The Dreamcast is 20 years old.

[SheetsMMAfan]

I thoroughly enjoyed a ton of Phantasy Star Online, Monster Rancher, and fighting games.

This was a great system.

 

[My Spot]

It's a damn shame Skies of Arcadia still hasn't been ported to PSN/Steam/XBL.

 

[Prefect]

I never owned the console but in the last year have it emulated on my PC and it does have a lot of great games. I like it for the fighting game collection. It's basically a console version of the NOAMI arcade system. Good shmups too.

I wonder if the memory port was included to eventually play NAOMI games. The only difference between NAOMI and the Dreamcast was the amount of memory. NAOMI I believe was the last long running platform in the arcades. Great system.

I had roommates that had a dreamcast. It was the first system that did online gaming and did it right. Me and my roommate would play nba 2k 2v2 and just fuck shit up. It was a pretty sweet system.

 

[Isthat-yo bop]

Damn seeing this thread . Almost legit brought tears to my eyes . Fuck seeing the images of these games unlocked some blocked memory . I can recall playing 2k nfl and eating little Cesar’s pizza . Thank u ts, damn it’s like idk how to explain it I almost went back in time or some shit . Crazy taxi , sonic adventure and royal rumble was my shit . Human brain is crazy just had a out of body .

 

[tru3f4n]

It was a great console though I didn't care too much for the controller. The graphics in Soul Calibur were stunning.

it was a crap system that is still one of biggest gaming mistakes I made was picking that up instead of a PS2

 

[EradiatedHaggis]

The most frustrating part is Sega did almost everything right with the DC and it still failed. Great price, killer launch lineup, great exclusives, ease of development, etc...

Its downfall was directly caused by game stores. A friend of mine was head manager of a EBGames and he was actually told directly by the regional manager to try to talk customers out of buying a Dreamcast and to get a PS2. The PS2 was given prominence in the stores while the Dreamcast was moved to the back corner.

Also, the original Xbox and controller design was basically the Dreamcast...thats what happens when you allow MSFT into your RND for a windows based system like the Dreamcast had.

 

[Avenger]

I bought this console on release. For arcade ports of fighting games, this console had a great selection. Some of my all time favorites were

Capcom vs Marvel 1&2
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Capcom vs SNK 1&2

 

[jimbob27]

Yes, ofcourse. There wasn't much consumer confidence at the time. I remember being blown away at the Dreamcast, a system Sega got right. However, personally, I didn't know if they were in it for the long haul.

I think consumer confidence was the biggest factor. Some people don't realize how monstrous the PS1 was when when it came on the scene. The saturn sold 9 million, the n64 sold 32 million. Sony sold 102 million units of their debut console. There wasn't a console war that generation, it was a massacre. It's only natural people wanted to wait for the sequel to the console that dominated the two biggest names in the industry.

The announcement that the PS2 would have a DVD player was a big factor too. The dreamcast was ahead of it's time, but the PS2 was of it's time. DVDs were still new, offered a big improvement over VHS and lots of people didn't have a DVD player yet. The fact the PS2 included one pretty much for free definitely contributed to it becoming the biggest selling console ever.

I got my dreamcast after sega announced they were discontinuing them. Electronics boutique went into some sort of mad panic to get rid of all their old stock, so I ended up trading my ps1 and some games i was bored with for a next gen console with a bunch of classics like code veronica and house of the dead 2. It still seems like an unbelievably good deal to this day.