Holy crap, like, obviously I was _hoping_ you'd see it, but I didn't actually think it would happen! I couldn't remember the rest of our regular crew, but you were like my mentor in PSO! I'm pretty sure you taught me the Guild Card system, even, because I distinctly remember your name at the top of my list! I'm glad I got your RAmar's appearance right, too! I was an edgy teen at the time, so my first character was called "Shadow." I had a keybind to say "Chaos Control," and I'd always hit it when I went through warps. Let's see... I remember you were a bit older than the rest of us, like one time we were all disclosing our ages and you said, "Uh... sure, yes, I'm 12." I remember I had PSOv1 for like 10 days, until the community collectively convinced me to take it back and get v2 instead. But more than anything, I remember you (and your sister I assume, she commented too) being just the COOLEST, always taking the time to help me out and show me the ropes of a completely new style of game. For real: THANK YOU for everything!
Haha yes I remember you! I'm 36 now, I always knew you must of been an edgy teen haha Shadow and I remember your symbol chat. We did play with another girl and someone else but I can't remember their names. So bizarre how I just put your video on, I was agreeing with everything you was saying about Sega and especially the Dreamcast. I was a Sega fan my "home team" like you and I had a Saturn and needless to say was also laughed at! The strangest is probably my all time favourite and playing PSO with you and all the other random guys we met,really was the icing on the cake. Even the fear of being NOL'd when joining someone's party on PSO is a fond memory. I'm glad I met you and was able to take you under my wing and really help make PSO a great experience!
Yeah dude... did you just turn 40 too? 40 is a hard one.... 30 was no big deal, 20 was awesome... but 40.... god damn we’re old farts now. 50 is gonna suck.
LOL, yah, that made me fool old as hell as well, man. Him talking about his 13 year old self when the PS2 was released was even worse, LOL. I had just got into college then.
This is like my 5th time watching this video, but I wish I could like it more than once. I was never a Sega fan, but growing up being somewhat poor, when they dropped in price my parents seized that opportunity to bring me home a new console for an amazing price. To this day it was the greatest experience I've had with a console. I enjoyed every game I had on it. It's the only console I still have from my childhood today, it survived our home being burned down and a couple moves. I love this console!
I was 15 when the Dreamcast released in the US, I remember buying one along with Sonic Adventure and Street Fighter 3. I was blown away by the graphics, bigger games and online capabilities. I was a fan of Phantasy Star Online, spending so much time on that revolutionary game. I met a girl while playing (She was a bit younger than me), and we immediately became friends. Obviously, due to the shutdown of the servers, we went our own separate ways. But 6 years later I found her on Facebook, and she became my girlfriend. We're still together, and we still play on our Dreamcast. Thank you for this nostalgic video, I admit I teared up while watching
SEGA kept screwing gamers with randomupgrades to the Genesis like 32X (and then barely supporting them). Gamers got tired of wasting their money and abandoned ship .
Well damn. They did SegaNet and Online Play before Xbox, they did the four controller thing before Xbox and GameCube(PlayStation 2 never got around to it), the portable console games before the Switch, motion control before the Kinect, I mean damn. For them to come back now would be hard. I'm sure it's wanted by many, but it's just not feasible for Sega, a company that hasn't touched consoles since the Dreamcast in 2001, to return in 2019, two generations after it's Swansong, and compete with the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Trust me, I have been trying to brainstorm this all night. I have nothing. There is nothing Sega can do that Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft haven't already done... Of course, that could be the Anti-Sega Return argument. A pro Sega return could be: -It could finish what it started with the Dreamcast -Sega has the money to do so. -Competition is always good, and there is a hell of a stalemate going on here and now. The return of the Sega Dreamcast could mean a stimulation in the market -Nostalgia
I wish I could remember the names of anybody I used to chat with in the NBA2K1/2K2 chatrooms.....to this day the Dreamcast NBA2Ks were the only versions that ever had that feature to be able to talk with people for as long as you liked before you started up a game, and you could actually choose to start up a game with whoever you wanted, these days it is forced to be random or they have to already be on your friends list. You can't just mingle with strangers like you used to be able to.
@@nullvoid3545 I'm not, there's something about the phantasy star series specifically i think that makes this kind of thing happen. I've met more than one person who remembered me from schtserv or psu who were scattered to the wind by the server closures.
This video sold me on a Dreamcast back in 2019, and I legitimately can't thank you enough for introducing me to what is, without a doubt, my *favorite* console of all time 💙
I'm actually thinking about buying one for powerstone by itself lol. I was the guy with the odd "dreamcast" when I was a kid, but we all ended up at my house playing soul caliber and power stone several times a week. lol
I seemed to switch between Nintendo and Sega for each console generation. Went from NES, to Genesis, to N64, to Dreamcast. I absolutely adored my Dreamcast. It felt so sleek and advanced and the games were just incredible, namely Sonic Adventure, Powerstone, House of the Dead 2, and Shenmue, to name my favorites. I'll never forget the memories I had with it.
Sega and their risk taking and the different style games they put out, when everyone else is putting the same thing out every year, is what is missing now.
You won *_sooo many points with me_* for mentioning Phantasy Star and then pulling the rug out from under me with Chu Chu Rocket and _then_ actually talked about PSO. Seriously idk which of those I love more. I never got to play the dreamcast online, and I was actually planning on getting one in the next couple months so this is fucking AWESOME! All the more incentive to buy the system again. It may be awhile but I guarantee you I'll be joining sometime :D
PSO2 really needs a western release. Gen 6 consoles really had the most going for them in terms of quality games, that's why we all remember Dreamcast, Gamecube, & PlayStation2 to this day. Although the PS2 probably had the worst hardware of the Gen6 Consoles in its initial release, where as Xbox was the most lacking in terms of games.
I lost my temper one Christmas while playing Trivial Pursuit with my Friends and some family members. I was on a team and we were asked the question, which games console was the first to have online play? Seeing as I was into games every on the team assumed this would be my big moment! I answered the Dreamcast but the card said the original Xbox. I wasn't very happy!
That still would have been wrong. The Super Famicom had satellite internet access. Even before that the Famicom had internet access, and I believe even the Intellivision and Atari was able to connect to a network.
Turk What is really interesting to me is how the hardware was implemented in the Xbox before the release of Xbox Live itself. I remember a relative of mine randomly got me an Xbox when I was a kid in 2001 right after its release and because of that, my Xbox didn’t have the “Xbox Live” option in the Xbox Start Menu, and it wasn’t only until I received a random disk in the mail with a free 2 weeks of Xbox Live that I discovered that little Ethernet adapter on the back. I swear to god I was like “what is this...” when I got that disk in the mail and it introduced me to online gaming. Soon after I got CS 1.6 on my PC and Halo 2 on my Xbox and I was hooked. That was almost 20 years ago. Damn.
I remember having to hook the original Xbox up to a laptop to play halo online and it was usually against military guys. That was prob 4 months after halo came out
The Dreamcast was the last true classic game console, the PS2 is what rang in the modern era. Even though I wouldn't own a Dreamcast until 2006, I still have an immense amount of love and respect for the system
Micaiah the Otaku Gamer [HybridAngelZero] so did the dreamcast really with its modem. For pure gaming the SNES was the last great console pre modern gaming era.
It seems the Genesis was Sega's most successful and iconic console that defined it, and went out bitter sweet with the Dream cast its finest. Support *games preservation* and *public domain* if you want to see your favorite games today, be reasonably priced, fairly common and easily accessible tomorrow.
This system was so good.....disappoints me how underappreciated it was and how fast it died. So much capability here......RE Code Veronica was simply amazing, as well as Soul Calibur, NFL 2K, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, Knights, House of the Dead....the list goes on and on.
This was such a great retrospective. That rant against the PS2 cracked me up and I gotta admit the bit towards the end was a figurative tear jerker. Even though I didn't grow up with the Dreamcast like you did, I still own one and I'm such a big Sega fan that thinking about its failure gives me such a bittersweet feeling. ...why do I have a sudden urge to play Crazy Taxi now...?
marcus trelle There is no denying but you cannot deny that even after the failure of the Dreamcast it has a cult following today even the new generation is interested in it.
The Dreamcast will never be forgotten. Out of all my games in my collection, next to my 3DS, I play my Dreamcast daily. There’s so many games on the system that sometimes I feel overwhelmed. Skies of Arcadia, Resident Evil 2 and 3, Dino Crisis, Sonic Adventure (1 and 2), Marvel vs Capcom 2, D2, Jet Grind Radio, Grandia, Crazy Taxi, EGG, Gigawing and Timestalkers. The Dreamcast has one of the best offerings of first party support and some third party support.
I have nothing but love for that awesome SEGA machine, I was an only Nintendo consoles owner, the moment I could go and buy the Dreamcast, all my hype turned into joy and that never fade away, right now I'm looking for one because I shared my Sports version with a friend and he sold it to have money for the PS2 and I will never forgive him for not even give me the chance to keep it
This is something that is hard to find on TH-cam. This video MOVED me in so many ways. I've never played a dreamcast but I'm a big Sega fan. And the fact that you were able to talk about a video game console and make it be so emotional is impressive.
ItsMeSonicCraft YT Go find one. I'm NOT a huge SEGA fan, and only came to know about DreamCast through a roommate long after it was dead. It really is an *outstanding* machine, and it's so unfortunate for SEGA, but also the gaming community at large, that it came along too little too late. If you're a bit of a SEGA fanboy, you really owe it to yourself to see for yourself. I own one today, and honestly, a lot of the properties hold up quite well. 2k football is still my first choice for video football.
The Dreamcast was one of the best consoles ever made. I had one with like 30 games. It was awesome. I also loved all the arcade ports the Dreamcast had, like Soul Caliber, and Marvel VS Capcom.
I was just born when Dc was on the market. Still, almost 20 years later, I found out about the Dreamcast. At some point I couldn't stop thinking about this machine that packed a last dream. This machine that started an era. Now there's a DC in my collection. I payed a 100 bucks for it and it's worth the money. It sort of connects to me.
Retrovaporwaveaesthetic I played every console from the 1990s, for me SNES/n64 and Dreamcast were the best, they just had something different about them
I played tons of Quake 3 online with the built-in modem. I also used the Planetweb browser a lot to browse the web and chat on IRC. That will always make the console more memorable to me than the PS2.
Excuse me for a sec, need to wipe the tears from my eyes. I never had a Dreamcast growing up, but my friend did and I remember playing Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi on it. Seeing this has given me a new respect to Sega fans and the Dreamcast.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! My whole goal here was to try to communicate what it was like to be a SEGA fan when the Dreamcast was new, and I'm really happy that came through for you. :)
I didn't own a Dreamcast till 2014 so I have no nostalgic memories of the console during its hey-day. Despite this and looking back on it in retrospect, I can really see why people are giving it so much credit. The Dreamcast truely is one of the most underrated consoles ever and I feel bad that I didn't pick one up back when it came out.
this.... is everything. I was 11 when Dreamcast came out and loved Sega. Prior to the Dreamcast I had a Genesis, Nomad and two 32x (but both were buggy af). I did enjoy NES and Mario games as well, but Sega always came first. I was really into Diablo 2 around the time Sega announced their shutdown, and neglected it because MvC2 and a few other games were still on for release. When I finally realized what had happened, I was very let down. I have not bought a new gaming system since the Dreamcast in '99. I got into CPS2 emulation and Blizzard games until the spark finally burned out and the gaming industry just wasn't what it once was that appealed to a g33k like me. Still, my Dreamcast has remained under my TV for almost 20yrs now, and I don't foresee that ever changing! Great video, it's good to know I'm not alone. Also yes, I def wanna get that dialup wifi adapter so I can kick it with the bois.
