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HaloGX
  
 
| #1 posted February 2, 2009 at 9:22am (EST)
edited September 18, 2009 at 8:04am (EST) |
Sega has said that they will have no official celebration for the Dreamcast but said private celebrations will take place. Via Kotaku:
"Generally we won't be doing anything that's official," he said. The main reason is that Sega has reinvented itself as a software company. And it's important for us to focus on the other platforms that are alive and current."
"Informally, because there are people in the company who were involved in the Dreamcast launch, there will be celebrations," he said, "But as a company, publicly, that's going to be something we're going to be pretty low key about for obvious reasons. We're effectively a different company."
Hayes said that Sega has reinvented itself as a software company, which makes it more fitting to focus on other company's hardware. "It's not to disrespect the excellent system the Dreamcast was," he said, "Or the innovations that were done on it, which I think were probably a few years ahead of time in terms of the online application. I just think we as a company are multi-format and we want to talk about our first-party platform partners rather than when we were a first-party."
Dreamcast hardware may not the focus of any official Sega efforts, but Dreamcast software still has a future. Sega has aggressively distributed much of its older back catalog of games as digital downloads on home consoles, PC and portable machines. The Dreamcast line-up, comprised of bigger games, less easily brought to current platforms, is not going to be neglected, Hayes said. "I can't give you any details. Suffice to say, there's a lot of technical issues, a lot of licensing issues. But we are very keen to bring [them] to players in the way we've done with Genesis games. We want to do it, but it's hard work to get there. Hopefully we can build on that quite soon."
http://kotaku.com/5336532/sega-will-celebrate-drea... |
Eurogamer has also put together a nice little history lesson plus some gaming essentials from the console:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/dreamcast-a-fore...
1UP has quite a long article of the Dreamcast up now:
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3...
Games Radar just posted their Top 7 Dreamcast Games:
http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-top-7-best-dreamca...
Dreamcast Junkyard's Fan Voted Top 100 Dreamcast Games:
http://the-dreamcast-junkyard.blogspot.com/2009/09...
IGN's History of Dreamcast Article and Video:
http://retro.ign.com/articles/102/1021947p1.html
IGN's Top 25 Dreamcast Games:
http://games.ign.com/articles/102/1021451p1.html
Joystiq Staff remembers the Dreamcast:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/09/joystiq-remember...
Kotaku's little piece on the Dreamcast:
http://kotaku.com/5355634/10-years-of-dreamcast-wh...
ScrewAttack's Top 10 Dreamcast Games:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/top-10-screwatta...
Games Radar's article on why the Dreamcast was different:
http://www.gamesradar.com/f/why-the-dreamcast-was-...
Games Radar's Tribute to the VMU:
http://www.gamesradar.com/f/a-tribute-to-the-dream...
Mega64's Murder Mystery Vid:
http://the-dreamcast-junkyard.blogspot.com/2009/09...
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platinumfungi
 
| | #2 posted February 2, 2009 at 12:09pm (EST) |
Fun read, thanks 
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BioHazardMan
 
 
| | #3 posted February 2, 2009 at 6:02pm (EST) |
Awesome
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OldSchoolGamer
 
| | #4 posted February 5, 2009 at 8:08am (EST) |
Great read HaloGX. This september will be the 10th year anniversary for the DC here in the US..and I plan on celebrating that myself. Dreamcast CAKE anyone? |
HaloGX
| | #5 posted February 5, 2009 at 12:17pm (EST) |
Yummy.
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OldSchoolGamer
| | #6 posted February 5, 2009 at 3:37pm (EST) |
Haha, it will be. No idea how I plan on doing that yet but its going to happen for Sept. 9
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BioHazardMan
| | #7 posted February 5, 2009 at 7:11pm (EST) |
Those idiots over in another thread are saying the Dreamcast sucks, lets kick their asses!!!
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UnSpOkEn
| | #8 posted July 10, 2009 at 10:37pm (EST) |
LegendKiller wrote:
> Those idiots over in another thread are saying the Dreamcast sucks,
> lets kick their asses!!!
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They suck! |
HaloGX
| | #9 posted August 13, 2009 at 11:28am (EST) |
As the birthday gets closer, I will update this topic with other celebrations and birthday wishes. Feel free to leave a respectful birthday wish here as well.
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crashNburn
 
