As a kid my mom had blocked any internet site that even hinted at having bad stuff on it, and then I got a Sega Dreamcast and was so amazed it came with internet connection. And I got that thing in my room and got it set up to the internet without all my moms lame blockers, and boy did I look at everything I wasn't supposed to!!
Day 1 owner of a Dreamcast console here. It was one of the saddest days of my childhood when they discontinued the Dreamcast. It was a game changing, way ahead of it’s time console and had so many good games. Thanks for posting this! Tons of nostalgia.
it was a sad day for me too! I loved my dreamcast thought it was ahead of its time. I felt like the PS2 look awful graphics were so blurry but i felt like the dreamcast was clear and crisp.
Still feel like if Sega had done market research back in the day, realized there wasn't much of a market for the Sega CD (or 32X) outside Japan, but had some of those games (like Sonic CD) being launch window titles for the Saturn (with a September launch as originally planned), things would've been different. It kind of stemmed back to the thinking in the Genesis era/4th console generation that they had to have a new Sonic game release every year, like how sports titles have to be updated every year, except actually being new games. So they felt Sonic CD was needed in 1993, since Sonic 3 was not ready for release until February 1994. But the relative lack of support on console add-ons just burned their customers who bought them. Lots of kids at the time (including me) were still just starting with Sonic 2 on Model 2 Genesis. And it later turned out Genesis had better holiday sales in 1994 than the SNES did. So I think they would've been fine if they'd held off on the CD titles, and used some of them (enhanced ports or remakes) as early Saturn titles. Having an upgraded Sonic CD on Saturn launch day would've helped the company a lot more than having the original version for holiday 1993.
what primarily hurt sega was the fact they released the dreamcast too early, the PS2 was released by not too long after the dreamcast , and the ps2 played DVD movies, which a large portion of people who had a ps2 bought it for that specific reason because back in that day DVD players were very expensive. if sega would have waited and than added DVD playback functionality, it would of stood toe to toe with the ps2, and xbox.
@@BenState You mean PS2 ... The Dreamcast was the most powerful console when it was released in 1998 (far more powerful than PS1 and N64). Dreamcast wasn't dethroned as the console powerhouse until PS2 came out 2 years later, in 2000. PCs are always faster than every generation of consoles, so not really relevant to the topic. There were twice as many console gamers as PC gamers during that era.
@@pilsplease7561 True, 360 was an impressive bit of kit in 2005/2006 - faster than the mid range GPU from that year, 7600 GT … You’d have to buy a new PC with a $500 7900 gtx to outperform 360 when it was released. Though the highest end PCs still more than doubled the console’s performance (7950 SLI)
Me too. I used to hangout with someone who lived a couple houses from my grandmas who was the same age as me who had a Dreamcast when he was little. I never got to play it with him but I saw him playing Star Wars pod racing and it looked amazing. I think they had a garage sale and got rid of it.
Oh man, I never had any sports games on DC, that totally tracks tho/rules. Sonic Shuffle did a similar thing where your hand of cards was hidden via VMUs, it was so damn cool to me as a kid/even now
The most impressive was Virtua Tennis, where it was literally just a stick figure version of the game you were playing onscreen. Completely useless feature, but it was a neat trick beating your friends without looking at the screen, assuming they didn’t also have a VMU and know exactly what you were up to.
One of the coolest things about the Dreamcast was the VMU. I remember playing NFL 2K, this of course being well before online gaming, so you play against your buddies on the same TV. With the VMU you could call your plays on the VMU itself so your buddy couldn’t see what plays your calling. I thought that was so dope.
Bro the crazy thing is you COULD play it online. At least NFL2k1, not 100% sure about 2k. But I remember playing that shit online back in 2000, and the it worked great which is even crazier still.
That was my 1st game and one of the reasons I bought it! I still don't know why controllers don't have a built-in display for things like this. They cost enough for god's sake
I own both these days though my cube is from 2005 when they dropped to like £70 with 2 games... my dreamcast is newer to the library but my friend owned one in the day and we used to trade consoles from time to time. fond memories of this and it was so forward thinking
@@simplesimonhadapie I did own both, and have a fairly decent collection of games on each, BUT due to covid and no work i had to sell my entire game collection. Very sad
All the consoles of that generation were great, and a huge leap form the previous gen. 3D games went from primitive and blocky to actually looking good! I struggled to choose and eventually went for the PS2. But the Xbox, Dreamcast and Gamecube were all compelling choices, each with their own unique strengths, capabilities and games libraries. They were actually a lot more different from each other than consoles are today. I would still love to own all of the 6th gen consoles if I had the space and the budget. 😊
Most underrated system of all time . Crazy taxi (was a great arcade port ) Soul caibur was excellent Shenmue ….there was nothing like it then Sonic Adventure was great Best version of tomb raiders Skies of Arcadia Phantasy star online Ready to rumble boxing Power stone Just to name a few Hoping a Dreamcast mini gets made . I’m guessing it’s coming for the 25th anniversary which is under 2 years away .
Loved my Dreamcast, but for me the 3DO is the most underrated console of all time, simply because the Dreamcast is almost universally loved, and talked about fondly way more. I remember being absolutely blown away by the first Need for Speed. Wing commander with all its FMV movie scenes with Luke Skywalker and Biff Tannen. But it's all personal opinion, the Dreamcast was definitely 'better' overall. Especially if you are more of an arcade game fan, but I'll always remember the 3DO more fondly, myself. 👊❤
I had the Dreamcast when it just came out. The year 2000 was incredible. Soul Calibur, Powerstone, Jet Set Radio, Code Veronica, Virtual Tennis, MSR, Shenmue. It felt like nearly every week something great came out. It seemed unbelievable that they packed it in early the next year when it was months before decent games for the PS2 came out like GTA or MGS
@@stansteez I'm sorry, I can't accept that it was the ease of piracy that did the Dreamcast in. Sega was already on borrowed time from the moment the console launched. Everyone was already well aware that the PS2 was coming, and the sheer size of the sales gap between the Saturn and PS1 was evidence that most people were inevitably going to move over to, or at least purchase a PS2 as well. There was really nothing Sega could do at that point in their history to combat Sony, even if Sega had included better copy protection and a DVD drive the PS2 would still have steamrolled them into oblivion because of the sheer hype and the amount of money Sony had to back it up. The Dreamcast is a fantastic machine, I love it to death, it's by far my favorite 6th gen console, but there was no way in hell it was going to compete with the PS2.
@@sunrisesunset1734 he's correct. I had the Dreamcast and PS2 at launch. Both were incredible but if someone was picking just one they were definitely waiting for the PS2. Plus backward compatibility and DVDs all in one box was too tempting. Sony were going for a one stop shop for your living room.
Dude I wasn't even born yet🤣 i was literally born at 99 before the console came to the us.. bet you was young though enjoying the heck out of these consoles 😎. Im glad I did later on..
If you meant that it was uniquely different to some console games, you are right on that. Sonic Adventure opened up a new realm in console gming when it was launched.
@@ShadowAngel-lt8nw dude, the graphics were a whole new thing back then, a lot more hours to play for, 6 characters to play with unlike mario 64, very nice stages that are fast, it was almost perfect. Being a fanboy won't change that.
@@issam76 It even had VGA support in some titles so there was 480p. Then you have the online features. Compared to the other consoles around the time of its release it was very impressive.
So much nostalgia here! I do believe the Dreamcast was and is still my favorite console. Truly ahead of its time. Thinking of playing Shenmue, MDK2, MakkenX again on the Dreamcast takes me back to simpler times.
This system will always have a special place in my heart because it reminds me of my first cousin who was like a brother to me, I call him my brother. When we were little we’d stay up all night playing this when I visit, he lived out of my state so every time my family traveled to see my uncle and aunt and his family it was a treat, and because my family never bought me video games he’d introduce me to all the video games he had, me and him were the closest we would buddy up, play, stay up late talk and eat and play Tokyo Xtreme on this as well as many many rounds of Tekken 3. Until his brother came home and forced us to go to sleep. But those nights were special to me, because of him and this system. Now my brother has passed, but his memory still lives with me as well as the things he introduce me to like this system and gaming in general among many other things. So whenever I see this system I miss him. It’s special just like he is. This system to me will never go away. Just like the love I have for him. Miss you Steve. Can’t wait to play Tokyo Xtreme with you on this again when I get there. :]
same with my cousin, she stayed at my house for a bit and brought over her Genesis and I fondly remember watching play games like Sonic 2 and Mortal Kombat and after she went back home I ended up inheriting a bunch of her games and my grandfather later got me a Model-1 Genesis from a garage sale. Unfortunately in high school she tragically died in a car crash and I can't help but think of her every time I play one of those Genesis games.
What a time travel ❤ Takes me back to the day when I got my PAL Dreamcast, around the beginning of the year 2000... Played so much Jet Set Radio and Metropolis Street Racer... Probably the console as whole where I clocked more hours than anything else (specially in Power Stone 2). But I got to say that the PAL box is still way more striking with its simplicity with that blue swirl!
Still my favorite console of all time. I loved the Dreamcast so much. This video really made me want to get another Dreamcast. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.
