SEGA DREAMCAST SPECIAL: The Extraneous Add-On Episode!! | GEEK CRITIQUE

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It's been 20 years since 9/9/99, but UH OH, I already made an episode about the Dreamcast! What's a card-carrying old-school Sega fanboy to do!? Easy: Make ANOTHER video on the same subject, gushing over the hardware and accessories, and answering a few common questions about the original episode. This is the Dreamcast add-on!
This episode was originally made as a Patreon exclusive bonus episode, but I'm releasing it here on RU-vid in celebration of the Dreamcast's birthday! I hope you all enjoy it!
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@Yuli_Ban 5 лет назад

"In SErvice of GAmes" Ha! Good reference.

@gluttonousmaximus9048 5 лет назад

@Ahmad and skeleton That's how SEGA got its name in the mid 20th Century. Look it up.

@game_crasher5725 5 лет назад

I see waht you did there

@PaperBanjo64 3 года назад

15:11 that's a beautiful CRT.

@maxisenberg9093 5 лет назад

agreed. the ps4 controller may be a big improvement over Sony's previous attempts, and they did give us dual analog sticks, but their controllers have never been comfortable

@hansweiss469 5 лет назад

(I know this comment is late), but Happy Birthday Sega Dreamcast, and keep up the great work TGC.

@CroMaLaka 4 года назад

Ah yes, Patreon Exclusive

@FletcherReedsRandomness 5 лет назад

Unfortunately, we won't live to see a 9/9/999.

@ponyVOX2025 5 лет назад

Unless we figure out how to freeze ourselves

@SegaDream131 5 лет назад

Puhshaw....if Rome can do it 2020 years ago it can happen at anytime really.....

@ClaudioVarone3299 5 лет назад

But maybe.. a 9/9/(20)99...

@SegaDream131 5 лет назад

@@ClaudioVarone3299 The real question is will we even know what a video game is by then....

@nousername191 5 лет назад

@@ClaudioVarone3299 Hey we can make it. Maybe. Just 80 more years. Anybody feeling lucky?

@lewatoaofair2522 5 лет назад

6:43 "Everything they did was in SErvice of GAmes." That's actually what "SEGA" stands for.

@duffman18 5 лет назад

I thought you were joking but it's actually true. Also I didn't know till now they began in Hawaii, not Japan

@tinyguy9398 3 года назад

I immediately came to the comments section to see whether or not I was beaten to the punch to point that one out, lol 😅

@kargaroc386 Год назад

And what *kind* of "SErvice"? Military service of course. Sega got its start selling the 40s equivalent of arcade games (pinball/slot machines/etc) to military bases during and in the immediate aftermath of WW2.

@MajoraZ 5 лет назад

I'd argue the Xbox 360 still retained the "Video game-console" look, actually, at least the OG 360.

@CaveyMoth 5 лет назад

I'm not a fan of that smushed rounded look. It's like someone put too much weight on top of it, or fed it too many twinkies. I prefer the aesthetic of the wii. It's compact and simple.

@SegaDream131 5 лет назад

@@CaveyMoth And an ungodly sumbitch to work on....

@aheiiv 5 лет назад

@@CaveyMoth never liked wii's design, there's definitely something unappealing about it

@toooydoeur 3 года назад

@@aheiiv nah

@RossComputerGuy 5 лет назад

I was born the day after they discontinued the Dreamcast, mine is a 2001 model so wd're both a similar age.

@mIRChele 5 лет назад

Piracy was just a lame excuse. If it was really it, that meant that many people would buy the console because of the free games. But the sales of the console itself were poor

@papersonic9941 5 лет назад

While I won't feny that pirscy was not the main reason for thr console's failure, no third party is gonna publish their games on a console easy to pirate unless it has a massive install base.

@Naedlus 3 года назад

It really didn't help that the Dreamcast was put out as a competitor to the PS1, not as a competitor for the PS2.

@darthgamer9861 2 года назад

Most companies that develop hardware rely on software sales, so I absolutely think Piracy was a factor.

@Real_Scott_Pilgrim Год назад

@@darthgamer9861 if we're talking now, then yes, piracy would have murdered this console, but take all of this into account 1. It was 1999, CD burners were luxuries only those with cash to spare could afford 2. You couldn't just rip a GD-ROM, CD drives couldn't read them. you had to wait for a piracy group to buy the game, and rip it using a Dreamcast dev kit 3. You also had to wait for the group to manually modify the game to delete garbage data, and/or compress files to create a special CDI file that could actually fit on a CD 4. You had to wait for the CDI file to be uploaded, which took insanely long 5. You had to download the game, and considering the extremely slow speeds of the time, this could take several days. 6. You had to burn the game, which could take multiple attempts, since burning CDI files is, to this day, not as simple as burning PS1 BIN & CUE files or anything of the sort So, yes, piracy was a thing, but it wasn't until years later that burning Dreamcast games became trivial, doing this in 1999 would've required a lot of money and patience, and at that point most people would rather go and buy the real game

@nousername191 5 лет назад

Jesus, 20 years already? Dad was right, Time always flies quicker than you think.

