Dreamcast Appreciation Post

[Marwan]

The DC brings back fond memories for me.. If I recall correctly, I got mine back in 2000 when I was like 14..

Of course I had no money at the time, but my mom, being cool about these types of things, knowing full well I would probably get bored of it a year or two later, just like everything else, bought it for me. First game I played was RE: Code Veronica.

I loved the sports games, the Sega Sports 2K franchise is still preferred over the EA stuff for me.. NFL2K, NBA2K, Virtua Tennis (!) all fun stuff.

Then I played Shenmue, but never finished it.. Along with stuff like Jet Grind Radio.

So, what games do you recommend? I would like to get my hands on a copy of Shenmue II, and i've heard Seaman is fun, along with stuff like Rez and great fighters like Soul Caliber.

It's a pity that this system died out, there were a lot of cool niche games to be played.

[Prodigy54321]

I didn't have a dreamcast..but a friend did...the only games I played were the sonic game for it..and a zombie shooting game (house of the dead?)..the sonic game was awesome with the little chao (I'm pretty sure they were called)..and you could breed them...that was fun...any shooting game with a gun was fun as well.

[zacd]

The Dreamcast was an amazing and wayyyy under-appreciated system much like the Sega Saturn.

Google nullDC it's a Dreamcast emulator that's in beta but runs TONS of games at full speed. Shenmue 2 never came out in the US but you can probably find the UK version online and play it w/ nullDC.

So many good memories of trying to be RE: CV in one night w/ friends and scamming fools on Phantasy Star Online.

DC still is the best choice for serious fighting gamers (apart from the actual arcade version). Marvel vs. Capcom 1 and 2, Street Fighter: 3rd Strike, Capcom vs. SNK, and I'm sure others I'm missing.

gogo dreamcast!

[Valsuvious]

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Hell yes. My hands were shaking with excitement when I got a hold of that game. Also, Virtua Tennis, Samba, Shenmue, and all the other fighting games.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Soul Caliber, Crazy Taxi

[Suigin406]

soul caliber was so sick, and then yea, the sporting games were good too

[JackWilson]

Yeah Soul CalibUR 4 life!

[SirArthur]

The Dreamcast was an amazing system.

Bear in mind, it came out 9/9/99 and in early 2001 Sega announced they were abandoning it and going to be a 3rd party software company only.

So it only had 1 1/2 years of full support from Sega, and never had the full support of major 3rd party companies.

All the lemmings were awaiting the PS2, the most over-hyped and under performing major system ever and ignored the Dreamcast.

Side by side comparisons proved DC games looked & played better than PS2 games. Rayman 2, & Grandia 2 are examples of that as well as all 2D fighters.

Getting no support from EA (and Sega made EA, those traitors) and Square really hurt.

Despite not being out very long, the DC had some great games.

CannonSpike, Soul Calibur, Grandia 2, Virtua Tennis...

Great system, in a perfect world it would have lasted as long as the PS2.

[crovax4444]

You can buy a DC used at gamestop anywhere from $15-20

You can buy the games on ebay or whatever, or pirate them.

One of the reasons why the DC wasn't a viable system was that it could play regular burned CD-Rs without a mod chip.

Crovax