This was my favorite console, the aesthetic, the controller. It really felt like it was something special, and then playing phantasy star online I realized that it was indeed absolutely special. Felt like going to disney world for the first time.
Great video. The DC was such a big part of my childhood. Got it for my birthday in 2000 at age 12. Shenmue was mind blowing, and because it could played burned discs, I experienced so many unique games that I'd otherwise never have even heard of. This system is more than just games to me, it's peak late 90s/Y2K energy. The before times, if you know what I mean.
My grandparents got me Shenmue for Christmas in 99. It blew my mind back then. Just the fact that I could walk up to a virtual arcade machine in the town and play a real arcade game.
LGR, you're still my favorite gaming channel. After 6 years of watching you to this very day, you're not only still bringing the goods, but you're actually getting better at it. Keep up the fine work my friend 👍
Sega Dreamcast was and still is my favourite console. I'll never forget seeing it running Soul Calibur in a local electronics and video games store back in 1999. I just had to have it. The graphics, the animation, the fluidity of those fighting moves, it was leagues above anything else available at the time, it just blew my mind. So many wonderful games and memories on this platform, I still play my favourite Dreamcast games under emulation on my SteamDeck.
Same, except my "oh crap" moment happened when I played NFL2k for the first time at a friends house. Being an avid player of Madden on PC at the time the leap in graphics and animations was unreal. People would walk by and think it was a real game.
I’ll never forget working at electronics boutique when this thing released, we had like a pile of 100 Dreamcast in the back and instead of flying off the shelves on release day, half the customers were telling me they’re waiting for this PlayStation thing instead.
Yours is my absolute favorite RUclips channel! It feels like I'm exploring this stuff right along side you! Not full of yourself as some others get on here. May sound silly, but it's a joy watching how happy you get!
First console I ever got was a Sega Genesis, I was probably 4-5 years old and it had already been out for a hot minute. Got the Dreamcast as a Christmas present either in 1999 or in 2000, I was blown away. I still have so many memories playing it. I ALSO HAD A RHINO GAMES NEARBY !!!
I remember being a sophomore in 2002 and my friend Brian having a Dreamcast and PS2 and we always played the Dreamcast. I had an N64 and was always genuinely impressed by the Dreamcast, especially with TS Pro Skater compared to PS2. Man what a great video
Great video. I was 13 when my grandparents bought me the Dreamcast on 9/9/99 and I have a lot of fond memories of it. I got Soul Calibur and played it into the wee hours of the night even though it was a school night. I pretended to go to sleep and just kept on playing in my bedroom. My brother got NFL 2K and he played it a lot. I hated sports games but I still recognized how good that game was. My dad even got into NFL 2K for a short time. I remember when my grandparents let me hook up the Dreamcast to their living room TV, going through the V1 demo disc games... Sonic Adventure, Ready to Rumble, Sega Fishing. My dad was a parish councilman at the time, and when I was forced to go to one of his boring-ass council meetings, I took the VMU and played mini-games on it. The 56k modem was how I first accessed proper porn LOL. The images loaded slow as fuck but it beat the hell out of trying to make out a tit on the grainy-ass late night Cinemax shows or the Picasso-esque playboy PPV channel. I was a big fan of Virtua Fighter in the arcades and desperately wanted a Saturn when I was younger to play it, but I never got one. Around Halloween of 99', I rented Virtua Fighter 3TB and had a blast. I have a memory of going to a high school bowling activity in my freshman year. But I couldn't wait to get home and try out the Sega Mouse & Keyboard my mom had bought me to play Quake 3 online. My dad's old Gateway 2000 (upgraded with a 3DFX Voodoo2) could play Quake 2 just fine but could not run Quake 3. So playing Quake 3 online was a dream. And then, in the Dreamcast's twilight years, I used it to emulate games. I think I remember running MAME on it, though I could be mistaken. The Dreamcast was fucking great and really shaped my late childhood / early adolescence.
I know everyone has their memorable Dreamcast game, but I feel like Crazy Taxi deserved a look back here! That game was shockingly polished and so much fun!
Crazy Taxi is unquestionably one of the top tier games on the system. Very addictive for a game with just a handful of levels incredible how many hours you could put in.
So much nostalgia. I was lucky enough to have friends who had Dreamcasts, but my parents didn't see fit to have a phone line put in to my room so while I could play in my room, I was never able to get it online. Which sucked because my favorite game was Phantasy Star Online.
after the first price drop I sold my PS1 and my N64 to get a Dreamcast.....and no regrets.....but I did sell it a year later to finance getting a PS2.......ya PS2 was better sorry, but for a time it ruled
@@weedthepeople2795 For sure PS2 obviously had a greater support, but graphics from the PowerVR in my view far superior to the EE. Even though GFLOPS were higher the PVR produced a much cleaner smoother image with less horsepower and was MUCH easier to program for. its too bad it didn't last as it was a very promising tile rendering tech. i can only imagine what they could have achieved had they been given more time to mature it.
I got the Dreamcast when it was new in the US for Christmas 1999 and it was the most amazing console I've ever seen. The only comparison to how amazed I was by it was the N64 in 1996. I can't believe how futuristic it felt and how much faith I put in the future of it, only for it to die a quick death in the early 2000s. People make fun of the DC these days but it really was incredible for its time, with Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure and Shenmue being my absolute favorites.
I share the N64 sentiment. That changed my world and is still my favorite, but the Dreamcast felt like nearly as big a jump for consoles. What a time to be alive as a young gamer (both console and PC).
That startup sound brought back a lot of memories over here. Thank you. I seem to remember reading somewhere that using burned disks put a little more strain on the drive because it couldn't read items on disk as quickly. Maybe I’m wrong. Also seem to remember that anything after the year 2000 were unable to read them. Thank you for the great content. As someone with no vision I love how you describe everything you do instead of just adding music while you unbox something. It really makes it feel like I can be there sharing the moment and it’s a breath of fresh air. Thank you for what you do. Preserving these gems of history is important.
Soul Calibur was so amazing. I remember it got a 10 out of 10 in the game magazine I was reading and that blew my little mind haha. I played SC for hours every day for weeks with friends and family members. I remember thinking graphics have peaked nothing will top SC on the DreamCast. Sadly a year later the DC was dead and we all got a PS2 with GTA3.
Same here. Soul Calibur was the only reason I got the dreamcast. We could finally get arcade graphics at home. It blew my mind too. Crazy taxi, MK gold, Marvel vs Capcom. So many great arcade fighting games for it.
SC was 10/10, Sword of the Berserk was one of first titles I've played and I had so much fun with it. Shenmue 1 and 2 ! Also REZ, Grandia 2, Illbleed of course Resident evil CV, Headhunter, Tokyo Bus Guide and many many more... I've loved the system.
Still have mine and set it up occasionally. Sports games were also top tier on this system. I went from a N64 to a Dreamcast and the jump in graphics was immense. I’ll never forget those precious memories. ❤
Thank you for sharing the Dreamcast experience. This system achieved mythic status to me and my friends who never knew anyone with one. Such was the nature of living in the 90s American boonies.
Jet Set Radio for Dreamcast .... best (or at least top 5) game soundtrack ever. That was the reason I bought a Dreamcast. Also that Utopia thing.... I had *completely* forgotten I had a memory of the random reindeer spinny thing! Glad to have that back in my brain. The Jet Set Radio pirate radio guy is basically the original vlogger - ahead of his time. I'm going to listen to the soundtrack now.
I bought mine off my brother back in 2001 and loved it! My daughter grew up playing Sonic Adventures, Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm, and Jet Set Radio. I had it up until last month when a house fire took it, my sega, NES, GameGear, and their respective games with it to gamer heaven. RIP my little DreamCast, 22 years old. 😞 I also enjoyed thrifting when I was a kid up until 2001 when I graduated highschool. I enjoyed it so much I volunteered most summers at the Salvation Army where my G-ma was the GM. Good times and great finds! Nostalgia is a nasty bug yet fond bug to be bit by.
The "Console Set-Up ASMR Set To Soft Smooth Jazz" bit was worth a sub on it's own, but your attitude, knowledge, and taste are wholesome and so so appreciated. Looking forward to digging through your work. Cheers!
Once again, thanks for the whole experience of setting one of these up new. My cousin had one, and I remember being blown away by the graphics. He was the only one I knew who had one. Can't remember for sure what year it would have been -- possibly launch. And I possibly played a few games on that very demo disc. I definitely remember Sonic Adventure and Tomb Raider. At the time I didn't understand why the Dreamcast didn't make it. As a Sega/Sonic fan, ultimately I waited for the dust to settle and got a GameCube in 2002.
