Dreamcast Hidden Gems 

Yeah, I still remember when they announced they stopped support for it. SEGA are complete assholes. It was the same with the Saturn. They burned their bridges with sooo many companies, who then went on to make great games on the PS1, and PS2. SO all we were left with were 2d Shooters, and coin-sucking arcade games. These are all great now! But when you had the option of buying a 2D shooter or fighting game for $50, or the latest Tomb-Raider, or amazing unseen-3D game, it wasn't a hard choice for many people.

Bucky Monk except now many people pay $90+ for those same 2d shmups you talk of. I bet many wish they would have bought the shmups not the fighting games

metaljesus play killing floor two

i still need to play this on my new gaming pc

Daniel Linger I totally agree with you :) Gaming moves on, and many factors especially business affects how things play out. Still we got some great major releases in 2001 after DC was discontinued.. like one of the last releases here in Europe that was Shenmue II that I got at release. Can't believe it's been 15 years since I played through the game which ended abruptly at a cliffhanger, and that there is finally going to be a Shenmue III. Glad I didn't know at the time how long the wait was going to be though lol :)

dave rdz real talk ! I love the arcade feel to the dreamcast to this day and the smoothness and playability still amaze me

dave rdz so the Saturn

dave rdz ,Agreed bro

I bought mine at Toys R Us on launch week.. Toys R Us was the plug! I was stacked up with dreamcast games, many sleeper hit at half the price..I had a pretty good collection but I lost it. So I bought my second dreamcast last year, I want to mod it with a ps3 Fat retro compatible spare parts but I don't know if I can do that.. still I'm playing Ikaruga in 2018

You can play the online games again too, Dreampi is your friend.

Agree. It was a hidden gem even when it was new because almost no one had it. I was the only one who had it of my group of friends and it was the most awesome time.

He really is AMAZING!

metaljesus is the jesus we can all worship

It makes me happy that this channel exists. Thank you MJ.

Yes that’s what I felt too

The way I phrase it is that the Dreamcast is Sega's blaze of glory.

It's still alive and it's amazing. I'm getting a dream pi and getting it online soon.

brentstah ,I still have one and it's amazing.

Did u buy a used one or a newer one how much did u spend getting it set up with the controller , memory card. And games ? Would love to get one. Specially with the sky’s of Arcadia

@@williamkopko5775 I got one used for $30 with the cords and one controller. Couple dollars for the memory card thing.

Perfect W

lol!

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U alive beaches?

I found that pretty funny too. For me it's almost like saying that Final Fantasy 7 is a hidden gem for the PS1 :) Or crazy Taxi. Skies of Arcadia is just about one of the most famous games for the Dreamcast.

also skies of arcadia was and absolutely amazing game i've played it like 3 or 4 times (2 on dreamcast and 2 on gamecube), this and grandia 2 are my favorite rpgs of this console

that game was genius

TheCompletionist collectors.....

Skies of Arcadia makes it onto lists of the best JRPGs of all-time, and ALWAYS is on best DC game lists.

its well known to seasoned gamers. i remember i was the only kid in the neighborhood with this game. I was the only kid at my school trying to get kids to get this game. i was alone. i thought it was a hidden gem because I have never met anyone who enjoyed the game like i did. (I grew up in Florida)

Jesus Felipe Murrieta i don’t remember anyone ever talking bout it either , I’m playing it now as an adult but shit it’s pretty damn amazingand surprisingly challenging some of the fights are really down to the wire

@@loudlawnmower I remember more people playing it on Game Cube.

yeah i see people talk about skies of arcadia all the time. sword of the berserk on the other hand is an amazing game i don't think i've ever seen mentioned outside of this one video.

irina1296 Wait, Resident Evil 2 and 3 also came out on the Dreamcast? I thought only the PS1 and N64 got Resident Evil 2 and I thought Resident Evil 3 was exclusive to the PS1? Did the original Resident Evil come out on the Dreamcast as well?

No, but it came out on the Saturn ;) scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p480x480/16684394_1436112393088452_5744346435922257802_n.jpg?oh=f7ae4331a2324f45277a292215e77110&oe=5934544F

Gran dia

I still have my copy

Same here. Good times.

and thank god for that man this is why i love dreamcast the arcade games

The Dreamcast and Saturn are home to some of the best arcade ports of all time.

HE'S AN AARDVARK?

