The Strange World Of Sega Games 

The Y2K Sega-Blue-Skies aesthetic is peak video games, and it's all been downhill from there.

Sega 1999-2000 was at its peak good memories

Y2K was about to fully take on when 9/11 hit. That’s when the culture shifted from futuristic utopia visions to everything being dominated by the military industrial complex.

Japanese developers love having there game set around Christmas like parasite eve

Sega back in the early 2000’s had so much potential and if they played there cards right could have been the 4th pillar today of gaming, a lot of there games from back then are trapped on there original consoles and never seen a modern re release, I love and miss old Sega

Thank you for talking about and including Ecco the Dolphin. Ecco was such a vibe and takes me back to the 90s and Y2K era. Very nostalgic for me.

Watching these videos feels like im back to being a kid watching my brother play video games

Sega be like let’s make the coolest video game characters ever then only care about yakuza, phantasy star, project diva, persona, and speedy blue ratdog

The Saturn has even more surreal and bizarre games I’ve seen such as Machine Head, Nights into Dreams, Deep Fear, Enemy Zero, Tunnel B1.

I love JSR despite me not being a Dreamcast kid and discovering JSR thanks to Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing due to Beat's inclusion alongside the music and tracks, to this day The Concept of Love is engrained into my head due to that game lmao. I'd also heavy recommend to check out Burning Rangers from the Saturn, the second Sonic Team game made for the platform after Nights and pretty cool concept of a game with an absolute banging soundtrack.

The blue stinger music is forever etched in my mind!

Thanks to smoking weed while zoning out on RU-vid for bringing me this. And shout out to John Lillly for Cetacean Nation, getting blasted on lsd and trying to communicate with dolphins. Couldn't get Ecco without you, happy heavenly birthday

Ecco the dolphin is a series that we need to return this decade.

So the reason why the Dreamcast version of Space Channel 5 seems harder and less responsive is because it's designed for CRT tvs. Their refresh rates are much slower so the game is programmed with a delay to make up for it. If you use a modern TV the lag will make you miss inputs. Parappa and other rhythm games of the time also have this issue.

Love the video my dude! Makes me regret selling my Dreamcast a year or so ago 😅 I was really big on fighting games on the Dreamcast, but I did play a few of the weirder games on there as well. I've been a fan of Sega since the Genesis, so they have a special place in my heart.

It's strange but a beloved one even to this day!

echo the dolphins music is truely iconic of the y2k era you heard that genre everywhere .. commercials tv series and games i remember playing it just the music.. as for segas best game to me its still yakuza 1 and 2 at least its the first ones that come to mind.

Lovely video, very well done. I must say, the nostalgia really came flooding back when you brought up Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future. I remember playing it at a friend's house (I think they had the PS2 version) and just being in awe at the graphics, atmosphere and opening sequence...after playing many intense matches on Def Jam: Vendetta, it was very therapeutic lol Another weird game that comes to mind is ILLBLEED

Barring the 1st game's decidedly mid remake, the Panzer Dragoon series is by far my favorite Sega series (and only behind Kirby overall). The setting and aesthetic is still truly unique even after almost three decades. Also riding laser dragons is just super fun.

Great video! I still have my Dreamcast and games on it. This system really made me appreciate strange and obscure titles.

I get so excited everytime I see a new upload from you. There is this certain vibe that I totally adore. Keep up the great work!

Watching this in my Dreamcast Pullover. :) This was an excellent video. Very calming and showcasing games I've never heard of before.

To me... man... Dreamcast was the chef's kiss of console "experimental" ish type games.. ahh bless that era

Great video, Keep up the quality content and you’ll be at 100k subs in no time :)

Hey man I discovered your channel recently I love your videos keep up the good work!

Great video man, actually very well edited keep this up!

Vincenzo iam following you from ITALY. I love your video! have a good vibes and moods! nostalgia is a strange feel... elektro-nostalgia... or teknostalgia...

I grew up with Sega, never thought they were strange/weird back then lol Games back then were all kinda weird in their own right. It's only recently that games have become less strange.

You deserve way more than 4k subs my g. Pure quality.

