Unboxing A Sega Dreamcast From eBay In 2021
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- Today we are opening a Sega Dreamcast that I bought on eBay. This Dreamcast comes in the box and was described as having a hard time reading games. I wanted to do a quick unboxing and see if we could even fix the Dreamcast so I can end up with a complete in box working system.
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I love the Dreamcast. I skipped class on 09/9/99 to buy my DC. It was and will forever be my favorite system of all time.
you made the right decision
I had it release day too! I played Soul Caliber until my eyes hurt
Imma tell your school you was a bad boi in 1999.
Dreamcast is trash
Dreamcast is a masterpiece!
The "bit wars" was the best era of video game marketing.
*insert AVGN meme here*
"They doubled the fucking bits! 16 biiits?!?!"🤣
"Do The Math"
@@ps5hasnogames55 I can't even tell if you're joking or telling the truth. Either way, both companies remain strong in the gaming industry.
@@ps5hasnogames55 LOL. Nintendo fanboy alert
It's amazing how far ahead the dreamcast was for its time. It's such a great console.
It was amazing seeing all this before our eyes. We grew up in the best time for gaming.
I wonder how far ahead we would be now if sega was still in the console space.
I got mine with Sonic Adventure and Tokyo Highway battle. Memories...
@@dibbinssp2018I love that game to this day, although it's called Tokyo Extreme Racer here in the states. Graphics were next level, and I especially loved the tracers the headlights and taillights would leave behind. The fighting game style life bar in a racing game really stands out as unique, even to this day.
@@matchesmalone79 Don't forget that badass Japanese replay music! It was called Tokyo Highway Challenge where I'm from, and I also got it with my Dreamcast on Christmas Morning 1999!
the dreamcast was actually a relatively weak console for its time, the ps2 came out just a few months later and it smashes this console lol
@@kyles8524 It might have been weak in sales but it was an absolute graphics powerhouse for it's time.
You know you’re a hardcore gamer when you have a spare Dreamcast disc drive laying around. Gotta love it
Yeah, why would he have that just lying around? Perhaps he buys broken systems for spare parts.
@@gallaxian HE used to do this kind of work, fixing consoles/computers
@CGgaming
Nae he used to be a console repair man. This sort of thing is normal for him.
A real hardcore gamer will have 2 or more of the same systems all in the same household.
2+ Dreamcasts, 2+ PlayStations, 2+ Xboxs, Gamecubes, Saturns, N64s, Supers, Megas etc.
Every console he fixes he always have parts laying around lol
I’m sure he must still run a workshop or something
I got sa1 but not a dc
The amount of time I spent replaying sonic adventures levels..
I miss Chao Gardens that was honestly the main thing that kept me playing.
@@ps5hasnogames55 huh
@@promiseomiponle810 He's a Nintendo fanboy or troll. Report him for spam as he's put same reply on a lot of posts....
SA2 was fun as well but I just remember it being super buggy
Magical game bro my whole fam loved it
My parents had a Dreamcast and used to use it w/ the keyboard to browse the internet in lieu of an actual desktop PC, it ended up the first 3D gaming experience for me too, SA1 blew my mind
@@ps5hasnogames55 spammmmer
@@ps5hasnogames55 what does this have to do with Sony's new console?
@@ps5hasnogames55 kids, this is what happens when a xbox fan is bullied too much by a playstation fanboy. don't be a toxic playstation fanboy
@@SA13wastaken lol
The Dreamcast remains to this day my favourite console of all time. It was such an anticipated day for me and my two brothers growing up.
We were Arcade boys growing up, so our entire early teens were spent at the Arcades, growing up with Segas classic AM2 games like Virtua Cop, Striker, Virtual On, Virtua Fighter, Sega Rally, Daytona etc... so instinctevely we got the Saturn over the PS1, with no regrets to this day. Unfortunately, the Saturn bit the dust pretty early in it's life cycle, so we were left to 'dream' about the next Sega console.
I remember the Dreamcast being showcased in so many kiosks throughout my local towns, and suffice to say me andmy brothers were in awe of games like Sega Rally 2, Ready 2 Rumble, and most notable Power Stone, as we were multiplayer gamers at our roots. I remember coming home from school one day, and hearing 'Welcome to Power Stone War' upstairs in our bedroom. I immediately ran upstairs, and saw my brother playing Powerstone, my other brother watching him, and 2 of my brothers friends crowded
arund. I had no idea where this Dreamcast came from. I certainly didn't have the money to buy it, nor did my brothers. We usually got consoles around Christmas from our mum. It turned out, my mum went up on release day to buy one. God Bless her!