Phantasy Star Online was such a memorable game when I was younger. My first expierience with the game was on the Gamecube, and I played 3 player split screen locally. Still even then the memories and hours I have with that game is unreal!
When I went away to college, I brought my dreamcast with me because the dreamcast was mine, the ps2 belonged to our whole family. I had about 10 games and a few burned cds. Those burned cds contained nintendo games and the like, because dreamcast ran windows, emulators were quick to be made for it. I didn't realize how revolutionary online play was. It's rather amazing. Thank you for the video.
Dreamcast was absolutely ahead of its time. It was a sixth generation console two years before the sixth generation. Had Sega not already been so hurt by previous blunders the Dreamcast would have been able to hold its own against the PS2 and GameCube (from a technical standpoint in much the same way the TG16/PC Engine compared to the Genesis and SNES). It would have been the underdog, but still competent, and we all know games make the system. It simply wasn't in the cards. Too much damage already done.
Gamers wee also tired of SEGA screwing them with Genesis upgrades (like 32X) and then barely supporting them. When the Saturn was released the gamers abandoned ship rather than waste any more money (ditto with Dreamcast) .
I just bought a Sega Dreamcast 2 months ago and I have been enjoying it ever since. It was the first time ever played one when I bought it. Got me an old crtv and just having fun that was a really good video thank you sir
It's incredible. It's so strange how a video game console can do poorly, even when it's the most powerful home console, with great games. At least it's still around today. Now that I've watched this video, and hearing that the Online functionality is back, I'll probably pick one up. The idea that I could play Marvel vs Capcom 2 the way it was first played Online all those years ago sounds too good to pass up.
Over the course of the last 9 months I've watched your videos when I have something to do and I can't thank you enough for being such an entertaining and genuine person. Growing up I didn't own any Sega consoles and watching this one made me feel like I owned a Dreamcast. I'm incredibly happy TH-cam worked out for you and there's nothing I love more than someone who takes time with their craft to make videos like these that imo, anyone can enjoy. This was amazing
Actually, the DreamPi is a Raspberry Pi-based device that converts a broadband connection to a dial-up one your Dreamcast can use. Buy one of these, and your Dreamcast will be online again.
I am 40 now and was always a SEGA loyalist back then. My system bias died when the Dreamcast died. P.S. I actually have all the systems they made and got them at launch LOL.
what a gem! 80s guy here! Had them all. Best memories. I cant play these new consoles. Too much updates, downloads, etc. But the old ones??? The start sound of pS2 or here. Dreamcast??? Takes me back when I was a boy! I might get one at eBay!!!
@@mkratos17 brother. Emulators are like sex dolls. I don't respect that. I need the real thing. The original dreamcast controller, the boot up sound, disc, VMU, etc. The entire Dreamcast feeling. You can't get that on emulators. Thanks anyway brother
nintendo doesn't do well because it sells huge amounts of software or hardware but because they survive while the dreamcast could have done well sega unlike nintendo had a reputation nintendo howeverr oly had 2 terrible systems and could fall back on their handhelds
I got a Dreamcast Christmas of 1999 and I have never been more blown away by progress in graphics and sound and power. Games like Soul Calibur and Shenmu still look good today imagine how it looked back in 99.
Thank you for this video. I've been binge watching Dreamcast stuff since quarantine & I just bought a Dreamcast for the first time. The passion you displayed for the console makes me really excited to play it! Thank you for the information you shared - I'll definitely be looking into it more!
I can't believe it's been almost 20 years. Where does time go? I bought my Dreamcast at launch and was so blown away by it. Nothing came close. It's so sad that it failed because it's library was amazing! I still play mine to this day and if I had to choose between Dreamcast and PS2, I'd pick Dreamcast any day!👍👍
DreamCast was, and continues to be my favorite system. It had the best games for its era. Games that were just fun and controls that just worked. Everything was tuned so well.
@@germanher7528 I guess everyone is different. I played Dreamcast for countless hours on end and the controller never bothered me. A lot of people love the PlayStation controller but I always hated it and found them painful after a while. My all-time favorite is the Xbox 360 controller or maybe the Japanese original Xbox controller.
Gamers wee also tired of SEGA screwing them with Genesis upgrades (like 32X) and then barely supporting them. When the Saturn was released the gamers abandoned ship rather than waste any more money (ditto with Dreamcast) .
The Dreamcast was the first console that I ever played, and still my favorite. My earliest memory is watching the intro to Soul Calibur on my dad's system. The Dreamcast is so interesting to me because it was a transitional console: the last to sell itself as a home arcade, and the first to put online gaming on the forefront. I wish Sega today have even half of the creativity and fearlessness that they did back then.
Man, such a tear-jerker of an episode. That PS2 rant was hilarious though--most of us Dreamcast fans back then felt the same, so don't feel like it was just your 13-year-old self being unreasonable. It really wasn't impressive when it was new (that eventually changed, naturally).
Yeah, only by fall 2001 when GTA III, Final Fantasy X, Devil May Cry, MGS2 and all those other shitty games that never sold well at all proved how the PS2 sucked.... (SARCASM). Get your head out of your ass. Playstation is where the real gamers went after Sega fucked up the Saturn and fucked over consumers. It's Sega's own fault that caused the DC to die and it deserved to die for being the shit console it is. Hell the Switch which is another PIECE OF CRAP CONSOLE is better than Dreamcast. Atari Jaguar is better than Dreamcast. TIGER WRISTWATCH GAMES ARE BETTER THAN ALL OF DREAMCAST GAME EVER MADE.
@@ironlung9189 Yeah, but Shenmue is one game and I ain't giving up a machine that plays Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, SMT: Nocturne, FFX, etc. for a game with pretty graphics.
I was simply going to buy the Dreamcast just to play Shenmue up until I heard 1 and 2 were being remastered and that's when I bought that instead. Having beaten the first one last year, I can't believe I hadn't bought it before... It's been a long time since high school that any game has filled me with great memories from playing it.
You made a 24 minute video on the Dreamcast and no mention of the greatest fighting game of alltime, Marvel vs Capcom 2? Dreamcast had the best version.
A B YES! Thank you for reminding me of the days of when capcom brought amazing games to Dreamcast: 1st)Marvel ve. capcom 2 (which is still my favorite iteration of the line)...how about Power Stone? That was great in its own right
Zodyrus Sevaron That’s a shame, I went from N64 -> Dreamcast and loved every game on the system. The high Rez VGA mode looks almost HD on modern TVs too so it’s still super clean looking. Powerstone is almost like a 3D smash brothers, you’ll like it
6th Gen Consoles was literally the best age for gaming. You got the Dreamcast & Gamecube both that Gen even though combined they weren't able to compare to the PS2 in terms of sales.
Damn, I was not expecting myself to be THIS invested into this video as I got practically no history with the sega consoles at all (could have been the area I lived)But your story was so damn interesting to follow, this console was more ambitious than it could handle and with what you experienced with it, you should be happy you have that memory, never let go of that.Speaking of, that ending where you spoke about wanting to continue into the later sonic games, will shadow the hedgehog be one of the games you will adress? Personally if you do, I hope you won't be TOO harsh on it, it did some things well, but I also understand what it did to the sonic franchise.
Shadow the Hedgehog was great, it was trying to market Sonic to adult players & it actually was an enjoyable darker spin on the Sonic Series with it's over the top edgyness. Playing it feels good these days considering how much of a joke the tone of Modern Sonic games is these days. Pontac & Graff never should have been hired to begin with, although Ian Flynn came up with a passable sequel plot for the game.
No mention of Soul Calibur? It was the best game on the system. My friends and I my freshman year of college played that game until the disc couldn’t read any more.
I'd always heard about it, but I didn't actually get Soul Calibur until, maybe, 2003 or so? It's AWESOME, but I ended up playing the sequel a lot more since I got it so late.
The Geek Critique Makes sense. Anyway thanks for the excellent video, brought back some great Dreamcast memories. Sega really did shoot themselves in the foot with their dismal track record. This is coming from someone who had both the Saturn and the 32x lol. It’s a shame because they did everything right with the Dreamcast. Too little, too late I suppose.
It really came down to Sega of Japan being a full of themselves and not recognizing the opportunities they had in front of them. Sony and Sega were pursuing a joint venture but Sega of Japan cut it off because they wanted to use their own design for the saturn while Sega of America wanted to use the Sony hardware... that Sony simply launched on their own as the Playstation
They were already doing a joint venture. The Sega CD actually uses Sony hardware inside. The problem was Sony got greedy and they wanted to rights to the console so they could collect all the profits for themselves. That’s why Sega and Nintendo turned down the Sony deal.
Pretty sure that was Nintendo that had the deal with Sony. There was to be a SNES-CD add on and Sony was to do their own CD only system called the Sony Playstation. The Nintendo add on was going to make the Nintendo Playstation. Sega already had the Sega CD.
@@CardiacCat Yes, the Nintendo/Sony deal was better known as the collapse of it happened publicly at one of the big electronic shows (Sony announced they would be making the CD attachment one day with Nintendo announcing a different partnership the very next). Sega had worked with Sony on the software side with the Sega CD (Sony Imagesoft developed games for the Sega CD). Out of this relationship grew the interest in co-developing a next generation machine, with Sega of America initiating this contact. Sega of Japan stamped out these plans.
@YTCensorsMe Poop Hindsight, foresight, any sight would have helped Sega immensely back then. Sega actually had an arcade version of the Saturn, it was called the ST-V. Sega was among the pioneers when it came to 3D polygon graphics in arcade with Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter early in the 90s, and their next console should have taken this knowledge into account. Sony 'gambled' that the next gen would be 3d based for that very reason. Since they built it with 3D in mind from the start, it 'excelled' in that area, by comparison the Saturn was harder to extract its potential because it was meant to be a 2D powerhouse (which it definitely was) that augmented its 3D abilities after it had been in development for awhile. The N64 arrived later with better 3D abilities but hindered by the choice media cartridges. The crazy thing is Sega also had the opportunity to snag the hardware that became the N64. The N64 as we all know was cartridge based, which meant faster than CD loading times (if any), but at the cost of CDs benefits; CD Audio, FMV, greater storage capacity, lower price media (CDs costing pennies in bulk vs carts costing $30+ per unit) and quicker to reproduce media. Who knows what could have been if Sega had developed that piece of hardware using CD Rom as its media.
@YTCensorsMe Poop I agree that Sony had the perfect storm of events for them to succeed with the PS1(PSX to me ;) ). You cited them all; the hardware that Sega was pumping out as well as the software to support them(7, Nintendo sticking with cartridge which lost them Square and Final Fantasy 7(as well as a bunch of third parties leaving the fold), and to Sony's credit, they launched with a perfect price, a friendlier 3rd party arrangement, an easier to program for machine and Sony's budget behind it. But hindsight is 20/20 as they say. Sega launched the 32x for a couple of reasons: 1st- was the CEO of Sega Japan was worried about the Atari Jaguar (of all things) taking market share in the western markets before their own proper next gen machine launched. 2nd- while the Genesis was a complete success in western markets (thanks to SoA and Tom) it was 3rd place in Japan behind the Super Famicom and the PC-Engine; the home market was ready to move to 32 bit and was shutting down the 16-bit software pipeline. The 32x was an ill thought out measure to extend the Genesis lifespan and keep the userbase engaged (it ended up fracturing it even more). I bought one anyway :) . Things could have been very different for Sega if wasn't for a few choices made back then.