@@postalatom9056 yep

And me, from Generation X, was thinking he meant the Dudley Moore movie.

It was also the reason why Dreamcast exist

He said FFVII made it popular, not that FFVII invented it...

Teflon Vaughn If Berserk would be something small i would agree but its good chance that FF maker took it from there...a popular Manga after all.

there is always at least one character in most of those types of manga that have hench massive swords, long before any of these ideas. can't have a bad ass character without a hench fuck off sword... or gun sword...or mech... apparently...

Yepp, would be also thankfull for this...

he has done one already

Supah Bluu did you ever get your dreamcast back?

The Marketing was very good and the Dreamcast indeed sell. What killed it was Sony's announcement of the PS2.

@@ForeverLacey09 you're wrong bud

@Zeksteve What killed them was developing the 32x at the same time the Saturn was being developed. Because of that head banging between Sega of America and Japan, people lost faith in Sega. Turns out that the 32X and the Saturn were both utter disappointments. People get burned, they tend to start looking at the competition. Under powered system? Not by much compared to the PS1 and N64. Those arcade ports on the Dreamcast are golden and unmatched by it's generation of competition. It wasn't until the PS2 was in its 2nd year did it even have games that looked as good as the best Dreamcast arcade ports. Having a DVD wouldn't of made much difference, they were already going to be dead in the hardware area.

You're wrong about the marketing part. Sega has always had great marketing especially the dreamcast. Where they screwed up is piss poor management from Sega of Japan

i was just about to post this, it's funny how alot of people don't know about the sega naomi board. literally everything capcom made after the cps3 was on naomi. fun fact. the naomi is still used today

whoa you're here! u game?

Thank you for your kind words :).

I luv my Dreamcast so much!!!!!

+Max Payne (M.P. fan) I got mine at a second hand video game shop over a decade later. :P

only system I have 4 controllers for. a 30 rack of pbr, 3 friend and unreal 3 and you have yourself a great fucking night

I have owned one since Christmas 99 UK Gamer! First and only Sega Console I bought during it's life cycle!! Started collecting mega drive Saturn master system and Game gear once support had ceased for them systems as had a sense but always wanted a megadrive really too!

People have been asking for a Dreamcast Hidden Gems series for a while now... and there are Two more episodes coming!

PAL DC cases, like PAL Playstation cases, are too bulky and fragile. I'd much rather have standard CD size cases like the US versions, much easier to store and replace.

A Beatemups comment from 6 years ago, nice

it's weird that 7 years later a comment by someone with 1 mil subs only has 2 likes lol

Just download the roms and burn them on a cd-r and they will play just like a regular dc disc

Cannon Spike is a very shitty game.

People will find anything to bitch about. Don't let it get to you.

I'mNotCharlesBarkley SoDon'tBanMe good point

***** the bear necessities

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He uses what he has, hoarders don't

I don't know what your definition of a gamer is but I know people who consider themselves to be gamers and all they do is play video games night and day. They're fat, lazy, smell bad and rarely get out. Is that something to brag about or are they the extreme?

Well, Cannon Spike isn't much really a "Hidden Gems", back in the day it had awful ratings (like 3/10 on the official Dreamcast Magazine, not kidding, they called the game as boring, etc...), so only a handfull of people bought it (it remained for years at my local video game store, and price kept on lowering), it's not a good game at all, pretty mediocre at that, but since it's rare, the price skyrocketed and it now cost 150bucks for a game no one even wanted back then.

Yeah, sick Cowlitz Gamers Shirt.

MrDeathSmiles I play Grandia 2 in its day n loved it, and still love it now. I tried playin some Skies and it was well made but i didnt really get into the story. I didnt get particularly far. People often say its one of the best rpgs if not the best on DC, so im sure it picks up, but so far definitely have to say Grandia 2 made a a way stronger impression for me. That character's and dialogue, music and plot, and that awesome fighting system (which i think i would say is the best jrpg fighting style ever) all combined to make it amazing. What do you love about Skies?

lol very subjective. Evolution is a game i remember extremely fondly, but I think it was a case of sheer charm overshadowning its technical....lack of finesse let's say. The dungeons beign randomized were suuuuper simplistic. The more i think of that game the more i feel i loved it for its character. But overall, Grandia 2, and i think Skies too probably, were better in terms of actual gameplay. The pirate theme also didnt speak to me too much personally, at least not in the way it was done, likely because they never felt like pirates. they felt like heroes n good guys, at least to the point i got too. I should probably give it another go

Played through both Grandia 2 and Skies back around 2001. I really enjoyed Grandia, but Skies blew me away. They shouldn't be compared though, quite different rpgs. What I loved about Skies of Arcadia might be something other people hated, the ability to just wander in a vast expanse and find your next destination, rather than a more straightforward path. Same reason I loved Suikoden IV even though there wasn't much to that game if played straight through. Same reason I was blown away in subsequent years by GTA 3 and beyond. I love the open realm.