@CaveyMoth 5 лет назад

I don't even think, and time is still flying by.

@xboxice2005 5 лет назад

yeah i cant believe as well :(

@VJEsper 5 лет назад

Seems like yesterday

@saricubra2867 5 лет назад

Sonic Adventure is 20 years old too, still an unique good game to this day... on the dreamcast, not broken DX.

@hectorcollazo8845 4 года назад

20 years ago. Damn. We grew up too fast. 😞 Most of us millenials are now in our late 20s to mid 30s.

@teslavoltagames3208 5 лет назад

It was also massive debt because of the Saturn, 32X, and the CD. It put Dreamcast DOA. They weren't solvent.

@Obscure_man31 5 лет назад

The dreamcast may have died in console market but it did phenomenal in the arcade market with the Naomi 1 and 2 wouldnt you agree?

@videoxxstudio 5 лет назад

I've played every Sonic stage in Sonic Adventure a couple of hours ago for it's 20th anniversery

@saricubra2867 5 лет назад

I'm playing the entire game on PC with Dreamcast Conversion Mod, still an unique and good game to this day (only if the DX port doesn't exist).

@CaveyMoth 5 лет назад

4:35 Hol' up. There were more than 6 games for the Nintendo 64?

@SegaDream131 5 лет назад

Yeah but they suck ass....

@saricubra2867 5 лет назад

People played N64 at launch only for mario 64, as for the Dreamcast, SA1. I will get many mario fans triggered, i have more fun with SA1 today than Mario, if i want mario, i would play World or Galaxy, as for the rest of the 3D games: Banjo Kazooie.

@SegaDream131 5 лет назад

@@saricubra2867 When I got my 64 I didnt have any games yet so I flew the controllers around like toy planes.....

@saricubra2867 5 лет назад

@@SegaDream131 Well, the n64 controller is an alien spaceship.

@SegaDream131 5 лет назад

@@saricubra2867 Exaclty what my 13 year old mind thought....

@kurtownsj00 5 лет назад

Everyone my age in highschool when it came out who DIDN'T get one would almost always say: "Ehh I'm saving up for a PS2" The whole piracy thing was pretty late in the cycle, I didn't know anyone else who actually got their Utopia boot disk or whatever working reliably. ps- dualshock design still sucks. regardless of stick placement I hated the long throws with loose springs. I had the same clear green VMU, modded that one with an LED (that I see you have one of as well!)

@propheinx2250 4 года назад

Yes and no. The piracy meant that no 3rd party developers would make games for it. No 3rd party developers meant that the dreamcast couldn't turn it around. Consider ps4 and Xbox 1. Sony lost that console war initially, but over time became the superior. This was because of 3rd party developers making games for ps4 where Xbox was losing 3rd party developers. If ps4 was so easy to pirate that its system was cracked open within the 1st 2 months of existence, those 3rd party developers wouldn't have bothered with ps4 games. As a side note consider how the PC gets shitty port after shitty port. It's because PC is the king of game piracy. Why waste efforts on a good port when you're only gonna make half the sales at best. Let's stop pretending piracy doesn't effect the gaming market, when it's been shown multiple times that it does.

@orjnad641 5 лет назад

I am so glad I finally got a Dreamcast a few months ago! One of my favorite memories as a child was going to my cousin's house and watching him and my uncle play this cool looking game called Sonic Adventure on this thing called a Dreamcast... It blew the GameBoy and N64 I had out of the water!

@cancerstinks1 4 года назад

8:08 you know, for awhile the GameCube was the most underrated console ever. But then everyone realized it’s greatness. Dreamcast now has the title

@JulietStMoon 5 лет назад

Aw man, was that bit at 1:45 a Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie reference?