OH man this brought tears to my eyes. I still have my Dreamcast and I kinda want boot it up now honestly. I'm really glad that you can still play online and that homebrew games are still being made for it. It's so nice to see people won't let this system die. It really was a special system and super powerful even to this day
Dashell Boat Yeah my Japanese launch Dreamcast still works. Sometimes I stream Virtua Fighter 3TB, it gets more views and hostings than when I stream Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown! Retro power!
i so badly wish i held onto my dreamcast. i had a pretty nice game collection for it. i really misz sword of the beserk and soul calibur. i played one of the more recent soul caliburs, part 5 i think, and i thought it sucked, i had so much more fun with the first game on dreamcast.
Fantastic video, man! This is a great look back at the most underrated console in gaming history. It’s interesting to see how the Dreamcast introduced many features that future consoles would later build upon and perfect. That PS2 launch rant was hilarious by the way.
I considered buying a DREAMCAST but many of the games were ported to GameCube (example: Skies of Arcadia) or PlayStation (Space Channel 5-1 and 5-2) so I found no compelling reason to buy a Dreamcast .
I still have my dreamcast one day I'll hook it up again. I have over 40 games 4 controllers and two guns. picked up most of my stuff from thrift stores.
That's a lot of games. Even for my NES, I had 5 games. (SMB 1, SMB 2, SMB 3, Duck Hunt, Al Unser juniors Turbo racing.) For my Atari, I think I have 10 games.
i regret getting rid of mine so much. i really wanna play sword of the berserk and skies of arcadia again. even soul calibur on dreamcast was more fun for me than any of the sequels. i had more games but those 3 are the ones that really make me regret getting rid of it. i probably traded in my dreamcast and all the games for one stupid ps2 game.
@@Jack_80 i feel ya, i traded for a game boy advance and one game..not sure if i put money into the trade... anyways. then years later i grabbed one at a flea market off a grandma. mint condition with two mint red controllers. cheap too.
Sooo good for Dreamcast anniversary! Thanks for that journey, friend, that was great. "Live and learn! hanging on the edge of tomorrow..! Live and learn! from the works of yesterday..."
I think this may be the best video you've produced so far. That's coming from someone who never had a Dreamcast nor has ever played one. It's obvious that a lot of heartfelt thought went into making this one.
Sega is finally profitable as a software company, right? So what if they went out on a limb, used some of that new found money, and built a $150 mini Dreamcast, with the new tweaks like HDMI and USB controllers and USB compatability. Only this time start with a limited production run. I think if all the people who swear by the mini NESs were presented with a (non mega drive) option for mini consoles, with 128 bit DreamCast graphics. And the system was built in small batches, according to demand for it (cutting both production overhead and superfluous units), would give the mini DC time to build a good reputation, via word of mouth, and allow Sega to reap a small profit allowing them to slowly expand on the units capabilities, especially online. This would, in turn, broaden a mini DCs audience, slowly bringing in more profits, and so on and so forth... New downloadable titles, some online capable, subsequent chat rooms, forums and new venues, and when these (all be it, slowly) expand the fan-base, and subsequent user base, lo and behold, enough money for another small batch of units. Let numbers from this batch linger, rely on word of mouth and online publicity, drop it's price to $99.99, on Nov 1st, to correspond with a calculated largest production run possible without losing any money on it, and also to correspond with Christmas that year. Now, Everything that has been done with the Mega Drive, to turn megadrive into a cash cow, combined with a marketing plan along the lines of the one I just described, coupled with the mini nostalgia console trend, could revive the Dreamcast and turn Sega a profit. Possibly even reviving the Sega name enough for us to someday see a HD graphics, DC2, with 4 bluetooth controllers, and a lithium ion polymer battery INTERNALLY, for portability, would blow everyone away. Sega writes incredible games. They wouldn't even need third party developers for launch, again cutting overhead. This would increase profitability. And a portable, PS4 calibur, completely wireless, internet ready system, with HD Sega Team software, would take the gaming world by storm...... Whaddya think???
The problem is the deal to keep sega from dying was a payout from the other companys saying “we will pay you to make game’s for us on the condition you stay out of the console market.” If sega made a console, the deal would be broken and sega will die.
Assuming there are no hardware engineers left at SEGA since they only do software now, if they wanted to do this "right" that would mean they would have to take engineers away from software they are doing now and basically train them to "re-write" for lack of better term the architecture for the Dreamcast as close to what it was, which would basically be impossible to complete from Nov.1 to Christmas, they would have to intelligently work on this in secrecy for some time. then they would have to either train those same software engineers to be hardware engineers, or hire a new staff of hardware engineers to re-design a failed console that only realistically a small group of people will really care about, to be smaller, but still include features such as online. This would significantly raise any logical buying price to much higher than $100 and considering the only games they could feature are maybe 4 games some people heard a TH-camr talk about and 16 other (probably) games the same demographic the machine is marketed towards passed up without interest when the console released anyway, I highly doubt any word of mouth or marketing Kung-Fu would present a logical future for a Dreamcast mini, and certainly not one that would spark a success large enough for SEGA to hire a new engineering team, design a relevant, cost-effective machine that Publishers or even probably most witty developers would have a lot of trust in and somehow come up with a marketing budget that matches SONY alone. As much as I would donate certain body parts to have a DC2 it's just never going to happen unless they make some title that has sales matching that of Pokemon or Mario. As far as the Raspberry Pi micro DC I wouldn't try to market those to collectors, at least certainly not DC collectors. Most dreamers like myself are deep in the homebrew scene and can easily put retropi on a PI and put it in a 3d printed DC case without external help, so selling just that wouldn't be solving a problem which is how businesses actually make money. I would instead try to offer just the RetroPI in different system themed, or even custom cases, that way you could market to any collector who wants a RetroPI that looks like their favorite system, but doesn't have access to a 3D Printer. Hopefully there is no ill will recieved from this, just thought your idea was very interesting and this is what I came up with when I elaborated on what it may or may not actually take for your scenario to take place. Anyway good luck on the PI-biz I have seen people succeed with that model you just have to have razor sharp marketing so I would focus on things like Twitter or Tumblr or Pinterest where you can more publicly determine what a user is interested in. Also I hear Coleco is just handing out licenses left and right try contacting them you could probably use their logo... Keep Dreaming friends
9/9/99 I remember getting the Dreamcast and could afford 3 games at the time. Being an arcade game fan I went with Marvel vs. Capcom , Soul Caliber and Sonic Adventure. Shit blew my mind how arcade perfect the games were with Soul Caliber being better than it's arcade counterpart and finally getting a true Sonic game in true 3D for the first time. Afterwards I bought the official arcade stick, a MadCatz gun, a VMU and the rest was history. I tried to collect every arcade port I could get my hands on: Zombie Revenge, Psychic Force 2012, Gun Bird 2, Sega Rally 2, Virtual On 2, Giga Wing 1 & 2, Power Stone 1 & 2, Dynamite Cop, Virtua Tennis, Crazy Taxi, Cannon Spike, House of the Dead 2, Confidential Mission, Ikaruga, Capcom vs. SNK 1 & 2, Dead or Alive 2, Fatal Fury Mark of the Wolves, Fighting Vipers 2, Guilty Gear X, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, King of Fighters 98-2002, Last Blade 2, MVC 2, Plasma Sword, Project Justice, Street Fighter III (All 3 of them), SFA3, Super Puzzle Fighter II X, Super Street Fighter 2 X, Tech Romancer, Virtua Fighter 3, Daytona USA. Can't forget Shenmue, Bangai-O and Grandia II. Then 2001 came. To me Shenmue II and Sonic Adventure II were the system's swan songs. Sega definitely went out with a bang with those two games if nothing else. Still have everything mentioned in good condition stashed away in a closet, they'll forever be apart of my greatest gaming memories.
goodenstuff me and my brother and his friend played that game few months ago and i never played dreamcast in my life till me and my brother played it when it frist arived here that's one game we played came with the system
All Playstation games that were released multi-platform were of course better on the Dreamcast. How couldn't they, on a system that's about 5 to 10 times as powerful?
I loved the Dreamcast as a kid, but it was my brother's and went with him when he moved out so it's been waaay too long since I've been able to play. Powerstone 1 and 2, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Rainbow 6, and Marvel vs Capcom 2 were some of our favorites on the system. I even had a blast playing Sonic Shuffle. A lot of people say it's just a terrible Mario Party clone, which it is a Mario Party clone to be fair, but I thought that it had its own charm and some of the minigames were super fun. Oh man, and the VMU. It was so cool to have these little mini games you could play on your memory card! If memory cards hadn't gone the way of the dodo already I'd love to see this idea explored more. I miss the Dreamcast.
I pleaded with my parents to get me an N64 for xmas as all of my friends had them and the latest N64 games were always the topic at school. when xmas morning rolled around and I unwrapped my Dreamcast, I didn't really know what to make of it, happiest mistake ever. Top games were Shenmue I and II, The sonic adventure games, Grandia II, Jet Set and I have fond memories of Deadly Skies, there was even something magical about the terrible titles.
my favorites were sword of the berserk, code veronica, and soul calibur. i really wish i had kept my dreamcast. probably traded it in with a dozen games just to get one ps2 game.
The Dreamcast has that Mega Man X helmet light-thingy on it. Just saying. Also, it's good to see how nostalgic and emotional you can get over games/a console. It can be sad to have a system that you really like start getting outdated or overshadowed. Let's never forget our old favorites! God bless you, and Miiverse forever. :)
Honestly I grew up on the PS2 and have been a PlayStation fan my whole life. But even I will admit that the Dreamcast is one of if not the most groundbreaking console we’ve ever seen. Apart of me wishes I got a Dreamcast as a kid instead of a PS2. However the Dreamcast was already discontinued that holiday season when I got my PS2.
I absolutely adored the Dreamcast. Easily my favorite console ever! Such a shame it died so soon, because it was actually a powerful little system that could have gone toe to toe with the PS2 if it had time to breathe. We never really got to see how much the console could do graphically. Sadly I think piracy didn't help the system either. After a gaming magazine shipped an issue with a free demo disc that accidentally contained a workaround for the anti piracy software, the flood gates were opened and games became easy as shit to copy. In the long run though, that actually might have helped keep the system alive way longer than it should have, because it had basically become an open source console. Anyone could make a game for it! New games are even still being made for it, although they are harder to find, obviously. It essentially became the peoples console.
i loved my dreamcast. i remember being so amazed by soul calibur, skies of arcadia and code veronica. when code veronica later came out on ps2 i thought it looked like crap. it was so much more clear on the dreamcast. i never understood why they gave up on the dreamcast so quickly.
Jack M they had to give up on it cause they were broke from there past failures. It actually sold pretty well. 10 million consoles in 18 months is actually pretty good! Sega killed themselves. 😞
I said before and I'll say again, I'm at the very least grateful the SEGA is still around developing and publishing AWESOME titles!! "Valkyria Chronicles" and "Hatsune Miku: Project Diva" are some of my most recent favorite IPs!!
