best time of my life this, 1999. Passed my driving test, got my car, got a job, brought a dreamcast! The last truly great console before things started to go "online". Something so special about that 1999-2000 era.
To be honest the GameCube was not that much 'Online' compared to the Dreamcast. So, I would say GameCube would be the last great 'offline' console. The only true online game was phantasy star online ported from the Dreamcast. We don't talk about the CARD series
@@KenKaniff-dw4jw dreamcast was an arcade system for at home. for me as an arcade fan first choice. as an classic home console PS2 was the better system with much more games.
DC was one of the most underrated and unappreciated consoles ever!! Sega knew gaming, they were experts in the field.. now if only they had opted for the DVD format.. Our gaming landscape would have looked way different today 😉
And a second joystick... And 32mb of ram instead of 16mb. That really crippled the console because without the additional ram, it wasn't capable of loading/caching large open world 3D games that were next Gen a la grand theft auto 3. Rockstar actually supported the Dreamcast somewhat and if they would have brought over grand theft auto 3, that would have been a game changer. Dreamcast would have gone on to sell 30 million consoles at least. A port of GTA could have been possible but it would have been plagued with random loading screens when moving across the map.
@@7shocker the PS2 version of GTA3 was also plagued with frequent loading screens and slowdown issues, so it's not like bringing the Dreamcast up to parity would have prevented that from being the case. To be completely honest with you, I feel like GTA3 was overhyped and was pretty mediocre as a game once you look past the spectacle of it having big levels. I'd much rather have had a console that was incapable of running it because the entire genre that spun off from people imitating GTA3 didn't hit its stride until much later and I don't think that open world games really stack up compared to more focused experiences, even today. I do agree that a second analogue stick and some more buttons on the controller would have been welcome, but the Dreamcast didn't fail because of weak hardware or because it didn't have the right software: it was because of MILCDs. If they hadn't decided to make the console compatible with MILCDs, it would have been close to impossible to pirate software because it would never boot a game that wasn't pressed to a GDROM. DVD playback could have been handled by a peripheral and the storage issues from not using DVD for games would probably not be all that significant, considering that most games on PS2 and XBOX used less than half of the disc space of a single layer DVD. GDROM wasn't that far from the capacity of a Gamecube disc, so if a Gamecube could run the game it would most likely be able to fit on a single GDROM.
I don’t think this what if scenario would have made a difference… we all know SEGA was taking a lot of risks and that’s what set them apart from competition… I mean MEGA CD, 32X, Saturn with its messy hardware and last minute changes and then the Dreamcast… the only thing that could’ve saved them is having a bigger amount of cash to endure these failures… I still remember people saying that Nintendo could have taken at least 7 Sega Saturn’s failure until bankruptcy… well this is another “What if” scenario, but it all comes down to this: Ca$h money.
While I waited for the GameCube to release the Dreamcast was on its way out. I decided to buy the Dreamcast to hold me over and found it on sale for $99. Bought Powerstone 2 and Marvel vs Capcom 2 to go with it. WONDERFUL decision. I loved the Dreamcast.
I still remember passing up a Dreamcast with like 20 games, on sale for $200 at my dentist office. The dental assistant's son was selling it. WHY OH WHY DID I NOT BUY IT?!?!?! DANG IT!!!
The irony of this is I needed to tide myself over before the PS3 came out, and picked up a Gamecube for about $90 bucks and fell in love with it. But the DC is still one of my favorite consoles of all time.
The Dreamcast was my very first console where I was able to connect online gaming for the very first time. I remember that night like it was yesterday and I'm 49 now. It was a magical. I was so excited when I first connect and saw other players online. Dreamcast was a very special console.
YES it definitely was. I remember downloading mini videos on my VMU. Dragonball was getting popular and I remember someone had a Vegeta one powering up. It was just a crazy time!
I remember back in 2002, we had a big sleep over with many of our gamer friends. There were like 14 of us in one of our rich friend's mansion. We all brought our own games and consoles. I vividly remember one guy had PS2 in a specialized suit traveling suit case. And one of those ridiculous gaming rocking chairs with speaker on both sides. During the course of gaming, we gradually gravitated towards where Dreamcast was being played. We had all the great games like power stone, soul calibur, psychic force, space channel five, and etc. I have to admit, we had more fun playing on Dreamcast more than PS2 or Xbox at the time. It really did feel like the very last true gaming console.
I bought my Dreamcast on the day of release, it was probably my favourite console in terms of truly groundbreaking experiences. Games like Power Stone, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio , Shenmue, they were all so different from anything else available before or since. Such a pity that it was Sega's final console.
Yes, shenmue set the standard for next level rpg. Rush 2049 was insane for us and a sleeper if it's not on this list 🤷 loved how we could get cheap Demos like Tony Hawk etc to just sit around and beat each other's scores lol
I wanted a Dreamcast when it was released but I had lost faith in Sega. The short life of the Sega CD, 32X and Saturn in Europe meant I didn’t want to take the risk on the Dreamcast. I bought one a few months ago so now finally own one. It’s as good as I thought it would be and love it.
I was curious in Dreamcast, and saw it in action at somebodies house. Looked really great, and surprised me a lot. But I was already hooked by PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 by that point, and was frustrated by Sega's Saturn and 32x disappointment. It's a shame. Honestly, providing Sega pledge to support and stick to any new consoles they release, then I'd happily return to Sega again. Microsoft and Sony's modern consoles aren't as exciting compared to as they used to be.
I often wonder why SEGA gets stick for that more than others. The CD and 32X were optional addons, but PlayStation Move not withstanding, the PS Vita and PS TV weren't. And people let it slide every time. I mean, the only game Sony gave us Vita fans was Uncharted Golden Abyss, but people still crave a new Vita, while SEGA at least gave the CD and even 32X some support yet lost all trust from everyone. I think people don't deserve a new SEGA system honestly. Though given how SEGA was "the arcade at home" and the state of arcades today, I can't see SEGA being the same if they did come back. Not if they wanted to last anyway.
@@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung Sega CD and 32 received a handful of games, of those.. ports besides what.. 2 games (I can only think of sonic CD). Even though the vita was a commercial failure, it went on to receive a shitton of Japanese support somewhat like the Saturn did. PS move was a gimmick to capitalize on the wii's success but unlike the add-ons for genesis the PS4 was a commercial success outselling the Genesis 3 to 1.. PS TV and PS portal are some WTFs.. sega could have survived had the Genesis sold like the PS4 did.
