More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About The Sega Dreamcast

15 responses to “More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About The Sega Dreamcast”

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   outbreak

   January 12, 2015 at 1:29 pm

   I’m fine with a rapid fire pacing of their videos. They are my favourite youtube channel to check out

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2. 

   wadeohh

   January 12, 2015 at 3:19 pm

   I still have an Official DreamCast light gun to this day! I got it with House of the Dead 2 around 15-16 years ago.

   Great system, great games!

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3. 

   luke

   January 12, 2015 at 5:43 pm

   Wait, i always thought that Sony were partners with Nintendo before the PS1 and N64 were released, they only parted ways because Nintendo wanted to keep using cartridges over CD’s, Sony investing too much money to simply dump their contribution developed the PS1.

   I could possibly be (and probably are) wrong but this is what i always thought.

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   1. 

      cobra

      January 12, 2015 at 5:52 pm

      From what I remember, Sony was going to originally partner with Nintendo, but after discovering the fine print that would have entitled Sony to most of the royalties, Nintendo pulled out. Sony then turned to Sega, but as they said in this video, that fell through too. So after that, Sony decided to take them both on with the Playstation.

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   2. 

      hyperthx

      January 13, 2015 at 12:09 pm

      Yep, you are correct. The “facts” at the start of the video are complete nonsense. Considering the fact, too, that Dreamcast runs Hitachi SH-4 CPU and NEC Power-VR2 GPU, which was not even mentioned at all… Makes me wonder about their previous videos historical accuracy now, too.

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4. 

   akumajobelmont

   January 12, 2015 at 5:59 pm

   “Anyway, the Dreamcast was an amazing system, but a perfect storm of factors led Sega to eventually discontinue it and ditch the game hardware business entirely. Everybody knows that.”

   That’s a little better 😛

   My Dreamcast still gets a TON of use. The amount of gold in the Dreamcast library is staggering. I’ve recently started replaying Grandia II, and I’ve been meaning to hunt down a legit copy of Record of Lodoss War- a really neat ARPG that seems to have been completely forgotten to time.
   Tokyo Highway Challenge/Xtreme Racer/Shutokō Battle 2 is also on high rotation. Anytime I turn that game on, it’s days before I can bring myself to give it up again 🙂

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5. 

   bigguss

   January 12, 2015 at 8:29 pm

   I have had mine since launch and there are only 3 games in my collection id consider system sellers.
   Soul Caliber, Rayman, Tony Hawk 2.
   The dream cast just wasn’t that great a gaming console.

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   1. 

      arkayn

      January 13, 2015 at 9:43 am

      WHAT!? Chu Chu Rocket, Crazy Taxi 1 & 2, Shenmue, Sonic Adventure, Sega Rally, V-Rally 2, Spawn In The Demons Hand, Marvel Vs Capcom 2, Blue Stinger, MS-R (which then became PGR on Xbox). All these and more are one exclusive (till the console fell) and two AMAZING!

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      1. 

         hyperthx

         January 13, 2015 at 12:35 pm

         The Dreamcast is a Legendary console and is the missing link between PlayStation/Saturn/N64 era, and the Xbox/PS2/Gamecube era. Dreamcast was the first time arcade quality was achieved in the home.

         Here’s my list;

         Shenmue
         Shenmue 2
         Sonic Adventure (best Version)
         Sonic Adventure 2 (best Version)
         Marvel Vs Capcom 2 (best Version)
         Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike (best Version)
         Street Fighter Alpha 3 (best Version)
         Capcom Vs SNK 2
         Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves
         SoulCalibur
         Dead or Alive 2 (best Version)
         Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (best Version)
         Metropolis Street Racer (1st in Project Gotham series)
         V-Rally 2 (best Version)
         Daytona USA 2001 (best Version)
         Sega GT
         Vigilante 8: 2nd Offence (best Version)
         Hydro Thunder (best Version)
         Toy Commander
         Crazy Taxi
         Crazy Taxi 2
         Dave Mirra BMX (best Version)
         Tony Hawk 2 (best Version)
         Resident Evil: Code Veronica (best Version)
         Resident Evil 2 (best Version)
         Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (best Version)
         Dino Crisis (best Version)
         Skies of Arcadia
         Grandia 2
         Ecco: Defender of the Future (best Version)
         Evolution
         Evolution 2
         House of the Dead 2
         Jet Set Radio
         NBA 2K (1st in NBA2K series)
         Power Stone
         Power Stone 2
         Rez
         Soul Fighter

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         1. 

            pokedad

            January 13, 2015 at 7:37 pm

            This is a Good List.

            There are a bunch of Excellent bad games, too. Like Dynamite Cop and Zombie’s Revenge.

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            1. 

               hyperthx

               January 19, 2015 at 2:21 pm

               Yep, those too. That’s why Soul Fighter is on there 😛 http://youtu.be/Ho56eHkQoaQ

               And Blue Stinger – that game was like someone tried to slap together a clone of Shenmue…

            2. 

               pokedad

               January 21, 2015 at 8:29 am

               Oh man. I bought Blue Stinger on release day, which was 2 days before the DC launch for some weird reason. I always felt like it was Resident Evil as an adventure game. So many great memories of that game. It was terrible in the best way.

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               hyperthx

               January 31, 2015 at 12:50 pm

               I didn’t have Blue Stinger. Lucky me had a different shitter – Trickstyle. I had too put up with it’s mediocre anti-grav boarding until I could buy an actual game worth playing… but nothing was going to make me turn that PS1 back on. I’m in the future now 😛

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      travisnew87

      January 13, 2015 at 2:47 pm

      Power Stone 1 & 2 are so good!

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      1. 

         arkayn

         January 13, 2015 at 5:30 pm

         I had Jap copies. No idea what was happening and it twas still great.

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