There's an alternate universe where I own everything Dreamcast related, full topped off with 20 different official fishing rods and it's beautiful. speaking of, play sega bass fishing. it's incredible.
I unironically loved Sega Bass Fishing so much. Still have my fishing reel controller packed away somewhere. Come on Sega, Switch re-release with reel controller addon when?
It was a nice video, you should look Nappletale Arsia in Daydream a Dreamcast exclusive obscure 3D platform with crafting elements made by Chime, is a pretty good experience in my opinion, and it was english translated recently
The best fact about Sega GaGa is that the marketing budget was so small the games producer used all of it to buy a luchador mask and went around to game stores yelling at people to buy the game. Fuck sega in the early 2000s was the best
Oh yes, project justice. One of the most underrated Capcom games along with tech romancer and cannon spike. Since Sega and Capcom get along well they will eventually be on the mini dreamcast which Sega hinted they do want to make.
@@devonwilliams5738 Infinitely more sense. It's ridiculously easy to buy cheap reproduction copies of any game ever released or mod a Dreamcast with an HDD as pointed out above... or just build a Raspberry Pi and emulate lmfao.
Learning about Project Justice and Rival Schools in the past few months blew my mind. It wouldve been RIGHT up my alley as a kid. Its such a bummer that it was never continued or ported. I really hope Capcom gets their heads out of their asses and put together a 3D fighting collection. Oh and they definitley need to finally translate the extra modes.
technically the PS1 game got put on PS3's PSN back in the day...and that was it. on the bright side it obviously had the VN mode that was cut for the US release. less robust than in Project Justice form my understanding, but still interesting and still a custom character.
capcom is pretty cut throat with their IP's. If it doesn't sell well they drop it. the only IP they've been forgiving with is megaman. aside from that they cut everything like the since forgotten strider series.
For Dreamcast recommendations, I gotta mention Spawn: In The Demon's Hand and Heavy Metal: Geomatrix (both are comic book-licensed arena fighters from Capcom). They were also released in arcades, so they aren't strictly Dreamcast exclusives. But they are quite fun. I also want to mention Stupid Invaders (also released for PCs), a point-and-click adventure game based on the cartoon Space Goofs (which some of you may remember from Fox Kids in the late 1990s).
I use retroarch on my series X to play spawn here and there. It was by far my favorite game to play on the dreamcast back in the day. Glad to see others even knew about it.
I can remember always wanting a Dreamcast growing up and one day at a local game and movie store seeing one for 30 bucks. That store was always fun to go to for it's wildly chaotic prices seeing things listed for way more than they should be but occasionally you'd find a random good deal. But like...30 bucks for a Dreamcast? WITH IT'S BOX?! That I noticed and asked for getting an "Oh you want that? Sure I guess." It was viewed as trash. It was gonna be thrown away. Still the best deal I'd ever gotten at that store. System works great and I play Soul Calibur on it from time to time.
Hey Austin, I've been a big fan for years. It's cool seeing that you used a photo of my Dreamcast collection here at 1:05! This is an older photo now, I'm about 20 games from a full North American Dreamcast set, so this video was right up my alley!
Yes! The dreamcast I got mine around 2014 I found it at a family thrift store hidden under old keyboards I almost missed it. They were asking about $13 for it. Still runs nicely and looks really nice too it's one of my favorite systems
So cool to see someone talk about Elemental Gimmick Gear! It was one of the few Dreamcast games I had growing up and while I didn't get too far into it, what I did play was pretty awesome.
Maken X was incredible. A year or two after I got out of high school (so 2002/2003) a friend and I went on a Dreamcast binge, buying up all the discount games we could with Maken X being one of the greatest finds we came across.
These videos give me so much positive nostalgia. Things like flogian brothers I remember renting it and never talking about it again. Legit no other channel brings back so many game memories.
I was 18 when this came out. One of my favorite things about it no one mentions were the tv commercials. It felt like Sega again. 32x and Sega Saturn commercials were the closest you can get to experiencing an acid trip without dropping LSD. The Dreamcast commercials (after the 9.9.99 ads) were Sega personified with lots of awesome video game characters having a huge party. The Dreamcast has the strongest library with the widest range of different games of any system. Also HOLY CRAP Record of Lodoss War is that much now?! I think I maybe paid $20 for my copy. And yeah the 1990 OAV, for the time, looked unbelievably good. Also one of the best theme songs ever. If it's not a fortune, if you don't have it, snag Silver. And Maken X is great.