@@The_Prizessin_der_VerurteilungSega/Sammy Japan Execs have their heads up their wazoos now. I never got the CD, but the 32X and had Knuckles Chaotix and NBA Jam TE for it, both were pretty entertaining. I got Sonoc CD for W95 PC and it was awesome.
It was crazy how much more advanced it was than other hardware when it launched in Japan in 1998. Shame they didn’t manage to make it a world wide launch as early as then
I was blown away by Phantasy Star Online. I still play it today as if it just came out. It's my favourite game of all time, and running it in higher res now looks incredible.
Man what time to alive. We, as the consumer, benefited the most from the competition between Sega, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. they were all firing from all calibers.
Dreamcast was my favorite console ever. My bday is 9/8, so the next day on '99 was an extremely special bday gift to me, especially after a rough period then (since my family had just moved, I was going to a new school). That era was really special, I think -- I kinda equate the games as a predecessor of the indie boom a decade later of the early 2010s, because there were a lot of extremely unique and ambitious games on the DC, as well as really freakin' weird, quirky ones (in a good way). Devs were taking creative risks on the console, that they weren't as much even on PS2, GC, and XBox.
It'll always be special to me for being the first SEGA console to grace our home. Well, not exactly. My mom and brother briefly had a Master System before I was around, but they hated it and so returned it, opting for an NES, instead. This was the grounds for denying me the SEGA systems I wanted - Genesis, Game Gear, Saturn - but one fateful day, that same brother would trade in all our N64 stuff for a Dreamcast plus a few games, which really was a dream come true, for me.
Dreamcast is a great console. I Always remember how futuristic it felt. I was astonished playing F1 World Grand Prix on a dreamcast of a friend. For me it's a core memory. Years after I asked this friend what he had done with the console.... He sold with a lot of games for dirt cheap. If I knew... Awesome video as always!
I remember Christmas of 2000 and my grandparents bought me and my sister a Dreamcast, that Generator Demo Disk with Sonic Adventure 1 on it... that game felt like a complete revolution to what I was playing before then,, agree with you fully that it felt like a futuristic space-tech machine.
Dreamcast made my HS days memorable. One of the best 4 year stretches in my gaming history. 2K sports, Resident Evils, Marvel vs Capcoms, Shenmue... what a time to be alive.
Conheço essa voz.... Kkkkkkk Muito bom o conteúdo, meu amigo! Eu simplesmente AMO o Dreamcast e me lamento até hoje por ter vendido o meu em 2013... 😢 Forte abraço! Deus te abençoe!
My dad brought me home one of these for my birthday when I was going through a tough time. I had NFL Blitz, ready to tumble and dynamite cop. Absolutely loved it. So sad it didn’t have a longer life
My 11th birthday was 9/9/99. We had a drill at school that day in which they were running a test on all of the computers in the district to ensure they wouldn’t have any complications during the coming new year ( Y2K ) Piling on top of all that the release of the Dreamcast (my parents waited until Christmas to get it for us) made for the most exciting days of my life for a good while!
I was a teenager and had been following it in the magazines and saving up my own money from mowing lawns in the neighborhood. Had the pre-order locked in and I remember going to Toys R Us on 9/9/99, and there didn't seem to be much fanfare. I just walked through quietly and picked up my machine, along with Soul Calibur. That game had such a spectacular run among my friends and I. My dad was always quoting the announcer! 😆 In short order, I would pick up Sonic, Crazy Taxi and Ready 2 Rumble boxing. After a couple of years, I was old enough for a regular job and eventually picked up a PS2. But the DC would always be my favorite, with titles like MvC2, Capcom vs SNK, and weird little gems like Armada and JGR. Over the last year, I have lost both of my parents and find myself unexpectedly emotional recalling a happier time. Thanks for this. 🤙
Dreamcast is my favorite console of all time. Got it on launch day. I wouldn’t say it was under appreciated though. Dreamcast fans are die hard in a way no other console can claim. And we can name 100 reasons why but really, it’s just one of those intangible things. DC was magic.
This was the very first console I ever purchased with my own money. I remember being overseas and going to a video game store and seeing a TV with a football game on in the window. Then I realized it wasn't a television game, it was NFL 2K. I had never seen a game that looks so realistic. Then I saw footage of Soul Calibur and it was the first time a video game Home console looks better than the arcade version. I thought I would never own a Sega since I was such a Nintendo guy, but the Dreamcast want me over and became my second favorite console of all time behind my Nintendo Entertainment System
This video format is fantastic brother. Excellent execution. You can tell that your passion is the native the real what it actually looks like. Your workflow is nice and surely a lot of work went into its production.
My favorite console ever, at the time it blew me away coming from the n64. I was nervous buying it initallly, in the end it gave me years of joy. Great game after great game throughout the years. I still have mine. Thank you sega.
I played Soulcalibur at the Toysrus and was blown away. It was better than arcade perfect. Such a shame the DC didn't succeed. I remember the visuals being so vibrant and sharp compared to the fuzzier PS2.
Your knowledge and analysis on legacy games and audio-visual electronics always impresses me. I had a Dreamcast that I loved, but I lived in an area where it seemed like games for the Dreamcast were almost never available. Even the rental places rarely got titles in. It was an absolute shame because the games that did get released looked awesome back in the day. I hope that everything is going well. I have been watching some of your lives with Elder Ring. When you were over three hours into the battle with Malenia and your wife was watching and wanting to start her Friday night, I was empathizing with you. lol We've all been there.
House of the Dead 2 on Dreamcast was a fun game to play at home.. Because at the time it required tokens to play at the Arcade so being able to play it home with friends was great
I really enjoyed this video, great work. I wanted a Dreamcast so bad. I was a sega kid. I got a genesis in 1993 but missed out on the Saturn. I had a PS1 in 97. I used to ride my bike to wal mart to play the Dreamcast kiosk. Then my buddy got one and we loved the ports of quake 3 and unreal tournament. We played quake 3 online too. I later ended up getting a ps2 in 2001 followed by an Xbox in 2003. I went full Xbox after that.