I haven't even heard of any of these games before this video, but man they're such good examples of all the creativity and out there ideas gaming had in the 2000s

I've been looking forward to this! Can't wait to see more

Great video! Thank you for the Seaman credit too! 👍

Great content, with a great soundtrack as always! Dreamcast ahead of its time in so many ways particularly with its online vision PSO etc but then also so completely out muscled by the PS2 shortly after

I recently saw your Q and A, and I'm curious as to how you've kept up making such high quality videos once a month with your fulltime job. I have three or four jobs at a time to keep a float, and making content has been exhausting but fulfilling. Do you make ceratin days a YT "work day" or something like that? Im just curious, and thank you for the thoughtful videos you make!

Being reminded of Ecco the Dolphin lore is always a trip. In a good way. Great video going through some of the dreamcast's strangeness. A lot of folks already said, but yeah this is my favorite era of gaming in general too. Just something about it feels like the peak of what the medium was meant to be imo. Not perfect but the focus on fun and vibes was at its best. And Sega were masters of it. I'm a big fan of Space Channel 5 and Jet Set Radio, I'm glad those series are seeing use again among many others by Sega.

The story behind people involved in creation of Ecco is really creepy

Stretching these games into a widescreen format does them a disservice.

Ive been on a binge of playing retro Dreamcast games in 2024 so this video is timely for me lol. Beat Sonic Adventure again and played Crazy Taxi for a while. Currently playing Shenmue and forgot just how good this game is! One of my personal favs was Skies of Arcadia....simply a masterpiece that i feel would even rival current games.

Genesis was the first game console at 4 I was introduced to, Sonic 2 was the first game I saw and played. From that point until 02…loved Sega, I had a 64…but the Genesis and Dreamcast especially the Dreamcast was a moment. My mom waited in line for it to release on 9/99…I got picked up from school and holy shit Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure is at my house. I will never forget that …I would spend the following 2 years renting and asking for titles from Shenmue to Jet set, Power stone even Space Channel, weird RPGS like Evolution and Skies of Arcadia, even buying PSO with no internet so I could get the SA2 demo….my mom who know so little of games still tells me to this day “it’s a shame this thing ended you were so excited and I was so excited to get it for you”. They kind of gaming experience no longer exists. I still hope one day I can camp out with my son for a new console release, something that isn’t just ordered online with games digitally loaded…something you have to live and experience and don’t even know what that will be. I hope Sony Nintendo or MS for us old guys…next launch let’s us experience a mid night launch and a sane launch for those games one last time, one time I loved as a kid that I can vicariously live through with my own now. But…I’m off topic and ‘dream’casting

I'm surprised Rez wasn't dug into. It was released on DC in Eur, then was one of the first games Sega ported to PS2.

Ecco looks amazing! I had the 1992 version but this one omggg why is not on psstore or somewhere? 😅 these games should be on the sony premium services/gamepass. I miss how creative the late 90s were in games/music/films. Great video!

What stood out to me about jet set radio is the crap controls with the analog stick. Doesn't hold up for me as someone who had no nostalgia for the game. Edit: I appreciate you mentioning the difficulty to control in the video. Seems like most videos just talk about the positives of the original game and for me the controls were very frustrating

Yeah! I just got back into Sega, picked up Yakuza and Bayonetta, got myself a Sega Genesis and now I finally have a video to match my mood If you wanna know what games you missed that I recommend, I'd say Yakuza, Ristar, and Shin Megami Tensei But there's tons more to talk about maybe you should make this a series!

The semi-zombie state Sega has been in since the mid 2000s is so unfortunate. I kind of wish microsoft would have purchased Sega way back then. Sega needs money, and microsoft needed IP.

Great video. Another game that fits this video is MDK 2 it was the first game that i played on my Dreamcast in 2022.

I loved the Dreamcast growing up. Out of all my friends only me and one other person from my school had a Dreamcast. But when i put on gigawing to show off the hardware for my other friends in the neighborhood. Jaws where dropped. The 90's was a epic time for gaming.

Mad respect for the Ecco the Dolphin Defender of the Future inclusion. For more oceanic, artistic bliss with top tier music, I recommend the game ABZU by Giant Squid.

Love the vibe, I subscribe!

In Space Channel 5. I just can’t unsee Among Us.