I chose dreamcast when it first came out over ps2. Loved seeing crazy taxi and jet set radio that made me love those colourful and cartoonish graphics sold me easily and was never disappointed with some amazing games like power stone, sega bass fishing, tee off golf, and many more
A close friend of mine owned a Dreamcast. Every Friday we went to a computer club in the city and afterwards, around 1-2 AM, we got back to his home and stayed the night to beat each other up in Soul Calibur. Such fond memories about that time
Dude.... I was a retail manager back then for On Cue helping out in Buford SC, we had 3 of these systems come in, and no one would buy them, they discounted them to 25 bucks and I bought one(wish I had bought all 3) but I've kept it new in box, along with two new controller, and 3 new memory cards. I've debated selling it as a package deal, but just not sure I could part with it, crazy you found one, I knew I wasn't the only one, but it has to be incredibly rare...... I made those Emu Disks as well. (still have them and the browser and demo disks), still have those....Rhino games was only in Florida and Ga I worked there before going to On Cue, which later turned into Sam Goody. Final edit... you opened that on my birthday, so Happy birthday lol.
I got a dreamcast in 1999, when I was 5 years old. My dad was a sega fan and owned a sega megadrive in the 90's. I LOVED Sonic adventure, it's the game that has been the most influential on me. I also had 101 dalmatians and Rayman 2, which were both great games. I played my dreamcast for YEARS, but only had 4 games or so, and now I know why: there were no games around since it was cancelled so quickly. (Also, dad had a principle: you have to finish a game in order to get a new one!) My friend bought a dreamcast some years ago, and we went through Sonic adventure together, 20 years later. It was still amazing. I love this console!
Virtua Tennis! I bought a new unused in box DC from Think Geek in 2009 for the same nostalgic reasons as you. Relive all the memories from the turn of the millennium.
i remember walking through a costco back when i was about 10 years old, and i saw nfl 2k on dreamcast being displayed on a tv. i was absolutely blown away, it looked like the most realistic game i had ever seen. couldn't believe that this console failed as badly as it did. it was ahead of its time.
very cool video! I actually still have the box for mine, which my father bought in 2000, I believe. The Dreamcast's story is frankly so sad. It's gotta be the only console ever that got discontinued not because nobody liked or wanted it, but because of internal drama and turmoil at Sega, which had been chronically mismanaged on the hardware department pretty much ever since after the Mega Drive came out... It got killed off way too early. And yet, I really don't think the sales figures are that bad for a console that stayed afloat for so little time. Not only that, but the games library we got in that short span of time is nothing short of stunning in quality. It's no wonder everyone that bought the console is so loyal to it. One can only imagine the directions the console would've gone in had it actually managed to stay afloat to properly compete with the PS2, the Xbox and the GameCube.
LGRs point about DVD playback at the end was important. I actually spent more on a low end DVD player than I spent on a new Dreamcast back in 2001. I wonder if the hardware would have been capable of DVD playback if they had swapped the CD drive for one.
@@MrDuncl probably. I think Sega was making plans to implement DVD playback into the Dreamcast somehow - and in an alternate universe where the DC lived on until the rest of the generation there probably would've been a later model with it implemented into every machine, I'd like to think.
Dreamcast has been the console I've been collecting for the most the last couple of years. So many good titles and the system itself is just really cool. I remember seeing them for $50 new at Walmart. Should have bought a handful at that time.
Man as a kid my grandparents had a couple of these, the green see through and the off white cream looking one. They had a burned cd full of games my dad made them, and they always played a pool table game. I use to watch them for hours and even play with them.they both passed now, but the memories just came back. Thank you.
One of my favorite Dreamcast games, which I see you have in your stash, is Toy Commander. Toy Commander was a real fun single player game, but it really shined in multiplayer mode. I was really good at that game and developed all sorts of strategies to kick my opponents butts! I never understood why there wasn't a sequel to that game on another console.
YES! No one ever talks about Toy Commander but it was SO good! It and Speed Devils are probably the two Dreamcast games I'm most nostalgic about after watching this video and it has me seriously thinking about trying to figure out an emulator to play them again.
@@marcus6639 I never tried emulating Dreamcast but I assume it's actually easy to emulate. Within the past few years, PS2 emulation has really stepped up and just about every game runs buttery smooth and I have not had a crash since the start of the nightly 1.7.x builds. Seeing how DC has an active cult following (as seen with Dreamcast Live service) and probably less propriety and/or intensive hardware, I have little doubt that emu creators have made an extremely accurate emulator with intuitive UI. Luckily I even see that Toy Commander is ready to be downloaded from my favorite emulation site as well
The Dreamcast was so arcade perfect you could build an arcade cabinet around it, put it in an actual arcade and people would have a hard time telling the difference. So many fond memories of Capcom vs SNK, MvC, MvC2, Street fighter 3, what an arcade fighter beast.
Wasn't some of Sega's arcade tech at the time literally a Dreamcast board / modified Dreamcast board or something? (I know the games you listed are Capcom but still) But yeah, at the time especially it was really impressive. I remember being a kid with an N64 at home at the time, and being blown away the first time I saw Sonic Adventure at a kiosk in Target.
@@svenbtb @a32b_ The Dreamcast was based on the NAOMI, Sega's arcade hardware that had come out around the same time. It has some technical differences (NAOMI has more RAM for instance), but games could be easily ported to the Dreamcast that were released for NAOMI. Unfortunately, because the Dreamcast "died" early on many NAOMI games never got a release on it, instead opting for often inferior ports to the PS2. You might be thinking of the Sammy Atomiswave though. After the merger, Sammy released an arcade platform that is almost identical to the Dreamcast in every way but one - it uses a kind of cartridge instead of discs. A couple years back some dedicated fans found that if you have an ODE in your Dreamcast to get around the slow loading time of the optical drive, you can play all Atomiswave games with almost zero moficiations, because the Atomiswave is a Dreamcast (but with games on cart).
That is so weird, I first encountered the Dreamcast in a Sam's Club too! Now that I think about it, I never saw Dreamcast demo units anywhere else. Is that part of why it failed, because they only had displays in those kind of member-exclusive big box stores?
Story: the day I came home from the hospital after being born less than an hour after my older brother wanted to play the dreamcast as he had been stuck at the hospital for the last several hours. My dad was setting it up and he got so gitty with excitement doing a jig, he spun around hitting his femur / leg on the big heavy Foosball table we had fracturing it. We were literally sent back to the same doctor. They assumed there were issues with my mother pertaining to her giving birth. To this day I like to say he was jealous of the attention so he had to go and break himself. He's fine now. No lasting injuries
My friend had a Dreamcast when it was new and a big screen tv. His family was pretty wealthy so we would always play there. As a PS1 owner I remember the Dreamcast looking so amazing, in particular Crazy Taxi. Thanks for showing Soul Caliber especially, we played so much of that as well as the sequel it was really great to see it!
I’ve had five Dreamcast systems but the laser stopped working, the internal battery died, or the disc wouldn’t spin. But there’s so much nostalgia for me with that console. The Sonic games, Rush 2049 and the 7 years I searched for it (plus the game mode my brother and I made after enabling certain cheats, we called it Tag), Dead or Alive, Grandia II being my first ever rpg, Skies of Arcadia and the fantastical setting it presented to me… fantastic classics. Btw Power Stone 2, for sure, is four players. Both games are still two of the most fun fighting games ever. Environmental object interaction was novel back then, and so well executed here. I loved seeing an actual 3D game from capcom when they still made street fighter 2d. Rush 2049 was special though. Increased angles for jumps, futurists cities, badass soundtrack, NO LOADING SCREENS ON A CD-BASED GAME! You’re showing literally all the games I had and loved so deeply. Seriously. Soul Caliber was in my library as well, and I’d listen to the music in the art museum to play myself to sleep as a teen. I didn’t have UT, my shooter was Goldeneye with my brother and friends. But all the rest were in my library.
This is so incredible. I remember seeing these in stores and then finally renting one from a rental store, but we couldn’t afford to buy one. Such a cool system with some amazing games.
this was the console that allowed me to go online, in 1999, and search and buy all the old comics i was trying to get growing up. The idea that you could surf online was amazing, the online multigames 2K games this thing was so far ahead of everything else. Would have like to see how Sega evolved if this didnt get killed.
I remember buying a Dreamcast at age 19, I’m 42 now. I bought this game called Omikron the Nomad Soul.. played it nonstop for 2 years before getting into WoW beta and still playing WoW. 😂
I enjoyed the Dreamcast. Way ahead of it's time. Crazy taxi was my go-to.I played the generator disk an embarrassing amount of times. I mastered tony hawk's warehouse level.
@@Smashmilk When it came out in 1998 is was way above any consumer PC. Even in 1999 it was not surpassed until the Geforce 256 in 3D capabilities. On console market the PS2 came only in 2000 and had terrible aliasing and texture detail issues compared to the DC. It took time to devs to improve its visual to be on par with the DC while the DC itself never took advantage of newer devkits. And it was a cheap console. So, no, hardware wise, it couldn't have been better for this price in 1998.
@@Malheirods I totally agree but they underestimated Sony and they failed big time going with the gcdrom. I bought one day one don't get me wrong loved it . But if they would have just gone DVD i think seaga would atleadt made one more console
I loved my Dreamcast. I even grabbed a second one for a spare when it became clear that the Dreamcast was going away. Thanks LGR you bastard. You've now got me perusing eBay looking for Dreamcast games, even though I already have a bunch.
I agree with your sentiment about the nostalgia being tied to multiplayer. And, in my case, it was actual online. I remember playing the hell out of PSO (ran just fine on 56k) and Q3 Arena. The Dreamcast will forever be my favorite console. The only thing that has come close to the 'awe' I had from the Dreamcast is from emerging VR stuff.
