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The Dreamcast was pretty much the heart of my childhood. Arguably the best first party line-up of all time, incredible arcade ports, some of the best fighting and multiplayer games ever, had the first subscription based console MMO and was the first system to make use of cel-shading. Such an incredible machine that sadly died long before its time.
Woodo Early PS2 3D games seem to age a lot more than any of the Dreamcast 3D games. Shenmue still looks good. That's quite a feat, considering that this is the age of HD gaming.
Lotus Prince Huh. I never noticed that until now but you're right. Games like Oni and Dynasty Warriors 2 are certainly testament to that. I think it helps that the Dreamcast came out when Sega were at their most creative design wise.
+The Sonic Fan (Dominic) The Neptunia series says otherwise. Plus lead connections have "male" and "female" ends (a USB wire for example is "male" but the port is "female), which means every electronic you plug something into is technically a "she".
Anyone who bought a Sega Dreamcast on launch day. Had the most powerful console with the best graphics, for a whole year. Thanks to my friend bringing his Dreamcast over to my house. Because I had a big screen TV. I was able to experience that year. People would be walking in the house, thinking a real football game was on, when we played NFL 2k.
+referral madness You won't get anywhere. Do you seriously think sega will be able to do that in the state that they're in right now. It would make more sense for them to just make a new super monkey ball game or some GOOD games for once.
+Kart On Fire! Hey guys, how about a collection of the Sega Dreamcast's greatest hits collection, for the PS4. Here is the question, can they fit a few games on one disc, or would it be put in the PS Store for download? I'm still not all that cool with downloading full games on to my console. I still love having the physical disc. I know in the future we might all have to download our games. I did hear Sony and/or Microsoft, might put their games on SD cards, for the next gen, in a few years. I could deal with that, because I would still be able to go to the store, and buy some type of physical game.
Man, Sony was ruthless when it came to creating the Playstation. All but steeling Sega's console plans to create the Playstation, and getting started on the gaming train because they felt burned by Nintendo and wanted revenge.
That's why to this day, I still don't support Playstation in any way. I am very content with my Dreamcast and it's wealth of games and SEGA IPs, that Sony only *later* had to rely on SEGA games to bulk it's library with at least something quality, because of all of the Playstation's inclination towards it's in-house shovelware.
SwankeyMonkey yeah, the dreamcast died way before playstation came out. if anything sega fucked it up before dreamcast with the satern. dreamcast was only popular for about a week. the sales after that week, maybe two weeks if you're feeling randy, just dropped off. there excuse was that they just didn't make enough for supply and demand. the playstation didn't come til like a year later.
shadowspider9 Hey, when you know it's your time to shine, you can't help it when you beat the competition. Playstation had so many good games too. I am a Sega lover, always will be, but Sega made too many bad business decisions and remember, Sega was proven to be just as ruthless in the past as well with their advertising. It would be awesome if they all collaborated and made a super console.
Actually Nintendo won the console war due to Sega systems having horrible hardware even worse the NES a 8 bit console had better hardware than s 16 bit console the Sega Genesis
The truth is even more ironic, you want to know why Sony came to Sega for a console idea? because Nintendo backstabed them out of the deal. Nintendo first wanted a partnership with Sony to make a CD based console and the first concept looked like the playstation but Nintendo then canceled the partnership without telling Sony so Sony wanted sweet sweet revenge.
Faust Girl From what I remember (I can be completely wrong here) Nintendo contacted Sony to create a CD add on to the Snes much like the Sega CD, but Nintendo backed away and instead went to Philips to create it and shockingly backed away again, thus leading to the CDi as well as the PlayStation and we all know what happened after that.
Home4infiniteLosers I've heared that Sony and Nintendo were working on a new game console, but Sony wanted to support 3rd party developers. Nintendo didn't want that, so they cut the deal. Man, so many rumours xD
The Sega Dreamcast is truly a gem in console history. It was advanced, powerful, and had its own network, leading to the advancement of more online networks.