Excellent video man. I remember waiting in line with my friends on the night of 9/9/99. I was 19 in college and pre-ordered that bad boy. The system was truly ahead of its time.
Thank you soo much for this video. I grew up on Sega. I still have and love my dreamcast. This console was revolutionary remember ready to rumble, House of the Dead with the light guns, Power Stone 1 + 2, NBA 2K which I also played online at the time, I can go on. The fact that you mention there's an online community for the Dreamcast with a building library of games you can play online just blew me away. Just off this video alone you gained a new fan and again I thank you for this video. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Great video! I never knew I could feel so sad for a console's fate. When I was younger I bought a copy of Ecco the Dolphin Deffender of the Future for the Dreamcast before I even owned one, because I loved the Ecco games on Genesis. I spent so long looking for a DC as a kid but never saw them in stores, now I know why, guess I was a little late :( I eventually picked up the PS2 version of Ecco and loved the hell out of it, but after watching your video I've decided to find my old DC version of Ecco and snatch up a used DC from Ebay or something just to honor the memory of the Dreamcast! Again, great video! Keep up the awesome work :D
The Sega Megadrive 2 (Sega Genesis) was my introduction to my favourite pastime activity. Soon after the Sega I played on the PlayStation one system and afterwards ascended to the PC maste race. Thank you Sega. Good grief that message on the smash pack gave me the feels :( what a wholesome read... :'(
I always look at sales figures because the most-popular consoles will attract the exclusive games. When Dreamcast was retired it was in a distant fourth place (behind PS2, Xbox, GameCube). Also most DC games were already ported to GC or PS2 so you weren’t missing anything. Dreamcast has almost no genuine exclusives left .
Sega Dreamcast was amazing, I am glad I decided to buy it when it came out. Seeing Shenmue screenshots in EGM sold me. It had a web browser, CD player, modem adapter, Light guns that actually worked. I was able to beat House of the Dead 2 with a light gun w/o using a continue. The first 3D Resident Evil game was created for it. It was bad ass kid. I forgot to add the DLC and game patches via the Internet. Some people will never know and that's sad it really was amazing at the time. PSO OMG I Loved PSO, to this day I have created a PC BlueBurst PSO Server so I can still play it. I still tweet to Sega to reboot PSO ep1 and ep2! RED RING RICO !!!!!!
One hell of a love letter you made here. The Dreamcast deserves it. I think in retrospect the Dreamcast would have been seen as the WiiU of the Sega consoles if it weren't the last of the lineage. Or the Saturn of the Sega consoles...
3/10 not enough Sonic Shuffle or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. How do I know if you're a REAL Dreamcast fan if you can't tell me if Chao or Big is higher tier? Said my bit before, but I feel like it's always worth it to say thank you so much for this video and all of the time and effort you put in.
I seriously played Sonic Shuffle for more than two hours, because I'd forgotten that story mode requires you to get SEVEN Maginarystones per board, and once I realized how long it'd take I was in too deep. I have more footage of Shuffle than I do of Shenmue! Then I only ended up using that little piece of the intro near the end of the video.
I mean. That's entirely fair and I completely understand. As a Mario Party 3-8 Story Mode survivor, my heart weeps for you. ... fine. 4/10 not enough Jojo or Samba de Amigo, then.
Well, you don't HAVE to get all of them, just to win the board. Only problem is that when you lose you have to start everything from the beginning and Sonic Shuffle rounds last for a long time. It's a much slower paced game than Mario Party. As for Jojo. WRYYYYYYYYYY
I love this video. And come back to it regularly because of my love for the Dreamcast and what it meant to me at the time and for the industry at large. Love your work so much Josh.
The Dreamcast was such a huge part of my childhood that I legitimately didn't know it sold poorly until I was an adult. All of my friends has one. We were obsessed with it. Soul Calibur, Power Stone 1 and 2, Phantasy Star Online, Alien Front Online, Crazy Taxi, Grandia 2, Worms Armageddon, and the list goes on and on. The Dreamcast was something special, and shame on the rest of the world for not seeing that in time.
That does my heart good. DOA2 isn't referenced nearly enough in conjunction with the Dreamcast. I first played the game at a demo kiosk in a Babbage's or EB games, can't remember, and it changed my life. I've always been a graphics whore and that's why I was interested in it but playing it there was an out of this world experience for me. It unlocked the understanding of 3D games from within myself. Before it I was unable to play games like Soul Calibur and Virtua Fighter, after it I understood. So beautiful, so easy to pick up and have fun.
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I'm in shock.. I randomly found this video while checking my recommendation...I'm Spidey fucking hell. You even remembered what I looked like.
Really hope you see this message. I'm glad all my late night gaming and PSO addiction back in the 90s didn't go wasted haha
Holy crap, like, obviously I was _hoping_ you'd see it, but I didn't actually think it would happen! I couldn't remember the rest of our regular crew, but you were like my mentor in PSO! I'm pretty sure you taught me the Guild Card system, even, because I distinctly remember your name at the top of my list! I'm glad I got your RAmar's appearance right, too!
I was an edgy teen at the time, so my first character was called "Shadow." I had a keybind to say "Chaos Control," and I'd always hit it when I went through warps.
Let's see... I remember you were a bit older than the rest of us, like one time we were all disclosing our ages and you said, "Uh... sure, yes, I'm 12." I remember I had PSOv1 for like 10 days, until the community collectively convinced me to take it back and get v2 instead. But more than anything, I remember you (and your sister I assume, she commented too) being just the COOLEST, always taking the time to help me out and show me the ropes of a completely new style of game. For real: THANK YOU for everything!
Haha yes I remember you! I'm 36 now, I always knew you must of been an edgy teen haha Shadow and I remember your symbol chat. We did play with another girl and someone else but I can't remember their names.
So bizarre how I just put your video on, I was agreeing with everything you was saying about Sega and especially the Dreamcast. I was a Sega fan my "home team" like you and I had a Saturn and needless to say was also laughed at!
The strangest is probably my all time favourite and playing PSO with you and all the other random guys we met,really was the icing on the cake. Even the fear of being NOL'd when joining someone's party on PSO is a fond memory.
I'm glad I met you and was able to take you under my wing and really help make PSO a great experience!
woooaaahhhh crazy af "x-files theme plays"
This is so awesome!
Reading your story and you remembering the good times you shared.
That’s why video games are so freaking awesome.
"The Dreamcast is as old now as the Atari 2600 was then".
Oh God, I have to go sit in the corner for a while.
LOL and I still have both systems!
@@robertdaone I have multiple😎 of Both!🤗
Holy f#ck I'm old😩😩😩
Yeah dude... did you just turn 40 too? 40 is a hard one.... 30 was no big deal, 20 was awesome... but 40.... god damn we’re old farts now. 50 is gonna suck.
LOL, yah, that made me fool old as hell as well, man. Him talking about his 13 year old self when the PS2 was released was even worse, LOL. I had just got into college then.
This is like my 5th time watching this video, but I wish I could like it more than once. I was never a Sega fan, but growing up being somewhat poor, when they dropped in price my parents seized that opportunity to bring me home a new console for an amazing price. To this day it was the greatest experience I've had with a console. I enjoyed every game I had on it. It's the only console I still have from my childhood today, it survived our home being burned down and a couple moves. I love this console!
Wow...I loved mine too
awesome to hear...I was a sega fan
Awesome story man. Seriously
Maybe it burned your house b/c it thought you might love it more.
I was 15 when the Dreamcast released in the US, I remember buying one along with Sonic Adventure and Street Fighter 3. I was blown away by the graphics, bigger games and online capabilities. I was a fan of Phantasy Star Online, spending so much time on that revolutionary game. I met a girl while playing (She was a bit younger than me), and we immediately became friends. Obviously, due to the shutdown of the servers, we went our own separate ways. But 6 years later I found her on Facebook, and she became my girlfriend. We're still together, and we still play on our Dreamcast. Thank you for this nostalgic video, I admit I teared up while watching
fuck yeah dude
Wow that's awesome dude
Y’all old asl
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Sega was WAY ahead of their time and it’s sad that not a lot of people recognize that.
Remember turbo graphics 16? I miss those old consoles like the Sega Genesis Dreamcast and turbo graphics 16
@Benjamin umm because there aren't any other games besides FPS's right? Lol
Youngsters missed out or dont care.
it did online before xbox live
SEGA kept screwing gamers with randomupgrades to the Genesis like 32X (and then barely supporting them). Gamers got tired of wasting their money and abandoned ship
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Crazy. Never knew Sega essentially had every idea back then that is now so popular.
Well damn. They did SegaNet and Online Play before Xbox, they did the four controller thing before Xbox and GameCube(PlayStation 2 never got around to it), the portable console games before the Switch, motion control before the Kinect, I mean damn. For them to come back now would be hard. I'm sure it's wanted by many, but it's just not feasible for Sega, a company that hasn't touched consoles since the Dreamcast in 2001, to return in 2019, two generations after it's Swansong, and compete with the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Trust me, I have been trying to brainstorm this all night. I have nothing. There is nothing Sega can do that Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft haven't already done...
Of course, that could be the Anti-Sega Return argument. A pro Sega return could be:
-It could finish what it started with the Dreamcast
-Sega has the money to do so.
-Competition is always good, and there is a hell of a stalemate going on here and now. The return of the Sega Dreamcast could mean a stimulation in the market
-Nostalgia
@@shady_the_one n64 was the first console to have 4 controller ports. my friends and i would play goldeneye almost constantly.
@@Jack_80 shit. My mistake
@@shady_the_one Nintendo 64 had four controller functionality plus online play with the DD64
@@davidhailes7311 I thought that was just a CD add-on
The fact that you and Spidey found each other after all this time is the best thing I've seen on youtube this year.
I wish I could remember the names of anybody I used to chat with in the NBA2K1/2K2 chatrooms.....to this day the Dreamcast NBA2Ks were the only versions that ever had that feature to be able to talk with people for as long as you liked before you started up a game, and you could actually choose to start up a game with whoever you wanted, these days it is forced to be random or they have to already be on your friends list. You can't just mingle with strangers like you used to be able to.
I agree, I still got tears in my eyes from 30 minutes ago bro.
hmmmm....... im a skeptic.
Wierd cross over anime
@@nullvoid3545 I'm not, there's something about the phantasy star series specifically i think that makes this kind of thing happen. I've met more than one person who remembered me from schtserv or psu who were scattered to the wind by the server closures.
This video sold me on a Dreamcast back in 2019, and I legitimately can't thank you enough for introducing me to what is, without a doubt, my *favorite* console of all time 💙
The best version of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 was found ONLY on Dreamcast. I miss you sweet child...Rest In Peace.
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Absolutely.
I got it for Xbox but it's not backwards compatible 😠
I still play MvC, MvC2, SFA3, and have a burned copy of SF3 third strike still
Played it for millions of hours
I just got my Dreamcast for Christmas and it is...
One of the greatest, most innovative boxes of video game technology I've ever seen
had one love that shenmue game had a black concel
I'm actually thinking about buying one for powerstone by itself lol. I was the guy with the odd "dreamcast" when I was a kid, but we all ended up at my house playing soul caliber and power stone several times a week. lol
Kris Gersch it was ahead of it time and it’s sad that it didn’t catch on due to the confusion and hysteria that PLAYSTATION brought
"As always, SEGA was more interested in making a game groundbreaking than making one that was profitable"
Today, SEGA does EXACTLY the opposite.