@@rustymixer2886 you can play vcds on a philips cdi though, anyway sega was on borrowed time with the dreamcast they had burned the consumer way too many times with useless expensive add ons and how they handled the saturn, what would you rather do as a consumer buy a dreamcast from a company known for dropping products like a turd or wait for the sequel to the first playstation which was basically dominant??? it's a pretty easy choice if you ask me.
@@ComicusFreemanius the cost for the DVD remote for xbox was mainly for licensing reasons. A DVD drive still cost a lot more than a CD ROM drive at the time, even if it wasn't used to play DVD movies and therefore not have to pay for the associated license. So even if Sega didn't care for playing movies it would have increased the price of the console quite a bit. Sony didn't mind taking a loss on each console because they wanted to push the DVD format at the same time as grow the PlayStation brand.
Woulda been quite the trick to pull off, given that DVD functionality in a console was literally the PS2's main selling point on release... a year or two after the Dreamcast came out.
Wow this really took me back to unboxing my Dreamcast back in early 2000. Many fond memories of Crazy Taxi and House of the Dead 2 (with the gun controllers!). The sound of that VMU sliding in and locking was choice. Thanks for doing these videos!
If your Dreamcast still has the sticker along the bottom of the console, there should be a rectable with four letters (NTSC? I believe?) followed by a circle with a number inside it. If the number is a 1, your console is "first wave" and was produced without the copyright laser; meaning you can play burned games with no issue.
I remember getting this bc someone pawned it to my dad and never took it back. My cousins had the ps2, friends too, so I was stuck with the star wars pod racer for a month until we found someone who sold games for it. I love this console.
Seeing that Utopia Boot Disk really brought back some strong nostalgia for me. I had purchased a used Dreamcast in college during the heyday of torrenting. I burned so many games back then. Then the ones that failed, or didn't play right, I would frisbee them out of my dorm room. Let's just say I had quite the collection on the quad then.
The utopia boot disk I had looked different to the one in the vid. Mine just had a blue semi-transparent reindeer rotating on a black background. Im in the UK so maybe the PAL one was slightly different. I remember getting a megadrive compilation disk that ran a few sonic games via emulation (it was a commercial product from France iirc) and changing the roms by matching the filenames of the originals and burning a new disk. Had quite a big collection at the end.
I will never get tired of you playing Unreal Tournament.
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My best friend at the time had one. I had a lot of fun playing it with him. In fact, together with the Saturn, the Dreamcast was one of the consoles I spent the most time wishing for proper emulation for it. Though, admitedly once both had good emulation available, I ended up not spending a lot of time on them. We just have too much stuff available nowadays and a lot of it made to scrach nostalgia itches already. But I'm glad this stuff is accessible once more. :)
LGR always putting me in the holiday spirit, even with the non-holiday themed episodes lol. This one especially since I bought a dreamcast with the help of a friend who worked at Funkoland in December 2000. So I have very strong holiday feelings when thinking about Sonic Adventure, Jet Set, Crazy Taxi and etc. I even remember playing Code: Veronica in the dead of night on Christmas Eve, awash in the glow of Christmas lights. I also got Shenmue for a Christmas present later, which is a game I still love despite all its weirdness lol. Such a great system and so many memories. Thank you for the appropriately timed video~
Wow I'm so glad I clicked on ur video. I've been tryna remember the name for slave zero for the past couple years but I couldn't remember it and here you are showing it off. Crazy that game was amazing on pc
I LOVED this game system so much as a 10-12 year old in the 90's. Toy Commander, Soul Caliber, Phantasy Star Online, Re-Volt, Legacy of Kain... All of the best gaming experiences of my life TO THIS DATE were had on the Dreamcast.
22 is my lucky number and Dreamcast was my first console I used on my own. I burnt so many emulation disks trying out Super Famicom games by name only. The internet was not as good of a resource in 2000. Oh, and the Dreamcast games rule as well. ❤
When I was in high school, I found 4 dreamcasts in a bin, with some games. I took them and I went to see one of my teacher who pulled up screwdrivers and helped me make one out of these four by troubleshooting them. All 4 had different issues, yet I am happy to say that the console still works to this day.
As a kid my mom had blocked any internet site that even hinted at having bad stuff on it, and then I got a Sega Dreamcast and was so amazed it came with internet connection. And I got that thing in my room and got it set up to the internet without all my moms lame blockers, and boy did I look at everything I wasn't supposed to!!
lol
😅😅
you watched porn on your dreamcast?
Yelp lmaoooo…
Your mom was smart.
Day 1 owner of a Dreamcast console here. It was one of the saddest days of my childhood when they discontinued the Dreamcast. It was a game changing, way ahead of it’s time console and had so many good games. Thanks for posting this! Tons of nostalgia.
it was a sad day for me too! I loved my dreamcast thought it was ahead of its time. I felt like the PS2 look awful graphics were so blurry but i felt like the dreamcast was clear and crisp.
Still feel like if Sega had done market research back in the day, realized there wasn't much of a market for the Sega CD (or 32X) outside Japan, but had some of those games (like Sonic CD) being launch window titles for the Saturn (with a September launch as originally planned), things would've been different.
It kind of stemmed back to the thinking in the Genesis era/4th console generation that they had to have a new Sonic game release every year, like how sports titles have to be updated every year, except actually being new games. So they felt Sonic CD was needed in 1993, since Sonic 3 was not ready for release until February 1994. But the relative lack of support on console add-ons just burned their customers who bought them.
Lots of kids at the time (including me) were still just starting with Sonic 2 on Model 2 Genesis. And it later turned out Genesis had better holiday sales in 1994 than the SNES did. So I think they would've been fine if they'd held off on the CD titles, and used some of them (enhanced ports or remakes) as early Saturn titles. Having an upgraded Sonic CD on Saturn launch day would've helped the company a lot more than having the original version for holiday 1993.
what primarily hurt sega was the fact they released the dreamcast too early, the PS2 was released by not too long after the dreamcast , and the ps2 played DVD movies, which a large portion of people who had a ps2 bought it for that specific reason because back in that day DVD players were very expensive. if sega would have waited and than added DVD playback functionality, it would of stood toe to toe with the ps2, and xbox.
I saw it in the mall and really wanted one, graphics looked amazing for the time. Just bad timing with the PS2. Ended up getting an xbox later on.
@@ShadowAngel-lt8nw thats your own opinion.
The Dreamcast legitimately felt, looked, and sounded like the future. It was ahead of its time but not on time enough to stay afloat…
yeah no, not even close to PC nor PS1.
@@BenState You mean PS2 ... The Dreamcast was the most powerful console when it was released in 1998 (far more powerful than PS1 and N64). Dreamcast wasn't dethroned as the console powerhouse until PS2 came out 2 years later, in 2000.
PCs are always faster than every generation of consoles, so not really relevant to the topic. There were twice as many console gamers as PC gamers during that era.
when it came out and for 2-3 years most computers were not as powerful as a xbox 360@@AdamsOlympia
@@pilsplease7561 True, 360 was an impressive bit of kit in 2005/2006 - faster than the mid range GPU from that year, 7600 GT … You’d have to buy a new PC with a $500 7900 gtx to outperform 360 when it was released. Though the highest end PCs still more than doubled the console’s performance (7950 SLI)
@Ben-bv6pd Dreamcast was the first system to connect to the internet and the first to have a built-in fan it was dope
I would totally watch a 1 hour video of you just putting games in and playing them and talking about their history...
Me too. I used to hangout with someone who lived a couple houses from my grandmas who was the same age as me who had a Dreamcast when he was little. I never got to play it with him but I saw him playing Star Wars pod racing and it looked amazing. I think they had a garage sale and got rid of it.
He should definitely do that i would watch that
Yeah like seaman lol. I had that game and thought it was going to be really cool to teach him things. I don't think I got very far.
@@heathermoran6134 Angry Vídeo Game Nerd has a great Seaman review, in case You haven't seen it.
@raffstein Thanks! I'll check it out
VMUs were a game changer for sports games, allowing you to pick your play without your opponent seeing it since it was displayed on your controller.
Oh man, I never had any sports games on DC, that totally tracks tho/rules. Sonic Shuffle did a similar thing where your hand of cards was hidden via VMUs, it was so damn cool to me as a kid/even now
This was an awesome feature.
The most impressive was Virtua Tennis, where it was literally just a stick figure version of the game you were playing onscreen. Completely useless feature, but it was a neat trick beating your friends without looking at the screen, assuming they didn’t also have a VMU and know exactly what you were up to.
this this right here
Yes but it displayed the names of the plays unless you knew the plays then yeah dope as hell
One of the coolest things about the Dreamcast was the VMU. I remember playing NFL 2K, this of course being well before online gaming, so you play against your buddies on the same TV. With the VMU you could call your plays on the VMU itself so your buddy couldn’t see what plays your calling. I thought that was so dope.
Bro the crazy thing is you COULD play it online. At least NFL2k1, not 100% sure about 2k. But I remember playing that shit online back in 2000, and the it worked great which is even crazier still.
