These are the games I owned for DC. Half of them are still sitting in storage halfway across the country.
Garou: Mark of the Wolves (They called it Fatal Fury, but I'll always know its awesomeness as Garou)
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Powerstone
Powerstone 2
Phantasy Star Online
Phantasy Star Online 2.0
Soul Calibur
Dead or Alive 2
Psychic Force 2012
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Capcom vs. SNK
Evil Dead: Hail to the King
Worms Armaggedon
Worms World Party
Shenmue
Grandia 2
Skies of Arcadia
Rival Schools 2
Blue Stinger
Jet Grind Radio
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
King of Fighters '99
Soul Reaver
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure 2
Time Stalkers
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Oh man...that reminds me of another great fighting game nobody played.
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.
Yeah... each had their own specialty, right? Fire, ice, rock, gravity, light, dark... etc. Game was sweet. NFL2K is my best Dreamcast memory, and playing tournaments every weekend.
If everyone loved it so much, then why did it fail?
Honest question, I'm not being sarcastic, but back I didn't care about consoles.
Because Sony had marketing spin on their side without question, and Sega could have packaged legalized crack in their boxes and it would not have overcome the horrible business decisions of the 90's they made.
1) I would argue it failed because I bought it. Like the TG-16, Intellivision, Sega Master System, and Atari 7800. I am the kiss of death for systems.
2) Sega didn't learn from the Saturn -- launching first doesn't guarantee success. The Saturn launched before the Playstation or N64. And it was released earlier than it was advertised to, and had 6 games at launch and like 2 more for the first few months. Then the Playstation showed up and blew away the Saturn from day one. So what do they do with the Dreamcast? They tried to get out their system before Sony's PS2, already deemed by magazines and the gaming community to be the next coming of Jesus. It just gave Sony more time to see what they were doing and 1-up almost all of it.
3) I worked at Electronics Boutique from 1995- Dec 1999. I was there for the Dreamcast launch that they pushed hard. I was sold on it from the copy of Soul Calibur that we had and Sonic Adventure. I loved that system. So on release night, I had to work the midnight opening. Our district manager was there to help out, since we were had some of the most presells in the state on the system. He sat there and tried to get every single person that came in to prebuy the PS2 because "It's a much more powerful system, and will have Madden, where the Dreamcast won't!", even though we still had almost a year until that system came out. The week after the system came out, they had moved the Dreamcast system and games to the back of the store, and filled the entire front window and display with reduced price Playstation 1 materials and Playstation 2 preorder materials. They didn't even give the Dreamcast a chance... at least that's what it looked like to me. I'm sure Sony offered better incentives to retailers, and yes -- Sega really shit all over itself after the basic Genesis through the launch of the Dreamcast, but they already counted the Dreamcast out as a last ditch effort from Sega to stay competitive.
I was going to leave there anyway to go back to college (amazingly, working full-time retail with no degree turned out to be a bad life decision), but the Christmas of 1999 was nothing but us getting bulletins from the home office pushing PS2 presales and a diminishing support for the Dreamcast. Add to that that I was the only person that worked there that owned a Dreamcast and could even talk with some sort of knowledge about the new games, and that was a less-than-stellar Christmas for Sega at my location.
So... basically I just repeated what was already said, but with a wall of text. Hooray for me.
that gave me 2 of the StarFire lightguns, which was also incredibly awesome. So thanks!
Oh hell yeah, I'm totally waking my dreamcast from its hibernation tonight to play some Typing of the Dead.
Fixed. I type 95 WPM, and that game scales appropriately. I was typing medical journals while fighting the Magician.
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I feel almost bad for not playing any of my Dreamcast games. I played the hell out of Sonic Adventure when I first got it, but have barely touched the system since. About a year ago I raided eBay and got myself a bunch of games (8 games) but I've not put any time into any of them. I may settle down one month and just play the fuck out of my Dreamcast.
I love the Dreamcast so very, very much. In fact, it was the last console I think I'll ever love. After the Dreamcast, consoles just became machines that played games. I'm incapable of loving another.