WOW, I was also a Sega fan and had a MegaDrive and then got my PS1 in 1997 too!! I remember playing Tekken and Tomb Raider the first time - blown away!!
14:33 the Japanese version of Sega Rally 2 that has the unlocked frame rate has a secret cheat to lower the trackside detail and raise the frame rate. The EU/US version is locked to 30fps
I still have mine (but it sorta turned into a cream color now haha). Still works! I clean it inside out every year or two. Man, I remember the first time we got Soul Calibur back when it first came out. I was blown away by the super smooth animations and the anatomy details of each character. It's true, back then this was a total aberration. The Dreamcast had some real gems.
You can get close results with much less! RetroTink 5X with a 1080p capture card, for example! Analog cables are always super relevant for high quality though.
Good to see the pixels. There are several Sega fanboys showing bullshots (with 8xAA or more) claiming that they were real time, but in fact it's an 480p image and has a lot of aliasing. Nothing wrong with that.
Talk about Nostalgia 😀.... Going to my buddies house and playing Sonic Adventure on his Dreamcast.... MAN those were the days .... That game touches a special place in my soul
Ready to Rumble sold me on the Dreamcast. They used to use it in the display stands in shops and it alays had a crowd of people waiting to have a go of the game.
I remember playing Soul Calibur with my brother when it first dropped for an entire Christmas break and just being in AWE of how insane the graphics were at the time. MVC2 is the best fighting game (in that genre) imo.
I worked at a gaming store called Babbages in Cherry Hill Mall in NJ (which is known as GameStop today) and that day i was off therefore i went to the store to pick up my Dreamcast 9/9/99. I bought the Dreamcast,an extra controller and a VMU with Blue Stinger as my game and also picked up Final Fantasy 8 for the ps1. That was a great year. The good old days of gaming were the best they were magical man.
This makes me feel nostalgic, and a little sad. The games were so much more easy to enjoy when they were simpler. Thanks for documenting how great the Dreamcast was.
Dreamcast was such a big part of my childhood. Truly a magical time for me. I remember my dad saying to me that I could either wait for the PS2 or have a Dreamcast now with Sonic adventure. So I went for the DC and loved it. Phantasy Star online was just the pinnacle of gaming in my opinion. Chatting to people before online gaming was really a thing on console and I just couldn’t believe it. My dad couldn’t either when I racked up over 300 quid on our phone bill 😂 wonderful console will always have fond memories of it.
Man, I love that golden era of 3D fighting games, Tekken, Toshinden, Bloody Roar, Soul Calibur, etc... Fighting games now rely too much on "How can we keep this game alive through paid online content and big ass tournaments?" Rather than making something that can hold on it own on release day with some cool 1P content as well as some fun side-modes like Tekken 3's beat-em up, volleyball, Soul Calibur 2's Weapon Master, etc...
Never grew up around DC and I don’t have that much interest in going back to revisit it and play the games from it but I do enjoy learning about it… but I really enjoyed this video simply for its editing and production quality. You really capture the aesthetic of this era of gaming with your editing.
Soul Calibur is the first perfect 3D fighting game. Also I'm surprised you didn't put Hydro Thunder on here. I love that game. NBA/NFL 2K were both great launch titles as well.
Been playing and collecting consoles since the Atari 2600. Dreamcast is top 3 console of all time for me. I loved the design and look of the system, the unique controllers, the VMU and the broadband modem. It was a console both ahead of it's time and behind the times in the same generation. I loved that you got the same hardware, thereby getting the same experience, as the arcade version of the games. Mine is still connected and working well.
Genesis was by far my favorite console. It was super special. But I'd say my second favorite was Dreamcast. So many great games. 4 players out of the box! So many great fighting games! PS2 had tons of great games, but it didnt have personality. So many great memories.
The Dreamcast was amazing! Still one of my favorite systems. This system brought so much to the console race. Phantasy Star Online is my favorite game on the system.
Love it. Only thing for me the title "this is how Dreamcast really looks on modern displays" Would love if it possible for you to make another video where you put the result some CRT emulation / or filming an actual time representative CRT with same output you use here. Would love to see this proper DC video output shown both "sharp - LED" look and then "smoothed CRT look" Ideally showing first both and then a side by side comparsion. Reason is just what you shown in the picture. so more is "This is really how Dreamcast games are supposed to look" as for sure most of them look better on a CRT due to the reasons you mentioned in this video
The big issue with showing games with a CRT filter is that usually TH-cam destroys the image quality, it really doesn't handle CRT filters well. Sometimes it ends up ok with games with static backgrounds, but for a full 3D experience it's awful unfortunately! Thanks a lot for the comment!
@@VideoGameShowcase ah even if you upload it in 4K? That’s a shame. But I get what you mean. I would love if someone did a program that could fetch a TH-cam screen and then apply a realtime shader to simulate older displays. Like retrotink 4K well not the same but you get what I mean. Thanks for the nice content btw.
Unfortunately even in 4K the CRT filters can still destroy the image quality. I've had mixed results. It normally looks good in games with static backgrounds (Resident Evil on the PS1, for example). Thanks!
Loved my Dreamcast, i couldnt wait for the UK release so got a Japanese import... it was so amazing. Headhunter, Power stone, ready 2 rumble boxing & SF3 were my fave games.
I never play one game I'm Dreamcast, with this video i became more interested in the console, the content of this channel is incredible, may there be more videos, congratulations on the production, hugs!!!
I think the best thing you can do for a Dreamcast, these days, is install an optical drive emulator. You may not want to do this with your childhood Dreamcast, for sentimental reasons, but the Dreamcast isn't as insanely priced in the collector market as the PS2. You should be able to acquire a second hand Dreamcast to mod. All that said, of course, emulation is a thing, and we live in a world where the NVidia Shield TV exists. Probably the perfect Dreamcast emulation device. If you don't want to perform surgery on a Dreamcast, emulating it on the Shield TV is perfectly acceptable.
It was always one of my favorite game consoles. Can't tell you how many intense battle mode matches I've played with everyone on sanfrancisco rush 2049
I brought the Dreamcast and was very glad that I did. The console was fantastic for what it managed to do at the time. If we did not have games like Shenmue, games like FF10 and MGS2 would have not pushed that hard to reach the heights that it did. All other competitors had to jump much higher to be to its level. And we had amazing other games like Jet Set Radio (honestly I cannot understand why you do not have that game or Grandia 2 to showcase) Thanks for the lovely memories.
