It came out a year or two prior to the PS2. That's why it had such a short lifespan.

Connor Coffey because it didn't have DRM protection

Daniel Soriano o

That wasn't the only problem though. Sega had previously been releasing new consoles left and right. First the Genesis, then the CD, and then Saturn. All of which were released fairly close to each other. The Saturn's surprise release didn't go over so well either. Heck, America didn't even know of it's development until 4 months before the console was released. Not leaving the company or press any time to promote it. Needless to say, Sega lost a lot of money and supporters. The Dreamcast was their last-ditch effort to make money and gain back all the supporters they had lost. The only problem was they blew their budget on the operating system and graphics. They promoted it well enough, but with people loosing faith in Sega, and the money it would take to actually make the console AND keep it at a low enough cost so middle class families could actually afford it proved to be too much for them. So the console, and Sega, sunk faster than the Titanic.

Actually dreamcast has lots of potential because of the operative system Windows ce which was used later on the XBoX but because of the lack of drm nobody wanted to make games for it

Antizinho I truly understand what he meant about "almost crying"

***** I know brother

BrothaRobMusic I hear you brother.... Same here..

Sauna, are you playin around or did you seriously just eff up those biggie lyrics? You know it's word up magazine right?

BrothaRobMusic that was one of the very first video game consoles I've ever heard owned

Chad Fritz yah ppl where like wut is this 128 bit thing

IKR

What about PCs?

Chad Fritz ,Agreed bro

But no where as ahead as the Genesis. Sega CD , Sega Chanel, internet support.

Ur gay mate

Phantasy star online

Phantasy Star online for me was my first ever rpg i owned as well as my first MMO and first online game i played with someone online i would call my friend up until PSO V2 required a credit card for the hunters license

+killersheaven82 Ditto. I did a Belated unboxing of my Dreamcast last week. Still one AWESOME console :¬ )

+RG07 Productions damn I found mine in a caravan my parents bought about 5 years ago

+killersheaven82 i love my dreamcast too but with emulation i can now enjoy every single game and in HD quality

I also turn 16 this year YAY!!!

i dont care

Lol

Narwhale The Great Fridge Tuna from last week "aaahh..... nostalgia!"

ha

+Narwhale The Great *16 year old opening an Atari 2600* "Aaahh..... Nostalgia!" Yea I'm that kid.

TheAndkonmegalodon what if you died doing something incredibly stupid and have deja vu from a previous life

***** Lewis Hilsenteger It really brings me good memories seeing these in stores. At my 40's I can appreciate how games come to live.

Oh my god, the day I got my genesis from nes, and playing Raiden Trad and Sonic all day. That was a good day!

Lewis Hilsenteger Man you ace it. It is a imperative to make a video playing that.

***** Only games I loved from Sega Genesis were "Road Rash" and "Golden Axe".

Yes the Genesis was amazing. Actually any Sega console makes me feel nostalgic

*RetroMochi* really? You come two years later (1 year after the commend was written) and say that! The human race keeps amazing me everyday!

*RetroMochi* : Guess who is stupid: A- A person who says he is 16 (who could be wrong about his own age ?) B- A person who is telling him your age is wrong C- A person who is telling the idiot B that he is an idiot :D Let's do the Math you stupid idiot: Let's Imaging he is born in Dec 2000 (which is probably the case), he is commenting on the first few months of 2017 and on that month of 2017 he is saying he is 16. Do the Math right, and you will understand he is 16 and few months old If you are telling him (and me) he is stupid and he's wrong about his age, then YOU ARE THE FUCKING STUPID you piece of useless junk.

RetroMochi hahhah, guess who is butthurt :D Idiot!

Younger 4 years old Still love this console now

You will be 19 this year

And?

Play shenmue

39 pounds is a steal if it works

@@tomcatdude105 39 pounds was only the shipping costs, the console itself together with that shipping price will likely have been quite a bit higher

Probablly the best thing to accidentally when your drunk

Jin Shirato then go get it ma friend!!

Hello mai brathers

Jin Shirato I still have mine in my closet

I still have mine sitting right in front of me. I just gotta set it back up, but I've been too lazy.

just bought one at my local retro game store for $50 :)

What's your daily driver as a smartphone ?