What a great use for it!
That was my 1st game and one of the reasons I bought it! I still don't know why controllers don't have a built-in display for things like this. They cost enough for god's sake
Telling my buddy about this shit so tough
Well yeah but *M E E E E E E P*
Dreamcast and GameCube will always have a special place in my mind. Just fantastic consoles.
I own both these days though my cube is from 2005 when they dropped to like £70 with 2 games... my dreamcast is newer to the library but my friend owned one in the day and we used to trade consoles from time to time. fond memories of this and it was so forward thinking
@@simplesimonhadapie I did own both, and have a fairly decent collection of games on each, BUT due to covid and no work i had to sell my entire game collection.
Very sad
in your mind?... well in my 'heart'' !
Gamecube is trash.
All the consoles of that generation were great, and a huge leap form the previous gen. 3D games went from primitive and blocky to actually looking good!
I struggled to choose and eventually went for the PS2. But the Xbox, Dreamcast and Gamecube were all compelling choices, each with their own unique strengths, capabilities and games libraries.
They were actually a lot more different from each other than consoles are today.
I would still love to own all of the 6th gen consoles if I had the space and the budget. 😊
Most underrated system of all time .
Crazy taxi (was a great arcade port )
Soul caibur was excellent
Shenmue ….there was nothing like it then
Sonic Adventure was great
Best version of tomb raiders
Skies of Arcadia
Phantasy star online
Ready to rumble boxing
Power stone
Just to name a few
Hoping a Dreamcast mini gets made . I’m guessing it’s coming for the 25th anniversary which is under 2 years away .
NBA and NFL 2k were both great too. Used to waste hours playing those with my old roommate back then, during the shitty winter weekend days.
I will lose my shit entirely if they made a Dreamcast mini
@@deoduceassassin that would be amazing
Loved my Dreamcast, but for me the 3DO is the most underrated console of all time, simply because the Dreamcast is almost universally loved, and talked about fondly way more. I remember being absolutely blown away by the first Need for Speed. Wing commander with all its FMV movie scenes with Luke Skywalker and Biff Tannen. But it's all personal opinion, the Dreamcast was definitely 'better' overall. Especially if you are more of an arcade game fan, but I'll always remember the 3DO more fondly, myself. 👊❤
Virtual fighter also
Powerstone and Powerstone 2 were such insanely great party games, right up there with goldeneye on the n64.
Powerstone was easily the best game on Dreamcast!
Power Stone with friends at launch was amazing.
techromancer was my favorite game it was basically mortal kombat but with robots
Powerstone was a great and massive hit except for some minor glitches..Powerstone 2 was okay.
Golden eye was really bad... I had al consoles and ofcource pc. As a pc gamer golden eye was just mega shit 😂
I had the Dreamcast when it just came out. The year 2000 was incredible. Soul Calibur, Powerstone, Jet Set Radio, Code Veronica, Virtual Tennis, MSR, Shenmue. It felt like nearly every week something great came out. It seemed unbelievable that they packed it in early the next year when it was months before decent games for the PS2 came out like GTA or MGS
That's what happens if you use optical discs without serious copy protection…
@@stansteez I'm sorry, I can't accept that it was the ease of piracy that did the Dreamcast in. Sega was already on borrowed time from the moment the console launched. Everyone was already well aware that the PS2 was coming, and the sheer size of the sales gap between the Saturn and PS1 was evidence that most people were inevitably going to move over to, or at least purchase a PS2 as well. There was really nothing Sega could do at that point in their history to combat Sony, even if Sega had included better copy protection and a DVD drive the PS2 would still have steamrolled them into oblivion because of the sheer hype and the amount of money Sony had to back it up. The Dreamcast is a fantastic machine, I love it to death, it's by far my favorite 6th gen console, but there was no way in hell it was going to compete with the PS2.
@@seanmckelvey6618 I disagree completely, PS2 games looked terrible in comparison.
Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2, i feel it's the first time i changed parts on a car and saw it represented on screen.
@@sunrisesunset1734 he's correct. I had the Dreamcast and PS2 at launch. Both were incredible but if someone was picking just one they were definitely waiting for the PS2. Plus backward compatibility and DVDs all in one box was too tempting. Sony were going for a one stop shop for your living room.
To think it has been over 24 years. Time sure flies.
Dude I wasn't even born yet🤣 i was literally born at 99 before the console came to the us.. bet you was young though enjoying the heck out of these consoles 😎. Im glad I did later on..
Makes me feel old.
I was born in 2000 when the Dreamcast was still being sold but I wasn’t aware of its existence till I was like 13 lol
Yup I was 9 when this came out 🎉😊
That Dreamcast startup is so smooth. It still holds up
As well as the GameCube and PS1 intros
I was also really impressed by Sonic Adventure back in 1999. It was so different from any other console of that time...
Was gonna say, wasn’t PS1 already out by 1999? Surely that was a superior console
If you meant that it was uniquely different to some console games, you are right on that. Sonic Adventure opened up a new realm in console gming when it was launched.
@@ShadowAngel-lt8nw bro, I think he meant the Sonic game, in comparision to other Console games.
@@ShadowAngel-lt8nw dude, the graphics were a whole new thing back then, a lot more hours to play for, 6 characters to play with unlike mario 64, very nice stages that are fast, it was almost perfect.
Being a fanboy won't change that.
@@issam76 It even had VGA support in some titles so there was 480p. Then you have the online features. Compared to the other consoles around the time of its release it was very impressive.
So much nostalgia here! I do believe the Dreamcast was and is still my favorite console. Truly ahead of its time. Thinking of playing Shenmue, MDK2, MakkenX again on the Dreamcast takes me back to simpler times.
Shenmue was the best.
I remember playing NFL2k1 online. It was crazy how good it worked.
This system will always have a special place in my heart because it reminds me of my first cousin who was like a brother to me, I call him my brother. When we were little we’d stay up all night playing this when I visit, he lived out of my state so every time my family traveled to see my uncle and aunt and his family it was a treat, and because my family never bought me video games he’d introduce me to all the video games he had, me and him were the closest we would buddy up, play, stay up late talk and eat and play Tokyo Xtreme on this as well as many many rounds of Tekken 3. Until his brother came home and forced us to go to sleep. But those nights were special to me, because of him and this system. Now my brother has passed, but his memory still lives with me as well as the things he introduce me to like this system and gaming in general among many other things. So whenever I see this system I miss him. It’s special just like he is. This system to me will never go away. Just like the love I have for him. Miss you Steve. Can’t wait to play Tokyo Xtreme with you on this again when I get there. :]
same with my cousin, she stayed at my house for a bit and brought over her Genesis and I fondly remember watching play games like Sonic 2 and Mortal Kombat and after she went back home I ended up inheriting a bunch of her games and my grandfather later got me a Model-1 Genesis from a garage sale. Unfortunately in high school she tragically died in a car crash and I can't help but think of her every time I play one of those Genesis games.
Sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing the good memories. They sound amazing :)
What a time travel ❤ Takes me back to the day when I got my PAL Dreamcast, around the beginning of the year 2000... Played so much Jet Set Radio and Metropolis Street Racer... Probably the console as whole where I clocked more hours than anything else (specially in Power Stone 2). But I got to say that the PAL box is still way more striking with its simplicity with that blue swirl!
I guess you are talking about the box it came in. Mine is still in it.
Still my favorite console of all time. I loved the Dreamcast so much. This video really made me want to get another Dreamcast. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.
This looks like such a cool console... For the Original Xbox prototype.
@@arnox4554 X360 Prototype 😂👊
This was my favorite console, the aesthetic, the controller. It really felt like it was something special, and then playing phantasy star online I realized that it was indeed absolutely special. Felt like going to disney world for the first time.
Great video. The DC was such a big part of my childhood. Got it for my birthday in 2000 at age 12. Shenmue was mind blowing, and because it could played burned discs, I experienced so many unique games that I'd otherwise never have even heard of. This system is more than just games to me, it's peak late 90s/Y2K energy. The before times, if you know what I mean.
Those last 2 sentences sum it up.
My grandparents got me Shenmue for Christmas in 99. It blew my mind back then. Just the fact that I could walk up to a virtual arcade machine in the town and play a real arcade game.
@@hb3528 Thank you! I left a longer separate comment about a half hour ago too.
LGR, you're still my favorite gaming channel. After 6 years of watching you to this very day, you're not only still bringing the goods, but you're actually getting better at it. Keep up the fine work my friend 👍
I appreciate that, thanks for sticking around!
Sega Dreamcast was and still is my favourite console. I'll never forget seeing it running Soul Calibur in a local electronics and video games store back in 1999. I just had to have it. The graphics, the animation, the fluidity of those fighting moves, it was leagues above anything else available at the time, it just blew my mind. So many wonderful games and memories on this platform, I still play my favourite Dreamcast games under emulation on my SteamDeck.
Same, except my "oh crap" moment happened when I played NFL2k for the first time at a friends house. Being an avid player of Madden on PC at the time the leap in graphics and animations was unreal. People would walk by and think it was a real game.