Marketing was incredibly bad. In my country most people did not even know about the dreamcast or how powerful it was. I loves the system. Code Veronica, Soul Calibur, Metropolis Street Racer, Crazy Taxi, Skies of Arcadia, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Ikaruga, Virtua Tennis 2, Headhunter, Powerstone 2, Sword of the Berserk...man I had so much fun.
Excellent upload mate. I was a bit gutted a few years after selling mine, when I realised that capcom pumped out all those additional fighting games. Don't think I'd have got rid of it if I'd known about the SF 3's and a few others!
Dreamcast was ahead of the curve. So much so the consumer market didn't actually understand that they had a gem and wasted it. I didn't own one myself, but my best friend had one and we played THPS and Sonic adenture 1 and 2 non stop. We did crazy taxi runs and jet set. The console was sick and had internet/dlc capabilities in the 90's! The one gamer regret is that I never got to play Phantasy Star Online on the dreamcast. Friend didn't get it and when they put it on gamecube finding it in my area was impossible.
I don't know how, maybe it was your presentation, but you captured what it was like to turn on the Dreamcast for the first time in 1999. Bravo! Insta-subbed
The Dreamcast is my favorite console of all time. I had a couple consoles afterwards, but I'm just a PC guy now. But in 1999 when I was 22, Dreamcast was it.
Suprised to not see it on this list but Skies of Arcadia was by far my favorite game on the dreamcast alongside sonic adventure 1/2. Probably my favorite RPG of the era, I've replayed it countless times on emulator I think it deserves its own FInal fantasy remake treatment one day but I doubt we will ever get to see it.
Cool vidoe. Liked and subscribed. Ibought a Dreamcast when I was visiting Japan in the Fall of 1998. I got the system 1 year before it came out in America. Obviously I bought the Japanese version. Going forward I only purchased import games. I lived in San Francisco at the time so it wasn't difficult to find stores that imported Japanese products/games, etc. I remember a year or so later buying Code Veronica not knowing if the environments were 3-D and if there was a "fixed" camera that moved. It seemed this was the case by over-analyzing the images form the import Japanese game magazines that I was obsessing over at the time. Anyways, I remember the game was being demoed on a Japanese Dreamcast and I could watch the demo through the game store window and when I realized it was in fact actually 3-D rendered and had a moving camera I was simply blown away. One of the coolest video games (and best Biohazard games) of all time in my opinion. Anyways, what I really came here to say was that the Dreamcast was the actual realization of the intersection of arcade and home console. Thought the Neo-Geo really gets the award it wasn't until Dreamcast that mainstream consoles were 1-to-1 with their arcade counterparts. The Dreamcast ran on identical hardware as the Sega Naomi arcade boards. I was literally playing perfect identical arcade games for the first time in my life (never could afford the Neo-Geo). House of the Dead 2, Powerstone, Crazy Taxi, Soul Caliber, etc, etc. Perfect arcade games at home. Unbelievable at the time.
No outro canal lembro de assistir o primeiro vídeo falando sobre cod e um jogador chamado sam1000, algo assim. Ficou muito bom esse vídeo aqui meu chapa.
best time of my life this, 1999. Passed my driving test, got my car, got a job, brought a dreamcast! The last truly great console before things started to go "online". Something so special about that 1999-2000 era.
The Dreamcast seemed like the future in that era 😢
To be honest the GameCube was not that much 'Online' compared to the Dreamcast. So, I would say GameCube would be the last great 'offline' console. The only true online game was phantasy star online ported from the Dreamcast. We don't talk about the CARD series
@@MrBendixxx ps2 is better than DC and last great console
@@KenKaniff-dw4jw dreamcast was an arcade system for at home. for me as an arcade fan first choice. as an classic home console PS2 was the better system with much more games.
@@KenKaniff-dw4jwPS2 is average at best most of the games are dark and muddy hardware also is trash and breaks regularly but to each their own
DC was one of the most underrated and unappreciated consoles ever!! Sega knew gaming, they were experts in the field.. now if only they had opted for the DVD format.. Our gaming landscape would have looked way different today 😉
And a second joystick... And 32mb of ram instead of 16mb. That really crippled the console because without the additional ram, it wasn't capable of loading/caching large open world 3D games that were next Gen a la grand theft auto 3. Rockstar actually supported the Dreamcast somewhat and if they would have brought over grand theft auto 3, that would have been a game changer. Dreamcast would have gone on to sell 30 million consoles at least. A port of GTA could have been possible but it would have been plagued with random loading screens when moving across the map.
@@7shocker the PS2 version of GTA3 was also plagued with frequent loading screens and slowdown issues, so it's not like bringing the Dreamcast up to parity would have prevented that from being the case.
To be completely honest with you, I feel like GTA3 was overhyped and was pretty mediocre as a game once you look past the spectacle of it having big levels. I'd much rather have had a console that was incapable of running it because the entire genre that spun off from people imitating GTA3 didn't hit its stride until much later and I don't think that open world games really stack up compared to more focused experiences, even today.
I do agree that a second analogue stick and some more buttons on the controller would have been welcome, but the Dreamcast didn't fail because of weak hardware or because it didn't have the right software: it was because of MILCDs. If they hadn't decided to make the console compatible with MILCDs, it would have been close to impossible to pirate software because it would never boot a game that wasn't pressed to a GDROM.
DVD playback could have been handled by a peripheral and the storage issues from not using DVD for games would probably not be all that significant, considering that most games on PS2 and XBOX used less than half of the disc space of a single layer DVD. GDROM wasn't that far from the capacity of a Gamecube disc, so if a Gamecube could run the game it would most likely be able to fit on a single GDROM.
Nothing was going to stop the PS2, the hype was insane even if half of it wasn't true. I love my Dreamcast though.
@@deepblue8143 even the xbox with al the money in the world lost against the ps2.
I don’t think this what if scenario would have made a difference… we all know SEGA was taking a lot of risks and that’s what set them apart from competition… I mean MEGA CD, 32X, Saturn with its messy hardware and last minute changes and then the Dreamcast… the only thing that could’ve saved them is having a bigger amount of cash to endure these failures… I still remember people saying that Nintendo could have taken at least 7 Sega Saturn’s failure until bankruptcy… well this is another “What if” scenario, but it all comes down to this: Ca$h money.