I still play the Android port of Jet Grind Radio on my phone with an Xbox controller. Amazing

I’ve been a Sonic fan since I played SA2 Battle at a gym daycare around 4/5 and have always wanted to play these more bizarre games that also came out around that time. I’ve played Ecco for the Genesis and I’ve never once thought of it as relaxing 😂 I’d have to say SomeCallMeJohnny p much hits nail on the head. Ecco Jr seems fairly relaxing but the first game? V difficult and stressful and yet I try to see if I can inch my way just a few more meters than last time! It’s a game that kicks my ass but I still come back to it like Fear and Hunger or Manhunt.

Sega was so good, I born into this world immediately.

The algorithm is killing it rn I have so many great videos it's refreshing

cool video, definitely going to try out echo!

I'll subscribe for conjugation of the word seaman into seaman-y

thanks for remind me for Ecco the dolphin played it on genesis, i have same reaction talking, music and vibe relaxed me. didn't there's third game on dreamcast.

Seaman prediction on the npc zombie humans falling trap was right but spiritual beings use internet to get powerful messages out and their talents and we can see difference between soul beings and zombies from internet and local areas

Blue Stinger isn't a Sega IP even though it is a Dreamcast exclusive - it can be misleading. Great video however.

I remember trying to play ECCO on the PS2 but it scared me

I saw Ulala and clicked.

Sea-Man for Smash!

good video man

I love it

THIS is why I became a fanatical Sega fanboy back in 2001 after buying my Saturn in August 2000, 32X August 2001, Mega CD November 2001, Dreamcast in January 2002, Game Gear August 2003, and finally my Master System December 2007. I got a MegaDrive for Christmas 1990, but grew up an NES/Super Famicom guy. Though I always almost played Sega's arcade games exclusively back in the 90's. Virtua Fighter 2 is the greatest fighting game ever made. Oh and, Yu Suzuki is better than Shigeru Miyamoto. Fight me.

Bro, set your microphone's audio track to mono when you're editing your video. It's slightly louder in the left than the right and could benefit from some compression. "S", "P", and "B" sounds are really overpowering as well. Get a pop filter and adjust how close you are to the microphone and it's gain afterwards.

10:45 give it time, in a couple of years tge burgers will reach that cost

Jet Grind Radio / Jet Set Radio is still one of the best games on the Dreamcast, and really the only flaw I've ever seen with it is the controls being a bit janky and hard because of the lack of a second analog stick to control the camera. Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future is also a really solid title, if a super underrated one I rarely hear brought up, that offers lots of great content and a shockingly serious tone and story. Saddest part is that there was actually a sequel for Ecco in the works, titled 'Ecco II: Sentinel's of the Universe' which did have a "playable" demo leak online a few years back. It was canned the same time the Dreamcast was canned, and clearly didn't get far because majority of the assets in the demo are re-used from Defender's of the Future, though it's still a massive let down.

Cannot believe you didn't mention Segagagaga

my fav game of all time.... SEAMAN!!!

You did not mention MICHAEL JACKSON? He was in Space Channel 5! 🎉

Am still at the start but i hope you talk about ristar it was an amazing game for the megadrive/genesis i would recommend it to any sega or 16 bit lover

I swear our phones are listening to us...I was talking about Ecco the dolphin at a game shop and the store manager told me I should buy the original game remade for gameboy advance he said it's wacky af and told me about the final boss...I see this having been a huge fan of the dream cast and what do I learn but this game has an incredible even weirder sequel...Sega was on 1 lol that game looks incredible when I do finally get a dream cast that's the first game I'm buying ty for the put on (LOVE Blue Stinger btw top 10 survival horror for me)

Awesome video. Unrelated, but you're very handsome.

So is he not going to talk about Nights, Fantasy Zone, Dynamite Dux and millions of other franchises and games?

Anybody know name of the track at 18:04?

ryo hazuki or ren of heavens

Absolute fucking vibes in your channel man. Can't wait for the next one

Strange?

have you noticed how dreamcast HAD AMAZING ANTIALIASING .. while microsoft RUINED hteir company they never was able to have that great anti aliasing

Meow

dreamcast was beautiful. i wish the beaches in real life looked liked that

Shenmue video pls 👀