I-Spy: Operation Espionage is a Dreamcast game that a lot of people ignore. Granted, its learning curve is basically a vertical line, and the prospect of giving a bunch of characters commands instead of controlling them directly may turn quite a few people off. But once you figure out what to do, and all of your squad members are working in unison, MY GOD is it satisfying.
Toy Commander has the BEST 4-player split screen death match ever, but nobody ever mentions it! Me and my friends made a “no flight rule”, ground vehicles only. Countless hours of beautiful fun, elbow jabs, smack talk, temporary alliances, and something about taking your truck for header from a second story (equivalent) drop with it bouncing around or down the stairs in a ditch effort to avoid 8 yellow marker missiles aimed straight up your butt is exhilarating! Each level is so unique, so well designed and varied, we just never got bored with it. We’d be playing right now if our small crew hadn’t disbanded as friends, sadly. The only game we spent more time on was Phantasy Star Online. We had 2 tv’s, 2 Dreamcasts, 2 phone lines, keyboards in the same room, so we’d team up and help other food guys while making evil players wish they never dropped an item for trade! Robin Hood’s, basically. Quake 3 and Unreal are also killer deathmatch on DC, and we sunk a lifetime into those games too, but nothing possibly tops Toy Commander Deathmatch: the way deathmatch is supposed to be played- in the same room on the couch with your pals in shoulder-slugging range and crude jokes about mothers. I never played the single player. My friend did to unlock all levels. Deathmatch at its very best. Not just Dreamcast, I mean EVER!
Always nice to see Toy Commander getting love. Had so mush fun with that back in the day, they even released exclusive missions on demo discs for christmas. If I can suggest any other Dreamcast game, I'd go for a simple little racing game called Stunt GP. It's nothing amazing but I remember having fun. Also the DC had the best versions of Rush 2049 and Rayman 2, nobody can change my mind on that haha.
I'm suprised you didn't mention ILLBLEED. It's the most unique horror experience ever made. It might not be the scariest but it certainly stands out. Also, Super Magnetic Neo. A platformer with a magnet gimmick.
E.G.G. was one of the games I had for the dreamcast as a kid, I never finished the game as you said it was way too hard for a child. Though fun fact! the first guy you fight, at 24:17, if you beat him 100 times consecutively you obtain an item that lets you spin forever. Also the earlier in the game the better, as he always has the same strength as you.
Hey Austin! This was another great video that brought back up a lot of memories of some of the great games of the yester-years! Among them, Glad to see quick references to Zombie Revenge and Cannon Spike. Well done! One I wanted to mention I haven't heard anyone talking about was Bangai-O! Not really sure you can call it obscure since it's a bullet hell masterpiece from Treasure, and I think it had a more recent HD release I haven't played. You could freely navigate the stages rather than having an automatic horizontal scroll with tons of environmental destructibility. It controlled like a twinstick shooter but since the DC controller only had one stick, the controller's face buttons were mapped as shooting in the cardinal directions. It had this great 'parry' system where the more enemies that were attacking you, and the closer those shots were to actually hitting you, the more missiles your mecha would fire out in retaliation, at times allowing you to fire out hundreds of missiles simultaneously. *Minor Spoilers* The last boss was great because he was also a mecha like yours, tiny on the screen with the same ability to parry your attacks with hundreds of his own missiles! Felt like a fittingly climactic Shonen-manga battle lol
Another really cool Dreamcast game a lot of people may not know about is Frame Gride, a mecha fighting game by FromSoftware, released just a few months after Armored Core: Master of Arena exclusively in Japan. It has an English patch so I highly recommend it!
I love the Dreamcast to this day! In my opinion one of the most unique and underrated games has to be the horror game Illbleed. I'm replaying it right now and I still love it! I definitely recommend checking it out Austin.
@@thedonofthsht76-58 think the issue with it is the ownership. The developer had plans and ideas. Think last know thing they planned to do was an Xbox port of it and Blue Stinger since at the time a lot of Dreamcast games were getting ported over to Xbox and this woulda gave them opportunity to expand the games for a wider audience and maybe tweak them. But Nishigaki (the main driving force behind the two IP’s iirc.) died of a heart attack not long after cancellation so the series have just like sat round untouched by anyone.
Man the Dreamcast yet again shows how much of a likable oddball it is, so many cool and weird titles man, especially the Anime Action RPG there, that's pretty dope, Record of Lodoss War very cool.