@paulmaloney4387 5 лет назад

*Can we expect Banjo-Kazooie episodes?*

@tehbootfulboy1173 5 лет назад

Paul Maloney were still paining to see a banjo-kazooie episode AND a Yooka-Laylee

@justflavio 4 года назад

Eventually, yes

@kenzonhundredpower 3 года назад

fuck Banjo-Kazooie

@GameplayandTalk 5 лет назад

Ahhh, I love these Dreamcast anniversaries. It seems like everyone gets in on the fun and releases videos about it. Regarding the piracy thing, I think how much of an impact it seemed to have is going to vary from person to person. For me personally, Dreamcast piracy seemed pretty rampant. Granted, I wasn't in the 7th grade at the time--I was a senior in high school and so access to newer tech like CD rewritable drives was probably more common. There was a guy in particular in my PC repair class that had one and he would provide pirated games to people. While I legitimately supported all the new releases I could, I even used his "services" once when the Dreamcast homebrew version of Quake was released (I probably gave him $10 for it, heh) and when the Smash Pack was hacked to allow you to fill up a disc with Genesis ROMs. CD rewritable drives indeed weren't super cheap at the time, but it didn't take many to have a visible effect on how people acquired their games. The software attach rate thing is interesting. You've got me thinking now in regards to it and I am beginning to wonder if the ridiculous amount of budget priced releases on the Dreamcast hurt more than it helped. You had the All-Stars lineup pretty early on, not to mention all those quality $20 Capcom (and some Agetec) releases at the end of its life. Eh, really, I think I'm stretching for Dreamcast failure excuses by this point, but your point in the video at least got the gears turning in my brain.

@shannonbateswillis5022 5 лет назад

Also, are you looking forward to the Genesis Mini?

@philatio1744 5 лет назад

So, you've never watched the first dreamcast video?

@ShadowStarkiller 5 лет назад

God, I remember just how wonderful that DC controller felt in my hands the first time I held it. Thanks for this, Josh.

@aortaplatinum Год назад

I envy you. I fuckin HATE that piece of shit lol

@setteplays 5 лет назад

I never cared for Sega consoles because I grew up with nintendo everywhere. But you're so passionate that it's pretty darn entertaining and compelling. I want a lot of Sega consoles now. They're so gimmicky and Toy-y, I LOVE it.

@schooltrashers 5 месяцев назад

Piracy did kill the Dreamcast in three ways... 1) Sega was selling Dreamcast at a loss and needed software sales to be high in order to make up for the loss. Unfortunately piracy were cutting into their profits, to the point where my friend was trying to sell me CD-R's of Dreamcast games for $5 in the summer of 2000. I refused because I wanted to support the Dreamcast, so I bought legal copies. 2) Piracy scared away third party developers, thus forcing Sega to pull out of the console business sooner rather than later, despite making CD-R's unreadable in the newer revisions of the Dreamcast, since Sega had intentions to compete against the PS2. 3) a lot of people who owned a Dreamcast, also owned a PC, so of course they want to save money by pirating Dreamcast games. Since no one wants to make the mistake of buying crappy games like WWF Attitude or Mortal Kombat Gold. Although I did because I want the best versions of every game I collect, so I bought legal copies of WWF Attitude and Mortal Kombat Gold instead of owning MK4 or WWF Attitude on a PS1/N64.

@justflavio 4 года назад

Josh: Thank you for backing the channel Me: *sweats nervously*

@waywardlaser 5 лет назад

Speaking of rumble, once you've felt HD rumble in the joycons or pro controller for Switch, you'll never want to go back.

@jonathanfaber3291 5 лет назад

The other problem with the Dreamcast as DVD player idea (and this is built more on personal bias than hard evidence since I was scant weeks old by its discontinuation date) but while video gaming is fairly legit nowadays, I argue the late 90s and early 2000s was still a time when video games and their manufacturers were "weird things for nerds or other weird people". And it would also mean that Sega would have to get both their consoles and their games in fairly established tech/department stores rather than in videogame stores, which wasn't an impossible task, but you couldn't put a Dreamcast with the other gaming stuff (as marketing execs, and shelf-stockers would want) for simplicity, and also have it in a general Tech sector (which only Sega wants), because it makes restocking for said store more difficult. It'd just be easier for the store to leave it in a gaming section. Furthermore, I'm still fairly sure that it would have caused marketing problems, as the gaming crowd and the non-gaming crowd would probably get the wrong impressions- gamers would think The Dreamcast was primarily for nongamers, and I don't think nongamers would buy it "'cause it's a games console. Yknow, a toy, for children"

@rowancooke7831 5 лет назад

Loved my Dreamcast. I was one of the only people in my friends group that had a Dreamcast. I loved the controller at the time and the interactive memory card. I highly doubt piracy was what destroyed the console, I agree, we didn’t, couldn’t obtain the tech at the time. I remember when my family first got the internet and then a year or so later, the Dreamcast I never really got to enjoy phantasy star online as I just didn’t have the internet speed. In addition, I remember downloading music off Shazam at the time(did try Napster). It was an interesting time for consoles. I remember I had never seen such smooth graphics at the time on the Dreamcast. Oh such good nostalgia reflecting on the Dreamcast. I wouldn’t buy another console until years later with my first job, in which I bought an Xbox.