I just joined the 301+ club AGAIN!!!

Unbox Therapy I really enjoy the retro unboxing do one of the super nintendo if you havent or the n64.

please do a ps1 or a game boy the best option is both but pleaaaaaaasssssssseeeeeeee

World Wide Web

Ecco the Dolphin

One of the greatest games I've ever played.

It was a really cool game

Elly you're awesome :-D

Same here, in fact i still have my ps1 and sometimes when i have time i just sit and play my favorite games for old times sake :)

ps1 and Gamecube

Yeah and Actually I'm looking to buy a PS1 in Flawless condition to re-play old games from the past

Elly awsome

Completely agree. The lack of a DVD player is why everyone in Japan abandoned it. The biggest market for consoles, so that was a bad sign.

I love my Dreamcast but I disagree. A DVD drive alone would not have saved it because people simply expected the PS2 to be better in every respect. Now if it were possible to have added Ethernet and a DVD while keeping the price the same then that would have tipped the balance, but I'm sure that would have been impossible. Also, software piracy was the final nail in the coffin which would not have changed with a DVD player and Ethernet. I still say it would be possible to resurrect the Dreamcast without any changes if they had come up with a model that incorporated piracy in its business model kind of like shareware. The motto could be "If you liked the pirated version, wait until you try the full version with all of its extra content". The DVD version would only work if they came up with a technology that prevented the Dreamcast from executing code from a DVD. Like if they had a separate circuit board for DVD video and as soon as the Dreamcast detected DVD format it functioned only as a pass through to cary the DVD information to the separate DVD circuitry.

and how was sega supposed to pay that?

It has a GD-rom

No, I doubt that. For one, that would have drove costs much higher, and they were already bleeding money. Plus, Sony simply had the brand loyalty and hype that was off the charts. Nothing Sega could have done would have saved it, because it was an amazing console. Everyone who had one agrees, and everyone who didn't never knew either way, because they held out for PS2.

Mine was a PS4.

The days of renting your games from a video store.

Amanjot Rai Can I like if I played on an N64?

I still own one in perfect condition with a lot of the best titles that came out ! Mario, Zelda Ocarina of times/majora mask, Banjoe Kazooie(man i loved that one),Golden eye, etc. aaaahhh..

N64 was my first too!

Still remember that day.

Copat87 if you can reply I just got the Dreamcast (like 2 weeks ago) games (the games I have are Sonic Adventure and WSB 2K2 and me get more from GameStop online to 4-7 days) but anyways Was The Line Long At The Launch??????🤨

ThatOneGolden T-Rex Dude Awesome! Yes the lineup was long (I bought mine at Walmart) and the system was sold out for a long time after launch. Sonic Adventure was my very first game :)

Copat87 that’s shocking but I also heard from other people like “oh I got mine at target” or other people but you do I have a sub and another question,Was SEGA-NET like Xbox live except better or worse

Copat87 and just to joke around.did the Dreamcast started collected dust in places in GameStop when the ps2 came out

+lassebasseish GameCube... Please. Controller was horrific and quality had NOTHING to due with the DC's demise. Sith pretty much summed up the major ones. Every day of the week I'm taking this system over the Cube (released 2 years LATER, btw). Sports games, online play (or lack there of) made the Cube a non-starter for me and people of my ilk. It was a vehicle for Nintendo's first-party games, that's it, and again, I preferred Sega's. No contest for me.

"It was a vehicle for Nintendo's first-party games, ..." That statement does not say it had no 3rd party support, only that 1st party was the main focus. Also, you do make some valid points, especially about Sega's incompetent marketing division (they always fucked that up after the MegaDrive/Genesis). I've played on DC, PS2 and GC and both GC and DC were better than PS2. The PS2 lacked video memory and often had crude textures and jagged gfx. If only the bulk of its games looked as great as GT3&4. lol

rly dude nothing is better than the ps2 not only games wise but units sold the ps2 is the #1 selling games console ever, so dude if you're gonna defend the dreamcast don't call it the "best console ever" call it an console that never rly sold well but had some good games on it. look I get you are clouded by nostalgia, but figures wise the ps2 is the best console ever period. Oh and they made another one and another one. #dreamcast2stilladream

Devon Jackson I agree with lassebasseish. Because PS2 had great sales, doesn't make it the best console hardware-wise. Like I said; I played all 3, and PS2 had the lesser graphics. Games like GT and MGS were more the exception than the rule.