 
| #10 posted August 13, 2009 at 3:18pm (EST)
edited August 13, 2009 at 3:18pm (EST) |
So....what games should I have on my anniversary playlist? Here are some of the first I could think of:
Soul Calibur
Street Fighter 3: DI
Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Powerstone 2
Crazy Taxi 2
Ooga Booga
Jet Grind Radio
I might also get some people together for some drunken tournaments that night. Maybe some kind of sports tourney going on 2 TVs with my 2 Sega Sports Dreamcasts....hopefully I can find one more controller by then and have a full set of 8. Then have a white DC going, for a fighter tourney or something.
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HaloGX
| | #11 posted August 13, 2009 at 3:43pm (EST) |
Sounds like a blast. All those games are winners too.
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Forgotten_Freshness
 
| | #12 posted August 13, 2009 at 5:42pm (EST) |
I'm going to have a 10th anniversary thing at my store I think. Mostly for myself, but you what the hell. Only system on all day will be dreamcast. Will have dreamcast cupcakes. Will give trade-in specials on dreamcast games (because I have almost none). 
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RDTZ
| | #13 posted August 14, 2009 at 7:05am (EST) |
I want a DC cupcake. 
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sailorneorune
| #14 posted August 14, 2009 at 4:55pm (EST)
edited August 14, 2009 at 4:56pm (EST) |
Oh Dreamcast, I think I'll be raiding the Diamond Avenue Book & Music Exchange in your honour.
I actually found one at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago, no cords, sadly, but the controller had a VMU in it.
Works great, just need to get an AV cable and AC adapter for it and another one of my friends gets a Sega Buddy.
Pulseman is available on the Virtual Console. Spend your 9 bucks there for great justice. |
Visc
| | #15 posted August 17, 2009 at 11:41pm (EST) |
sailorneorune wrote:
> Oh Dreamcast, I think I'll be raiding the Diamond Avenue Book & Music
> Exchange in your honour.
>
> I actually found one at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago, no cords,
> sadly, but the controller had a VMU in it.
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> Works great, just need to get an AV cable and AC adapter for it and
> another one of my friends gets a Sega Buddy.
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>
I think I have a spare power cable, actually...
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Forgotten_Freshness
| | #16 posted August 18, 2009 at 10:43am (EST) |
I do too, it's called a PS1.
Universal power cable FTW.
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sailorneorune
| | #17 posted August 20, 2009 at 3:15pm (EST) |
I've got a power cord, just need an AV cable.
Pulseman is available on the Virtual Console. Spend your 9 bucks there for great justice. |
HaloGX
| | #18 posted September 6, 2009 at 1:50pm (EST) |
Updated the first post up an article from 1UP.
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HaloGX
| | #19 posted September 8, 2009 at 9:14am (EST) |
Games Radar is getting in on the action with a Top 7 list. Why Top 7? I don't know.
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Shagohod
| | #20 posted September 9, 2009 at 1:02am (EST) |
My last Dreamcast bit the dust awhile back, so now I am using an emulator.
That being said, Crazy Taxi 1 and 2 in ful HD is doging. |
HaloGX
| | #21 posted September 9, 2009 at 7:55am (EST) |
Happy Birthday Sega Dreamcast!
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sailorneorune
| | #22 posted September 9, 2009 at 8:13am (EST) |
Going to be playing some Dreamcast tonight - probably Soul Calibur, Virtua Fighter 3tb, and Sonic Adventure.
Pulseman is available on the Virtual Console. Spend your 9 bucks there for great justice. |
OldSchoolGamer
| | #23 posted September 9, 2009 at 9:03am (EST) |
My DC gaming marathon started back at 7am EST. Going to play DC all day till midnight...woot!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DREAMCAST!!! You've given us 10 great years of gaming and you'll never be forgotten!
To be this good it takes AGES
To be this good it takes SEGA
Sega Dreamcast.....its thinking. |
HaloGX
| | #24 posted September 9, 2009 at 9:18am (EST) |
Man I wish I could play all day. I'm at work and probably won't get home until 6:30-7pm.
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OldSchoolGamer
| #25 posted September 9, 2009 at 9:55am (EST)
edited September 9, 2009 at 10:28pm (EST) |
I just happened to have today and tomorrow off of work, so I get to celebrate the DC's day the most hardcore way I can think of.
I will be around all day...trying to get more people gaming on the DC today. Hopefully I can talk my room mate(s) into some DC gaming action later on today.
I am just about finished playing game 1..NFL 2K1
Game 2 on my list is Test Drive Le Mans. I will have to update my game list as they get played.