@ballthatbounces626 5 лет назад

Honestly in some ways the dream cast was ahead of it's time. Looking back at it now though it's hard to bieleve.

@knicks2030 5 лет назад

This will blow your mind. I pre-ordered this on wait for it...wait for it...Amazon. I had it day one and it was the first system I got on day one. I loved my Sega Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure was mind-blowing back in the day.

@justanotheryoutubechannel 2 года назад

I agree that piracy wasn’t the main reason the Dreamcast died, but downloading games from the internet wasn’t how the Dreamcast piracy scene worked, instead the games were often distrusted via real people, you would contact a member of Echelon or at least someone involved with it who lived near you, and they would give you the CDs I’m person. Apparently a lot of these people would get jobs at game stores, rip the files, and then give away burned CDs to people who requested it on the BBS.

@BoogiepopFearGhoul 5 лет назад

I normally enjoy your thoughtful videos, but this really comes across as more of an excuse to worship Sega and bash Sony, regardless of merit or reason. Remember, Sega doesn't love you nearly as much as you love it.

@BenjiMordino 5 лет назад

The Dreamcast, underrated on release, overrated 20 years later. A story of troughs and peaks.

@ModelJames13 5 лет назад

That is so true.

@onetwo6039 5 лет назад

Wow. If sega did everything in service of games with all sorts peripherals than Nintendo and sega weren't so different.

@Billyblue98 5 лет назад

I still think the Dualshocks always remain the best of their generations, but considering Sega consoles came out before their *main* competitors three generations in a row they can be forgiven for being a bit behind the designs (except I do agree that having the extra two buttons is A-okay and I don't know why four face buttons became standard).

@todesziege 4 года назад

I guess Sony and Microsoft both using it and both refusing to ever update their controller designs while together absolutely dominating the past four generations did "help" to standardize it.

@michaelmanning9028 5 лет назад

Exactly, I couldn't burn a game in 2000, the earliest I was successful was 2009 or so and sega certainly didn't loose any money by that time

@SegaDream131 5 лет назад

Bro, we were burning ps1 games for years before the DC came out, and as soon as I seen it had a play cd option I knew it was going to be simple.... GD-rom be damned.... In 2001 I was burning DVDs..... Made bank.....

@michaelmanning9028 5 лет назад

@@SegaDream131 I'm not saying it didn't hurt sega, but you were the minority at that time for sure

@SegaDream131 5 лет назад

@@michaelmanning9028 You have no idea....there was a time when(after producing proof of concept) carribean drug pushers in south Fl wanted my process.... They even showed me one of their cook houses with nothing but bath tubs where the chinese dudes make their methamphetamine.....they were pumping play dough makers like madmen, I used to think the guys making take out were quick.....just one of them guys had 1000 rolls made and drying in about 30 min.....insane....😲

@Solharath 5 лет назад

That intro didn't age well. Literally 20 seconds. Lol.

@awesomejacketdude 5 лет назад

I like it.

@SplashtheOtter 5 лет назад

Don't think I didn't notice the Sega Hard Girls ED instrumental there in the background

@Jose-se9pu 5 лет назад

Sadly, the Dreamcast was dead the moment the PS2 was announced (6 months before the DC american release). Anyway, 20 years already...I feel like a dinosaur.

@hectorcollazo8845 4 года назад

Me too. I turn 33 in 2 months. 😭

@Brione30 5 лет назад

14:44 Are you seriously playing “We’re All Dudes” from Good Burger?! Amazing

@GeekCritique 5 лет назад

It's basically the theme of the mid-late 90s in my mind.

@SdudyoyO 5 лет назад

Genesis was my introduction to video games. Saturn was my introduction to 3D games. Dreamcast was my introduction to some of the best games I've ever played.

@arlobo1 5 лет назад

I was asking myself yesterday if you were ever gonna upload those patreon exclusive videos to youtube, what a surprise

@PigeonLord21 4 года назад

7:06 The fact that you used Gamecube as the visual example warms my heart. That console was all about games and nothing else.