+lassebasseish the first Xbox was way better than the PlayStation 2.

+TheOakAsWay "Aw, yeah! This is happenin'!" Yep, Sonic Adventure, the best game ever made. Even if it is broken. And Crazy Taxi was a lot of fun, too, even though I only got to experience it on GameCube. "It's time to make some Crrrazy money, are ya ready? Here we go!" ... "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!"

+TheOakAsWay "Aw, yeah! This is happenin'!" Yep, Sonic Adventure, the best game ever made. Even if it is broken. And Crazy Taxi was a lot of fun, too, even though I only got to experience it on GameCube. "It's time to make some Crrrazy money, are ya ready? Here we go!" ... "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!"

YAYAYAYAYA -Crazy taxi reference

Whoever you're, I love you.

+TheOakAsWay yes awsome games, i also have that 2 games original. i play crazy taxi the very first one regulary, as so dead or alive 2, msr, sega rally 2, shenmue and many more. i also have the web browser 2.0 new in box(never was used by me) and the very very first demo for the dreamcast(dream on volume 1) it has 17 yers in my hands!!

I was a big fan of sonic

ANONYMOUS I use to go to blockbusters to play it, until I actually bought the console and game.

astgraphicnovel Please sign the petition: www.thepetitionsite.com/123/691/697/to-the-new-management-of-sega-of-america-and-sega-holdingsltd/#sign

Tornado1994 You can't just petition a company to change its business strategy xD

Sloth from The Goonies Yes you can. Nice trolling attempt and username.

My father had it and I played the fuck out of it.

Mike2174 Anytime I hear the music from that game I go back in time.

Same! i used to play it when i come back from school, memories :')

Chris P. Bacon i learned all the songs on guitar when i was 15 lol

yeah, best game

Nope it was a great game but the best was power stone 2

HOUSE OF THE DEAD!! Oh man, you just took me back...

oh yeah..love that game! 😄

Rami Al-Omari the best game ever! Still have that on my pc tho

HM, HM, HM, HM. LOYFE CYCLE

+Nintendo66 that game is hard tho

Oh, the feels.

Hahahah station square, classic 😂😂😂

Biff Stevenson My reason for buying a Dreamcast.

Don´t forget about mystic ruins xD

Exactly. Was called the Mega Drive here. Epic machine! Sonic and Altered Beast all day baby!

I from rissha! And Genesis we called Mega Drive

I do!

I do and desperately hate the Ps2 because it’s black and small plus favorite title for Dreamcast is Seaman and Half life

I am 13 and have a dreamcast, got my Xbox one but love the dreamcast

Hey Hey come on over and have some fun with Crazzyyyyyyy Taxi!!!!!!!!!!

iPlaySEGA ,I love it as well ,it's a revolutionary console.

Amen to that!

that game was my shit when I was 5-7 until my cousin broke it still remember that sad day and im 16 now lol

Nathan Stulp same

Nathan Stulp oh yeah. when crazy taxi came out it set a new standard for arcades. the game ran so fast. looked so good. it was really fun as well

Nathan Stulp we need crazy taxi 2

On the plastic wrap, i mean

Actually there were 3 models: With Red sign - for North America, with Blue sign - for Europe, with Orange sign - for Japan. I own a blue one :)

Steven Stevens TBH I want Xbox to die just so they can make Halo and the other good exclusives they have for everyone.....But if $ony dies then the cancer fanboys will die too, we never hear M$ fanboys talking shit unless $ony fucks up, and barely hear them bragging during last gen compared to $ony this gen. We barely hear PC Elites talking shit now unless the consoles fuck up or brags about something that the PCs been having or been doing *cough* $ony *cough* . $ony fanboys talk shit all the time for the past like what 6years? And claim themselves as *true gamers* now, meanwhile only buys $ony products, and doesn't want to play with Xbots because fuck them when cross-play *helps games player counts* , when a real gamer plays on any platform, not just one and sticks with it for 20years claiming it as better meanwhile never touched another platform before. PC doesn't do that shit anymore, which makes sense because it's childish and Petty.