While I waited for the GameCube to release the Dreamcast was on its way out. I decided to buy the Dreamcast to hold me over and found it on sale for $99. Bought Powerstone 2 and Marvel vs Capcom 2 to go with it. WONDERFUL decision. I loved the Dreamcast.
I still remember passing up a Dreamcast with like 20 games, on sale for $200 at my dentist office. The dental assistant's son was selling it.
WHY OH WHY DID I NOT BUY IT?!?!?! DANG IT!!!
The irony of this is I needed to tide myself over before the PS3 came out, and picked up a Gamecube for about $90 bucks and fell in love with it.
But the DC is still one of my favorite consoles of all time.
@@wayofthekodiak3118 same here .. I had ignored the dreamCast and it was on the way out, games cheap as anything so it was wonderful for me !
Powerstone 2 is great!
For $99 you wish you’d of bought a few and kept them boxed. Would be worth a mint now 😮
The Dreamcast was my very first console where I was able to connect online gaming for the very first time. I remember that night like it was yesterday and I'm 49 now. It was a magical. I was so excited when I first connect and saw other players online. Dreamcast was a very special console.
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YES it definitely was. I remember downloading mini videos on my VMU. Dragonball was getting popular and I remember someone had a Vegeta one powering up. It was just a crazy time!
Agree. The ability to connect to the internet with a game system changed the game - literally.
Quake 3 arena on the Dreamcast was my first online game. And I’ve been chasing to repeat that feeling of fun it gave me ever since.
I remember back in 2002, we had a big sleep over with many of our gamer friends. There were like 14 of us in one of our rich friend's mansion. We all brought our own games and consoles. I vividly remember one guy had PS2 in a specialized suit traveling suit case. And one of those ridiculous gaming rocking chairs with speaker on both sides. During the course of gaming, we gradually gravitated towards where Dreamcast was being played. We had all the great games like power stone, soul calibur, psychic force, space channel five, and etc. I have to admit, we had more fun playing on Dreamcast more than PS2 or Xbox at the time. It really did feel like the very last true gaming console.
@@hkoizumi3134 how does it?
I bought my Dreamcast on the day of release, it was probably my favourite console in terms of truly groundbreaking experiences.
Games like Power Stone, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio , Shenmue, they were all so different from anything else available before or since.
Such a pity that it was Sega's final console.
Yes, shenmue set the standard for next level rpg. Rush 2049 was insane for us and a sleeper if it's not on this list 🤷 loved how we could get cheap Demos like Tony Hawk etc to just sit around and beat each other's scores lol
I wanted a Dreamcast when it was released but I had lost faith in Sega. The short life of the Sega CD, 32X and Saturn in Europe meant I didn’t want to take the risk on the Dreamcast. I bought one a few months ago so now finally own one. It’s as good as I thought it would be and love it.
I was curious in Dreamcast, and saw it in action at somebodies house. Looked really great, and surprised me a lot. But I was already hooked by PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 by that point, and was frustrated by Sega's Saturn and 32x disappointment. It's a shame.
Honestly, providing Sega pledge to support and stick to any new consoles they release, then I'd happily return to Sega again. Microsoft and Sony's modern consoles aren't as exciting compared to as they used to be.
I often wonder why SEGA gets stick for that more than others.
The CD and 32X were optional addons, but PlayStation Move not withstanding, the PS Vita and PS TV weren't. And people let it slide every time.
I mean, the only game Sony gave us Vita fans was Uncharted Golden Abyss, but people still crave a new Vita, while SEGA at least gave the CD and even 32X some support yet lost all trust from everyone.
I think people don't deserve a new SEGA system honestly.
Though given how SEGA was "the arcade at home" and the state of arcades today, I can't see SEGA being the same if they did come back. Not if they wanted to last anyway.
@@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung Sega CD and 32 received a handful of games, of those.. ports besides what.. 2 games (I can only think of sonic CD). Even though the vita was a commercial failure, it went on to receive a shitton of Japanese support somewhat like the Saturn did. PS move was a gimmick to capitalize on the wii's success but unlike the add-ons for genesis the PS4 was a commercial success outselling the Genesis 3 to 1.. PS TV and PS portal are some WTFs.. sega could have survived had the Genesis sold like the PS4 did.
I got mine in 99 and after they left the console market, I switched to PC
@@The_Prizessin_der_VerurteilungSega/Sammy Japan Execs have their heads up their wazoos now. I never got the CD, but the 32X and had Knuckles Chaotix and NBA Jam TE for it, both were pretty entertaining. I got Sonoc CD for W95 PC and it was awesome.
I adored my DC, was like having an arcade at home for the first time
It was crazy how much more advanced it was than other hardware when it launched in Japan in 1998. Shame they didn’t manage to make it a world wide launch as early as then
Same I feel things could have been different
I was blown away by Phantasy Star Online. I still play it today as if it just came out. It's my favourite game of all time, and running it in higher res now looks incredible.
Man what time to alive. We, as the consumer, benefited the most from the competition between Sega, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. they were all firing from all calibers.
Dreamcast was my favorite console ever. My bday is 9/8, so the next day on '99 was an extremely special bday gift to me, especially after a rough period then (since my family had just moved, I was going to a new school).
That era was really special, I think -- I kinda equate the games as a predecessor of the indie boom a decade later of the early 2010s, because there were a lot of extremely unique and ambitious games on the DC, as well as really freakin' weird, quirky ones (in a good way). Devs were taking creative risks on the console, that they weren't as much even on PS2, GC, and XBox.
I agree Soul Calibur 1 is probably one of the best games there has ever been. It was ahead of it's time.
Soul Blade is better
@@SmartDumbNerdyCool soul blade was the first in the series but its certainly not the best one. Because it looks horrible.
@@choncis8318 It looks great
@@SmartDumbNerdyCoolIt looks horrific haha
Soul caliber on Dreamcast was and may still be the best fighting game ever
I love the Dreamcast, my first console purchased from my own, saved up hard work. It blew everything at the time out the water.