@0rnery0verwatch Год назад

Just speaking for myself... the Dreamcast seemed like the type of system that you basically would've *never* heard of unless you were a hardcore Sega fan. That is how it worked for me. My sister and I had a family friend in his late 20's (my sister and I were in middle school at the time) who had just picked up a Dreamcast and was singing it's praises. He was so busy with work, however, that he didn't have much time to play it. As such... when my sister and I asked if we could borrow his Dreamcast (for a couple of *months* lol) he was like "okay sure, why not?". I remember I played Soul Calibur and Power Stone 2 religiously... and surprisingly... my sister finished Shenmue (that game looked SO boring to me haha). It was a great console... but my point is, had our family friend not owned the console... there was NO WAY I would've ever heard of it, as I was focused on all the news regarding Nintendo's Dolphin (aka Gamecube) at the time.

@billywhitmore5784 5 лет назад

I've wanted to get a Dreamcast for a few months now, but made myself wait for the 20th anniversary of 9/9/99 to buy it.

@TheGuyWhoIsSitting 5 лет назад

Rumble had to be toned down due to some lawsuits I think. I remember hearing such a reason but I don’t remember the exact source.

@kylecampbell565 5 лет назад

You think it was the smart business move to discontinue the Dreamcast that soon? I think it was nearly inevitable it would be SEGA’s final console given their reputation but ending it when it hasn’t even been out for 2 years internationally seems stupid and cowardly

@SianaGearz 5 лет назад

Well how do you suggest they recover from the situation they were in before Dreamcast was discontinued? There was insufficient third-party developer support. Why? Because an insufficient number of consoles have been sold and found their place in people's homes. How do you get these consoles into people's homes? They buy consoles for which there is a game library, so not the Dreamcast. It started off quite strong, but as time went, the hardware sales kept declining in spite of hardware being heavily discounted. You couldn't sell it any cheaper than $100 and not lose money, no chance. First they lost against PS2 but were still fighting against Gamecube. When Gamecube instantly upon release eclipsed Dreamcast's installed base, its fate was fundamentally sealed.

@kylecampbell565 5 лет назад

Siana Gearz well they discontinued before the Xbox and GameCube released. Hell Super Monkey Ball was suppose to be a Dreamcast game

@SianaGearz 5 лет назад

@@kylecampbell565 You know what, you're quite right, i had my mental timeline somewhat jumbled up, which invalidates my point. But apparently Gamecube was an important consideration, i heard something in that regard - maybe it was presales or predictions or something.

@SouthernOregonReps 11 месяцев назад

What killed the DC was the fact that Saturn was such a POS compared to the PS1. Nobody trusted them. The genesis add on era definitely didn’t help.

@IronsWorks1990 5 лет назад

It played it's part no doubt, even if you couldn't do it at home easily it was still easy to get. We used to always go to boot sales (yard sale to the yanks) and they'd almost certainly be a few stalls about full of copied PS1 and Dreamcast games they'd be £5 each or 3 for £10 and these were for even new releases like I remember buying a copied version of Sonic Adventure 2 the weekend it came out we ended up having over 200 games for the Dreamcast at the end including a number of emulators and also a number of Video CDs. Though bare in mind we didn't start buying copied games til 2001 when Sega had already announced it was quitting the console business so thats our defense there lol.

@NYCKZ360 5 лет назад

I feel like we have the same passion for the dreamcast. I'm 24 and I believe the dreamcast was the first video game console I ever saw. Along with Sonic Adventure 1 when I was 5. With ps1 being next.

@Tristan1062 5 лет назад

Are you ever gonna review/retrospectively analyze anything not Sega or Sonic related again? For the fans of your channel who subscribed for other content like Metroid, Donkey Kong, and maybe even some new series you haven’t reviewed yet? I love your content no matter what, but I’d love to see you branch out more too!

@oscarstevenson5912 5 лет назад

Can you please do a Metroid critique of Metroid Samus Returns. Because I have watched your videos and you do do critiques of remakes of those games such as am2r and zero mission. Samus returns is different in it's own way despite being another remake. please do it

@corndogonastick5349 4 года назад

Wouldn’t easy piracy sell more Dreamcasts? Think about this, if you bought the console, you could basically burn the whole library for yourself. Sounds like a deal to me!

@firedrake110 4 года назад

Who else is shook that the Dreamcast is 20 years old? My memory is like, "dude, it's only two or three console gens ago lol" and while that's true, consoles have a much longer lifespan nowadays. Oh, as an aside, my tie ratio is 7 for the dreamcast

@krankymann 5 лет назад

tie ratio? Do you mean attach rate? also piracy before the internet needed like one dude with a burner and lan parties, etc. most ppl did not download games in those days. unfortunately consoles succeed due to the market that play all the common trash like sports games, etc. go into a store and look at the shovelware games that are there - that's the primary market.

@Vexiss42 5 лет назад

What's the first game in the video? At 00:13?

