That's so cool!

Yeah, but did you still play it though?

@@CountDoucheula sorry but no. We weren't allowed to.

9.9.99 It sucked then 3.1.24 Still sucks now.

Syke

This is Gizmondo erasure sir

I remember my friend buying a dreamcast and anyone else had a ps2, we had a blast with crazy taxi and few other games but than there was nothing while on ps2 the releases never stopped. I felt bad for my friend.

Well, there was nothing officially, not officially there are ports made for this console from even last year or so from games you can buy. You could even play gran turismo 2 or other games on it if you had bleem.

Agreed, I'm a casual gamer of 1st and 3rd person games, and I always felt the same about the Dreamcast as a day one owner for Christmas 1998 (Japanese console). In that case, it's the perfect fit for me. To me, it feels & performs like a gaming PC or an arcade machine from 1994 or 1995 with a Voodoo card for solid textures. As a kid, I had a high-end gaming PC from December 1996 and it had similar framerate to the DC (sometimes 5 fps higher), but it looked noticeably better if you put them side by side. Games like Half-Life 1, Kiss Psycho Circus, Quake 3, UT '99, etc. you could see the most difference. My PC came with 64mb ram and two 200mhz cpus (for 400mhz total), and the task manager took up about 32mb when playing games. Same amount of ram as a PS2 and a slightly more powerful cpu, which the PS2's was 300mhz. By the time the DC was out in "9-9-1999", I remember there were already PCs being hyped-up that were similar in power to the original Xbox (like Pentium 3's and early GeForce's). From December 1998 to mid 1999, I mostly played on my DC Blue Stinger, Elemental Gimmick Gear, and Sonic Adventure 1. This early Japanese release unfortunately gave Americans ample time to crack the GD-ROM security, and whole strategy guides of Blue Stinger (with spoilers & some screenshots) I remember well were written online in English by June 1999 (before "9-9-99"). The whole release date looking back was a mess/bad timing.

Nintendo, Sony, and NEC.

@@timothylewis2527 NEC wasn’t much for their competition

The PC Engine beat Sega in Japan, and was crushing the Famicom. It's a mistake to underestimate it, just because they flushed that success down the toilet.

Actually... The first "big three" were Atari, Magnavox and Mattel... The second "big three” was Atari, Nintendo, and NEC... The third were Atari, Nintendo and Sega... The fourth was Nintendo, Sega and NEC... The fifth was Nintendo, Sega and Sony... Then (and to this day) Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft...

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Yeah Sony half life sucks. I mean far less loading time. Better graphics than even the PC version. Dual analog controls compared to Dreamcast 1 analog stick. Yep real shitty.

Also Genesis is better than SNES

That game needs a sequel. Such a great game. I really liked the Moby Dick steampunk setting.

Powerstone is a must play, even on an emulator, so much fun

@@filipmartinez1162 thank u! :D

You didn't miss anything. It sucked hence why it flopped.

@@cf105cp you sound like an FF weeaboo femboy, and not a gamer..

​@@cf105cp careful to not cut yourself on that edge.

Sega made many stupid mistakes, first they brought the Sega 32x for the Sega Mega Drive and 6 months they released the Sega Saturn. Sega released 18 games for the 32x in Europe, everyone concentrated for Sega Saturn, whoever bought an addon without any function. Or the Sega CD, in Europe only 4 games been released for it. And the Sega Saturn missed a chance, it had 2 cpus and and they made the console for the ultimate 2d gaming until they realized what PS1 did but it was too late. And nobody wanted to develop games on hard to code due 2 processors and poor 3d capabilities while the PS1 bet on 3d and was easier to program. And that was all before the dreamcast.