It'll always be special to me for being the first SEGA console to grace our home. Well, not exactly. My mom and brother briefly had a Master System before I was around, but they hated it and so returned it, opting for an NES, instead. This was the grounds for denying me the SEGA systems I wanted - Genesis, Game Gear, Saturn - but one fateful day, that same brother would trade in all our N64 stuff for a Dreamcast plus a few games, which really was a dream come true, for me.
I remember feeling the same way it was like having a actual arcade in my house it was amazing
Dreamcast is a great console. I Always remember how futuristic it felt. I was astonished playing F1 World Grand Prix on a dreamcast of a friend.
For me it's a core memory. Years after I asked this friend what he had done with the console.... He sold with a lot of games for dirt cheap. If I knew...
Awesome video as always!
I remember Christmas of 2000 and my grandparents bought me and my sister a Dreamcast, that Generator Demo Disk with Sonic Adventure 1 on it... that game felt like a complete revolution to what I was playing before then,, agree with you fully that it felt like a futuristic space-tech machine.
I have probably more than 1000 hours on the F1 game! It was amazing!
Dreamcast made my HS days memorable. One of the best 4 year stretches in my gaming history. 2K sports, Resident Evils, Marvel vs Capcoms, Shenmue... what a time to be alive.
I love this video so much. The games look just like they do in my memories. It feels like I've gone back in time. Thank you so much.
Conheço essa voz.... Kkkkkkk
Muito bom o conteúdo, meu amigo!
Eu simplesmente AMO o Dreamcast e me lamento até hoje por ter vendido o meu em 2013... 😢
Forte abraço!
Deus te abençoe!
My dad brought me home one of these for my birthday when I was going through a tough time. I had NFL
Blitz, ready to tumble and dynamite cop. Absolutely loved it. So sad it didn’t have a longer life
Shenmue and power stone was all I needed for Dreamcast
Bought it on 9/9/99 with Sonic and Soul Calibur. Soul Cal is INCREDIBLE! One of the best videogames ever made
I still have my dreamcast that I got new, just as things were winding down.
It's such a fun and underrated system!
My 11th birthday was 9/9/99. We had a drill at school that day in which they were running a test on all of the computers in the district to ensure they wouldn’t have any complications during the coming new year ( Y2K )
Piling on top of all that the release of the Dreamcast (my parents waited until Christmas to get it for us) made for the most exciting days of my life for a good while!
I was a teenager and had been following it in the magazines and saving up my own money from mowing lawns in the neighborhood. Had the pre-order locked in and I remember going to Toys R Us on 9/9/99, and there didn't seem to be much fanfare. I just walked through quietly and picked up my machine, along with Soul Calibur. That game had such a spectacular run among my friends and I. My dad was always quoting the announcer! 😆 In short order, I would pick up Sonic, Crazy Taxi and Ready 2 Rumble boxing.
After a couple of years, I was old enough for a regular job and eventually picked up a PS2. But the DC would always be my favorite, with titles like MvC2, Capcom vs SNK, and weird little gems like Armada and JGR.
Over the last year, I have lost both of my parents and find myself unexpectedly emotional recalling a happier time. Thanks for this. 🤙
Dreamcast is my favorite console of all time. Got it on launch day. I wouldn’t say it was under appreciated though. Dreamcast fans are die hard in a way no other console can claim. And we can name 100 reasons why but really, it’s just one of those intangible things. DC was magic.
Another great video from a era that I have skipped. It's good to know more of consoles that I did not have the opportunity to play at the time.
Thanks for explaining how these games display differently on CRT screens. As a complete novice, I appreciated that
This was the very first console I ever purchased with my own money. I remember being overseas and going to a video game store and seeing a TV with a football game on in the window. Then I realized it wasn't a television game, it was NFL 2K. I had never seen a game that looks so realistic. Then I saw footage of Soul Calibur and it was the first time a video game Home console looks better than the arcade version. I thought I would never own a Sega since I was such a Nintendo guy, but the Dreamcast want me over and became my second favorite console of all time behind my Nintendo Entertainment System
Finally TH-cam recommended your new channel to me, amazing as always!
Cliquei no vídeo despretensiosamente e reconheci a voz na hora. Simplesmente Brksedu em inglês. Boa sorte com esse canal também, Dudu!!
Também reconheci e vim ver se alguém já tinha comentado isso.
Provavelmente é dele mesmo, vi um outro vídeo uns tempos atrás, dá pra reconhecer a voz e cadência na hora, tomara que cresça ainda mais.
Notei o sotaque brasileiro
é ele sim, ele mostrou o gamecube e da pra ver a estante cinza e preto dele
This video format is fantastic brother. Excellent execution. You can tell that your passion is the native the real what it actually looks like. Your workflow is nice and surely a lot of work went into its production.
These games were BEAUTIFUL in 1999. Soul Calibur, NFL 2K, Craxy Taxi…
Still after 25 years all of these titles are just amazing to look at with their own features and content.
Great video and really appreciate the info on your signal chain.
My favorite console ever, at the time it blew me away coming from the n64.
I was nervous buying it initallly, in the end it gave me years of joy. Great game after great game throughout the years. I still have mine.
Thank you sega.
Shout-out from Brazil 🗣️ amazing channel, greatest videos that I've ever seen
I played Soulcalibur at the Toysrus and was blown away. It was better than arcade perfect. Such a shame the DC didn't succeed. I remember the visuals being so vibrant and sharp compared to the fuzzier PS2.
i'll never forget the day i got my Dreamcast back in 1999, this console changed my life
all thanks to the Demo CD comes with it.
1 year later for me, but same deal.
that Generator disk was one of the best demo-disks, period.
Your knowledge and analysis on legacy games and audio-visual electronics always impresses me. I had a Dreamcast that I loved, but I lived in an area where it seemed like games for the Dreamcast were almost never available. Even the rental places rarely got titles in. It was an absolute shame because the games that did get released looked awesome back in the day.
I hope that everything is going well. I have been watching some of your lives with Elder Ring. When you were over three hours into the battle with Malenia and your wife was watching and wanting to start her Friday night, I was empathizing with you. lol We've all been there.
That consoles a gem. I wish I still had mine 🤦🏿♂️
House of the Dead 2 on Dreamcast was a fun game to play at home.. Because at the time it required tokens to play at the Arcade so being able to play it home with friends was great
I really enjoyed this video, great work. I wanted a Dreamcast so bad. I was a sega kid. I got a genesis in 1993 but missed out on the Saturn. I had a PS1 in 97. I used to ride my bike to wal mart to play the Dreamcast kiosk. Then my buddy got one and we loved the ports of quake 3 and unreal tournament. We played quake 3 online too. I later ended up getting a ps2 in 2001 followed by an Xbox in 2003. I went full Xbox after that.