So Sega unintentionally caused Sony and Microsoft to enter the video game market. Huh.. Is it me or are video game companies creating their own competition?
Microsoft yes sony no we have Nintendo to thank for that. Also the PS1 was made to compete against the N64 as more of a revenge tactic against nintendo
@Schweirdo Nooo, the idea for the PS1 came about because Sony had developed a prototype disk-based system for Nintendo, but Nintendo decided to continue using cartridges and develop their own system, so Sony said screw it and released it on their own. PS1 was squarely aimed at the Sega Saturn, quickly surpassed it, then continued to dominate the market when the N64 came out a couple of years later.
Actually, Sony got in because Nintendo stabbed them in the Back with the SNES CD add-on Sony was supposed to make. A Major reason Microsoft came into the Market because they wanted to Compete with the PS2 after realising it was taking over Homes.
For some reason, the Dreamcast feels so... timeless. It has enough graphical capability to not look dated when put next to other next-gen systems, it still has unofficial games produced for it, and most games on the system still justify a purchase 16 years later. ... Dang, I want a Dreamcast now.
I think we all want Dreamcasts now. If you do ever pick one up, try out Ed Edd n Eddy: Nightmare on Ed Street. It's a Beats of Rage homebrew mod that's decently fun.
Why do I feel like this was more about the Xbox than the Dreamcast. lol. If you make a part 2, you might want to mention how the Dreamcast had a VGA output allowing it to play nicely on computer monitors and HD televisions of the time.
Back in 2002 I got a Dreamcast from some random guy staying with my mom along with like twenty games and an internet adapter that's now worth up to 200$. That guy literally disappeared and I've never seem him since.
I have to disagree on that. The Dreamcast had a much, much better starting lineup of games when it was released in the US instead of falling flat on its face the first year, not to mention the DC also had a more varied library of games. The Dreamcast also brought some new features the gaming world instead of a few gimmicks .
On a business point, yeah it fell flat but the process in developing for ALL these new systems are taking a lot more time then anyone expected. But from a gamer's point, some of the grade A games are already here and the rest of the highly anticipated games are coming. People keep referring to the GamePad as a gimmick. If you played with it, you'll realize it is more used as a tool and does not get in the way of gameplay, only adds to it.
Javy G Maybe but bear in mind the DC started well and then the PS2 momentum started going and pretty well ended the possibility of it getting a good foothold (along with wonky biz decisions Sega made of course) the Wii U has been around for 2 1/2 years and started as a fizzle but hasn't died just yet as opposed to Sega's announcement at 18 months.
Dreamcast has a much, much better and more innovative library, with masterpieces in every genre, and the technology was groundbreaking. Nintendo did not innovate with the hardware or software of the Wii U, and suffered for it. They are just now recapturing that creative spirit with the Switch that Sega had while creating the Dreamcast
Why so much footage of Nights Into Dreams for PSN / XBLA ? ... It was a Saturn Game & the Dreamcast sequel never existed and no picture have ever filtered... Re-using footage of the early remake bugs me to no end as DYKG is usually flawless...
Benzaie sur une vidéo de DYKG ! *-* This was probably one of their favorite games which might explain why they chose to show this much footage... But you're right anyway... :/
BenzaieLive At least the Nights footage looked good compared to Phantasy Star ! Honestly the caves were the worst possible choice for showing the game off and could you pick a better place than a doorway?
the only flaws i can think of are the design of the controller, and the fact that it didn't have enough of a third party support to stand against the powerhouse that was the PS1.
Ramon Ramirez But it was still popular in Japan for years and their were even ntsc/pal version on dreamcast being produced along with original Japanese dreamcast releases.
I’ve always seen the original Xbox as Dreamcast 2 especially when it came to its online functions and Sega sequels like Toejam and Earl being released on it.
+Michael Pappano None, many surveys point out that pirates in most cases are not potential custommers. That means if they had no means to pirate they would not possess the hardware in the first place nor the pirated software
+Michael Pappano What other information? There is no credible source that says otherwise. All anti-piracy adds and campaigns are done by the producers or lobbyists. In the case of Sega Dreamcast the rampant piracy was the direct result of Sega taunting hackers by spreading lies about GD-Rom technology and claiming it to be impossible to circumvent. Hackers don't take such statements lightly, you know?