So almost fifteen years ago there was this used video game place going out of business. In this place they were selling two boxes of "random returned stuff that may or may not be broken" for $20. (And one for $40, but we didn't get that one.) One of them had most of a Dreamcast in it. All that was missing was the aux cord and a VMU. So we went to another used video game place to buy one for $7, bought a used VMU for $5 (the battery died for it so we couldn't play it on the go) and a $1 football game for testing purposes. I wasn't sure if I could play Phantasy Star Online, offline so I never grabbed it (it's still fairly cheap though) and I wasn't sure if I'd even enjoy it offline. I didn't know that you can still play games online on the Dreamcast, but since I got the Dreamcast used I was assuming that it didn't have the BBA. It has the BBA. I'm going to one of the not out of business used video game stores to get Phantasy Star Online tomorrow. I had PriceCharting up knowing that I'd be adding at least one thing to my Wishlist. I only have a Dreamcast because some guy thought it was broken without the aux cord. (It was only worth maybe $60 at the time though anyway. I can't remember if we had to get a controller or not.) Shenmue cost me more than what I paid overall for the Dreamcast. I fucking love the Dreamcast but I wouldn't know it if it weren't for some guy thinking that he was able to sell a broken Dreamcast for $20. Edit: Both pre-owned game stores that used to have the game for forever didn't have the game anymore. I know this video came out yesterday but I'm still blaming Austin for that.
Record of Lodoss was used to be the most expensive Dreamcast game back in the day so Im not surprised it is again. Its a fun Dark Alliance style game. Dreamcast has an amazing library for such a short life. Sega bass Fishing is the reason I still have a fishing controller!
Ahhh a new video is just what i needed this evening after a long day at work! 😊 The Dreamcast doesn't get enough respect or attention! Always had a soft spot for this console, mine still works! One of the 1st games I had was Kao The Kangaroo! Saw it's getting remade too!🎮
TOY COMMANDER! This was one of my first games ever and basically nobody on RU-vid has made a video about it! I still break it out from time to time and love it!
0:56 The game shown (Trigger Heart Exelica) and other late in life shmups I think were actually developed first for Japanese arcades. The SEGA NAOMI Arcade System was basically just a Dreamcast already so that’s why there’s so many of these ports.
Nice to see Record of Lodoss War being mentioned ! I probably still have a VMU with my saves on it. Good Diablo-like, interesting side story, horrible sound effects (especially the stomping heavy boots), cameos from the main characters, and a fun plot twist.
Man I got excited when you mentioned record of lodoss war. Being a fan of the original OVA and anime, when they announced the deedlet game on steam I bought that sucker the second it went up for green light so I was ready for something more.... And then you showed footage
Let's see two weird Dreamcast games that I own. We have Illbleed, the incredibly bizarre survival horror game where you're in a horror theme park and basically enter a different horror movie for each stage. Then Psychic Force 2012, the one on one fighting game where you fly around to fight. Yes you basically had a giant glass box you were in, and had free flight control to just fly wherever, and try to beat your opponent while you did. It's weird, but not too bad.
Austin mentioned the Unexpectables! For those who don't know, Austin is the sound editor for the podcast of the Unexpectables! You know, the D&D show that ended yesterday. THANK YOU AUSTIN AND GOODNIGHT.
Good video, but you need to go weirder because my relatively small Dreamcast collection already includes some of the games you mentioned :) Some suggestions if you like the weird Dreamcast stuff, though I feel like you're aware of at least some of these already: Looney Tunes: Space Race (like Wacky Races, but faster and plays better) Zombie Revenge Nightmare Creatures II (has Rob Zombie music, but not during gameplay, only cutscenes) 7th Cross Evolution Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage D2 (saw a short clip of this in the video) Time Stalkers The Ring: Terror's Realm Headhunter (also on PS2 but best on DC) Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm KISS Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child (also on PC) Not really obscure, but exclusive and maybe worth talking about - Blue Stinger, Carrier, Illbleed Looking forward to that Atlus / Maken X video!
Thank you. I remember years ago commenting that I wanted Dreamcast content. By all means, I'd love some Grandia 2, PSO, or other stuff. Cool to see EGG mentioned somewhere. Meanwhile, as a fan of Lodoss and Diablo, I did not like the Lodoss game. Now you have me wanting some Saturn or SCD content such as Astal or Guardian Heroes.
My generation knows about Max Steel, and that's sadly because of the 2013 reboot and the abysmal 2016 live action film. It was part of the weird reboots of the 2010's, and I only remember finding it boring when it released when I was like 8 or 9
If you want a recommendation for obscure DreamCast games, There's always Timestalker. It's a Dungeon Crawler, Monster Collecting, RPG thing from Climax. It's biggest draw was that it had characters from other Climax games as playable characters. Like Nigel from Landstalker, Pyra from Shining in the Darkness and Lady from.... Ladystalker.