Pizzafied YT And you're the reason why DBS is garbage and give the PS4 user base a bad name

No ..... Nintendo is best

seriously your so fucking blind...did he even say that sega is better than nintendo? quit internet modern consoles fanboy

You're not playing the right games dude :)

Tim Nickell keep that same shit going with you're kids as I am doing the same

BrothaRobMusic when the switch comes back the feels of true gaming with friends and family will come back.

it wasnt a ethernet port... it was a modem port

It was 56K (used a phone jack) with the option to add an extremely rare and now expensive broadband modem

I have both the broadband and original modems for mine. Best home console ever, in my opinion. It was ahead of its time and I'm sad it was never as popular as it should have been.

True spoken

Agreed! Even though I grew up with SNES, N64, I have to recognize how INCREDIBLE this machine was at the time, and STILL is IMHO. The Dreamcast is one of my favorite consoles of all time, glad I still have mine :)

I still use a wired xbox controller xD

I have a wired mouse - close enough right?

I remember when I first got my Xbox 360 and when someone walked past in front of me I would still indistinctly move the controller. I can't say I miss wired controllers lol

Wired controlers are better!

EgiaGT I- yeah...

+Za Warubro It's Jet set radio.

+PaddyB Plays I'm Jet Set on kicking your ass. Meet me at the Shibuya-cho parking lot if you want an ass-kicking.

Za Warubro Your talking to Dj professor K!

this comment made me tear up I love jet grind (set) radio, that is my childhood right there. the graphics in my opinion trample most games today. it is stunningly beutiful

Jet Grind Radio had some serious imagination

Same here :) Playing Duck Hunt as a kid is the earliest memory of gaming I have.

my first was an atari 2600

Oh my god its dave :D

Oh lol I started on Win2000 when I was like 2yrs old!

My first console was xbox like old old xbox :D

Almost forgot... Power Stone 2. One of the funnest games I ever played.

Makenshu san They REALLY want to.recruit.sega.jp/fresh2016/vision/segainteractive/ Please sign the petition: www.thepetitionsite.com/123/691/697/to-the-new-management-of-sega-of-america-and-sega-holdingsltd/#sign

UnboxedGameplay Fellow SEGA fan, listen up. SEGA is TRYING to return to consoles. recruit.sega.jp/fresh2016/vision/segainteractive/ They NEED your support. You've got to let your voices be heard. Sign the petition! www.thepetitionsite.com/123/691/697/to-the-new-management-of-sega-of-america-and-sega-holdingsltd/#sign

SPHERICAL!!!!!!!

I love you guys lol

OKAMA GAMESPHERE

Wouldn't that be a GameCube reference in drake and josh not a dreamcast?

Amazing game, especially if you you were a Dragonball Z fan ;-)

Without PC you wouldn't have dream cast or Xbox

Without electricity you wouldn't have either

without humans, you get the joke

i was actually being serious but these replies are making me laugh

without Sega there wouldn't be an X-box.

correction: sega killed there own system.

***** Yes, after the fact that sega did a terrible job advertising their console and not to mention most people lost faith in the company after the sega 32x and the Saturn. Dreamcast was already on life support before the ps2 even released

And Sony had enough funds to make the PS2 a DVD player at a low cost. Once again Sony don't succeed by the quality of their content, but by getting their consoles into your home any which way they can. CD player, DVD player, Bluray player, The one that isn't shit or the one that doesn't boss you around. They genuinely do some very boring consoles, and get very bored looking at them. Not saying they don't have some absolutely great fun games available, just the consoles themselves have very little soul.

I LOVE the Dreamcast but the PS2 ended up with the best library even to this day. You must be referring to the release games. Once GTA3 and FF10 rolled around there was no stopping that thing.

that Controller was the start and inspiration for the original Xbox controller, which Sega helped Microsoft make by the way. Ultimately is was the inspiration for the current Xbox One controller and Xbox 360 controller. I enjoyed it.