Here's some icing on the cake to this story. I remember her coming upstairs, and popping her head into our room, and asks 'So, suprised?' I was like 'Hell yeah!' gave her the biggest hug. Then, being a mother who noticed everything, she looked at my brother, and asks 'Why aren't you playing together?' My brother replied 'There's only one controller, mum' My mums heart sank, as she thought there were two controllers in the box. We were quick to assure her not to worry and will get a second controller soon. We were just happy to have the console.
My mum left the room, and we didn't hear from her for a good few hours. We were still playing when she returned. She popped her head in, dropped a bag on the floor, and said 'Happy Gaming'. It was a second controller. She left the room earlier and went into Town, which was about 30 mins away, to get us a second controller.
What a mother. What a console. Suffice to say, me and my brothers still play the DC every day we are together. It has never been stored away. It is still that good of a console.
the most underrated console ever ahead of its time
Way to far ahead of its time...
Actually that's what killed it early Ans forced Sega out of the hardware biz
Marketing by SEGA was trash though, Japan always got the best deals and games. How they marketed the DC in North America was their downfall
@@Matanumi what really ruined SEGA was a string of really bad marketing decisions i feel like have the not released the Saturn early that wouldn't have scared people away from the Dreamcast. Sad as it is at the time it was safer just to get a PS2 unfortunately. Although i still stuck with SEGA until they retired from the business. They were like my home team and to this day the Dreamcast will forever be my favorite console ever
Dreamcast is still one of my favorite game consoles. It was actually my first game console and I loved playing Sonic Adventure, Ooga Booga, and Crazy Taxi
@@ps5hasnogames55 what
@@hatrisfan Idk the weirdo is responding the same thing to multiple comments
@@hatrisfan he is a troll
Crazy Taxi and the horror game Carrier are my favorite, I lost my power cord but I have all my games and everything else
The DreamCast has Vigilante 8 2nd offense on it so I approve of the System.
That is one of my personal favorites on the system as well!.. We need more modern vehicular combat games in 2021. Would actually like them to do remake of vigilante ot some point. Great story mode, and local multiplayer split screen was tits!
@@matchesmalone79 They really need a do a two pack remake set of Vigilante 8 and 2nd offense. Such a shame these kinda games are not around now. Most combat games now use a race style similar to Mario Kart.
I never heard of it.
I still have my Dreamcast, and I set it up once and a while just to play Daytona USA and Sega Rally...those two games are still a lot of fun. But y'know what really blows me away - how you are able to take consoles and PCs apart and fix them like nothin'. Hey, I can change a light bulb real well!
Dreamcast still get new games. The games are sold at videogamesnewyork
I tried to fix my PC once. I turned it on, and it began fuming smoke and set on fire.
@@aclstudios lamo
I remember getting mine at Best Buy when I first moved to Pennsylvania from Brooklyn. It was my escape since I knew no one when I first moved here. Great memories 🔥
I bought 3 from Toys R Us in June of 2001 for $99.99 each, I opened and used one, I still have the other two brand new and unopened almost 20 years later.
Can I buy one maybe? My parents sold mine when I was a kid to buy the original Xbox and I never really forgave them for that
@@stauchezjo9889 gold you say? Take that Issac Newton! The Philosophers Stone is mine!
*I'd buy a unit off you dude!?!* ⭐️
Mortal Kombat Gold, Sonic Adventure, and Crazy Taxi were my top 3 games on my Sega Dreamcast.
I remember when we got the Dreamcast! Dec. 25, 1999. My dad set it up secretly and the moment he called us it was such a treat. We had MvC, Sonic Adventure, and Tokyo Xtreme Racer. Great times!
I played the hell out of Quake 3 Arena on the Dreamcast online.
@The programming crypto guy eh. I’d play PsO and Q3A on switch... but don’t feel like setting up a pc or dc
@@ajborowski Lazy
I remember the game fondly... getting bodied by people smart enough to use a keyboard and mouse... ahh those where the days. seriously still had so much fun.
@@PMKru let's be honest you wouldn't even set up a xbox one
I still have my Dreamcast. Easily my most favorite console for its time.
So many good memories with this console. The very first online game i played was Phantasy Star Online, and it was amazing. I remember talk a bunch of crap about it with my friends at school and mostly spreading the news about it, because I was one of the few who knew English at the time to go to the forums and ask/read about build paths for mags (thanks for teaching me English dad).
I also remember playing Crazy Taxi with my cousins too competing for whoever got the most money, Sonic Adventure 2 races and we always fought over who's gonna be Shadow, Power Stone 2 (the samurai guy was the man btw), Soul Calibur, Ready 2 Rumble (2 I think, it was real fun that one I got to play with my dad).