YOOOO TOY COMMANDER!!!!!!!! The one title I was hoping for that would appear here! I still even remember the cheat that would max out your missiles abxyba while holding the left or right trigger buttons. Brings me back
I remember the day I learned that there will be people in my life who exist to cause misery and harm for no other reason than it brings them joy; the day my Phantasy Star Online character got NOL'd. Nol was the name of an NPC in that game, and what 'hackers' with a gameshark could do was join your game lobby, and turn you into that character. The game didn't know how to process your new avatar and the only function it would let you perform is walking around. You could no longer play. I cried for a long, long time for my level 76 HuMar. Anyway dreamcast rules, and Dragula was a GOOD CHOICE for Jet Grind Radio
Brother, I too learned the same hard lesson of life after my character was Nol'd! Admittedly, I spent much of my early time in PSO duping unique weapons, but actually lost another one of my high-lvl Characters to hacked God HP ++ item given to me by another 'hacker' that gave me so much health when equipped, that it dropped my character's hp pool into negative values, and I was permanently res-killed by having it on. It was at time that I realized how detrimental it was duping all those items, and I swore ( and maintain to this day) to only play games legit, the way they were meant to be played. No hacks, exploits, or dupes from then on. Fast forward several months clean of exploits, and I was playing on an open multiplayer game with my lvl 80 HuCast I had raised with my newfound gaming mantra. A random player joined my game and asked if he could join me. "Of course!" I obliged and sent him a telepipe. A few short minutes later, A third person entered the game. I can't remember exactly what they said, but it was to the effect that the other person in game had done something heinous to this person, and they was looking for revenge. My screen turned black and the game crashed. When I attempted to reload my HuCast, I was presented with Nol instead. Good times and hard lessons, for sure. I felt your pain! And mostly play games solo these days lol
Shout out for Evolution! 1 and 2 were my favorite rpgs on the system. Admittedly I didn't play many on the Dreamcast, but Boi with the big Swiss Army Knife hand strapped to his back will always have a place in my heart right next to Edge (Panzer Dragoon Saga). I swore if I ever had the money I'd rebuy all my Sega library.
Dude, thank You SO much for talking about Lodoss War. I never saw the anime, but I knew about it. One day on a trip to a park that had a couple of outside stores with pirated games (original ones were, and still are, quite expensive here in Argentina), they had it. I remember playing it a lot. Sadly, being a pirated copy, one of the bosses got bugged or something, and he was unkillable. I think it was near halfway through the Game, because You need to find 4 heroes, and with that Boss I had 2. But the upgrade system was awesome, the map was full of caves and secrets, sometimes with tough enemies but rewarding runes to use to enhance equipment... I was hooked. You said it man, I don't think we'll get to see a re-release or a remake, but I do wish to play it again and finally beat it for good. And yes: Project Justice is HELLA good. A shame about the board Game that we never got. You could unlock some randomized characters Made with the character creator from that mode in the US release, but it's a bittersweet replacement.
If you're looking for something, how about Azure Dreams? I loved that game to pieces as a kid as I loved how you can build new buildings for the town (always been a sucker for town building), woo different types of ladies, and become follow the footsteps of your famous late father. Of course the main star of the game is the large tower you climb but I always had trouble getting high up...
1:45 - actually the sega meganet for the mega drive (genesis) came first with its dial up adaptor inside the cartridge... but its also a technicality if it really was the first console with internet connection. there also was the satellaview, but that was definitly an adaptor, so it certainly dont count, or else we would be here all day with addons. long live the dreamcast and its lovable weirdness 💕
There was also a modem for the Saturn, an N64 shogi game that had a modem built into the cartridge, and a weird pay-per-view-like service for the 2600 where you could download games through the phone line.
@@nate567987 I'm not talking about Rand Net, I'm talking about Morita Shogi 64. It had a modem built into the cartridge and had servers and everything. Although interestingly, most people used it as a backdoor to run homebrew N64 games in the days before Everdrive.
When the dream cast first released it blew my little kid mind. Going from PS1 and Nintendo 64 to the dreamcast the graphical difference was insane to me during that chapter of my life. Man did I love games during those years early gaming was such fun to watch it evolve.
Great work and channel. I miss the late 90s so much. High school days as I got DC in 99, ps2 in 00, and Xbox and GC in 01. Plus n64 and ps1 still had killer games 🥂
Awesome video, these games are underrated indeed! It seems every few months I learn something new about the Dreamcast I didn’t know before, like the karaoke machine lmao
My contribution to this conversation is Trickstyle. It was a hoverboard racing game. Also, nice to see you give a quick mention to Evolution. It was one of the first RPG's I played all the way through.