WOW, I was also a Sega fan and had a MegaDrive and then got my PS1 in 1997 too!! I remember playing Tekken and Tomb Raider the first time - blown away!!
14:33 the Japanese version of Sega Rally 2 that has the unlocked frame rate has a secret cheat to lower the trackside detail and raise the frame rate.
The EU/US version is locked to 30fps
I still have mine (but it sorta turned into a cream color now haha). Still works! I clean it inside out every year or two.
Man, I remember the first time we got Soul Calibur back when it first came out. I was blown away by the super smooth animations and the anatomy details of each character. It's true, back then this was a total aberration. The Dreamcast had some real gems.
Damn, wasn't expecting you'd need this much equipment to record with this quality.
You can get close results with much less! RetroTink 5X with a 1080p capture card, for example! Analog cables are always super relevant for high quality though.
Thought that an S-Video output would be more than enough. Very interesting.
Dreamcast was my favorite then. Powerstone needs to b remade‼️
Good to see the pixels. There are several Sega fanboys showing bullshots (with 8xAA or more) claiming that they were real time, but in fact it's an 480p image and has a lot of aliasing. Nothing wrong with that.
I have fond memories of playing Jet Set Radio and Virtua Tennis on my DC.
Talk about Nostalgia 😀.... Going to my buddies house and playing Sonic Adventure on his Dreamcast.... MAN those were the days .... That game touches a special place in my soul
Such a great console (i bought it tree times...!), so many memories... connected via VGA BOx to my pc monitor was spectacular!!
The Dreamcast was one of my favorite consoles, it deserved to have more life given to it.
When I think of dreamcast, the first thing that comes to my mind is sonic adventure, specifically the Orca in the first level as in 23:52
The Dreamcast gave me and my friends the best gaming times of our lives, unforgettable and truly amazing for the time and even now.
Sega Dreamcast was the absolute best era of peak gaming! What a time to be alive!
@5:30 Such a good point, that many of us forget. And to show the difference side by side 👌
Ready to Rumble sold me on the Dreamcast. They used to use it in the display stands in shops and it alays had a crowd of people waiting to have a go of the game.
I remember playing Soul Calibur with my brother when it first dropped for an entire Christmas break and just being in AWE of how insane the graphics were at the time. MVC2 is the best fighting game (in that genre) imo.
I worked at a gaming store called Babbages in Cherry Hill Mall in NJ (which is known as GameStop today) and that day i was off therefore i went to the store to pick up my Dreamcast 9/9/99. I bought the Dreamcast,an extra controller and a VMU with Blue Stinger as my game and also picked up Final Fantasy 8 for the ps1. That was a great year. The good old days of gaming were the best they were magical man.
This makes me feel nostalgic, and a little sad. The games were so much more easy to enjoy when they were simpler. Thanks for documenting how great the Dreamcast was.
Dreamcast was such a big part of my childhood. Truly a magical time for me. I remember my dad saying to me that I could either wait for the PS2 or have a Dreamcast now with Sonic adventure. So I went for the DC and loved it. Phantasy Star online was just the pinnacle of gaming in my opinion. Chatting to people before online gaming was really a thing on console and I just couldn’t believe it.
My dad couldn’t either when I racked up over 300 quid on our phone bill 😂 wonderful console will always have fond memories of it.
Amazing video, so nostalgic. Subbed!
I vividly remember Soul Calibur being the first time I played a home port that actually looked BETTER than the arcade version.
Man, I love that golden era of 3D fighting games, Tekken, Toshinden, Bloody Roar, Soul Calibur, etc...
Fighting games now rely too much on "How can we keep this game alive through paid online content and big ass tournaments?" Rather than making something that can hold on it own on release day with some cool 1P content as well as some fun side-modes like Tekken 3's beat-em up, volleyball, Soul Calibur 2's Weapon Master, etc...
Never grew up around DC and I don’t have that much interest in going back to revisit it and play the games from it but I do enjoy learning about it… but I really enjoyed this video simply for its editing and production quality. You really capture the aesthetic of this era of gaming with your editing.
Thanks a lot for the nice comment
Soul Calibur is the first perfect 3D fighting game. Also I'm surprised you didn't put Hydro Thunder on here. I love that game. NBA/NFL 2K were both great launch titles as well.
Been playing and collecting consoles since the Atari 2600. Dreamcast is top 3 console of all time for me. I loved the design and look of the system, the unique controllers, the VMU and the broadband modem. It was a console both ahead of it's time and behind the times in the same generation. I loved that you got the same hardware, thereby getting the same experience, as the arcade version of the games. Mine is still connected and working well.
Genesis was by far my favorite console. It was super special. But I'd say my second favorite was Dreamcast. So many great games. 4 players out of the box! So many great fighting games! PS2 had tons of great games, but it didnt have personality. So many great memories.
Dreamcast is by far my favorite console not even close best games start up screen if I ever start collecting again it’ll be for this only
The Dreamcast was amazing! Still one of my favorite systems. This system brought so much to the console race. Phantasy Star Online is my favorite game on the system.
Edu's english voice is so calm compared with his portuguese loud and emotional speaking 😅 Nice work, bro!
The very first NBA2K I ever played was on Dreamcast and Allen Iverson was on the cover.
The Dreamcast was so dope! I can't believe that it failed with all the great games and accessories
Love it. Only thing for me the title "this is how Dreamcast really looks on modern displays" Would love if it possible for you to make another video where you put the result some CRT emulation / or filming an actual time representative CRT with same output you use here. Would love to see this proper DC video output shown both "sharp - LED" look and then "smoothed CRT look" Ideally showing first both and then a side by side comparsion. Reason is just what you shown in the picture. so more is "This is really how Dreamcast games are supposed to look" as for sure most of them look better on a CRT due to the reasons you mentioned in this video
The big issue with showing games with a CRT filter is that usually TH-cam destroys the image quality, it really doesn't handle CRT filters well. Sometimes it ends up ok with games with static backgrounds, but for a full 3D experience it's awful unfortunately! Thanks a lot for the comment!