@SianaGearz 5 лет назад

I'd say it's SGGG also known as SEGAGAGA. It's their self-parody of sorts.

@dreammarethings960 5 лет назад

The only thing I don't understand is how a CD-R can kill a Dreamcast. There's saying using CD-Rs too much can kill a Dreamcast, I have one and I don't want to use CD-Rs. It is true?

@cfehunter 9 месяцев назад

3:50 Yeah nobody owned a CD burner, and the internet was terrible. You could quite readily buy burned copies of games for a few bucks in person at markets though.

@summerishere2868 5 месяцев назад

Exactly...

@krisgersch8480 4 года назад

I swear please don't disappear like cybershell it's been 2 months 😟

@flamingsword3123 5 лет назад

I think that a neo geo episode would be great since terry is in smash

@fizzymilk_ 5 лет назад

You have never sounded more like Fozzie Bear than in the VMU section, and I love it.

@Sean-D78 5 лет назад

hello

@GamingWarlord64 5 лет назад

I am 2 months younger than the dream cast

@Kahanami 5 лет назад

Happy almost birthday

@gaigejohnson7603 5 лет назад

Oh God that makes me feel old. I was 7 when this came out.

@SynthetiThespis 5 лет назад

I got a dreamcast 10 years ago and my favorite gaming memories are from that time. I seriously yearn for another one now after seeing your video. Great stuff!

@mathewm6294 5 лет назад

Happy Birthday, Dreamcast!!! My favs were House of the Dead 2, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2, and Jet Grind Radio...

@samuffert 5 лет назад

I absolutely agree, the dualshock sucks, and i have no problem using god damn joycons for that matter

@deathray252 5 лет назад

I’ve been playing plenty of dreamcast the past two days 😊 It was my first console, and what an introduction to gaming it was. My dad was a pirate so we had most of its library. I still have mine and return to it regularly!

@themollymachine 5 лет назад

Ps2 won becuz it was a cheap DVD player

@caleb6755 5 лет назад

20 years of the (Non Japanese) Dreamcast? And here I was, considering ten years of the movie 9...

@Charles-jj2su 4 года назад

Calling the ps1 a PSX is like calling the GameCube a fucking dolphin.

@GeekCritique 4 года назад

Maybe, but it's still how everyone, from the gaming press to gamers online, abbreviated the name for like a decade.

@shannonbateswillis5022 5 лет назад

Cool! Can’t wait to see more of your videos! Also, I still feel the same way about the PS vita, as you do about the Dreamcast! And, shout out to my favorite Southern Gamer!

@caleb6755 5 лет назад

Vita user eh? Have you played Soul Sacrifice?

@flamingsword3123 5 лет назад

I like your channel alot but every single episode being about sega is getting a bit stale I would love to see a video about the Neo Geo another old console

@latheredtrillionaire5701 5 лет назад

I disagree, I want more sega-related content.

@flamingsword3123 5 лет назад

But I really enjoyed his non sega related episodes like the metroid series retrospective

@AllieRX 5 лет назад

The PS2 was such a beast at the time, the Dreamcast still wouldn't stand a chance, even if it corrected its "mistakes". Same with the GameCube and original Xbox. Sony took the success of the PSOne and ran with it well into the 6th generation. Then they completely fumbled with the PS3. Had that not happened, they'd be unstoppable with the PS3 and PS4 selling at 200-250 million worldwide.

@Ori_Zappa_Rocks 5 лет назад

Dreamcast is the best Concole Ever!!

@sebastianguerrero6617 4 года назад

Yeah the switch ratio has gotten a lot better now

@BlueTomorrows 5 лет назад

As someone who was born 4 years after this thing launched in North America, I can assure you I wasn't even the only 7th grader to play Dreamcast games. Obviously not on their intended platform but DC games none the lest, and more than just SA1 and 2

@mechajay3358 5 лет назад

The Dreamcast was the first Sega console I ever played. The memories I had with it were priceless. Happy 20th!