Yakuza? It is more GTA than GTA itself? They're still doing what they did back then.
Except whatever the fk is going on with Sonic
SEGA Died...
Awhile Ago.
SEGA was also home of many games that were just fun. Crazy Taxi comes to mind.
Can you blame them? Gamers didn't show up for them.
@@T1Oracle yep. There was a time when Sega was a joke so everybody jumped ship. Kind of a bummer bc Sega was a fucking pioneer
Sega was my home team too. Kinda sad dreamcast failed.
It failed in keeping sega viable in the console market but it def succeeded in being a great console with great games.
The Dreamcast is amazing enough that i added it to my collection.
I seemed to switch between Nintendo and Sega for each console generation. Went from NES, to Genesis, to N64, to Dreamcast. I absolutely adored my Dreamcast. It felt so sleek and advanced and the games were just incredible, namely Sonic Adventure, Powerstone, House of the Dead 2, and Shenmue, to name my favorites. I'll never forget the memories I had with it.
sega was broke by the time dreamcast came out they were $200 million in debt and could not recover
Sega and their risk taking and the different style games they put out, when everyone else is putting the same thing out every year, is what is missing now.
I lost my Dreamcast in a home robbery. Still hurts.
that sure hurts..but think of it like it could've converted that thief into a DC enthusiast
Damn that sucks
Damn that sucks for you I hope the games u had on it are available on steam…
@@leocalinawan8429 more like a craigslist enthusiast lmao
Dang I legit felt bad hearing that
You won *_sooo many points with me_* for mentioning Phantasy Star and then pulling the rug out from under me with Chu Chu Rocket and _then_ actually talked about PSO. Seriously idk which of those I love more.
I never got to play the dreamcast online, and I was actually planning on getting one in the next couple months so this is fucking AWESOME! All the more incentive to buy the system again. It may be awhile but I guarantee you I'll be joining sometime :D
PSO2 really needs a western release. Gen 6 consoles really had the most going for them in terms of quality games, that's why we all remember Dreamcast, Gamecube, & PlayStation2 to this day. Although the PS2 probably had the worst hardware of the Gen6 Consoles in its initial release, where as Xbox was the most lacking in terms of games.
"I have all 150 pokemon" said someone at the Phantasy Star lobby hahahah
What a great statenent of how far we've come in time
@@pablokpsctr crazy
I lost my temper one Christmas while playing Trivial Pursuit with my Friends and some family members. I was on a team and we were asked the question, which games console was the first to have online play? Seeing as I was into games every on the team assumed this would be my big moment! I answered the Dreamcast but the card said the original Xbox. I wasn't very happy!
That still would have been wrong. The Super Famicom had satellite internet access. Even before that the Famicom had internet access, and I believe even the Intellivision and Atari was able to connect to a network.
Even the Saturn had online far before everybody else
Turk What is really interesting to me is how the hardware was implemented in the Xbox before the release of Xbox Live itself.
I remember a relative of mine randomly got me an Xbox when I was a kid in 2001 right after its release and because of that, my Xbox didn’t have the “Xbox Live” option in the Xbox Start Menu, and it wasn’t only until I received a random disk in the mail with a
free 2 weeks of Xbox Live that I discovered that little Ethernet adapter on the back.
I swear to god I was like “what is this...” when I got that disk in the mail and it introduced me to online gaming. Soon after I got CS 1.6 on my PC and Halo 2 on my Xbox and I was hooked.
That was almost 20 years ago. Damn.
Sega had Sega Channel in 94
I remember having to hook the original Xbox up to a laptop to play halo online and it was usually against military guys. That was prob 4 months after halo came out
I've never even played a dreamcast but this was emotional...
The Dreamcast was the last true classic game console, the PS2 is what rang in the modern era. Even though I wouldn't own a Dreamcast until 2006, I still have an immense amount of love and respect for the system
Micaiah the Otaku Gamer [HybridAngelZero] so did the dreamcast really with its modem. For pure gaming the SNES was the last great console pre modern gaming era.
It seems the Genesis was Sega's most successful and iconic console that defined it, and went out bitter sweet with the Dream cast its finest.
Support *games preservation* and *public domain* if you want to see your favorite games today, be reasonably priced, fairly common and easily accessible tomorrow.
This system was so good.....disappoints me how underappreciated it was and how fast it died. So much capability here......RE Code Veronica was simply amazing, as well as Soul Calibur, NFL 2K, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, Knights, House of the Dead....the list goes on and on.
Not to mention dreamsnes.
It probably died cause it was so easy to pirate games on it
Power Stone & 2
Jet set radio!!
it was very bad marketing bro
This was such a great retrospective. That rant against the PS2 cracked me up and I gotta admit the bit towards the end was a figurative tear jerker. Even though I didn't grow up with the Dreamcast like you did, I still own one and I'm such a big Sega fan that thinking about its failure gives me such a bittersweet feeling.
...why do I have a sudden urge to play Crazy Taxi now...?
...YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH~!
WaffleToast215 you cracked up, I totally lost it. LOL.
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There is no denying but you cannot deny that even after the failure of the Dreamcast it has a cult following today even the new generation is interested in it.
Crazy Taxi is amazing.
The PS2 had better games though. Sega died because they had no idea how to evolve
The Dreamcast will never be forgotten. Out of all my games in my collection, next to my 3DS, I play my Dreamcast daily. There’s so many games on the system that sometimes I feel overwhelmed. Skies of Arcadia, Resident Evil 2 and 3, Dino Crisis, Sonic Adventure (1 and 2), Marvel vs Capcom 2, D2, Jet Grind Radio, Grandia, Crazy Taxi, EGG, Gigawing and Timestalkers. The Dreamcast has one of the best offerings of first party support and some third party support.
I don't cry at funerals, but this brought a tear to my eye.
Is this a dreamcast talk or the end of the walking dead season 1 game
"lol hamburger"
"no you are"
just like today
no u
This is legitimately saddening.
:'(
Sega. Out with a bang. Not with a buck.
as a sony fanboy, it made me happy
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
EPM 101 it truly is. Sega were innovators.
god dam, that intro made feel old and cry... im 33 years old felt like i was 60.
Nice sounds good
Right with you at 32
I’m 30 and I had the system when I was in the 4th grade smh
32 here...yea I remembered renting the dream cast at blockbuster when it came out....I'm old
About to be 36 this month. I bought this system JUST to play Mortal Kombat Gold and Resident Evil Code Veronica
Legit scrolled the comments looking for Dreamcast haters that weirdly pop up in most videos, bit of a pleasant surprise not to see one.
I have nothing but love for that awesome SEGA machine, I was an only Nintendo consoles owner, the moment I could go and buy the Dreamcast, all my hype turned into joy and that never fade away, right now I'm looking for one because I shared my Sports version with a friend and he sold it to have money for the PS2 and I will never forgive him for not even give me the chance to keep it
The dreamcast is fucking terrible
@@itsknighttime9572 So, like, what do you gain from this besides just being an ass for the sake of it?
@@itsknighttime9572lies.
@@barrett.50caliber you're wrong
This is something that is hard to find on TH-cam. This video MOVED me in so many ways. I've never played a dreamcast but I'm a big Sega fan. And the fact that you were able to talk about a video game console and make it be so emotional is impressive.
ItsMeSonicCraft YT Go find one. I'm NOT a huge SEGA fan, and only came to know about DreamCast through a roommate long after it was dead. It really is an *outstanding* machine, and it's so unfortunate for SEGA, but also the gaming community at large, that it came along too little too late. If you're a bit of a SEGA fanboy, you really owe it to yourself to see for yourself. I own one today, and honestly, a lot of the properties hold up quite well. 2k football is still my first choice for video football.
Bro u need to get you one and play it you wont be dissapoimted. Play virtua fighter 4 i think it is on it its amazing 👍 👍
Oh im sorry its soul caliber that i loved not VF
This really made me tap in to my past I got emotional as well.
why it hard to find.. seriously
The Dreamcast was one of the best consoles ever made. I had one with like 30 games. It was awesome. I also loved all the arcade ports the Dreamcast had, like Soul Caliber, and Marvel VS Capcom.
I was just born when Dc was on the market. Still, almost 20 years later, I found out about the Dreamcast. At some point I couldn't stop thinking about this machine that packed a last dream. This machine that started an era.
Now there's a DC in my collection. I payed a 100 bucks for it and it's worth the money. It sort of connects to me.
People that love the Dreamcast are a special kind of Gamers.
Retrovaporwaveaesthetic best console
Retrovaporwaveaesthetic I played every console from the 1990s, for me SNES/n64 and Dreamcast were the best, they just had something different about them
Rap Lawyer I got a Saturn at home, but nah, SNES/Dreamcast and N64 were the best
I still have my Dreamcast, i wouldn't trade it in, i play it every now and then, it's retro now lol
I played tons of Quake 3 online with the built-in modem. I also used the Planetweb browser a lot to browse the web and chat on IRC. That will always make the console more memorable to me than the PS2.
Excuse me for a sec, need to wipe the tears from my eyes. I never had a Dreamcast growing up, but my friend did and I remember playing Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi on it. Seeing this has given me a new respect to Sega fans and the Dreamcast.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! My whole goal here was to try to communicate what it was like to be a SEGA fan when the Dreamcast was new, and I'm really happy that came through for you. :)
Prairie Boy Gamer I myself never had a Dreamcast but I had the sega genesis. Then a PlayStation and after that ps2 with Spider-Man and spy hunter
I didn't own a Dreamcast till 2014 so I have no nostalgic memories of the console during its hey-day. Despite this and looking back on it in retrospect, I can really see why people are giving it so much credit. The Dreamcast truely is one of the most underrated consoles ever and I feel bad that I didn't pick one up back when it came out.
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Ya I had dreamcast in college. Nba 2k and 2k1 were sick. People would come over to play it. You could also burn dreamcast games pretty easily
The Dreamcast startup sounds at the beginning of the video REALLY brought me back. The Dreamcast was LOUD, I forgot all about that.
Yeah, it sounds like a wood chipper and drowns out the TV.
If you put a blank disk in, it might sound like a slowly revving 350z!
Having had 6 Dreamcasts (yard sales and goodwill, mostly) one was notoriously louder than the rest.
Ikr u couldn't sneak on your GAme
this.... is everything. I was 11 when Dreamcast came out and loved Sega. Prior to the Dreamcast I had a Genesis, Nomad and two 32x (but both were buggy af). I did enjoy NES and Mario games as well, but Sega always came first. I was really into Diablo 2 around the time Sega announced their shutdown, and neglected it because MvC2 and a few other games were still on for release.
When I finally realized what had happened, I was very let down. I have not bought a new gaming system since the Dreamcast in '99. I got into CPS2 emulation and Blizzard games until the spark finally burned out and the gaming industry just wasn't what it once was that appealed to a g33k like me. Still, my Dreamcast has remained under my TV for almost 20yrs now, and I don't foresee that ever changing!
Great video, it's good to know I'm not alone. Also yes, I def wanna get that dialup wifi adapter so I can kick it with the bois.
Phantasy Star Online was such a memorable game when I was younger. My first expierience with the game was on the Gamecube, and I played 3 player split screen locally. Still even then the memories and hours I have with that game is unreal!
Same!! Phantasy Star Online was my most favorite Gamecube title EVAAAR!!! > w
Heck yeah, split-screen on the Gamecube version was SUCH a fantastic move.