The moral of the story is the real world isn't black and white. So circumventing security is beneficial and defeating arrogance through humbling measures too. But most important is the fact that nothing is absolute specially when it comes to hackers and pirates. The harder a company tries to fight piracy the harder these individuals will fight back. It turns out that many GD-ROMS didn't actually use 1GB of data, more like 70-100mb which was just about the right size for people to share the games online. In the end SEGA dug their own grave with their lies.
The Dreamcast, an unsung hero of gaming that was WAY ahead of its time and paid for its predecessors sins. Also, it is MINDBLOWING that both Nintendo AND SEGA played huge parts into Sony making the PlayStation. Nintendo basically forced Sony's hand to make the console and SEGA gave them the blueprint of how to make the PS1. But the additional kicker is that SEGA basically birthed Xbox or GREATLY influenced it as well the creation of Xbox Live. Microsoft was actually AGAINST the idea at the time. All of these were all of SEGA's ideas in addition to other things thought crazy by most to implement then but are standards now. This is all insane. Tl;dr version = SEGA inadvertently created Xbox and PlayStation (at least in the form it is now), Nintendo also inadvertently created PlayStation (as well as Philips CDi) and now both PlayStation and Xbox took the spots of SEGA and Nintendo as the two biggest consoles on the market. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Video game history is so damn exciting since they rarely ever talk about the behind the scenes things back in the day and they aren't constantly documented like they are now. SEGA, it's a pity what happened to you post Dreamcast. If only the world had been ready for you and you were more business savvy. You'd probably be ruling the industry right now.
I own a Dreamcast, think it's okay, but I personally stick to my Saturn even more. I love 2D games, loves its even more comfortable 3D Pad and significantly comfier 2D Pad and wish it had homebrew games released for it. I wish it had more games in general, too, but the games that I do own for it utilize the system in the best imaginable way. As revolutionary as it was, the Dreamcast should have came later on. The Saturn needs love too, but SEGA did not think so. And lots of people simply judge it as a failure without realizing the potential it had within. Also, its online still works as well. And I think it has a fantastic library of hits that many people besides myself should experience.
Medachod Ever heard of Bleemcast? The group had figured out how to get it to boot PS1, Gameboy, and some SNES games on it. Not sure about Saturn, but that wouldn't be a far stretch of the imagination. If people could figure out how to beat the devs and pirate cartridge games, it should be possible on the first Windows OS console.
CheffBryan That does sound interesting. If Bleemcast could do just as good of a job as SSF can in booting up Saturn games at full speed (even games that failed to run fast normally, such as Castlevania and Waku Waku 7; both run at full speed on this emulator, but not on a real Saturn) then that does sound interesting.
dang. idk how long you guess take on these but i appreciate it. every video you make is like a slap of nostalgia. havent even been a subscriber for more then three weeks and ive watched all your "Did you know gaming" series.
+LuigiDoesStuff Mexico still make third party OEM Dreamcast up to 2011, and theres more under ground factory all over the world doing the same thing, so it was somewhat like an underground resistent group of the gaming market
referral madness You can order brand new dreamcast and all the parts you need to repair it form sega and there is the proof you need, they came in many place, mexico, china, servreal countries of asia and eastern europe, cuba and south africa. Seen them at a console repair shop next to one of my customer.
referral madness I am not sure about the link, but I know they dial up to sega with phone numbers, tough they won't give it out easily. Cause you know, those are business screct.
The Dreamcast will forever hold a place in my heart. I absolutely loved it. Sonic Adventure was absolutely addicting. My buddy got it for Christmas because his parents stood in line for hours, they said. I recall it being very popular on release. I was always at his house playing it until I got my own. Dreamcast is probably my last console that really pulls on my nostalgia strings. It's the last console that really was just so big in my childhood. Still got mine, too. Still collecting games for it.