All the CAPCOM games were great
Crazy Taxi with the driving Wheel and Bass fishing with the fishing rod was crazy. You are missing all the Marvel vs Capcom games
I’ll never forget working at electronics boutique when this thing released, we had like a pile of 100 Dreamcast in the back and instead of flying off the shelves on release day, half the customers were telling me they’re waiting for this PlayStation thing instead.
Wow electronics boutique haven't heard that in years. I miss that shop so bad 😞
@@ItzJigz187 got eb games here in Australia. ‘Dodgy game bros ‘more like it
Hey, I worked at Electronic Boutique as well back in 1994-95 in Glendale Galleria! Best time!!
@@Garrysullivanjones love my EB games
I bought my Dreamcast on 9/9/99!
Yours is my absolute favorite RUclips channel! It feels like I'm exploring this stuff right along side you! Not full of yourself as some others get on here. May sound silly, but it's a joy watching how happy you get!
First console I ever got was a Sega Genesis, I was probably 4-5 years old and it had already been out for a hot minute. Got the Dreamcast as a Christmas present either in 1999 or in 2000, I was blown away. I still have so many memories playing it. I ALSO HAD A RHINO GAMES NEARBY !!!
Love that ominous demo disc sci-fi ambiance.
Got the Dreamcast exactly 22 years ago on Thursday. It's amazing how all the little sounds and sights brought me instantly back to those memories.
Can’t believe how much a new one goes for. In the late 2000s I saw these online sealed for like $100.
They were selling them for $50 brand new for the Christmas season of year 2000, and literally giving them away free with subscription to SegaNet. 😅
500 for a fully modified one. Meaning noctua fan mod, pico psu, gdemu board and sd card.
@@adamhayden5152I could kick myself for having sold mine.
Shenmue. Way ahead of its time. I've always imagined a Dreamcast 2.
I remember being so blown away by the graphics of that game. Good memories!
bruh
Great game
dreamcast 2... 🤤shit... back to reality. no more dreamcast for life!
Shenmue 2, Jet Set Radio Future, Panzer Dragoon Orta, even Marvel vs Capcom 2. the Xbox was pretty close
I remember being a sophomore in 2002 and my friend Brian having a Dreamcast and PS2 and we always played the Dreamcast. I had an N64 and was always genuinely impressed by the Dreamcast, especially with TS Pro Skater compared to PS2. Man what a great video
It’s crazy to think back that it’s been 23 years since . Damn time flies .
Great video. I was 13 when my grandparents bought me the Dreamcast on 9/9/99 and I have a lot of fond memories of it. I got Soul Calibur and played it into the wee hours of the night even though it was a school night. I pretended to go to sleep and just kept on playing in my bedroom. My brother got NFL 2K and he played it a lot. I hated sports games but I still recognized how good that game was. My dad even got into NFL 2K for a short time. I remember when my grandparents let me hook up the Dreamcast to their living room TV, going through the V1 demo disc games... Sonic Adventure, Ready to Rumble, Sega Fishing.
My dad was a parish councilman at the time, and when I was forced to go to one of his boring-ass council meetings, I took the VMU and played mini-games on it. The 56k modem was how I first accessed proper porn LOL. The images loaded slow as fuck but it beat the hell out of trying to make out a tit on the grainy-ass late night Cinemax shows or the Picasso-esque playboy PPV channel.
I was a big fan of Virtua Fighter in the arcades and desperately wanted a Saturn when I was younger to play it, but I never got one. Around Halloween of 99', I rented Virtua Fighter 3TB and had a blast. I have a memory of going to a high school bowling activity in my freshman year. But I couldn't wait to get home and try out the Sega Mouse & Keyboard my mom had bought me to play Quake 3 online. My dad's old Gateway 2000 (upgraded with a 3DFX Voodoo2) could play Quake 2 just fine but could not run Quake 3. So playing Quake 3 online was a dream. And then, in the Dreamcast's twilight years, I used it to emulate games. I think I remember running MAME on it, though I could be mistaken.
The Dreamcast was fucking great and really shaped my late childhood / early adolescence.
I know everyone has their memorable Dreamcast game, but I feel like Crazy Taxi deserved a look back here! That game was shockingly polished and so much fun!
Crazy Taxi is unquestionably one of the top tier games on the system. Very addictive for a game with just a handful of levels incredible how many hours you could put in.
So much nostalgia. I was lucky enough to have friends who had Dreamcasts, but my parents didn't see fit to have a phone line put in to my room so while I could play in my room, I was never able to get it online. Which sucked because my favorite game was Phantasy Star Online.
after the first price drop I sold my PS1 and my N64 to get a Dreamcast.....and no regrets.....but I did sell it a year later to finance getting a PS2.......ya PS2 was better sorry, but for a time it ruled
@@weedthepeople2795 For sure PS2 obviously had a greater support, but graphics from the PowerVR in my view far superior to the EE. Even though GFLOPS were higher the PVR produced a much cleaner smoother image with less horsepower and was MUCH easier to program for. its too bad it didn't last as it was a very promising tile rendering tech. i can only imagine what they could have achieved had they been given more time to mature it.
Dreamcast was so good.
Still is!
Was and is…
And forever shall be 🙏
NBA 2k first came out on the dream cast.
I'm contenplating on getting one...
I got the Dreamcast when it was new in the US for Christmas 1999 and it was the most amazing console I've ever seen. The only comparison to how amazed I was by it was the N64 in 1996. I can't believe how futuristic it felt and how much faith I put in the future of it, only for it to die a quick death in the early 2000s. People make fun of the DC these days but it really was incredible for its time, with Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure and Shenmue being my absolute favorites.
I share the N64 sentiment. That changed my world and is still my favorite, but the Dreamcast felt like nearly as big a jump for consoles. What a time to be alive as a young gamer (both console and PC).
That startup sound brought back a lot of memories over here. Thank you.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that using burned disks put a little more strain on the drive because it couldn't read items on disk as quickly. Maybe I’m wrong. Also seem to remember that anything after the year 2000 were unable to read them.
Thank you for the great content. As someone with no vision I love how you describe everything you do instead of just adding music while you unbox something. It really makes it feel like I can be there sharing the moment and it’s a breath of fresh air. Thank you for what you do. Preserving these gems of history is important.
Soul Calibur was so amazing. I remember it got a 10 out of 10 in the game magazine I was reading and that blew my little mind haha. I played SC for hours every day for weeks with friends and family members. I remember thinking graphics have peaked nothing will top SC on the DreamCast. Sadly a year later the DC was dead and we all got a PS2 with GTA3.
Same here. Soul Calibur was the only reason I got the dreamcast. We could finally get arcade graphics at home. It blew my mind too. Crazy taxi, MK gold, Marvel vs Capcom. So many great arcade fighting games for it.
Man we played the crap out of Soul Calibur 😂
SC2 came out for Xbox, part of the reason I bought one, as well as Shenmue 2.
SC was 10/10, Sword of the Berserk was one of first titles I've played and I had so much fun with it. Shenmue 1 and 2 ! Also REZ, Grandia 2, Illbleed of course Resident evil CV, Headhunter, Tokyo Bus Guide and many many more... I've loved the system.
You conveniently forgot that the PS2 had plenty of other fighting games...including Soul Calibur 2 and 3....
I absolutely loved this console when it first came out. I got it for Christmas the year it came out. Good memories
I got it when it first came out also! In fact I still have it!
Still have mine and set it up occasionally. Sports games were also top tier on this system. I went from a N64 to a Dreamcast and the jump in graphics was immense. I’ll never forget those precious memories. ❤
Thank you for sharing the Dreamcast experience. This system achieved mythic status to me and my friends who never knew anyone with one. Such was the nature of living in the 90s American boonies.
Jet Set Radio for Dreamcast .... best (or at least top 5) game soundtrack ever. That was the reason I bought a Dreamcast. Also that Utopia thing.... I had *completely* forgotten I had a memory of the random reindeer spinny thing! Glad to have that back in my brain. The Jet Set Radio pirate radio guy is basically the original vlogger - ahead of his time. I'm going to listen to the soundtrack now.
Greatest console of all-time, I got this baby 09/09/99 and it was one of the most memorable days of my life!!!
I bought mine off my brother back in 2001 and loved it! My daughter grew up playing Sonic Adventures, Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm, and Jet Set Radio. I had it up until last month when a house fire took it, my sega, NES, GameGear, and their respective games with it to gamer heaven. RIP my little DreamCast, 22 years old. 😞
I also enjoyed thrifting when I was a kid up until 2001 when I graduated highschool. I enjoyed it so much I volunteered most summers at the Salvation Army where my G-ma was the GM. Good times and great finds! Nostalgia is a nasty bug yet fond bug to be bit by.
I never owned a Dreamcast, and none of my friends did. So it's awesome to see this unboxing! Thank you.
The "Console Set-Up ASMR Set To Soft Smooth Jazz" bit was worth a sub on it's own, but your attitude, knowledge, and taste are wholesome and so so appreciated. Looking forward to digging through your work. Cheers!