So, I happen to live in Japan. One great thing about Japan is that their game stores (from chains to locally owned businesses) often have amazing used game sections. And unlocked my experience with American used games, they don't have stickers all over the damn case, or come in generic cases, or have the manual missing. No, these are nice looking Dreamcast games available for amazing prices.
So far I've bought:
Sakura Wars (just to see what that series is about)
King of Fighters 2000
Last Blade 2
Capcom vs SNK: Pro
Project Justice: Rival Schools
And I hope to buy a lot more. If anyone has any advice on great import games for Dreamcast (besides Ikaruga) I'd love to hear them. I only have a moderate grasp of Japanese, so I'd prefer it wasn't too plot-intensive.
Also I had two hardware questions:
1. The DC Arcade Stick, with the green buttons: Is it good? I found a used store selling it for approximately $5.
2. On eBay, the only Dreamcast VGA cable available seems to be a cheap 3rd party version. Does it still work fine and everything?
Thanks for any input.
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
edited September 2009
Maken X is a cheap import, and the dub doesn't really add much to it. In fact, it's pretty awful.
Ah, the Dreamcast. My first console and the only one that I still wish I owned to this day.
I remember the "Holy Trinity of Video Games", so named by my brother and I, because every Sunday after church my dad, brother and I would gather around and play Toy Commander, PSO and Powerstone for hours until our mother finally forced us all out of the house to do something productive.
To this day my dad (who only plays Call of Duty 2 on his PC now) still asks if they have remade any of those games. Such a good little system with many fond memories.
I got it the day it came out, well, my mom went and got it for me. I had to go to school. It could have been the longest school day ever. When I finally got home, Soul Calibur and Ready 2 Rumble was there waiting for me. Two of my friends came over and we played it on full blast for about 8 hours straight. Amazing.
Later on I made VMU animations that were very inappropriate. I thought it was funny.
Loved my DC, stood in (a mercifully short) line to pick it up on 9-9-99. Loved the concept of VMUs (and still do, actually) and the futuristic controllers. Soul Calibur and NFL 2K left my and my roommate's jaws on the floor. It's a shame that it didn't work out, in the end.
If anyone has any advice on great import games for Dreamcast (besides Ikaruga) I'd love to hear them. I only have a moderate grasp of Japanese, so I'd prefer it wasn't too plot-intensive.
1. The DC Arcade Stick, with the green buttons: Is it good? I found a used store selling it for approximately $5.
2. On eBay, the only Dreamcast VGA cable available seems to be a cheap 3rd party version. Does it still work fine and everything?
Thanks for any input.
1. Yes. (Lucky fucker.)
2. They work fine. Just make sure that if it's a "passthrough" style, you plug something into the "source" VGA plug or it won't give you a signal. Hack up a dummy VGA plug or use a dead video card if you have to.
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Dreamcast was the first console I ever bought with my own money(parents and grandparents prior), on launch day no less.
Never before or since has there been a console for me that has had as high of a quality to crap games ratio. I've had consoles with far, far more games on them, but I look back on nearly every single Dreamcast game I've owned with an incredible fondness.
I remember I bought one as a birthday gift for a friend back in 2000. Not for me as I was waiting for a PS2 that then turned into waiting for an XBOX. Damn, so long ago.
This thread needs more love from games that were rereleased on other consoles and XBLA
Samba - The Wii Controller is a horrible substitute. The original game that my friends and I played... when other people weren't around.
Rez - Trippy Pew Pew
Ikaruga - Pew weP
Crazy Taxi - Still one of the most fun arcade ports on the system.
Resident Evil Code Veronica - First non PS resident evil worth playing
Vampire Chronicles - Never received the MVC2 love but such an amazing package.
Virtua Tennis - The most fun tennis game ever made.
I'll mention Chu Chu Rocket again cause I would kill for a XBLA port.