That sounds interesting, I really didnt get that far in it. The story and characters are my primary focus especially in an rpg, and I wasnt getting hooked enough early on to get to those better parts. I do wanna give it more of a try tho. Playing it on an imperfect emulator didnt help either :/

It was released as Half Life gold wasn't it? I think it was. My personal pick is Super Magnetic Neo. A game NO ONE knows about. The magnetic gimmick was fun, the platforming was smooth and in my eyes it holds up today.

I just finished the video and found out it wasn't released. WooHoo! I own an unreleased game. I own two versions now. And the dreamcast one is favourable compared to the PS2 version in my opinion.

Jude Palmer Nostalgia overflow. Right in them feels. I played the Magnetic Neo on Dreamcast.

TrostUA No one I knew had ever played it!!!!! It was so good but so hard. When I was a kid I beat it though which was a fine, fine day. I still own my VMA with that save on now...

It was leaked online. All it needed was a fix for the growing save file and it would be complete

Underrated when it didn't even last a year?lmao.

***** Not sure why you think that a short lifetime can't make a system underrated, i would think the shorter the more underrated it would be. If it was hugely popular it would have had a long life time and thus not be underrated (because it's hugely popular, see how that works??) Anyway, it did last more than a year (the post says a year MORE), but even if it didn't that's how amazing the library was... it's still my favorite 3d console because of the wealth of fun and ground breaking titles: first online action game (Phantasy Star Online), first online sports game (NFL 2K), first cartoon rendered game (Jet Set Radio), first motion control game (Samba De Amigo), first voice activated game (Seaman)... on top of the games that were just drop dead fun Virtual On, Cosmic Smash, Mars Matrix, Power Stone, Skies of Arcadia, Shen Mue, Cool Cool Toon, Chu Chu Rocket, Space Channel 5, Zombie Revenge, COnfidential Mission, Rival Schools, Sega Rally 2, Pyshic Force 2012, Zero Gunner 2, Rez, etc, etc, etc, etc... basically the Dreamcast death was the end of true gaming innovation, I'm sure there was some groundbreaking innovation that happened after, but i can't think of it.

***** Dreamcast came out in 1998, but was officially discontinued in producton in 2001, however official support for great titles continued until 2002 (Like Sonic Adventure 2). You can't simply measure sales of the product, some products are overlooked for various reasons like supbar marketing.

DjDedan He thinks of only following the other sheep. If others don't like it, then why should he. That seems to be his logic. It is better to judge stuff for oneself rather than follow the huge mainstream marketing and sheep herd following. Guess some people do not have the ability to think outside of the box.

obviously .. its from the sixth generation (ps2 and xbox also in that category)

Ali Salim I thought it came out the same time as the PS1/N64? I could swear i had a dreamcast when I still lived in connecticut which was before the PS2 came out.

yes it was released before the ps2 by 2 years

With a VGA hookup it looks much better than the Ps2 and the Xbox (despite coming out before both of them)

PokeFraker Where can I get a VGA from?

I saw Opeth live a few years ago in a small club in Seattle. They blew the doors off the place! They were awesome live.

That sounds awesome as hell! I saw them in Vagos Open Air festival. The crowd sucked. Me and my friend were trying to form a mosh pit but most people would just look at us like we were bothering them. What the hell? It was a metal concert...oh well. The concert you went must have been amazing though.

+Bruno Silva Yea, I saw them at a really small club in Providence, RI. So small the stage was practically ground level. It was a tour where they played they're more mellow stuff but once Face of Melinda came on it was epic.

I've not seen Opeth yet, but I saw Ne Obliviscaris a few weeks ago at a local venue. Though I'll be seeing Amon Amarth on Monday :)

Italia is one of my favorite countries to visit! Greetings from Seattle, USA :)