My favourite video game of all time is Skies of Arcadia, a Japanese RPG released for the ill-fated Sega Dreamcast in 2000. The Dreamcast was an amazing console, with bright and colourful games that left a major impact on me. So, when the time came for me to finally get my first tattoo, I took inspiration straight from the video game that changed my life.
"Make the games you wish to see on the Dreamcast." The quote is placed dead center on the website for Arcane Kids, creators of the absurdist Sonic Dreams Collection. Their game Zineth lives up to this aspiration. It's a wild trip with rail grinds, wall rides, and social media shenanigans. It's this week's Indie Pick.
Briefly: It might have been the Dreamcast's 16th birthday in America a few months back, but today actually marks the console's full and proper 17th birthday, since it was on 27 November 1998 that the Dreamcast was first released in Japan.
Sony has spent some time recently reminding people that it was recently the 20th anniversary of the original PlayStation's launch in North America, and that's cool, but let's not forget that it was also a special anniversary for another old console.