Dreamcast was not possible in 1997. The hardware did not exist. It is a late, cutting edge 1998 console (that's actually when it was released in Japan, and Sega releasing it in the US *ten months later* was just another one of their many horrendous business decisions) and it could not have come earlier. First off RAM. 26MB of RAM (16MB for system RAM, 8MB for video RAM, and 2MB for audio RAM) would have cost around twice as much in late 1997. I think you are forgetting how much memory prices were decreasing each year as yields improved in that era. It wasn't feasible. Further, it would have only been 66MHz SDRAM because the 100MHz variety wasn't yet on the market. So the system (if launched in 1997) would have had considerably less RAM (or an enormous price tag) and with only 66% of the memory bandwidth. A sufficient CPU was also not available in 1997. If you only look at clock speed then it appears possible. But then you look further and see it is not. Yes, there were 200MHz processors in 1997. The intel pentium II for one (a CISC processor and so silicon is devoted to hardware instructions which will never be used and thus would never be picked) and the MIPS R5000 series also. Neither of these had vector/matrix unit like the later Hitachi SH-4. In order to perform a row by column multiply, dot product, or sum of squares operation as fast as the SH-4, you would need to overclock these to 800MHz or more. That wasn't possible. (And those operations are critical for your matrix perspective transformations, lighting calculations, and LOD determinations.) The SH-4 of 1998 was designed with input from SEGA to be optimized for the 3d math needed for consoles and arcade machines. The CPUs available in 1997 were not. There also wasn't a 3d graphics accelerator in the same caliber as the PowerVR CLX2 back in 1997. Power VR had a more primitive 3d accelerator at that time. It did not support the large textures that the later CLX2 did, it had a slower triangle setup engine, and there was no hardware tile accelerator with 1997's CX2 chipset. So the CPU would be taxed with managing the duties of assigning which polygon was associated with which tile and clearing memory once the tile was rendered. It also wouldn't produce the same quality of image since it couldn't push as many polygons as the later CLX2 or use the large textures. Other options available in 1997 were the Voodoo Graphics and (possibly) an improved version of the N64's RDP. Both of these options are far inferior to the PowerVR CLX2. The Voodoo Graphics is clocked slower (and so has a lower theoretical fillrate), suffers from overdraw (and so has an even lower actual fillrate), does not support the large textures that the CLX2 did, is wasteful with memory, and does not even have a triangle setup engine (and so the CPU would be taxed with those calculations). And RDP follow-on would have a triangle setup engine (except much slower), wouldn't support large textures, and suffers from overdraw. At best case, you are probably looking at not much better than half of the performance of the Dreamcast's CLX2 - and with lower texture quality. The PowerVR CLX2 was chosen because it proved to be more powerful than 1998's 3dfx Voodoo 2! Dreamcast hardware was far more powerful than you realize. And it was actually a very good time to launch a new console. The technology of late 1998 allowed a step change increase in capability. SEGA just really screwed up by delaying the North American launch by ten months. If you look at other consoles (N64, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox) none of the others have that kind of delay in between initial local launch and taking it global.

Please elaborate as to why it was the last true console

Relax 🤓

Nope. I use mine as a doorstop. Seriously I do. And I got mine free. It sucked. Deal with it.

Why didn’t it last then?

it's hard to explain. I grew up in an era where consoles differed from computers. I grew up with Atari, Nintendo and Sega. their features were created specifically for games; the consoles were produced by houses that were the main video game producers; today only Nintendo remains. the feeling I had with the advent of new consoles produced by houses like Sony or Microsoft meant that the consoles were based on PC hardware but with the limitations of a console. for this reason today I believe it is more convenient to buy a PC that has the same games of equal or higher quality but at lower prices; Furthermore, with a PC you can do many more things. This is my personal opinion and I respect those who have a different opinion on this topic.

ohhhh this makes me feel bad inside

Born in January 1990, I was bullied hard in the mid 2000s for sticking with my Dreamcast. From what my Japanese girlfriend has told me (1987 born, also a DC owner back then), most post-2002 releases in Japan were simple "anime-like" games or "solid texture PS1-like" games, not "core 2000s style" games like GTA San Andreas or Half-Life 2. So with what she's told me, I wouldn't put much thought into Japanese DC games lasting into 2005.

thought you would just slip that in did you

Probably was sold in your region but not advertised, I remember the US commercials, it was also sold in Mexico but they never had any Mexican commercials for it.

yeah I just got sick to *death* of John Wick after the first time he punched a dude in the throat

nah it ruled!

Tell me your Parents only let you play PS1 while DC was out without telling me you were poor. 🙄