I remember having Record of Lodoss War but no VMU, so me and my little brother were always playing from the beginning as far as we can on one go. Crazy times & nice video!
I always used to play a ton of this demo disc that came with my Dreamcast and had Fur Fighters on it. I never got to play the full game but I thought it was a blast and the multiplayer fun too.
The first thing that sprang to mind for me was Time Stalkers. A pretty neat JRPG-style mystery dungeon game with monster capture mechanics. I always really enjoyed that game, but I've not seen anyone ever mention it before.
I bought that game for $5, maybe even as low at $1, because the KB Toys (iirc) at the mall had surplus Dreamcast games for some inexplicable reason. I bought it and loaded it up once. Maybe I should try it again.
Dreamcast was soo ahead of its time. Idk what Sega was doing. They didn't know what to do when it came to consoles. Some(most) of their decisions from back then make you scratch your head and ask "who's making these decisions?" Bc it was one bad one after another
Hey man, not sure if you've played Oooga Booga for the Dreamcast, but that was a pretty fun multiplayer game my younger brother and I had a lot of fun with way back when! Definitely worth checking out if you can find it. We also had Floigan Bros haha! Hearing you talk about that game brought back memories.
I legitimately came to this video ready to yell that another video yet again left out Elemental Gimmick Gear, so kudos to you for being the first I've ever seen include it. It's the only reason I still have my Dreamcast
A few memorable dreamcast games I had whilst growing up that are perhaps worth checking out are, Silver, Blue Stinger + Slave zero, they can be a bit on the obscure side, but definitely classics that don't get talked about more thesedays.
Great video! You are so right about the carpal tunnel. I developed it at age 17 from playing Marvel vs Capcom 2 and other fighting games so much. That eventually turned into arthritis… And despite a continued love of gaming, I can no longer do the marathon sessions like I used to. Thanks a lot, Sega and Capcom! 😢😢😢😢😅
I remember being a young PC gamer, running a dual CPU, 2x Celeron 433MHz @ 750Mhz each on an Abit BP6, thermal electric cooled (peltier) on each cpu, ice on each cpu, not sure where I was with the 3DFX cards at this specific time, Voodoo 3, 5, or the Riva and TNT's before it.... or the GeForce 256, 2, 3, or 4 after. Surgical tubing for water transfer, transmission coolers for rads.... Custom milled copper blocks for the socket 370 or later FCPGA370.... such good times... But I remember being this kid, into all this cool stuff, of course fueling my PC gaming passion, and walking into an EB Games or Babbages, and seeing the Dreamcast demo unit with Ready 2 Rumble on it or something... It looked incredible. This was the moment that consoles got real... I remember thinking "man, I don't know if my PC can look this good". Of course I kept the PC looking that good, if not better...at all times... lol. But still, what an era.
The main thing I remember about Record of Lodoss War is not wearing shoes because the footstep sound effects were louder than everything else in the game combined and wearing metal boots was a path to madness.
I remember asking my parents for a PS2 back in the day, they couldn't find one so they gave me a dreamcast I play that console so much I still have my old dreamcast.
One of the Dreamcast games I surprisingly sunk an immense number of hours was the port of Rainbow Six, which preserved a lot of the deep tactics and planning of the original, more than the N64 port. I got as far as the Sydney Olympics mission and couldn't ever figure out how to disarm the bomb to complete it. I read in Computer Gaming World about this obscure modern military RTS that didn't have resource collection named Conflict Zone, and bought it for my DC because I didn't have a gaming computer. It's pretty tricky to play with the controller, but I appreciate them trying to port all sorts of complex PC games to the Dreamcast.
Any chance for an Episode 2 of this someday? Looney Toons: Space Race for example is another Mario Kart-like that is very similar but always felt different to play. Maybe the kart physics are a bit heavier and the abilities were harder to hit with? I only got to play the demo, but I played the hell out of those 2 maps and it ran flawlessly! Edit: Looks like you covered all but maybe 2 dozen "forgotten gems" out of the 600, so I can't really see an episode 2 being possible without it being a much shorter video. Great video, awesome and concise work!
My family got Wacky Races shortly after it came out as we loved watching the old reruns in the 90’s. My brothers and I played it probably twice, put it down, and never touched it again. Recently snagged it from my parents basement and now it’s collecting dust in mine lol. Didn’t expect to see that one in the list!