Man, the Dreamcast was the shit. Probably the first console that I really got into. Sonic fucking Adventure, my first Sonic game and it was amazing. Soul fucking CALIBER, that I played for hundreds of hours, after I had played Soul Blade forever. MvC2. Not much needs to be said. Grandia 2, Skies of Arcadia, Project Justice and Power Stone... this thing had it all.
In fact, I'm still playing this thing, and I have hooked up to my moniter, which makes the video quality absolutly fantastic. I'm still playing Guilty Gear X on it, one of my favorite fighting games, which was also introduced to me by the Dreamcast.
Happy birthday, Dreamcast. You had so many cool things, and yet the absence of a dvd player killed you. If only...
At the time I was working third shift at a Major Toy Retailer. The previous night, the manager on duty gave me the wrong info for some in-store displays (non-game related). When the opening manager came in and saw the displays were wrong, and that I got the wrong information, she was apologetic and asked if I could stay late and fix them quickly.
I agreed, but with a catch - when I'm done, I get to buy my prereserved Dreamcast before I leave, and well before the store opens. Come 7:30, I'm walking out with a DC, extra controller, Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, Power Stone, and... Ready 2 Rumble Boxing. Can't win 'em all.
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If you do not have one, get one.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
The Dreamcast is a great system with tons of quality games that I feel a lot of people missed out on.
Garou: Mark of the Wolves (They called it Fatal Fury, but I'll always know its awesomeness as Garou)
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Powerstone
Powerstone 2
Phantasy Star Online
Phantasy Star Online 2.0
Soul Calibur
Dead or Alive 2
Psychic Force 2012
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Capcom vs. SNK
Evil Dead: Hail to the King
Worms Armaggedon
Worms World Party
Shenmue
Grandia 2
Skies of Arcadia
Rival Schools 2
Blue Stinger
Jet Grind Radio
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
King of Fighters '99
Soul Reaver
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure 2
Time Stalkers
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
The Raid
Yeah... each had their own specialty, right? Fire, ice, rock, gravity, light, dark... etc. Game was sweet. NFL2K is my best Dreamcast memory, and playing tournaments every weekend.
1) I would argue it failed because I bought it. Like the TG-16, Intellivision, Sega Master System, and Atari 7800. I am the kiss of death for systems.
2) Sega didn't learn from the Saturn -- launching first doesn't guarantee success. The Saturn launched before the Playstation or N64. And it was released earlier than it was advertised to, and had 6 games at launch and like 2 more for the first few months. Then the Playstation showed up and blew away the Saturn from day one. So what do they do with the Dreamcast? They tried to get out their system before Sony's PS2, already deemed by magazines and the gaming community to be the next coming of Jesus. It just gave Sony more time to see what they were doing and 1-up almost all of it.
3) I worked at Electronics Boutique from 1995- Dec 1999. I was there for the Dreamcast launch that they pushed hard. I was sold on it from the copy of Soul Calibur that we had and Sonic Adventure. I loved that system. So on release night, I had to work the midnight opening. Our district manager was there to help out, since we were had some of the most presells in the state on the system. He sat there and tried to get every single person that came in to prebuy the PS2 because "It's a much more powerful system, and will have Madden, where the Dreamcast won't!", even though we still had almost a year until that system came out. The week after the system came out, they had moved the Dreamcast system and games to the back of the store, and filled the entire front window and display with reduced price Playstation 1 materials and Playstation 2 preorder materials. They didn't even give the Dreamcast a chance... at least that's what it looked like to me. I'm sure Sony offered better incentives to retailers, and yes -- Sega really shit all over itself after the basic Genesis through the launch of the Dreamcast, but they already counted the Dreamcast out as a last ditch effort from Sega to stay competitive.
I was going to leave there anyway to go back to college (amazingly, working full-time retail with no degree turned out to be a bad life decision), but the Christmas of 1999 was nothing but us getting bulletins from the home office pushing PS2 presales and a diminishing support for the Dreamcast. Add to that that I was the only person that worked there that owned a Dreamcast and could even talk with some sort of knowledge about the new games, and that was a less-than-stellar Christmas for Sega at my location.
So... basically I just repeated what was already said, but with a wall of text. Hooray for me.