@@VideoGameShowcase ah even if you upload it in 4K? That’s a shame. But I get what you mean. I would love if someone did a program that could fetch a TH-cam screen and then apply a realtime shader to simulate older displays. Like retrotink 4K well not the same but you get what I mean.
Thanks for the nice content btw.
Unfortunately even in 4K the CRT filters can still destroy the image quality. I've had mixed results. It normally looks good in games with static backgrounds (Resident Evil on the PS1, for example). Thanks!
@ yeah I get it’s not trivial. A pity though. Thank you as well for your effort making great content
Loved my Dreamcast, i couldnt wait for the UK release so got a Japanese import... it was so amazing. Headhunter, Power stone, ready 2 rumble boxing & SF3 were my fave games.
I never play one game I'm Dreamcast, with this video i became more interested in the console, the content of this channel is incredible, may there be more videos, congratulations on the production, hugs!!!
I think the best thing you can do for a Dreamcast, these days, is install an optical drive emulator. You may not want to do this with your childhood Dreamcast, for sentimental reasons, but the Dreamcast isn't as insanely priced in the collector market as the PS2. You should be able to acquire a second hand Dreamcast to mod.
All that said, of course, emulation is a thing, and we live in a world where the NVidia Shield TV exists. Probably the perfect Dreamcast emulation device. If you don't want to perform surgery on a Dreamcast, emulating it on the Shield TV is perfectly acceptable.
I’m modding my childhood Dreamcast. I can play all my games on my laptop so screw it… 😂
The way i saved for this, come launch day i bought it with 4 games and an extra pad. My fav console.
Subscribed to a fellow Brazilian, with gr8 english and even better content, you rock bro!
Marvel vs Capcom 2 NEEDS to be remade. Such a great cast of fighters. Super fluid. Tons of stuff to unlock. Heck, just port it to the switch.
It was always one of my favorite game consoles. Can't tell you how many intense battle mode matches I've played with everyone on sanfrancisco rush 2049
I brought the Dreamcast and was very glad that I did. The console was fantastic for what it managed to do at the time. If we did not have games like Shenmue, games like FF10 and MGS2 would have not pushed that hard to reach the heights that it did. All other competitors had to jump much higher to be to its level. And we had amazing other games like Jet Set Radio (honestly I cannot understand why you do not have that game or Grandia 2 to showcase) Thanks for the lovely memories.
Marketing was incredibly bad. In my country most people did not even know about the dreamcast or how powerful it was.
I loves the system. Code Veronica, Soul Calibur, Metropolis Street Racer, Crazy Taxi, Skies of Arcadia, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Ikaruga, Virtua Tennis 2, Headhunter, Powerstone 2, Sword of the Berserk...man I had so much fun.
Excellent upload mate. I was a bit gutted a few years after selling mine, when I realised that capcom pumped out all those additional fighting games. Don't think I'd have got rid of it if I'd known about the SF 3's and a few others!
Dreamcast was ahead of the curve. So much so the consumer market didn't actually understand that they had a gem and wasted it. I didn't own one myself, but my best friend had one and we played THPS and Sonic adenture 1 and 2 non stop. We did crazy taxi runs and jet set. The console was sick and had internet/dlc capabilities in the 90's! The one gamer regret is that I never got to play Phantasy Star Online on the dreamcast. Friend didn't get it and when they put it on gamecube finding it in my area was impossible.
I don't know how, maybe it was your presentation, but you captured what it was like to turn on the Dreamcast for the first time in 1999. Bravo! Insta-subbed
Soulcalibur was amazing. We even did district tournaments between cliques. House of the Dead 2 was a burner too.
Still my favourite console. So many great games. Shenmue especially.
So underrated. Awesome library, awesome graphics.
To this day my favourite console. I really loved Arcade games. No one can beat me in Virtua Tennis :)
The Dreamcast is my favorite console of all time. I had a couple consoles afterwards, but I'm just a PC guy now. But in 1999 when I was 22, Dreamcast was it.
Dreamcast is also the signature console of Chad Warden's sidekick Anthony Perez.
Suprised to not see it on this list but Skies of Arcadia was by far my favorite game on the dreamcast alongside sonic adventure 1/2. Probably my favorite RPG of the era, I've replayed it countless times on emulator I think it deserves its own FInal fantasy remake treatment one day but I doubt we will ever get to see it.
Dreamcast and PS1 were probably my favorite systems of all time. So many great timeless games.
Great video. Commented, liked and subscribed!
I loved to play Phantasy Star online on my Dreamcast ! So much fun
15:01 Crazy Taxi definitely involves racing. You are just racing the clock instead of other drivers.
Cool vidoe. Liked and subscribed. Ibought a Dreamcast when I was visiting Japan in the Fall of 1998. I got the system 1 year before it came out in America. Obviously I bought the Japanese version. Going forward I only purchased import games. I lived in San Francisco at the time so it wasn't difficult to find stores that imported Japanese products/games, etc. I remember a year or so later buying Code Veronica not knowing if the environments were 3-D and if there was a "fixed" camera that moved. It seemed this was the case by over-analyzing the images form the import Japanese game magazines that I was obsessing over at the time. Anyways, I remember the game was being demoed on a Japanese Dreamcast and I could watch the demo through the game store window and when I realized it was in fact actually 3-D rendered and had a moving camera I was simply blown away. One of the coolest video games (and best Biohazard games) of all time in my opinion. Anyways, what I really came here to say was that the Dreamcast was the actual realization of the intersection of arcade and home console. Thought the Neo-Geo really gets the award it wasn't until Dreamcast that mainstream consoles were 1-to-1 with their arcade counterparts. The Dreamcast ran on identical hardware as the Sega Naomi arcade boards. I was literally playing perfect identical arcade games for the first time in my life (never could afford the Neo-Geo). House of the Dead 2, Powerstone, Crazy Taxi, Soul Caliber, etc, etc. Perfect arcade games at home. Unbelievable at the time.
18:35 The European version of Dino Crsis runs at 480P, and I think it has VGA box functionality.
No outro canal lembro de assistir o primeiro vídeo falando sobre cod e um jogador chamado sam1000, algo assim.
Ficou muito bom esse vídeo aqui meu chapa.
This is awesome. Just picked up my first dreamcast