The Geek Critique How's It Going?
Just hearing the music... it was like my heart leapt out of my chest and 15 years of forgotten nostalgia came pouring out
Whats up man? Love your vids. ;)
When I went away to college, I brought my dreamcast with me because the dreamcast was mine, the ps2 belonged to our whole family. I had about 10 games and a few burned cds. Those burned cds contained nintendo games and the like, because dreamcast ran windows, emulators were quick to be made for it.
I didn't realize how revolutionary online play was. It's rather amazing. Thank you for the video.
Dreamcast was absolutely ahead of its time. It was a sixth generation console two years before the sixth generation. Had Sega not already been so hurt by previous blunders the Dreamcast would have been able to hold its own against the PS2 and GameCube (from a technical standpoint in much the same way the TG16/PC Engine compared to the Genesis and SNES). It would have been the underdog, but still competent, and we all know games make the system. It simply wasn't in the cards. Too much damage already done.
They failed to understand their customers in the West. That's where Xbox came in.
it had bad marketing
Gamers wee also tired of SEGA screwing them with Genesis upgrades (like 32X) and then barely supporting them. When the Saturn was released the gamers abandoned ship rather than waste any more money (ditto with Dreamcast)
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@@electrictroy2010 The dreamcast and saturn did bad in europe too, without the mistakes they did in north america.
screw all that..it was a way of life, like being a rebel
I just bought a Sega Dreamcast 2 months ago and I have been enjoying it ever since. It was the first time ever played one when I bought it.
Got me an old crtv and just having fun that was a really good video thank you sir
It's incredible. It's so strange how a video game console can do poorly, even when it's the most powerful home console, with great games. At least it's still around today. Now that I've watched this video, and hearing that the Online functionality is back, I'll probably pick one up. The idea that I could play Marvel vs Capcom 2 the way it was first played Online all those years ago sounds too good to pass up.
Over the course of the last 9 months I've watched your videos when I have something to do and I can't thank you enough for being such an entertaining and genuine person. Growing up I didn't own any Sega consoles and watching this one made me feel like I owned a Dreamcast. I'm incredibly happy TH-cam worked out for you and there's nothing I love more than someone who takes time with their craft to make videos like these that imo, anyone can enjoy. This was amazing
This made me so happy. Thought I’d never be able to get online on my dc again. Can’t wait to join the new community
Actually, the DreamPi is a Raspberry Pi-based device that converts a broadband connection to a dial-up one your Dreamcast can use. Buy one of these, and your Dreamcast will be online again.
Hello... What games are back online for the DC?
I am 40 now and was always a SEGA loyalist back then. My system bias died when the Dreamcast died. P.S. I actually have all the systems they made and got them at launch LOL.
what a gem! 80s guy here! Had them all. Best memories. I cant play these new consoles. Too much updates, downloads, etc. But the old ones??? The start sound of pS2 or here. Dreamcast???
Takes me back when I was a boy!
I might get one at eBay!!!
Crypto Power there's emulators no need to get a console
@@mkratos17 brother. Emulators are like sex dolls. I don't respect that. I need the real thing. The original dreamcast controller, the boot up sound, disc, VMU, etc. The entire Dreamcast feeling. You can't get that on emulators.
Thanks anyway brother
nintendo doesn't do well because it sells huge amounts of software or hardware but because they survive while the dreamcast could have done well sega unlike nintendo had a reputation nintendo howeverr oly had 2 terrible systems and could fall back on their handhelds
I got a Dreamcast Christmas of 1999 and I have never been more blown away by progress in graphics and sound and power. Games like Soul Calibur and Shenmu still look good today imagine how it looked back in 99.
“I have all 150 Pokémon. I’m so cool”
Just wait until that guy discovers Sun and Moon
He already did
Sun and Moon was the worst Pokemon game I have ever played. (From a competitive standpoint)
This guy sounds exactly like the voice in Sega Bass Fishing....”YOU GOT A SPECIAL LURE!”
The most underrated game of all time came from this system. Power Stone 2!! Greatest fighting game to ever exist!!
@GuruTruthSpeak I love the first game but it's so frustrating at times 😂😤 Everyone reacts fast af lol
Thank you for this video. I've been binge watching Dreamcast stuff since quarantine & I just bought a Dreamcast for the first time. The passion you displayed for the console makes me really excited to play it! Thank you for the information you shared - I'll definitely be looking into it more!
DiGi shoutout, check... Other M diss check... yeah alright you're clear, you'll have your Seal of Quality sometime next week.
I can't believe it's been almost 20 years. Where does time go? I bought my Dreamcast at launch and was so blown away by it. Nothing came close. It's so sad that it failed because it's library was amazing! I still play mine to this day and if I had to choose between Dreamcast and PS2, I'd pick Dreamcast any day!👍👍
DreamCast was, and continues to be my favorite system. It had the best games for its era. Games that were just fun and controls that just worked. Everything was tuned so well.
The only thing I hated was the controller, it would be the thing that made me stop playing from the pain
@@germanher7528 I guess everyone is different. I played Dreamcast for countless hours on end and the controller never bothered me. A lot of people love the PlayStation controller but I always hated it and found them painful after a while. My all-time favorite is the Xbox 360 controller or maybe the Japanese original Xbox controller.
No, I'm pretty sure Mario was all the way through.
Gamers wee also tired of SEGA screwing them with Genesis upgrades (like 32X) and then barely supporting them. When the Saturn was released the gamers abandoned ship rather than waste any more money (ditto with Dreamcast)
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DreamCast+Wii U+Vita+GameCube+PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16+Sega Saturn=Underrated consoles gang
The Dreamcast was the first console that I ever played, and still my favorite. My earliest memory is watching the intro to Soul Calibur on my dad's system. The Dreamcast is so interesting to me because it was a transitional console: the last to sell itself as a home arcade, and the first to put online gaming on the forefront. I wish Sega today have even half of the creativity and fearlessness that they did back then.
Man, such a tear-jerker of an episode. That PS2 rant was hilarious though--most of us Dreamcast fans back then felt the same, so don't feel like it was just your 13-year-old self being unreasonable. It really wasn't impressive when it was new (that eventually changed, naturally).
GamingTV kingdom hearts 1 kingdom hearts 2 the Ratchet, Jak and Sly series would like to have a word with you
Yeah, only by fall 2001 when GTA III, Final Fantasy X, Devil May Cry, MGS2 and all those other shitty games that never sold well at all proved how the PS2 sucked.... (SARCASM).
Get your head out of your ass. Playstation is where the real gamers went after Sega fucked up the Saturn and fucked over consumers. It's Sega's own fault that caused the DC to die and it deserved to die for being the shit console it is. Hell the Switch which is another PIECE OF CRAP CONSOLE is better than Dreamcast. Atari Jaguar is better than Dreamcast. TIGER WRISTWATCH GAMES ARE BETTER THAN ALL OF DREAMCAST GAME EVER MADE.
Shenmue was better than anything ps2 had. It took a while for the ps2's graphics to match that quality too.
Darth Grumpy you forgot to put (SARCASM) at the end of the 2nd paragraph there
@@ironlung9189 Yeah, but Shenmue is one game and I ain't giving up a machine that plays Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, SMT: Nocturne, FFX, etc. for a game with pretty graphics.
Playing Shenmue on the Dreamcast is still one of my most memorable gaming moments.
"Let's get sweaty." - Ryu
You hyped for shenmue 3?
@@aimlessgamer6187 looks interesting from what I've seen so far...cant wait.
I put $300 down on kickstarter.
I was simply going to buy the Dreamcast just to play Shenmue up until I heard 1 and 2 were being remastered and that's when I bought that instead. Having beaten the first one last year, I can't believe I hadn't bought it before... It's been a long time since high school that any game has filled me with great memories from playing it.
I remembered playing nba 2k for the first time on dreamcast, I remember u could make ur own team and even change the logo to sonic the hedgehog
NBA 2k was mind blowing at the time
Did that game have the 'street' mode? I remember my brother and I played the street mode more than any other game mode. Fantastic:)
It took me a week to hit my first FT
You made a 24 minute video on the Dreamcast and no mention of the greatest fighting game of alltime, Marvel vs Capcom 2? Dreamcast had the best version.
A B YES! Thank you for reminding me of the days of when capcom brought amazing games to Dreamcast: 1st)Marvel ve. capcom 2 (which is still my favorite iteration of the line)...how about Power Stone? That was great in its own right
@@madmax0583 I loved power stone, how you just run around grabbing things and throwing while you are fighting.
Well, the NAOMI had the best version.
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stop being obtuse on purpose...its annoying!
@@ShortFuseFighting What can I say, I'm an arcade enthusiast who loves arcade gaming much more than console or PC gaming.
I started with the N64 when I was 7. And have still not played a Sega system. But this video makes me wanna give it a shot.
Zodyrus Sevaron That’s a shame, I went from N64 -> Dreamcast and loved every game on the system. The high Rez VGA mode looks almost HD on modern TVs too so it’s still super clean looking. Powerstone is almost like a 3D smash brothers, you’ll like it
Dreamcast is legit one of the best systems ever
6th Gen Consoles was literally the best age for gaming. You got the Dreamcast & Gamecube both that Gen even though combined they weren't able to compare to the PS2 in terms of sales.
The Dreamcast would have lasted another 10 yrs if I had bought one. Just me. It's all my fault.. Sorry.
Just tell me your credit card number and the three little numbers in the back and everything will be fine, k?
God damn you man, why WHY!!!
you are Gene Snitsky in reverse
Anyone who owns a dreamcast to this day the console is still working
I hope ur happy
Jerk
"Like most 13 year olds I didn't even know the definition of newance"
I can confirm this to be accurate
or the nuance of spelling....
The Dreamcast was the last system to break my heart. Every game I played on it was superb. I even looked at porn and sent emails with it over dial-up.
lol this was my porn machine as a teen for the early 2000s.....no web history, parents clueless lol
the first faps are always the most emotional
impurfekt lol, Dreamcast porn.
Yeah, it was the last for me too...because it was the last Sega system...I'm afraid they could have fucked me again if they had continued...
Thank you for telling me. I’ll make sure to sanitize any controllers I purchase for the dreamcast
Damn, I was not expecting myself to be THIS invested into this video as I got practically no history with the sega consoles at all (could have been the area I lived)But your story was so damn interesting to follow, this console was more ambitious than it could handle and with what you experienced with it, you should be happy you have that memory, never let go of that.Speaking of, that ending where you spoke about wanting to continue into the later sonic games, will shadow the hedgehog be one of the games you will adress?
Personally if you do, I hope you won't be TOO harsh on it, it did some things well, but I also understand what it did to the sonic franchise.
Shadow the Hedgehog was great, it was trying to market Sonic to adult players & it actually was an enjoyable darker spin on the Sonic Series with it's over the top edgyness. Playing it feels good these days considering how much of a joke the tone of Modern Sonic games is these days. Pontac & Graff never should have been hired to begin with, although Ian Flynn came up with a passable sequel plot for the game.
9-9-99
Sega genesis mini release date 9-19-19
How about that. 🤔😉
19/9/19 ffs
@@markweston216 I currently need 5 more likes for another 19. 😂
i gotchu, 4 more now
I remember waiting for September 9th to get it. Good memories
One Two kool. I'm glad for that. How time flies its been 20 years.