I loved it too! I wooped ass with Afro Thunder

Joe Colombo LETS GET READY TO RUUUUUMMMMMBBBBLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!! oh the memories

Joe Colombo jacksons birthday

My guy was and still is Jimmy Blood

Scott Cowan boi

n64 was and still is my life tbh

Death Lucy same

download emulator and you're good to go on your PC at higher settings ;-) xbox 360 controller fully supported. You're welcome

Alucard8319 nothing beats playing on original hardware if you're wired to prefer that. YMMV

Owner of a dreamcast but I have to say that with an emulator preferably Demul you get HD graphics, faster loading times,unlimited memory space plus you can play with a better 360controller which is again an update..ah and you cannot hear the freaking cd reader noise

NavaIMTutorial #BringBackSegaConsoles

NavaIMTutorial sega isn't a person....

Hinself

To play what? Sonic?

No..... It's better off a game developer

It should have sonic '06 as a launch title. I'd buy it.

marvdatboi it would be like at least 10millions dolar kick start it.

He took you back and you don't even know how to spell remember

MORDEKAIZ I'd think you would need more then 10 million.

+Thatmexicanboy559 I didn't realize misspelling a single word would ruin youtube for ya

raydeen2k I didn't get into PSO until it came out on the GameCube but I love the Dreamcast because without it PSO would've never happened. From that I, as well, ended up playing PSU, owning all 3 versions of it on PS2, PC, and Xbox 360.

ikr

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Play..... it......

I know right. Games back then had depth and meaning. They gave you a reason to actually PLAY the game and it was FUN. And beating the game actually meant something. Nowadays its all Call of Duty or Battlefield.

ugh shadow of mordor the witcher 3 skyrim infamous batman arkham assassins creed 4 rayman legends tomb raider the last of us uncharted littlebigplanet pokemon etc

I don't really think that all games from the past were SO COOL and stuff. As well as not every modern game is "heartless". There are diamonds on both sides. In different meanings. And don't forget about how various are tastes of people can be. What you may find bad (for example, because of focusing more on visual sides and gameplay than on story) is acceptable for others. Also, indie games. Was that the thing in the past as wide as today? Doesn't feel like that. And, ya know, indie games tend to be original. Evolution of whole gaming industry is present, in my opinion. I guess, you're just having nostalgia touch.

***** Each to their own! ;)

FuzzyBacon Damn sonic adventure was awesome!

What about shenmue saga ? Its a great game too.

***** Why Do I see you everywhere? xD

FuzzyBacon Sonic Adventure Forever!

+Stephen Vickers And Internet is even easier to say

They are the same amount of syllables.

+Michael Sperl No, doub-le-u doub-le-u doub-le-u, 9 syllables. World wide web, 3 syllables.

+Stephen Vickers I think he meant In-ter-net and World Wide Web

Yep. Quicker to type, but slower to say.

I was born during launch month

DCB99FReturns I was born in March 22, 1999 and which is my parents got the Dreamcast launch in September 9, 1999 and brought House of the Dead 2 first launch game for Dreamcast

+Frosty Spazkins no just no

+utdforever100 He's right you know

That's a huge contributor, but you have to account for all of the reasons: - GD-ROM Disc format (SUPER EASY to play pirated games) - One joystick when every other console had two. - Dead last in graphics. Even PS2 was twice as powerful. - Many retailers refused to stock it AT ALL after the Sega Saturn debacle. - EA refused to make games for it. ... But hey, I bought one brand new last year and I love it more than anything, so yeah.

+Frosty Spazkins PS2 was moddable making it infinitely better.. just buy a new hard drive for it and have like a 2,000 game library like my buddy did.

LSSRoshi DC allowed anyone to just burn the games online and play them, so no modding was needed. If you want to talk mods, Xbox Original mods put PS2 mods to shame

darude *s p a g h e t t*

H-harambe? Your... YOUR BACK!

Poke Ben *you’re (2x) hehe

To get a bunch of likes

Sonic Tha Hedgehog gezz sonic why the dead birdy?

Sonic Tha Hedgehog the profile pic says all. this console screwed the rest of your life. *Sad Violin plays*

I miss shenmue.

Casey Rodriguez I hope you know that Shenmue 3 is being worked on.

Casey Rodriguez Shenmue 3 will be here about one year from now :)

yeah but america never got shenmue 2

galacliva Shenmue 2 was released in America back in 2001 on the Xbox. I still have the game.