Current DC gaming list:
7am-10am-NFL 2K1
10:30am-11:45 -Test Drive Le Mans
11:50-12:30-SHENMUE
12:35-12:55-LUNCH
12:55-1:15-SHENMUE
1:15-4:30-Biohazard: Code Veronica
4:30-5:30-House of the Dead 2(broke one of my light guns  )
(missing half hour was to find the Japanese Dreamcast system in my basement)
6:00-7:00- Soul Calibur
7:00-8:00- Guilty Gear X
8:00-8:30- Zero Gunner 2
8:30-9:05- Trizeal
9:05-9:30-Chaos Field
9:30-10:00-Shikigami no Shiro II
10:00-10:30-DINNER
10:30-11:00- Border Down
11:00-11:30-TriggerHeart Exelica
11:30-12:00- Ikaruga |
HaloGX
| | #26 posted September 9, 2009 at 10:32am (EST) |
I've updated the first post with Dreamcast Junkyard's fan voted Top 100. Some are very questionable, but its an interesting list considering it was solely fan voted for.
Maybe after dinner I'll throw in some games I haven't played in a long time. Maybe Crazy Taxi, Sonic Adventure 2, JoJo's, Soul Calibur, and I haven't played any of
Sakura Wars: Hanagumi Taisen Columns 2 since I've gotten it. So those are on my very short docket.
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Forgotten_Freshness
| | #27 posted September 9, 2009 at 10:52am (EST) |
When I get home tonight, mad DC gaming for the first time in... a year. My Dreamcast hasn't even been turned on in a year. Being busy is the biggest plague on my gaming ever. (Though I've played the DC at work, lots of Soul Calibur and Capcom VS SNK  )
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HaloGX
| | #28 posted September 9, 2009 at 11:13am (EST) |
My Dreamcast has had steady playing time ever since I got it. That's not to say its a lot, but steady.
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UnSpOkEn
| | #29 posted September 9, 2009 at 12:01pm (EST) |
Happy Birthday Sega Dreamcast |
crashNburn
| | #30 posted September 9, 2009 at 2:09pm (EST) |
OldSchoolGamer wrote:
> 11:50-12:30-SHENMUE
> 12:35-12:55-LUNCH
That reminds me, I should pop in Shenmue today and feed the kitty, been a looong time since he last ate. Poor kitty.
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HaloGX
| | #31 posted September 9, 2009 at 2:35pm (EST) |
Updated the first post with a couple articles from IGN.
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psx_4
| | #32 posted September 9, 2009 at 3:12pm (EST) |
Happy Birthday Dreamcast  with only 2-3 years on the market strong love for the beloved system with It's Alive..Its Thinking is still strong after 10 years. Keep it Alive...Keep it Thinking Dreamcast |
HaloGX
| | #33 posted September 9, 2009 at 10:22pm (EST) |
Updated the first post yet again with what Joystiq's staff had to say about the Dreamcast, as well as the blip from Kotaku.
As far as what games I managed to play today:
Crazy Taxi
Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 (I almost have all the emblems in 2, I forgot!)
Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2
Capcom vs. SNK
Unreal Tournament
I tried to play REZ but my Dreamcast was having none of it sadly.
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HaloGX
| | #34 posted September 9, 2009 at 10:31pm (EST) |
GameTrailer's has posted ScrewAttack's vid of their Top 10 Dreamcast games. I've added it to the first post.
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monkeysmadness
| | #35 posted September 10, 2009 at 7:11pm (EST) |
Didn't have much time for gaming yesterday, but I managed to squeeze in a bit of Sonic Adventure and Illbleed on the Dreamcast's 10th birthday.
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HaloGX
| | #36 posted September 14, 2009 at 4:50pm (EST) |
Edited the first post with two new articles from Games Radar.
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DummyP
| | #37 posted September 15, 2009 at 6:54pm (EST) |
Sweet!
Man, I gotta get me a DC again soon, I've had a lack of games since I sold them all while I was unemployed. I think I'll go with a DC, I was thinkin' bout the 360 but fudge it I wanna try those.
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My milkshake brings all the lulz to the yard.
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ericfnbaker
| | #38 posted September 16, 2009 at 9:53am (EST) |
I could get you a dreamcast for 30 bucks from a local play n trade if you can't find one for cheaper dummy. Right now they have one from before august 2000 which I think is the one that lets you play burned games. |
DummyP
| | #39 posted September 16, 2009 at 1:27pm (EST) |
Word!
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My milkshake brings all the lulz to the yard.
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HaloGX
| | #40 posted September 18, 2009 at 8:04am (EST) |
I've updated the first post yet again with a vid by Mega 64. They're hit or miss with me but this vid is a noir style murder mystery on who killed the Dreamcast. Its really good.
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