@Ghesh_Vargiet 5 лет назад

How does the ps2 look consistently worse yet having better specs

@SianaGearz 5 лет назад

A bunch of reasons. The main one is that it's a fairly low-utilisation design as opposed to Dreamcast's high-utilisation one. On PS2 there's a lot of data shoveling involved from one unit to the other, and while it's happening, rendering is not being performed, there are a lot of stalling sources, while Dreamcast eliminates them pretty consistently. It's an oversimplified explanation, since PS2 has no fixed hardware determined data path, every game chooses its own approach, and some approaches are better than others in some regards. Then there's the fact that PS2 released with broken flicker fixer. Flicker fixer is a filter that works with interlaced scan outputs and for every line in the visible field, adds a small contribution of neighbouring lines from the field which is currently not visible. Due to this flaw it doesn't matter whether you render at 480p60 or 240p60, you effectively lose half the vertical resolution, so you might just as well skip rendering half the lines, and many games did exactly that. Which is why VGA or progressive scan support is not widespread within PS2 library and can't even usually be patched in. This is only one of many GPU bugs that plagued the system and limited its visual quality. Horizontal resolution was also frequently reduced in the effort to reduce the amount of data that needed to be swapped to VRAM from main RAM every frame and improve utilisation. But i think it's wrong to say that PS2 looks consistently worse, it has been around for a long time and there are many titles with very different visual traits, some look quite handsome. In direct comparison of titles which came out when Dreamcast was alive, for sure Dreamcast has an advantage, in part since it has been around longer, in part better hardware design which is easier to utilise properly. Dreamcast has a number of hard limitations that are less of an issue on PS2, which is how PS2 became home to many open-world titles with textures and geometry streamed off disc, while Dreamcast only had one comparable game, Headhunter, and even that cheated and had basically no streaming. How in depth should i go? I could fill a book.

@MrPoeGhost 5 лет назад

@@SianaGearz Shit, I dunno if OP is reading, but I'd read it. :U

@RiderWithTheScarf 5 лет назад

I might be the ultra contrarian here but when I first played the Dreamcast I hated the controller. I loathed how it was changed from the PS1 and N64's, if you can believe it. Strangely, the game I played was Soul Calibur as a "demo" in a store. I beat the game with Kilik before my mum finished buying her stuff and I was kinda blown away how the plasticy, almost disfunctional analog could be so precise despite seemingly wanting to fall off and how despite the buttons being hard, they accurately registered my presses. But even then, I just couldn't bring my self to like it and the shape...eh... I dunno, that was my only umbridge with the system. But speaking of old age and boomers *cracks open a monster* aaaaahhh, dial-up and modem, now those were the times. And 2005 and Green Day, those were the days of our misc lives. *Sips* As for the Saturn, well...you and the entire island of Japan are very alone, yes. :D

@paradoxop1660 5 лет назад

hey geek critique when are you going to do the review to metroid prime hunters?

@kenzonhundredpower 3 года назад

FUCK METRIOD PRIME HUNTERS

@Yuli_Ban 5 лет назад

The design philosophy you're looking for to describe the Dreamcast is "Y2K Aesthetic"

@DoctorApotheosis 5 лет назад

Every time I catch a wrestling reference in these videos, it makes me happy.

@AVGNROCKS1996 5 лет назад

That TIE ratio gets even more ridiculous when you realize that the PS2 has a 9.5-10 TIE Ratio. With 150 million units sold. That’s about 1+ BILLION copies of PS2 software in the world, enough for 1 in 7 people on the entire planet to own one game. Poor Dreamcast, never stood a chance.

@IndieLambda 3 года назад

The PlayStation controller hurts my hands, it gives me cramps and makes my joints crunchy, that thing literally gives me injuries, I heard multiple times you're not supposed to grip it, but sorry, I grew up with controllers you activelly grip, SNES, Genesis, 64, Gamecube, XBox, ETC... You don't just hold these with 2 fingers and gently tap the boutons, You grip it with your palms and you slam these boutons with your thumbs, these thing are built to resist abuse, you can smack them on the ground and they'll just have grased paint, I've seen so many plastation controllers snapped and damaged, dual shock, is a bad design. PS: Yes, the PS4 controllers good, but it took them like, 20 years to fucking fix it.

@tuguldurbaatar 5 лет назад

Couple of points. ADSL started rolling out in 1998 and by 2002 most homes in UK had access. Many many people bought PS2 as media player because DVD players were around £150 so it made more sense and your logic of Sega being games only console does not make sense because if you ever owned the Saturn you could play your music cd and watch VCD with add-on and DVD inclusion would have been logical step in acquiring more clientele.

@kargaroc386 Год назад

To add to the dialup point given here: It would've taken a stupidly long time, yeah. But that 56K speed was the bleeding, ragged edge of the possible with dialup. In those days, I routinely got speeds closer to 43K or so. Lots of people still only got 33.6K. At 45K, that 42 hours becomes 53 hours. At 33.6K, it becomes over 70 hours! But, its even worse than that, *because:* It was also *unreliable!* Calls used to drop all the time, and that includes the call to your ISP. Pretty much every browser's download utility in that era would just stop downloading a file if the connection dropped, leaving you with half of a file, and no way to get the other half. There were download managers that *could* restart a file download from where it left off, which would make things better, but that's just yet another thing you would *need to know about.* And if they didn't know, they'd have to *start all over from the beginning!* For most people, if they started downloading a game, then they could earn enough money to buy the game legit *and* play it all the way through by the time they finish the download. And of course that's *if* they had a new computer with a CD burner.