Once again, thanks for the whole experience of setting one of these up new. My cousin had one, and I remember being blown away by the graphics. He was the only one I knew who had one. Can't remember for sure what year it would have been -- possibly launch. And I possibly played a few games on that very demo disc. I definitely remember Sonic Adventure and Tomb Raider. At the time I didn't understand why the Dreamcast didn't make it. As a Sega/Sonic fan, ultimately I waited for the dust to settle and got a GameCube in 2002.
I chose dreamcast when it first came out over ps2. Loved seeing crazy taxi and jet set radio that made me love those colourful and cartoonish graphics sold me easily and was never disappointed with some amazing games like power stone, sega bass fishing, tee off golf, and many more
Same here but I got it with house of the dead + gun. , ready 2 rumble boxing and sonic adventure
I bought Dreamcast and GameCube as both were superior vs PS2.
@@V3ntilator never played game cube. I once bought ps2 and sold it 2 weeks later 🤮
@@harpalchauhan428 Hehe.
playing sonic adventure 2 on this almost 2 decades ago is one of my best childhood memories.
A close friend of mine owned a Dreamcast. Every Friday we went to a computer club in the city and afterwards, around 1-2 AM, we got back to his home and stayed the night to beat each other up in Soul Calibur. Such fond memories about that time
I still have my Dreamcast I got in 2000. It is still my favorite console with some outstanding titles.
Dude.... I was a retail manager back then for On Cue helping out in Buford SC, we had 3 of these systems come in, and no one would buy them, they discounted them to 25 bucks and I bought one(wish I had bought all 3) but I've kept it new in box, along with two new controller, and 3 new memory cards. I've debated selling it as a package deal, but just not sure I could part with it, crazy you found one, I knew I wasn't the only one, but it has to be incredibly rare...... I made those Emu Disks as well. (still have them and the browser and demo disks), still have those....Rhino games was only in Florida and Ga I worked there before going to On Cue, which later turned into Sam Goody. Final edit... you opened that on my birthday, so Happy birthday lol.
Id definitely tune in for an hour long “LGR plays Dreamcast” video/stream. Theyd make for some good long videos between unboxing vids.
I got a dreamcast in 1999, when I was 5 years old. My dad was a sega fan and owned a sega megadrive in the 90's. I LOVED Sonic adventure, it's the game that has been the most influential on me. I also had 101 dalmatians and Rayman 2, which were both great games. I played my dreamcast for YEARS, but only had 4 games or so, and now I know why: there were no games around since it was cancelled so quickly. (Also, dad had a principle: you have to finish a game in order to get a new one!)
My friend bought a dreamcast some years ago, and we went through Sonic adventure together, 20 years later. It was still amazing. I love this console!
Rayman 2 is one of the best platform games ever. I played both the N64 and the DC version.
Virtua Tennis! I bought a new unused in box DC from Think Geek in 2009 for the same nostalgic reasons as you. Relive all the memories from the turn of the millennium.
i remember walking through a costco back when i was about 10 years old, and i saw nfl 2k on dreamcast being displayed on a tv. i was absolutely blown away, it looked like the most realistic game i had ever seen. couldn't believe that this console failed as badly as it did. it was ahead of its time.
Madden was not on Dreamcast….
@@Gugleyahoo dont ruin it for him
@@Gugleyahoo the 2K game I guess it was. Whatever football game was on it lol. Updated the comment just for you
@@Gugleyahoo NFL 2k whatever same thing effectively
Skies of Arcadia for Dreamcast was utterly amazing.
Yup, and then there's the version on the GameCube
@@madmax2069 I actually like the GameCube version a bit better, mostly because they dialed back the random encounters a skosh.
@@madmax2069 didn't like the extra character they forced in, but yeah.
Love the jazz while plugin in the old school tech on the old school TV. Great vibes
very cool video! I actually still have the box for mine, which my father bought in 2000, I believe.
The Dreamcast's story is frankly so sad. It's gotta be the only console ever that got discontinued not because nobody liked or wanted it, but because of internal drama and turmoil at Sega, which had been chronically mismanaged on the hardware department pretty much ever since after the Mega Drive came out...
It got killed off way too early. And yet, I really don't think the sales figures are that bad for a console that stayed afloat for so little time. Not only that, but the games library we got in that short span of time is nothing short of stunning in quality. It's no wonder everyone that bought the console is so loyal to it. One can only imagine the directions the console would've gone in had it actually managed to stay afloat to properly compete with the PS2, the Xbox and the GameCube.
Absolutely! Truly amazing the library we got in such a short time.
LGRs point about DVD playback at the end was important. I actually spent more on a low end DVD player than I spent on a new Dreamcast back in 2001. I wonder if the hardware would have been capable of DVD playback if they had swapped the CD drive for one.
@@MrDuncl probably. I think Sega was making plans to implement DVD playback into the Dreamcast somehow - and in an alternate universe where the DC lived on until the rest of the generation there probably would've been a later model with it implemented into every machine, I'd like to think.
Dreamcast has been the console I've been collecting for the most the last couple of years. So many good titles and the system itself is just really cool. I remember seeing them for $50 new at Walmart. Should have bought a handful at that time.
Man as a kid my grandparents had a couple of these, the green see through and the off white cream looking one. They had a burned cd full of games my dad made them, and they always played a pool table game. I use to watch them for hours and even play with them.they both passed now, but the memories just came back. Thank you.
One of my favorite Dreamcast games, which I see you have in your stash, is Toy Commander. Toy Commander was a real fun single player game, but it really shined in multiplayer mode. I was really good at that game and developed all sorts of strategies to kick my opponents butts! I never understood why there wasn't a sequel to that game on another console.
YES! No one ever talks about Toy Commander but it was SO good! It and Speed Devils are probably the two Dreamcast games I'm most nostalgic about after watching this video and it has me seriously thinking about trying to figure out an emulator to play them again.
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I never tried emulating Dreamcast but I assume it's actually easy to emulate. Within the past few years, PS2 emulation has really stepped up and just about every game runs buttery smooth and I have not had a crash since the start of the nightly 1.7.x builds. Seeing how DC has an active cult following (as seen with Dreamcast Live service) and probably less propriety and/or intensive hardware, I have little doubt that emu creators have made an extremely accurate emulator with intuitive UI. Luckily I even see that Toy Commander is ready to be downloaded from my favorite emulation site as well
The Dreamcast was so arcade perfect you could build an arcade cabinet around it, put it in an actual arcade and people would have a hard time telling the difference. So many fond memories of Capcom vs SNK, MvC, MvC2, Street fighter 3, what an arcade fighter beast.
Wasn't some of Sega's arcade tech at the time literally a Dreamcast board / modified Dreamcast board or something? (I know the games you listed are Capcom but still) But yeah, at the time especially it was really impressive. I remember being a kid with an N64 at home at the time, and being blown away the first time I saw Sonic Adventure at a kiosk in Target.
@@svenbtb Yes, the NAOMI. It's a modified Dreamcast system, complete with disc drive, although NAOMI discs don't work on stock Dreamcasts
@@svenbtb @a32b_ The Dreamcast was based on the NAOMI, Sega's arcade hardware that had come out around the same time. It has some technical differences (NAOMI has more RAM for instance), but games could be easily ported to the Dreamcast that were released for NAOMI. Unfortunately, because the Dreamcast "died" early on many NAOMI games never got a release on it, instead opting for often inferior ports to the PS2.
You might be thinking of the Sammy Atomiswave though. After the merger, Sammy released an arcade platform that is almost identical to the Dreamcast in every way but one - it uses a kind of cartridge instead of discs. A couple years back some dedicated fans found that if you have an ODE in your Dreamcast to get around the slow loading time of the optical drive, you can play all Atomiswave games with almost zero moficiations, because the Atomiswave is a Dreamcast (but with games on cart).
That box is an *instant* nostalgia hit, damn! Christmas '02 all over again 😪
I remember playing Power Stone mini games on the memory card in school!! What a hell of an idea to implement that feature.
That is so weird, I first encountered the Dreamcast in a Sam's Club too! Now that I think about it, I never saw Dreamcast demo units anywhere else. Is that part of why it failed, because they only had displays in those kind of member-exclusive big box stores?
Nope. My first exposure was a demo unit running Sonic Adventure in a GameStop (or maybe it was EB at the time).
Story: the day I came home from the hospital after being born less than an hour after my older brother wanted to play the dreamcast as he had been stuck at the hospital for the last several hours. My dad was setting it up and he got so gitty with excitement doing a jig, he spun around hitting his femur / leg on the big heavy Foosball table we had fracturing it. We were literally sent back to the same doctor. They assumed there were issues with my mother pertaining to her giving birth. To this day I like to say he was jealous of the attention so he had to go and break himself. He's fine now. No lasting injuries
Remember when I got Shenmue for Christmas back in 2000, was a magical time.
I was like why they keep calling dude, Dyo?
My friend had a Dreamcast when it was new and a big screen tv. His family was pretty wealthy so we would always play there. As a PS1 owner I remember the Dreamcast looking so amazing, in particular Crazy Taxi.
Thanks for showing Soul Caliber especially, we played so much of that as well as the sequel it was really great to see it!