The DreamCast will forever remain high in my heart. It was one of my first game consoles, and I was always more of a Sega kid growing up. I'm greatly saddened by its short lifespan.
The Dreamcast was a total microcosm of Sega as a whole. Yeah, the Dreamcast was great, but did any one of us mourn when it died? Nope. We were all too busy enjoying the PS2 and eagerly awaiting the Gamecube and Xbox. Sega was always the generous well-meaning Joe but just could never get out of it's own way. Their games were always good but were never the best games. Their consoles were strong, but never the strongest consoles. Even before their mediocre third-party days, they always had missed potential. You enjoyed their company, but there was always someone better than them, wether it would be Nintendo, Sony or whoever. When Sega was belting out B-quality games, everyone else was posting masterpieces. We enjoyed the Dreamcast while it lasted, but then came the Playstation 2 and the rest is history. I don't think Sega really had the drive to be great. They were satisfied just being a good option, and I think that's why they always failed. People liked Sega because they always had POTENTIAL. But when push came to shove, they never lived up to it. We all wish that once, just once, they would have the breakthrough. Now, we have Bounce Pads and Bandages to their name.
I mourned its passing. I bought one on launch with saved money from my first job as a mantnence man at a camp for muscle distrophy kids.. it was fuckin great. Nfl2k changed the game. It was a great console. I loved it, right up until i may or may not have traded it for a big bag of ... basil ...
Let's face facts. The only successful Sega console was the Genesis. While Nintendo had success with the NES, the SNES, the N64, the Gamecube, and the Wii and Sony has had success with all it's home consoles. I've seen Sega fanboys say that if Sega makes another console it will destroy Sony and Microsoft and that's sad because they think Sega can actually make another successful console because they've never been able to make a console that's sold like the Genesis did and even then the Genesis still didn't sell as much as the SNES.
Jake Murrin I don't think that's what his point was. His point was that no one cared when the dreamcast flopped and no one cared when Sega dropped out of the console market and got bought by sammy. The truth is the only successful Sega console was the Genisis and all the consoles after the genisis were a failure. Also by saying that Sega developed more good games than any other developer in the entire video game industry makes you sound like a huge Sega fanboy.
Brandon MacLeod The N64 and Gamecube weren't successful consoles. They didn't do horribly, but they were crushed by the Playstation One and Two. The N64 sold less than a third what the PS1 did and the Gamecube sold something like a seventh of what the PS2 did. The Dreamcast wasn't a rousing success either mind you, at only half of what the Gamecube sold. I'm just saying trying to prop up Nintendo like every system they made sold like hotcakes is painting the picture a little skewed.
I remember getting the Dreamcast on launch day.. it seemed so ahead of its time with built in ethernet port, internet browser, and advanced graphics. One of the first games I played was Seaman with the included microphone attachment.. and let's just say I never played a game like that or expected to at the time. I was blown away and have many fond nostalgic memories of the short lived system, like enjoying mindless hours playing Crazy Taxi or simply admiring the cute little characters that would pop up on the VMU (Video Memory Unity, the memory card with a screen basically) and playing little mini-games on the VMU. I thought it was a cool idea to have your memory card basically be a little handheld system with it's own screen and operating system built in with little mini-games. It also changed what was on the screen depending on what game you were playing on your Dreamcast as well as reacting to events within the game as well in real-time. Very cool and ahead of its time in a lot of ways.
Wow. Uzume had it really tough. She has been beaten by both Noire and Vert very hard, and then piracy. No wonder that she's living in a shitty world. If I was her, I would be really envious of Neptune.
The dreamcast was probably my favorite console of its time. I still consider it one of the best to this day. I remember saving for a year or two and begging my mom for one, we were pretty broke in those days so I didn't get one until right around the time they were discontinued. I was devastated. But I had a nice little back log of really good titles to go through and I enjoyed it immensely. I remember playing resident evil code Veronica and being blown away by how amazing it looked. It looked even better than the ps2 port.