@rockyroad90 2 года назад

The Official Sega Rumble Packs don’t pack the same punch as the Performance aftermarket your showcasing in your controller! I have the same one as you and 2 Sega official ones and I always chose the controller with the Performance rumble pack. I had another brand a nubi..?? - Can’t remember cause it went out and I threw it away but I do remember it wasn’t as good as the Sega official one. Performance rumble pack rocks!

@SalivatingSteve 5 лет назад

When the Dreamcast was still being supported, I had cable internet and a CD burner. BUT my family’s computer was a PowerMac G3. To burn Dreamcast games, the most common method involved using the Windows-only program Disc Juggler and it’s proprietary CDI images. I appreciate that the Dreamcast console itself was very small considering how powerful it was for the time.

@SNNetwork 2 года назад

playing pso were some of the beat memories of my gaming life also unreal tourney w keyboard and mouse q3 arena

@ModelJames13 5 лет назад

What if Sega had included a DVD player that turned movies INTO video games!!?? Well................. it's fun to imagine anyway...

@pokedigijedi 5 лет назад

I actually own a Dreamcast now, got it a few months ago from a pawn shop. Its not bad, glad I finally got to check it out but, and I mean no offense, I did not miss out on anything growing I am more of a Nintendo fan again no offense. HOWEVER I am looking to increasing my Dreamcast game collection so yes I am enjoying it. Heck I am trying to get Shenmue on it but haven't had any luck outside of GameStop and they sadly sent me a copy that was damaged, I probably give them another try though since I usually find them highly reliable Although I am just gonna get Sonic Adventure on the GameCube since its an updated version of the game, I already gpt Sonic Adventure 2 on the GameCube.

@CurtMudgeon 5 лет назад

Dreamcast. Saturn. VMU games, late 90's Ska. No, you are not alone my friend. You are not......alone. Now, sell out, with me tonight, sell out, with me oh yeah. The Sega company's gonna give us lot's of money and everything's gonna be....alriiiight.

@bandicootsauce4569 4 года назад

Josh, I'm sure everyone and their dog is asking you about this, but... HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW TRAILER FOR THE LIVE ACTION SONIC MOVIE ARE YOU GOING TO TALK ABOUT IT HOLY CRAP IT'S SO AWESOME NOW! (deep breaths) ...Okay. I think I got my point across there nicely. Lol! Also, I'm only commenting on this video because it's your most recent video and I don't follow you on Twitch or Facebook or whatever. At least not presently. Sorry about that.

@hectorcollazo8845 4 года назад

Great video, Josh. Never owned a Dreamcast, but loved playing it nonetheless in stores. Btw, love your Power Rangers stuff. My jaw dropped when I saw your Time Force DVD, Red and Green Ranger helmets, and Saba. 😎

@aortaplatinum Год назад

The Dreamcast WAS actually planned to have DVD compatability, but it wasn't financially possible due to the failure of the Saturn outside Japan. I'm sure they COULD have done it, but they'd likely never make a profit off hardware sales.

@tesslivv1523 2 года назад

i owned a dreamcast in 2001, but i had a ps1, sega, and nes. my parents usually couldnt afford the newer consoles like the ps2 at that time, but ya we got a dreamcast pretty easy by 2001 and i just love looking at it, and the controller was cool. We didnt have any games but as a kid something about it really made me curious about it. Something special, I wish I was able to fully experience it I was only like 5

@ZeroXMarquis 5 лет назад

Piracy had a huge role to play. You were in Grade 7 as you noted . . . who were you going to pirate from? I had friends who dealt drugs and Dreamcast games. After a while, everyone was selling them--it became cheaper to buy a pirated game than it was to rent the games. One family I knew would distribute bulk to kids in the suburbs, who would then sell it to their friends. Legit mom and pop stores stopped selling the actual games and would opt for for copies. Before piracy was big, I averaged a new legit game a month... after, not a single game.

@WilliamHasMelted 5 лет назад

I think you can't really discredit what people think of controllers these days If it was just a case of people liking modern controllers and not liking old ones, we wouldnt have companies selling bluetooth controllers that are just NES, SNES, Game Cube, PSX, etc controllers I'm sure it's just a taste thing, and I'm not saying that you cant like the controller but i feel like your defense of the Dreamcast's controller is toothless and just stops at "I like it and people who don't are pretty wrong"