Happy 25th anniversary Dreamcast! This is still the best video on the console.
No mention of Soul Calibur? It was the best game on the system. My friends and I my freshman year of college played that game until the disc couldn’t read any more.
What gets me is that the game still looks pretty good today.
Seacliff still a blast to play too
I'd always heard about it, but I didn't actually get Soul Calibur until, maybe, 2003 or so? It's AWESOME, but I ended up playing the sequel a lot more since I got it so late.
The Geek Critique Makes sense. Anyway thanks for the excellent video, brought back some great Dreamcast memories. Sega really did shoot themselves in the foot with their dismal track record. This is coming from someone who had both the Saturn and the 32x lol. It’s a shame because they did everything right with the Dreamcast. Too little, too late I suppose.
i never played the frist one until my 20's now and i was like i'm playing this on dreamcast the real way should be played
It really came down to Sega of Japan being a full of themselves and not recognizing the opportunities they had in front of them. Sony and Sega were pursuing a joint venture but Sega of Japan cut it off because they wanted to use their own design for the saturn while Sega of America wanted to use the Sony hardware... that Sony simply launched on their own as the Playstation
They were already doing a joint venture. The Sega CD actually uses Sony hardware inside. The problem was Sony got greedy and they wanted to rights to the console so they could collect all the profits for themselves. That’s why Sega and Nintendo turned down the Sony deal.
Pretty sure that was Nintendo that had the deal with Sony. There was to be a SNES-CD add on and Sony was to do their own CD only system called the Sony Playstation. The Nintendo add on was going to make the Nintendo Playstation. Sega already had the Sega CD.
@@CardiacCat Yes, the Nintendo/Sony deal was better known as the collapse of it happened publicly at one of the big electronic shows (Sony announced they would be making the CD attachment one day with Nintendo announcing a different partnership the very next).
Sega had worked with Sony on the software side with the Sega CD (Sony Imagesoft developed games for the Sega CD). Out of this relationship grew the interest in co-developing a next generation machine, with Sega of America initiating this contact. Sega of Japan stamped out these plans.
@YTCensorsMe Poop Hindsight, foresight, any sight would have helped Sega immensely back then.
Sega actually had an arcade version of the Saturn, it was called the ST-V.
Sega was among the pioneers when it came to 3D polygon graphics in arcade with Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter early in the 90s, and their next console should have taken this knowledge into account. Sony 'gambled' that the next gen would be 3d based for that very reason. Since they built it with 3D in mind from the start, it 'excelled' in that area, by comparison the Saturn was harder to extract its potential because it was meant to be a 2D powerhouse (which it definitely was) that augmented its 3D abilities after it had been in development for awhile. The N64 arrived later with better 3D abilities but hindered by the choice media cartridges.
The crazy thing is Sega also had the opportunity to snag the hardware that became the N64.
The N64 as we all know was cartridge based, which meant faster than CD loading times (if any), but at the cost of CDs benefits; CD Audio, FMV, greater storage capacity, lower price media (CDs costing pennies in bulk vs carts costing $30+ per unit) and quicker to reproduce media.
Who knows what could have been if Sega had developed that piece of hardware using CD Rom as its media.
@YTCensorsMe Poop I agree that Sony had the perfect storm of events for them to succeed with the PS1(PSX to me ;) ).
You cited them all; the hardware that Sega was pumping out as well as the software to support them(7, Nintendo sticking with cartridge which lost them Square and Final Fantasy 7(as well as a bunch of third parties leaving the fold), and to Sony's credit, they launched with a perfect price, a friendlier 3rd party arrangement, an easier to program for machine and Sony's budget behind it.
But hindsight is 20/20 as they say.
Sega launched the 32x for a couple of reasons:
1st- was the CEO of Sega Japan was worried about the Atari Jaguar (of all things) taking market share in the western markets before their own proper next gen machine launched.
2nd- while the Genesis was a complete success in western markets (thanks to SoA and Tom) it was 3rd place in Japan behind the Super Famicom and the PC-Engine; the home market was ready to move to 32 bit and was shutting down the 16-bit software pipeline. The 32x was an ill thought out measure to extend the Genesis lifespan and keep the userbase engaged (it ended up fracturing it even more). I bought one anyway :) .
Things could have been very different for Sega if wasn't for a few choices made back then.
OH man this brought tears to my eyes. I still have my Dreamcast and I kinda want boot it up now honestly. I'm really glad that you can still play online and that homebrew games are still being made for it. It's so nice to see people won't let this system die. It really was a special system and super powerful even to this day
Dashell Boat Yeah my Japanese launch Dreamcast still works. Sometimes I stream Virtua Fighter 3TB, it gets more views and hostings than when I stream Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown! Retro power!
I still play tony hawks pro skater 2 on it and house of the dead 2
i so badly wish i held onto my dreamcast. i had a pretty nice game collection for it. i really misz sword of the beserk and soul calibur. i played one of the more recent soul caliburs, part 5 i think, and i thought it sucked, i had so much more fun with the first game on dreamcast.
@@Jack_80 Loved Sword of the Beserk. Just wished it was a little longer. Great game but very it's a very short playthrough.
I literally just purchased a Dreamcast I remember having one back then
Fantastic video, man! This is a great look back at the most underrated console in gaming history. It’s interesting to see how the Dreamcast introduced many features that future consoles would later build upon and perfect. That PS2 launch rant was hilarious by the way.
Twenty years later I still have my Dream Cast, and it's still my favorite gaming console.
Yes i still have mine also, all black Sega Sports edition. About 30 games and 5 VMU's
I considered buying a DREAMCAST but many of the games were ported to GameCube (example: Skies of Arcadia) or PlayStation (Space Channel 5-1 and 5-2) so I found no compelling reason to buy a Dreamcast
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JL your lucky I sold it 2 years later when it first came out. I miss it alote.
I still have mine, 2 units and still working properly.
But the lack of USB or SD slot make it hard to modify it for CD-less gaming
I have a dreamcast emulator on my phone runs everything at fullspeed
I still have my dreamcast one day I'll hook it up again. I have over 40 games 4 controllers and two guns. picked up most of my stuff from thrift stores.
That's a lot of games. Even for my NES, I had 5 games. (SMB 1, SMB 2, SMB 3, Duck Hunt, Al Unser juniors Turbo racing.)
For my Atari, I think I have 10 games.
i regret getting rid of mine so much. i really wanna play sword of the berserk and skies of arcadia again. even soul calibur on dreamcast was more fun for me than any of the sequels. i had more games but those 3 are the ones that really make me regret getting rid of it. i probably traded in my dreamcast and all the games for one stupid ps2 game.
@@Jack_80 i feel ya, i traded for a game boy advance and one game..not sure if i put money into the trade... anyways. then years later i grabbed one at a flea market off a grandma. mint condition with two mint red controllers. cheap too.
Sooo good for Dreamcast anniversary! Thanks for that journey, friend, that was great.
"Live and learn! hanging on the edge of tomorrow..!
Live and learn! from the works of yesterday..."
I think this may be the best video you've produced so far. That's coming from someone who never had a Dreamcast nor has ever played one. It's obvious that a lot of heartfelt thought went into making this one.
Thank you, and _YEAH_, it really took a lot out of me! I spent the better part of a month just tweaking the script.
I agree. I've never been a Sega fan, but I literally teared up twice in this video. Keep being one of the best channels on youtube Josh. Good Luck.
pso was incredible. lost endless playing it. sadly there hasn’t been anything else like it still to this day
Xbox one version releases April!
It's not a DVD BOX VIDEO! It's a video about a dream that was made with passion and was the LAST video game system...
Sega is finally profitable as a software company, right? So what if they went out on a limb, used some of that new found money, and built a $150 mini Dreamcast, with the new tweaks like HDMI and USB controllers and USB compatability. Only this time start with a limited production run. I think if all the people who swear by the mini NESs were presented with a (non mega drive) option for mini consoles, with 128 bit DreamCast graphics. And the system was built in small batches, according to demand for it (cutting both production overhead and superfluous units), would give the mini DC time to build a good reputation, via word of mouth, and allow Sega to reap a small profit allowing them to slowly expand on the units capabilities, especially online. This would, in turn, broaden a mini DCs audience, slowly bringing in more profits, and so on and so forth... New downloadable titles, some online capable, subsequent chat rooms, forums and new venues, and when these (all be it, slowly) expand the fan-base, and subsequent user base, lo and behold, enough money for another small batch of units. Let numbers from this batch linger, rely on word of mouth and online publicity, drop it's price to $99.99, on Nov 1st, to correspond with a calculated largest production run possible without losing any money on it, and also to correspond with Christmas that year. Now, Everything that has been done with the Mega Drive, to turn megadrive into a cash cow, combined with a marketing plan along the lines of the one I just described, coupled with the mini nostalgia console trend, could revive the Dreamcast and turn Sega a profit. Possibly even reviving the Sega name enough for us to someday see a HD graphics, DC2, with 4 bluetooth controllers, and a lithium ion polymer battery INTERNALLY, for portability, would blow everyone away. Sega writes incredible games. They wouldn't even need third party developers for launch, again cutting overhead. This would increase profitability. And a portable, PS4 calibur, completely wireless, internet ready system, with HD Sega Team software, would take the gaming world by storm...... Whaddya think???
Thank you SOOOOO much, for he like!!! It means the world to me that somebody, ANYBODY , gets it, too!
Hell, I'm about to use Raspberry Pi to build a micro Dreamcast unit myself, and then selectively Market it, through TH-cam and eBay, it to collectors,
The problem is the deal to keep sega from dying was a payout from the other companys saying “we will pay you to make game’s for us on the condition you stay out of the console market.” If sega made a console, the deal would be broken and sega will die.
Assuming there are no hardware engineers left at SEGA since they only do software now, if they wanted to do this "right" that would mean they would have to take engineers away from software they are doing now and basically train them to "re-write" for lack of better term the architecture for the Dreamcast as close to what it was, which would basically be impossible to complete from Nov.1 to Christmas, they would have to intelligently work on this in secrecy for some time. then they would have to either train those same software engineers to be hardware engineers, or hire a new staff of hardware engineers to re-design a failed console that only realistically a small group of people will really care about, to be smaller, but still include features such as online. This would significantly raise any logical buying price to much higher than $100 and considering the only games they could feature are maybe 4 games some people heard a TH-camr talk about and 16 other (probably) games the same demographic the machine is marketed towards passed up without interest when the console released anyway, I highly doubt any word of mouth or marketing Kung-Fu would present a logical future for a Dreamcast mini, and certainly not one that would spark a success large enough for SEGA to hire a new engineering team, design a relevant, cost-effective machine that Publishers or even probably most witty developers would have a lot of trust in and somehow come up with a marketing budget that matches SONY alone. As much as I would donate certain body parts to have a DC2 it's just never going to happen unless they make some title that has sales matching that of Pokemon or Mario. As far as the Raspberry Pi micro DC I wouldn't try to market those to collectors, at least certainly not DC collectors. Most dreamers like myself are deep in the homebrew scene and can easily put retropi on a PI and put it in a 3d printed DC case without external help, so selling just that wouldn't be solving a problem which is how businesses actually make money. I would instead try to offer just the RetroPI in different system themed, or even custom cases, that way you could market to any collector who wants a RetroPI that looks like their favorite system, but doesn't have access to a 3D Printer. Hopefully there is no ill will recieved from this, just thought your idea was very interesting and this is what I came up with when I elaborated on what it may or may not actually take for your scenario to take place. Anyway good luck on the PI-biz I have seen people succeed with that model you just have to have razor sharp marketing so I would focus on things like Twitter or Tumblr or Pinterest where you can more publicly determine what a user is interested in. Also I hear Coleco is just handing out licenses left and right try contacting them you could probably use their logo... Keep Dreaming friends
Go away. I'd rather want a DC2 than a MiniDC.
