2019 (the 20th anniversary)! I’ve been asking for this episode for so long and I thank you for making it.
Congrats. Amazing video. Dreamcast was the best Sega console and had great games. It was the right console at the wrong time.
This was my favorite console system, the graphics were awesome, the console just felt right. Sega should have held on before tossing the towel so quickly with this system.
They fucked up so bad with the Saturn that they were behind the 8 ball by a mile financially. It’s really sad. I loved the Saturn and Dreamcast.
I don't think I've ever watched an hour and a half video on YT..
I don't regret it one bit.. GREAT VIDEO!!!!
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Fred Durst shilling the Dreamcast. Possibly the most late 90's thing ever.
there is an episode of Redman on MTV Cribs and he shows his Dreamcast next to his bed says he played it all day