And Chu Chu Rocket is the best multiplayer game ever made by mankind. Why this game hasn't been recreated on XBLA is a crime.
Pokémon HGSS: 1205 1613 4041
Fixed. I type 95 WPM, and that game scales appropriately. I was typing medical journals while fighting the Magician.
So, I happen to live in Japan. One great thing about Japan is that their game stores (from chains to locally owned businesses) often have amazing used game sections. And unlocked my experience with American used games, they don't have stickers all over the damn case, or come in generic cases, or have the manual missing. No, these are nice looking Dreamcast games available for amazing prices.
So far I've bought:
Sakura Wars (just to see what that series is about)
King of Fighters 2000
Last Blade 2
Capcom vs SNK: Pro
Project Justice: Rival Schools
And I hope to buy a lot more. If anyone has any advice on great import games for Dreamcast (besides Ikaruga) I'd love to hear them. I only have a moderate grasp of Japanese, so I'd prefer it wasn't too plot-intensive.
Also I had two hardware questions:
1. The DC Arcade Stick, with the green buttons: Is it good? I found a used store selling it for approximately $5.
2. On eBay, the only Dreamcast VGA cable available seems to be a cheap 3rd party version. Does it still work fine and everything?
Thanks for any input.
Shame.
I remember the "Holy Trinity of Video Games", so named by my brother and I, because every Sunday after church my dad, brother and I would gather around and play Toy Commander, PSO and Powerstone for hours until our mother finally forced us all out of the house to do something productive.
To this day my dad (who only plays Call of Duty 2 on his PC now) still asks if they have remade any of those games. Such a good little system with many fond memories.
I don't have a PS3 or 360, but I do have the DC version of Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, and it is a damn fine version at that.
Later on I made VMU animations that were very inappropriate. I thought it was funny.
Then I saw MGS2 and my jaw hit the goddamn floor.
Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
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"seaman?"
"yes. seaman."
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Zero Gunner 2
1. Yes. (Lucky fucker.)
2. They work fine. Just make sure that if it's a "passthrough" style, you plug something into the "source" VGA plug or it won't give you a signal. Hack up a dummy VGA plug or use a dead video card if you have to.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
Never before or since has there been a console for me that has had as high of a quality to crap games ratio. I've had consoles with far, far more games on them, but I look back on nearly every single Dreamcast game I've owned with an incredible fondness.
I do miss it so.
Ah, but the shame is on you, my friend, for I pledged my affinity for that very title two pages ago.
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Ah, missed that, my apologies.
Here you go:
Samba - The Wii Controller is a horrible substitute. The original game that my friends and I played... when other people weren't around.
Rez - Trippy Pew Pew
Ikaruga - Pew weP
Crazy Taxi - Still one of the most fun arcade ports on the system.
Resident Evil Code Veronica - First non PS resident evil worth playing
Vampire Chronicles - Never received the MVC2 love but such an amazing package.
Virtua Tennis - The most fun tennis game ever made.
I'll mention Chu Chu Rocket again cause I would kill for a XBLA port.
I think the Dreamcast is one of the reasons I'm not so impressed with the Wii.
Loved that system.
Played the hell out of Zombie Revenge and Power Stone.
Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about those days long gone.
Kill her.
might be time to put mom in a home
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In fact, I'm still playing this thing, and I have hooked up to my moniter, which makes the video quality absolutly fantastic. I'm still playing Guilty Gear X on it, one of my favorite fighting games, which was also introduced to me by the Dreamcast.
Happy birthday, Dreamcast. You had so many cool things, and yet the absence of a dvd player killed you. If only...
uh im 15 i dont think thats gonna happen for a while
i feel old now
Me too man. Me too.
not only was I five when it came out, I was five when I played the shit out of it all day every day.
I agreed, but with a catch - when I'm done, I get to buy my prereserved Dreamcast before I leave, and well before the store opens. Come 7:30, I'm walking out with a DC, extra controller, Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, Power Stone, and... Ready 2 Rumble Boxing. Can't win 'em all.