How many times can you pronounce Sega wrong in 9 minutes? It's say-gah not segga. Have you never played a Gensis/Mega Drive, Brutalmoose? It shows you how to pronounce Sega as soon as you turn it on!
The dreamcast was so fkn ahead of its time it's almost unreal with motion controls and online capabilities alone. no one was even really thinking about that stuff back then.
So your telling me, that sega. On its dying breath. After been beaten, and bankrupted by nintendo. Sega Inadvertantly created the only 2 other main console's against the nintendo. Aka they helped sony make the playstation 1, and helped microsoft consider, and make the xbox....... I just imagine the company director......Whispered into the air....... "Slay 1, and 2 shall arise" mumhmhhahahaha.
No because Sega worked with Sony only to improve Sega's products not to teach others about certain things. For microsoft I can't tell the same because they are well known for stealing Japanese and Russian technology and yet still fail to make a decent product. The only time they had luck was with the first xbox, they took as a base everything Dreamcast had and just improved it.
The sound of a dreamcast booting up still gives me chills. On a separate note, you know what would be swell? A "Golden Sun" did you know gaming episode
So, thats two companies Sony fucked over with the Playstation. First they go behind Nintendo's back and gain full rights and revenue from the software/games that would have been developed on the SNES CD attachment, and then they take that same attachment make it a stand alone system and base it on Sega's specs for their console. Shame on you Sony.
Um.....do you actually know the backstory here? Sony didn't screw over Nintendo, it was the other way around, Nintendo decided against using Sony's idea for a CD attachment and partnered with Philips, whom Nintendo also threw under the bus not more than a year or so after Sony. There's a LOT of bad info out there but trust me, I've been into gaming for many many years and was around when this news was still fresh (and sucked cause I REALLY wanted my SNES to have a CD drive). Sony first dipped into gaming as Sony Imagesoft and most of their games kinda blew.....badly. The PS though was a pretty brilliant move though I still thought Sega had a better handle on gaming, not knowing just how badly they had screwed up and how many devs and retailers they screwed over with bad decisions.
I know bad decisions and shady business deals went on on both sides with Sony and Nintendo. What Nintendo did to Sony at CES was a dick move and could have been handled a hell of a lot better than it did. The reasoning behind why Nintendo did what they did was because Sony took claim to all the rights to all software including first party Nintendo titles published on the SNES CD or by this point known as the Nintendo Play Station. This meant that if Nintendo made a Mario game for the Play Station Sony would retain all rights to it. Sony announced the Nintendo Play Station at CES 1991 and only a day later Nintendo infamously embarrassed Sony by not only disbanding their partnership on the Play Station but announcing their partnership with Philips who was Sony's biggest rival at the time. Its moves like this and the regime like control Nintendo had over devs and publishers in the SNES days that has led to Nintendo's shortcomings and lack of third party support in the modern day. So yeah thinking about it Nintendo is more at fault here but Sony were no angels either, and with the Sega thing admittedly I was talking out of my ass no clue why I wrote that.
David Maglioli It's okay, I wasn't trying to be all confrontational, though I suspect I sounded that way, it's just I remember the saga unfolding month by month (after the fact obviously since it was in magazines) and this was my main area of interest at that time. No, Sony are definitely not angels either and I forgot about that whole issue of the IP rights. I do recall the big N being very heavy handed and litigious at the time.
***** And I'm 43 and read about much of this when it was fresh. Not all businesses are simply out to screw everyone else, but I do understand that many businesses do that. BTW what's your point? I do not seem to see anything about the subject other than trash talking two peoples' opinions on the subject matter at hand.
Should have been SEGA and not Microsoft who was the third company... Dreamcast was a better console than that mutated console it the world's shittiest name, Xbox.
***** Well... I assume we can both generally agree that the Xbox One was just a lump of plastic meant for money. It just couldn't outrun PC this generation.
Still remember playing Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, PSO and a bunch of other games online for Dreamcast way before Online gaming was a standard for Console gaming. Dreamcast was definitely way ahead of its time. Kudos to Sega for going out with a bang in the Console market.
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