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10 years ago, on this very night, I couldn't sleep
TheSonicRetard
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I had Knots in my stomach. I stayed up all night re-reading my issues of EGM and Gamepro, waiting. I skipped school - I remember it was a thursday. Promptly, at 8:00 am, I walked to the mall (because I couldn't drive yet) and stood in line.
IT'S THINKING
To this date, the ONLY console I've ever preordered and picked up at launch. I bought 2 games that day - Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur. I didn't buy a VMU. I played through Sonic Adventure all day without turning off my dreamcast. Then I played the shit out of Soul Calibur. Then I looked at porno on my TV screen via the internet.
Stayed up the next night too, and skipped that friday. I had 4 days of bliss. I cannot think of a gaming memory that tops the launch of the Dreamcast. You all know what the hell the system is, I don't need to explain. Any screenshot I could post will get bested at least 10 times throughout this thread.
So in short, I'll just say
HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY DREAMCAST!!
I did my part. Did you?
IT'S THINKING
To this date, the ONLY console I've ever preordered and picked up at launch. I bought 2 games that day - Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur. I didn't buy a VMU. I played through Sonic Adventure all day without turning off my dreamcast. Then I played the shit out of Soul Calibur. Then I looked at porno on my TV screen via the internet.
Stayed up the next night too, and skipped that friday. I had 4 days of bliss. I cannot think of a gaming memory that tops the launch of the Dreamcast. You all know what the hell the system is, I don't need to explain. Any screenshot I could post will get bested at least 10 times throughout this thread.
So in short, I'll just say
HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY DREAMCAST!!
I did my part. Did you?
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Fuck what ANYBODY says, Sonic Adventure satisfied me so well. And yes, I've played it recently.
Happy birthday, little buddy.
I can't even put a number to it. It is simply, "so many."
And they were all Offline, too, since I could never do the internet thing.
Also, yes, Sonic Adventure was awesome.
Makes me smile every time I see that.
I wish I could have done my small part to help it survive, and I wish I had a better collection.
Happy birthday, old friend.
Also why don't they remake Alienfront Online for XBLA? I loved that game, but it just came out too late for the DC. It was so fun though.
The last good Sonic games and it was the system to have if you were a fighting game enthusiast during that generation. Wish I still had mine, but the first was killed by my sister and the second died to the crappy controller port wiring.
Died too soon.
Also I didn't play it on dreamcast but I wish I could finish Sonic Adventure if not for that motherfucker Big the Cat and those stupid fishing levels
Jet
Set
Radioooooo
The commercial made this game look unreal. It lived up to the hype. I waited for the $100 price drop, then I made up for lost time in spades. Shemmue, Ecco, Sonic Adventure, Jet Grind Radio, and RE Code Veronica were my first five.
JSR introduced us all to Cel-shading
IN FUCKING STYLE
From day fucking one, that style was associated with immense hipness.
Well...new Jet Set and new Skies of Arcadia.
Played PSO (v1 and v2), Quake 3 (with KB+M) as well as Skies of Arcadia, Shenmue, Record of Lodoss War, MvC2, Soul Calibur, and many others. Hell I even used the DC to surf the web and look up info on Gamefaqs (or Segasages.com) while playing on my PSOne.
Anyways...Dreamcast was probably my favorite console of all time including the SNES. I think I lost months of my life playing Soul Calibur. Every 2D fighter worth playing was out for the system. I skipped a week of classes when my freshly imported copy of MVC2 came out.
It was the perfect storm of Sega games (back when sega games were worth playing) and steady Capcom arcade releases. People used to come into my dorm and just play hours worth of House of the Dead and Confidential Mission.
It was also the first system where my female friends actively wanted to play video games with us. God bless Chu Chu Rocket. Even Bomberman couldn't match its appeal.
I resented the PS2 for a long time. I bought it and it sat there with no games to play and still managed to kill the Dreamcast.
/rant /tears
Each version of JSR had a few exclusive songs, but most of the soundtrack was the same regardless of region. I think there's only like 1 JPN exclusive song. Europe and America won out because our version has music from Jurassic 5.
I liked the American additions. Rob Zombie, Jurassic 5, it was good stuff.
JSRF wasn't half as fun to play, but it was a good sequel, and had some of the best music.
Also, my favorite Dreamcast game that no one knows about:
A first-person slasher made by R&D 1 with Kaneko designs? Sold.
(US art sucks, but here it is anyway)
Man, I hated Eidos for that until 2 weeks ago for Batman AA.
I quickly made up for it, though. My 4th Dreamcast game was
MARVEL
VS
CAPCOM!!
OH FUCK was it on when I got that game. I have a Saturn->Dreamcast converter, so right from the get-go I had the best controller available.
It took up most of the weekend.
Psychic Force. It was a nice premise, basically you pick your Psychic fighter and battle it out by levitating through a cube grid. Every fighter had a different power and different moves used a different amount of your characters Psy guage.
It was a great premise and a game my brothers and I had a lot of fun with.
Hey, is there anywhere a man might go to get some DC games these days, aside from Ebay? Or is Ebay it?
The ending is fucking BIZARRE.
And it will remain unfinished forever.
We will never know if Ryo found the sailors he sought.
really
the ending is bizarre
how about that part where you talk with fish that have human faces
oh and remember when they cannibalized each other? yeah...
And yet, in a game full of all this, the ending was so fucking crazy it stood out.
When it happened the first time, I didn't even know what the hell was going on. I actually lost the first time. I didn't know you could win until the second time around.
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Similarly, it can't be said enough how big of a jump in sports games NFL2K was.
When I went to buy it, I brought my dad with me. We walked into a game store and they had it on demo on a tv in the corner. My dad wasn't paying attention and said "What NFL game is on a saturday?" then did a double take as he realized it was a video game.
Those cinematic camera angles especially sold it. Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, and NFK2K impressed everyone. If you say you weren't impressed, you either are too young or are lying.
Amazon.
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Madkatz could try and make a dreamcast controller and it would be less cumbersome
Hell yeah!
This was the very last system I would ever get to enjoy in the way that children do. I had saved up $400 whole dollars the summer of 2000, and being only 14, I really had nowhere near that kind of a budget for anything. So for the very first time, without a christmas or birthday around it, I bought the whole package: DC, Second Controller, VMU. Along with two games that absolutely enthralled me:
Marvel Vs Capcom 2
and
PowerStone.
That's right, two fighters for a new system in a new town where I didn't know anyone to come over and play against me. smart move. So I wound up practicing the shit out of these two games and to this day they're the only two fighting games I'm even remotely good at.
But I wisely plunked down money for the rest of it's marvelous little library and while I watched the internet geek out over the new PS2 I got a new appreciation for the phrase
Quality Not Quantity.
I would play the shit out of JSR, Sonic Adventure, Skies Of Arcadia and Grandia II using the last few years of Childhood Free-Time to it's fullest.
Eventually though, even piloting a god's sword and having other pirates Dance For Me grew boring and so I finally decided to take the allowance money and plunk it down for a new game.
The date of purchase?
January 30th, 2001
I spent 50 of my childhood dollars on a game that would go on to be just $20 scant days laters. So distraught was I by this, I never touched the game again. Indeed the fact that I had wasted so much money by simply not waiting 6 months put me off of gaming for about...three whole years.
Still, I can't help but respect this noisy ass bastard. I spent way too much on it, but I like to think of it these days as a... Long Term Investment.
Goozex. You can get a lot of Dreamcast games for like $5 each (well, the Goozex Point equivalent of $5).