This is my favorite console, because I never got to try a GameCube, or a Ps2 on their prime, and right after it died on me (I hate ants) my uncle got me an Xbox, but it wasn't the same (I mean jsrf is an all time favorite but by this time everyone grew up and I was pretty much the only one besides my older cousin to still play games, so yeah, it wasn't as much fun as the dreamcast era, in my case at least). I hope you enjoy it as well!
I remember when I first went to stay with my grandmother back in 2003, I was so bored after being there for so long so granny told me to search the attic for books or board games for entertainment, after searching for quite some time I had found a big box labelled "fun" so I opened it and to my surprise I found a dream cast with sonic adventures, spawn: in the demons hand & soul caliber, I was so excited I took it downstairs to play it & thats when my grandmother remembered this was my grandfathers system, he had gotten it for us so that when I came over I could play it, my grandfather died before I ever did visit him & it just unlocked this rare memory for me that I hold dearly to this day, the dreamcast will forever be in my heart, the nostalgia that hit me when you unboxed it is crazy, RIP to my grandmother & grandfather.
All these years later the Dreamcast is still the ultimate gaming system
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The Sega dreamcast is a brilliant console. 😀👍🎮
If only Sega didn't play upgrade games and make a true Genesis 2 32 bit console and the Dreamcast after that they may still be a contender in the console wars
Upgrades began with the Sega CD (as Nintendo proved, a CD drive at the time wasn't needed), but Sega Japan really screwed up and thought the Atari Jaguar would be competition for them. That's why they pushed ahead and made the 32X. If only Sega didn't panic and just played their own game, released their own consoles in their own time. I think panic concerning the PlayStation is also why Sega pushed the Saturn out early, a surprise launch earning them a bad reputation among both retailers and fans.
I guess the Sega Saturn was the true 32-bit console you're talking about.
@@michaelgariti8008 I loved the Saturn but I understand the developers didn’t a cartridge based console I had in mind as easy as the genesis to develop for there are still new genesis games out and Dreamcast but no Saturn games
@@michaelanderson9792 The new Dreamcast games are exclusive to Japan, where Dreamcast is still a prominent console due to SEGA still being active there; as in, the system is still being manufactured anew. Which actually goes against what you're trying to say, because the Japanese Saturn was cartridge-based, but that didn't stop makers from moving onto DC. Also, when you think of Sega CD, Saturn, and Dreamcast games, you can't even think of the games as CD-ROM, per se, because they're actually 2.5GB CD-shaped carts.
That separation between Dreamcast visuals and PS2 visuals is one of the best things about Dreamcast. I LOVE how clean everything looks.
If I could have a totally custom engineered gaming system built today, I would just take the Dreamcast architecture and make it 10,000 times faster (Dreamcast is 1.4Gflops, so 14Tflops would be about as good as we can do today).
"Congratulations cupcake..." I miss the cute sarcastic writing back in the 128-bit era.
*Dreamcast, such an underrated console! Arcade-perfect games and more. It will last for a long time coming.*
Always love a new Spawn Wave unboxing.
I miss the old sega.
Modern Sega is like an old man way pay past his prime and down but not yet out. Still alive, but barely able to keep up
@@Matanumi I mean besides sonic they've been on the roll
Wow the Dreamcast , I'd forgot how big the Controller was ,
That control would later inspire the Xbox 360 remote.
nothing beats the OG Xbox Duke that thing is massive.
Yet still managed to feel cramped and small because of the angle it forced your hands into with the handles..
@@hardkore360 Funny thing about the Duke is it wasn't meant to be that big. The company that designed the circuit board for it made that too big and instead of paying for them to do it over Microsoft was like, we'll just work the design around that. lol
Nostalgia wise, the Dreamcast is my favorite console ever. Playing Shenmue as an eleven year old was simply mind-blowing at the time.
I know the "Sonic Twitter" likes to make so over-the-top silly tweets, but the description at the back of this Sega Dreamcast is something else! xD
"I don't know if the boards are married or anything..." - I mean, this *was* the system whose security was defeated by the MIL-CD, so we're probably OK... 😜
While not necessarily "married", there is different versions (3 different versions if I remember correctly), that are not interchangeable with other gd-rom versions. So a version 2 system would need a version 2 gd-rom drive, ect. The launch edition, or version "0", is the one to look for, if you want to mod with gd-emu or play burned disc game copys.
@@matchesmalone79 You can still play burnt games on Rev 1 as well.
@@wavy03 oh, ok. Thanks for the correction. Its been quite awhile since I looked into this stuff. Modded my launch version dreamcast about 3-4 years back, with a gdemu board and haven't looked back
@@matchesmalone79 yeah no problem, I’m just shocked that the Dreamcast is over 20 years now. Time’s been moving so quickly.
Even the original Xbox optical drive was interchangeable (ie not married). As far as I'm aware the PS2 was the same too.