Ryo: That's cool, but seriously do you know where any sailors hang out or not?!! XD
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My first "online" game was dial up Warcraft 2 in 1995. Awesome game.
9/9/99 I remember getting the Dreamcast and could afford 3 games at the time. Being an arcade game fan I went with Marvel vs. Capcom , Soul Caliber and Sonic Adventure. Shit blew my mind how arcade perfect the games were with Soul Caliber being better than it's arcade counterpart and finally getting a true Sonic game in true 3D for the first time. Afterwards I bought the official arcade stick, a MadCatz gun, a VMU and the rest was history. I tried to collect every arcade port I could get my hands on: Zombie Revenge, Psychic Force 2012, Gun Bird 2, Sega Rally 2, Virtual On 2, Giga Wing 1 & 2, Power Stone 1 & 2, Dynamite Cop, Virtua Tennis, Crazy Taxi, Cannon Spike, House of the Dead 2, Confidential Mission, Ikaruga, Capcom vs. SNK 1 & 2, Dead or Alive 2, Fatal Fury Mark of the Wolves, Fighting Vipers 2, Guilty Gear X, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, King of Fighters 98-2002, Last Blade 2, MVC 2, Plasma Sword, Project Justice, Street Fighter III (All 3 of them), SFA3, Super Puzzle Fighter II X, Super Street Fighter 2 X, Tech Romancer, Virtua Fighter 3, Daytona USA. Can't forget Shenmue, Bangai-O and Grandia II. Then 2001 came. To me Shenmue II and Sonic Adventure II were the system's swan songs. Sega definitely went out with a bang with those two games if nothing else. Still have everything mentioned in good condition stashed away in a closet, they'll forever be apart of my greatest gaming memories.
J good choice man you had all does games? I had 4 only Mvs C 1.2 and powerstone & a sonic. The rest I rented ar Blockbuster.
Dreamcast has the best port of Tony Hawk 2 as well. Played the hell out of that game
goodenstuff me and my brother and his friend played that game few months ago and i never played dreamcast in my life till me and my brother played it when it frist arived here that's one game we played came with the system
All Playstation games that were released multi-platform were of course better on the Dreamcast. How couldn't they, on a system that's about 5 to 10 times as powerful?
Siana Gearz right, my point was that you had to have a Dreamcast to play it
Siana Gearz i don't know it's werid lol
goodenstuff yeah true i agree
Im not a gamer at all but even i wondered wtf happened to dreamcast they were slept on heavily
I loved the Dreamcast as a kid, but it was my brother's and went with him when he moved out so it's been waaay too long since I've been able to play. Powerstone 1 and 2, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Rainbow 6, and Marvel vs Capcom 2 were some of our favorites on the system. I even had a blast playing Sonic Shuffle. A lot of people say it's just a terrible Mario Party clone, which it is a Mario Party clone to be fair, but I thought that it had its own charm and some of the minigames were super fun. Oh man, and the VMU. It was so cool to have these little mini games you could play on your memory card! If memory cards hadn't gone the way of the dodo already I'd love to see this idea explored more.
I miss the Dreamcast.
I'm seriously considering doing a whole bonus episode centered around the VMU. :D
I pleaded with my parents to get me an N64 for xmas as all of my friends had them and the latest N64 games were always the topic at school.
when xmas morning rolled around and I unwrapped my Dreamcast, I didn't really know what to make of it, happiest mistake ever.
Top games were Shenmue I and II, The sonic adventure games, Grandia II, Jet Set and I have fond memories of Deadly Skies, there was even something magical about the terrible titles.
my favorites were sword of the berserk, code veronica, and soul calibur. i really wish i had kept my dreamcast. probably traded it in with a dozen games just to get one ps2 game.
Wow, the n64 was coming to an end when the Dreamcast came out. Your parents were right to get you the Dreamcast instead lol
The Dreamcast has that Mega Man X helmet light-thingy on it. Just saying. Also, it's good to see how nostalgic and emotional you can get over games/a console. It can be sad to have a system that you really like start getting outdated or overshadowed. Let's never forget our old favorites! God bless you, and Miiverse forever. :)
WOAH, it totally does!
A response! You've made my day! Thank you!!!!!
Honestly I grew up on the PS2 and have been a PlayStation fan my whole life. But even I will admit that the Dreamcast is one of if not the most groundbreaking console we’ve ever seen. Apart of me wishes I got a Dreamcast as a kid instead of a PS2. However the Dreamcast was already discontinued that holiday season when I got my PS2.
I absolutely adored the Dreamcast. Easily my favorite console ever! Such a shame it died so soon, because it was actually a powerful little system that could have gone toe to toe with the PS2 if it had time to breathe. We never really got to see how much the console could do graphically.
Sadly I think piracy didn't help the system either. After a gaming magazine shipped an issue with a free demo disc that accidentally contained a workaround for the anti piracy software, the flood gates were opened and games became easy as shit to copy.
In the long run though, that actually might have helped keep the system alive way longer than it should have, because it had basically become an open source console. Anyone could make a game for it! New games are even still being made for it, although they are harder to find, obviously.
It essentially became the peoples console.
The piracy is what really killed it. None of the developers could make money.
i loved my dreamcast. i remember being so amazed by soul calibur, skies of arcadia and code veronica. when code veronica later came out on ps2 i thought it looked like crap. it was so much more clear on the dreamcast. i never understood why they gave up on the dreamcast so quickly.
Jack M they had to give up on it cause they were broke from there past failures. It actually sold pretty well. 10 million consoles in 18 months is actually pretty good! Sega killed themselves. 😞
Software sales wise yes, however console sales would increase.
I said before and I'll say again, I'm at the very least grateful the SEGA is still around developing and publishing AWESOME titles!!
"Valkyria Chronicles" and "Hatsune Miku: Project Diva" are some of my most recent favorite IPs!!
Dreamcast was the first console I owned as a kid and it is still my favorite console because of the games it had
Excellent video man. I remember waiting in line with my friends on the night of 9/9/99. I was 19 in college and pre-ordered that bad boy. The system was truly ahead of its time.
Thank you soo much for this video. I grew up on Sega. I still have and love my dreamcast. This console was revolutionary remember ready to rumble, House of the Dead with the light guns, Power Stone 1 + 2, NBA 2K which I also played online at the time, I can go on. The fact that you mention there's an online community for the Dreamcast with a building library of games you can play online just blew me away. Just off this video alone you gained a new fan and again I thank you for this video. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Great video! I never knew I could feel so sad for a console's fate. When I was younger I bought a copy of Ecco the Dolphin Deffender of the Future for the Dreamcast before I even owned one, because I loved the Ecco games on Genesis. I spent so long looking for a DC as a kid but never saw them in stores, now I know why, guess I was a little late :( I eventually picked up the PS2 version of Ecco and loved the hell out of it, but after watching your video I've decided to find my old DC version of Ecco and snatch up a used DC from Ebay or something just to honor the memory of the Dreamcast! Again, great video! Keep up the awesome work :D
This video made me dig out my Dreamcast. What a legendary console !!
Quake 3 online ate up so many hours of my life. I was a Sega kid growing up and really loved this system.
The only one I ever pre ordered.
The Sega Megadrive 2 (Sega Genesis) was my introduction to my favourite pastime activity. Soon after the Sega I played on the PlayStation one system and afterwards ascended to the PC maste race. Thank you Sega. Good grief that message on the smash pack gave me the feels :( what a wholesome read... :'(
It's crazy to think that if the Dreamcast had lasted even just one year longer that may have been my first console instead of the PS2.
I always look at sales figures because the most-popular consoles will attract the exclusive games. When Dreamcast was retired it was in a distant fourth place (behind PS2, Xbox, GameCube). Also most DC games were already ported to GC or PS2 so you weren’t missing anything. Dreamcast has almost no genuine exclusives left
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Welcome back. Waiting for that metroid samus returns review.
Edit: Where did all these likes come from?
Sega Dreamcast was amazing, I am glad I decided to buy it when it came out. Seeing Shenmue screenshots in EGM sold me. It had a web browser, CD player, modem adapter, Light guns that actually worked. I was able to beat House of the Dead 2 with a light gun w/o using a continue. The first 3D Resident Evil game was created for it. It was bad ass kid. I forgot to add the DLC and game patches via the Internet. Some people will never know and that's sad it really was amazing at the time. PSO OMG I Loved PSO, to this day I have created a PC BlueBurst PSO Server so I can still play it. I still tweet to Sega to reboot PSO ep1 and ep2! RED RING RICO !!!!!!
One hell of a love letter you made here. The Dreamcast deserves it. I think in retrospect the Dreamcast would have been seen as the WiiU of the Sega consoles if it weren't the last of the lineage. Or the Saturn of the Sega consoles...
3/10 not enough Sonic Shuffle or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. How do I know if you're a REAL Dreamcast fan if you can't tell me if Chao or Big is higher tier?
Said my bit before, but I feel like it's always worth it to say thank you so much for this video and all of the time and effort you put in.
I seriously played Sonic Shuffle for more than two hours, because I'd forgotten that story mode requires you to get SEVEN Maginarystones per board, and once I realized how long it'd take I was in too deep. I have more footage of Shuffle than I do of Shenmue! Then I only ended up using that little piece of the intro near the end of the video.
I mean. That's entirely fair and I completely understand. As a Mario Party 3-8 Story Mode survivor, my heart weeps for you.
... fine. 4/10 not enough Jojo or Samba de Amigo, then.
pyrrhickong Oh man, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future is soooo good. Doesn't get nearly enough love.
Well, you don't HAVE to get all of them, just to win the board. Only problem is that when you lose you have to start everything from the beginning and Sonic Shuffle rounds last for a long time. It's a much slower paced game than Mario Party.
As for Jojo. WRYYYYYYYYYY
I love this video. And come back to it regularly because of my love for the Dreamcast and what it meant to me at the time and for the industry at large. Love your work so much Josh.
17:52 Holy crap! Everyone was counting down the days to my 5th birthday?! I'm flattered!
XD!!
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The Dreamcast was such a huge part of my childhood that I legitimately didn't know it sold poorly until I was an adult. All of my friends has one. We were obsessed with it. Soul Calibur, Power Stone 1 and 2, Phantasy Star Online, Alien Front Online, Crazy Taxi, Grandia 2, Worms Armageddon, and the list goes on and on. The Dreamcast was something special, and shame on the rest of the world for not seeing that in time.
Dead or Alive 2?
We used to have DOA2 tournaments every month with a bunch of our friends.
That does my heart good. DOA2 isn't referenced nearly enough in conjunction with the Dreamcast. I first played the game at a demo kiosk in a Babbage's or EB games, can't remember, and it changed my life. I've always been a graphics whore and that's why I was interested in it but playing it there was an out of this world experience for me. It unlocked the understanding of 3D games from within myself. Before it I was unable to play games like Soul Calibur and Virtua Fighter, after it I understood. So beautiful, so easy to pick up and have fun.