I loved the dreamcast!
I have so many fond memories of it.
Firefly and Dreamcast. Two things nerds are never going to fucking get over.
We should have gotten a second season at least.
Fox Media was run by sadists
Umm I’m sorry to break this to you buddy but I pirated every dreamcast game I owned short of sonic adventure and Phantsy star online. That’s probably why the dreamcast failed.
They lost money on the hardware and didn’t make it back on software, so you’re likely right.
Yeah my friend got a Dreamcast and then I pirated all the games for him. It was one of the most awesome consoles ever with amazing games. But the few other people I knew with one at the time also pirated games. It was just so easy because it didn’t even need a modchip or anything. Just download, burn a CD, and play.
A vast majority of the public didn’t do this or know how to do this.
It failed because the PS2 was dominating at the time, and Sega didn’t know how to launch a console, even if they had a gun pointed at their head.
I was in college at the time and there were a few of us with Dreamcasts. I bought my games (and still have them), but there were guys with literally every single game in the library burned to disc.
That was me. After it failed I felt like such an asshole 😔
Hey…I still remember the release date. 9/9/99.
Plus, you could use your dreamcast to talk to a fish. An insulting sarcastic fish…but the game was narrated by Leonard Nemoy. Sometimes he’d insult you too…
In an age of LLM, Seaman needs a remake.
All it needed was a goddamn network pork instead of a dialup modem and it would be alive today. DC was the best.
I love my network pork! Tastes like bacon!
Deinitely never editing that
Ethernet was available as an option… It was just expensive.
I really like my Dreamcast!
Dreamcast finally let me access the internet from the privacy of my own room.
I’m going to take a bold position and say they were all good consoles. It was a beautiful time for video games.
I’m just gonna say it. Dreamcast was my favorite console until ps4 and ps5.
Meanwhile I got a free PS4 from Taco Bell and can’t stand the thing because it isn’t backwards compatible AT ALL. I use it mostly to watch Netflix.
Ya I was disappointed in that too
Sega was awesome. Fuck the gameboy. The brick that was gamegear was so much better.
(Not that young me saw the difference) but the 32x or whatever it was called.
And Dreamcast. That shit was so ahead of its time.
I remember reading about how mind-blowing and “next gen” the graphics on the Dreamcast were at the time. All the kids seemed really interested in it, but we hadn’t had long enough with the previous gen to justify our parents buying a new system already.
One friend wound up actually getting it, and we played the hell out of it for a few years.
The Game Gear was only good for 2-3 hours on six AA batteries, so you basically had to play tethered to the wall or invest in lots of rechargeable batteries. The library also wasn’t as strong overall as the Game Boy’s, although its top games were previous-gen console quality (because they literally were in other territories).
Both screens were also just awful about blurring during fast movement. Nintendo wisely avoided it altogether, while Sega was bound by their flagship brand. When you really got going in something like Sonic Chaos, particularly considering the small viewing window, you were really just letting Jesus take the wheel.
Source: I was a Game Gear kid.
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Loved the Dreamcast. Other than the lack of DVD player, I still think it was better than the PS2.
Quite a few games that were released on both consoles looked better and played more smoothly on the Dreamcast than they did on the supposedly more powerful PS2. Dave Mirra BMX is one that immediately comes to mind. It was way better on the Dreamcast.
There are so many reasons why it failed but we all love it so.
And most of them just seem unlucky
