It always puts a smile on my face to hear the Dreamcast get praised, especially Shenmue.

I still play Sega Bass Fishing just because of the fishing controller. It replicates so many of the actions you’d expect of an actual fishing rod.

In Japan, the Mega Drive had a modem which allowed internet connection, it wasn't focused on online gaming (like the Sattelaview), but offered banking services, live sport scores feed (horse racing and possibly baseball and even F1, I'm only sure about the horse racing). In Brazil, the Mega Drive also had a special banking cart from Bradesco, which allowed for consulting banking info and basic stuff, from home. I also remember hearing that even before that, the Famicom had some sort of connectivity which allowed for live score feed and stuff like that. The Super Famicom had the aforementioned Sattelaview, which as probably the first online service for a console focused on mathplay online, it also had lots of custom and extra content for their main RPGs. But the Western SEGA services during the 16-bit days remedied that across the US, Europe and even Brazil The Saturn was the only console from the 5th generation which had a dedicated peripheral for internet connectivity, it allowed for browsing websites and even creating pages, with a proper mouse and keyboard for that. The console also was the first to feature analog triggers, so many first person shooters and other action games, such as Soviet Strike allows for smooth strafing and moving (using the analog stick), on racing games, it was also the first one , two generations prior which allowed for analog gas/breaking with the triggers. Let's not forget that it was also the first console which tried to focus on online gaming and it also had Dragon's Dream, a Japan-only MMO RPG, ported and supposedly worked cross-platform with its PC counterpart online. I feel that the Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2 and the original Xbox never reached their true potential as far as connectivity and online services/games go, since the internet was in its infancy, but then again, it was probably for the better that this aspect didn't reach farther then. But I remember my older brother playing PES 2005-2006-2007 online a lot against his friend on the PS2, kilometers away from one another, it wasn't perfect, but they had fun with it.

I think MSR (Metropolis Street Racing) was ahead of it's time. First racing game to include photographed textures of real locations in a racing game. Driving through London was amazing. Plus it played to the clock o if it was night when you played then it'd be night in the game (depending on location of course).

Great video on one of my favorite consoles. I'd really like to see one on all of the wacky console peripherals for all systems. I don't think anyone has made one yet.

I read Dreamcast and ahead of its time and I press thumb up.

A Japan-only release, El Dorado Gate, is the first time I heard of a game sold in episodes, it reminds me of Telltale games like Batman and TWD

Great video! I wish the Dreamcast could’ve lasted longer, I think it had the chops to hold up to PS2 but sadly not GameCube or Xbox.

I gave up on Sega after the Saturn, looks like I missed out on some great stuff

Sega Dreamcast was the best back in the day

Moble Suit Gundam Side Story 0079 is the perfect example of being way ahead of its time.

Actually Looney Tunes Space Race might had been first cell shaded 3D -game, but because it moved from N64 into DC, it got delayed. So release was around same time as Jet Set Radio. I do think that JSR is even better game, though. Many Dreamcast games were ahead their time, at least visually, often also on game concepts.

Still find it so weird that Q3 was on the DC. That controller didn't even have 2 sticks!

Also with Shenmue you could play video games within the video game. Not unlockables. Not you have to put in a code. Not you had to exit the game to the main menu and select another game. Right there in the game. And not just one game but 2! Hang On and Space Harrier. Both arcade perfect. Mind you, at the time of it's release the only arcade perfect version was the Saturn version, which in Japan was still sold in stores at full price as the Saturn was still going strong and in America was only available via The Sega Ages Collection put out in limited quantities by Working Designs (it's like the 3rd rarest W.D. game behind Magic Knight Rayearth and Exile: Wicked Phenomenon). So to get an arcade perfect version of a rare or full priced game for free was a big deal.

DC was ahead of the game, it was clearly in the PS2/GCN/XB generation but it was more contemporary with PS1 and N64 The whole 'second screen' and online aspect made it way ahead of the curve

Nice video man! Love the retro content! 🍻💪🏼

Soul Calibre blew my mind

I remember getting Resident evil code veronica for dreamcast and loving it. Then getting resident evil 3 nemesis and feeling like id gone back to ps1 sh#ty graphics it was a real letdown. With all the RE games getting remastered i hope capcom does the right thing and gives us Code veronica again.

SEGA was always ahead of their time, and unfortunately, it always cost them. Gamegear was vastly superior to Gameboy. In fact, it was more advanced than the GBA, in some aspects, until the SP version. However, it came too early in battery technology, and the lower power consumption of GB was more appealing. The Nomad was doing what Switch is doing today, but again, battery issues killed it, even though it was super advanced. SEGA CD could have been a killer app, but they made too many FMA games instead of amazing 16 but games with superior sound quality. Imagine Streets of Rage 2 on SEGA CD.

its a little bit odd that you went out of your way to mention that Quake 3 still has active servers, but you act as though PSO is not still online. You even mention that BB is around and offline multiplayer for the Cube. The truth is they are all still online. You can play PSO online on PC, DC, Xbox and Gamecube. In my opinion you are better off owning PSO Ep 1&2 plus on the Gamecube. It has more content as well as all of original Dreamcast Version 2. If you want to play online, its not gonna be cheap for the Cube, or the Dreamcast really. Both options are here though.

still have my chu chu rocket email away

What about Seaman?

I wish I could afford one 😢

The dreamcast kind of sucks