I’ve had five Dreamcast systems but the laser stopped working, the internal battery died, or the disc wouldn’t spin. But there’s so much nostalgia for me with that console. The Sonic games, Rush 2049 and the 7 years I searched for it (plus the game mode my brother and I made after enabling certain cheats, we called it Tag), Dead or Alive, Grandia II being my first ever rpg, Skies of Arcadia and the fantastical setting it presented to me… fantastic classics. Btw Power Stone 2, for sure, is four players. Both games are still two of the most fun fighting games ever. Environmental object interaction was novel back then, and so well executed here. I loved seeing an actual 3D game from capcom when they still made street fighter 2d.
Rush 2049 was special though. Increased angles for jumps, futurists cities, badass soundtrack, NO LOADING SCREENS ON A CD-BASED GAME!
You’re showing literally all the games I had and loved so deeply. Seriously. Soul Caliber was in my library as well, and I’d listen to the music in the art museum to play myself to sleep as a teen. I didn’t have UT, my shooter was Goldeneye with my brother and friends. But all the rest were in my library.
This is so incredible. I remember seeing these in stores and then finally renting one from a rental store, but we couldn’t afford to buy one. Such a cool system with some amazing games.
this was the console that allowed me to go online, in 1999, and search and buy all the old comics i was trying to get growing up. The idea that you could surf online was amazing, the online multigames 2K games this thing was so far ahead of everything else. Would have like to see how Sega evolved if this didnt get killed.
Sega hardware was always unique, sometimes not necessarily for the better, but something was definitely lost when they left the console space.
Was there at launch, still my favorite system. It was simply ahead of it's time. We really need Power Stone 3.
I want a powerstone on ps4
I remember buying a Dreamcast at age 19, I’m 42 now. I bought this game called Omikron the Nomad Soul.. played it nonstop for 2 years before getting into WoW beta and still playing WoW. 😂
RIP
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I enjoyed the Dreamcast. Way ahead of it's time. Crazy taxi was my go-to.I played the generator disk an embarrassing amount of times. I mastered tony hawk's warehouse level.
The issue is it was ahead of its time when announced but way to late to release everybody else caught up
@@Smashmilk When it came out in 1998 is was way above any consumer PC. Even in 1999 it was not surpassed until the Geforce 256 in 3D capabilities. On console market the PS2 came only in 2000 and had terrible aliasing and texture detail issues compared to the DC. It took time to devs to improve its visual to be on par with the DC while the DC itself never took advantage of newer devkits.
And it was a cheap console. So, no, hardware wise, it couldn't have been better for this price in 1998.
But then DVD on the PS2 was a system seller as blu-ray on the PS3.
Crazy Taxi was so great, and Dreamcast was the best version IMO.
@@Malheirods I totally agree but they underestimated Sony and they failed big time going with the gcdrom. I bought one day one don't get me wrong loved it . But if they would have just gone DVD i think seaga would atleadt made one more console
I loved my Dreamcast. I even grabbed a second one for a spare when it became clear that the Dreamcast was going away. Thanks LGR you bastard. You've now got me perusing eBay looking for Dreamcast games, even though I already have a bunch.
I've always liked the PAL cases for DC games. Can be a pain though if they break.
AHHH I LOVE THE DREAMCAST
thank you!
There’s something so comforting about a soft, hazy crt image.
I agree with your sentiment about the nostalgia being tied to multiplayer. And, in my case, it was actual online. I remember playing the hell out of PSO (ran just fine on 56k) and Q3 Arena. The Dreamcast will forever be my favorite console. The only thing that has come close to the 'awe' I had from the Dreamcast is from emerging VR stuff.
My first online experiences were dial up for NBA 2k1! Can’t believe I was able to put up with that for even a short time.
That console had so much potential. If only it could play DVD’s.
Sony owned most of the DVD factories at the time. It wasn't possible for Sega to offer a DVD drive without hugely raising the price.
@@TheBigExclusiveThat's why we had to buy the remote and dongle for the Xbox.
@@rustymixer2886 you can play vcds on a philips cdi though, anyway sega was on borrowed time with the dreamcast they had burned the consumer way too many times with useless expensive add ons and how they handled the saturn, what would you rather do as a consumer buy a dreamcast from a company known for dropping products like a turd or wait for the sequel to the first playstation which was basically dominant??? it's a pretty easy choice if you ask me.
@@ComicusFreemanius the cost for the DVD remote for xbox was mainly for licensing reasons. A DVD drive still cost a lot more than a CD ROM drive at the time, even if it wasn't used to play DVD movies and therefore not have to pay for the associated license. So even if Sega didn't care for playing movies it would have increased the price of the console quite a bit. Sony didn't mind taking a loss on each console because they wanted to push the DVD format at the same time as grow the PlayStation brand.
Woulda been quite the trick to pull off, given that DVD functionality in a console was literally the PS2's main selling point on release... a year or two after the Dreamcast came out.
Wow this really took me back to unboxing my Dreamcast back in early 2000. Many fond memories of Crazy Taxi and House of the Dead 2 (with the gun controllers!). The sound of that VMU sliding in and locking was choice. Thanks for doing these videos!
Dreamcast 2 should become a reality. This console was amazing.
If your Dreamcast still has the sticker along the bottom of the console, there should be a rectable with four letters (NTSC? I believe?) followed by a circle with a number inside it. If the number is a 1, your console is "first wave" and was produced without the copyright laser; meaning you can play burned games with no issue.
You can actually see the sticker at 7:51. It does indeed have an encircled 1
I loved my Dreamcast! Soul Caliber and Shemue were so amazing to me back then!
soul caliber was one of my fav games
Shenmue was literally one of my favorite games of all time, and still is.
i played that game 5 days straight until i beat it when i got it on christmas. such good memories
I remember getting this bc someone pawned it to my dad and never took it back. My cousins had the ps2, friends too, so I was stuck with the star wars pod racer for a month until we found someone who sold games for it.
I love this console.
LGR videos are always something else.. i absolutely love this channel! Please never stop baking these sweet masterpieces
I see what you did there
Seeing that Utopia Boot Disk really brought back some strong nostalgia for me. I had purchased a used Dreamcast in college during the heyday of torrenting.
I burned so many games back then. Then the ones that failed, or didn't play right, I would frisbee them out of my dorm room. Let's just say I had quite the collection on the quad then.
The utopia boot disk I had looked different to the one in the vid. Mine just had a blue semi-transparent reindeer rotating on a black background. Im in the UK so maybe the PAL one was slightly different. I remember getting a megadrive compilation disk that ran a few sonic games via emulation (it was a commercial product from France iirc) and changing the roms by matching the filenames of the originals and burning a new disk. Had quite a big collection at the end.
I will never get tired of you playing Unreal Tournament.
My best friend at the time had one. I had a lot of fun playing it with him. In fact, together with the Saturn, the Dreamcast was one of the consoles I spent the most time wishing for proper emulation for it. Though, admitedly once both had good emulation available, I ended up not spending a lot of time on them. We just have too much stuff available nowadays and a lot of it made to scrach nostalgia itches already. But I'm glad this stuff is accessible once more. :)
LGR always putting me in the holiday spirit, even with the non-holiday themed episodes lol. This one especially since I bought a dreamcast with the help of a friend who worked at Funkoland in December 2000. So I have very strong holiday feelings when thinking about Sonic Adventure, Jet Set, Crazy Taxi and etc. I even remember playing Code: Veronica in the dead of night on Christmas Eve, awash in the glow of Christmas lights. I also got Shenmue for a Christmas present later, which is a game I still love despite all its weirdness lol. Such a great system and so many memories. Thank you for the appropriately timed video~
Wow I'm so glad I clicked on ur video. I've been tryna remember the name for slave zero for the past couple years but I couldn't remember it and here you are showing it off. Crazy that game was amazing on pc
Oh man, POD (the original one) was one of my favorite racing games back in the day. That brought back some memories.
Oh Man, I love this console. I wish I had one at that time, that arcade style it has is lovely.
I LOVED this game system so much as a 10-12 year old in the 90's. Toy Commander, Soul Caliber, Phantasy Star Online, Re-Volt, Legacy of Kain... All of the best gaming experiences of my life TO THIS DATE were had on the Dreamcast.
This is so AWESOME! A system waaay ahead of its time!
yeah people don't realise how far ahead it was of its time
22 is my lucky number and Dreamcast was my first console I used on my own. I burnt so many emulation disks trying out Super Famicom games by name only. The internet was not as good of a resource in 2000. Oh, and the Dreamcast games rule as well. ❤
My favorite color is blue
Newsgroups were awesome for finding stuff.
The internet was full of games, even back in 2000. I was there, and had them all. Back then you needed to know people and FTP/FXP.
When I was in high school, I found 4 dreamcasts in a bin, with some games. I took them and I went to see one of my teacher who pulled up screwdrivers and helped me make one out of these four by troubleshooting them.
All 4 had different issues, yet I am happy to say that the console still works to this day.
My nerdiness had me play the game as an audio CD for a long time. Great tracks!
Dreamcast Soul Cal + Dreamcast Fishing Rod controller is glorious
Also Rayman 2 on Dreamcast as well
It would have been awesome to see a pro-scene tournament where instead of people bringing their arcade stick setup.. they all brought fishing rods.