Most underrated under appreciated system of all time.
Do a quick search and see how much content has been created saying the same thing you just said. How many “most underrated consoles” lists have to be made before it crosses over and becomes overrated?
I remember my demo disc (volume 1) had sonic adventure, ready to rumble boxing, house of the dead 2, and power stone!
I still have the demo discs, I would re-play House of the Dead 2 over and over.. .
Same here 😄
I got a dreamcast for a really cheap price £10 boxed with everything in the box from a shop I think the shop that was selling it thought it was broken when I set it up it was not reading games had a look at the lens position it was miss a-lined so pushed the lens back to it’s starting position right after that it worked
sometimes its the little things that make the biggest issues lol *pushes the laser over*
@@ps5hasnogames55 yo dude stfu you keep replying to comments with that message
@@superstar1thechannel928 just report it bro.
@@ps5hasnogames55 Reported for spam.
@@yungkensei2457 I will honestly be shocked if RUclips actually addresses it, tbh.
Oh my god he did it
He didn't do anything. What's your point
Still have mine after 22 years!.....Holy shit where time have gone!
I love this console so much. So many great games, and being able to play online was amazing. It was such a big jump going from PS1 to this. Soul Calibur just blew me away with its graphics and fluid gameplay.
I had the same model and came with Sega Smash Pack , i remember my parents bought it for me at a sears for $100. I believe what was a clearance system with little to no games for sale so i ended up just playing the demos for so long. Eventually i did find a crazy taxi copy for $5 at a walmart and a copy of NightMare Creatures 2. Very Underrated system.
Saturn and dreamcast had some great games it's a shame what happened. I guess if you wanted to play Sega Rally in the 90s you'd just play the arcade version.
4:30 biggest nostalgic hit I have ever felt in life.
Power Stone, Jet Grind Radio, Soulcalibur, House of the Dead, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue, thps2, nfl2k, Toy Camander... so many memories.
The Dreamcast was powerful, inventive, creative, and weird all at once. There will never be another.
NFL 2k still best football game ever made
@@reviewsitall8739 Agreed. I’ll never buy Madden.
"he has the box" can't not hear this anymore, thanks JHS
I picked up one last year at a garage sale. It didn't come boxed, but included 13 games, two regular controllers and 2 fishing controllers for $45.
Back in my modding days I use to love compiling bootleg demos and games for the DC. Sad that I no longer have Windows CE tools.
Who remembers the SEGA! boot screen?
Cranking up the loud speakers in the living room to drown out the sound of the gd-rom drive motor.
I remember all I played was quake 3 with mouse and keyboard, and Phantasy Star Online..Man, I miss those days
If they just had a DVD player in it, I believe there would be a good chance that they would still be producing home hardware. They were competing with DVD players, not video game machines.
This was always my favorite of the era. So under the radar.
It really wasn't under the radar if you were a teen or at college during the 90s. That and the 1980s were the greatest era of home gaming by a country mile with possibly the early 2000s on par.
I have the Sega Sports edition. It's the third Dreamcast I've picked up. I also found Jedi Power Battles for $20 at an old video game/music store. Last I checked, it was going for around $80 at the time.
when you replaced the disk drive i howled at it! you just got yourself a working in box dreamcast, thats amazing!
I recommend Capcom vs SNK millennium fight 2000. Hours of fun! 👊😎
The dream cast Is undretted
Ttally unrrratnted
xtrmuly urratt
I miss the DC so bad :/
Same. Was such a fun console.
I had 3 of them in a box, all dead.... unfortunately the hardware was trash in terms of durability.
I remembering order the Japanese version of Dreamcast and received a diploma with champagne. It wasn’t cheap but I worked hard that summer to collect money for the release.
But retailer forgot to send me the converter because of the European voltage. And of course it had to be on Friday and everything was close until Monday. What a time that was, lots of good memories on 56k modem with Chu Chu Rockets, 2-5 sec delay. Keep up with the good work Spawn.
Not being able to afford games back then, demo discs are what allowed me to play through my youth. That THPS Demo was all I needed 😅
God I miss the Bit Wars.
Bought the DC when the price dropped to 100usd and got the KB, mouse and broadband adapter, never used them tho. Those VMUs ate batteries left and right.
The DC and PS2 were the last consoles I owed and play once I got my PC, now I just emulate them.
Underrated game system.
I bought this system a few weeks ago & I can’t stop playing Marvel vs Capcom 2. Lol
Ahh... Memories of endless nights playing Phantasy Star Online come to mind. I remember buying the keyboard and the broadband adapter. When I think back on it, it was a simple game, but the fact that I got to team with others online to battle monsters was so much fun. I even made some online friends back then. I also remember looking at Soul Caliber for the first time and thinking it was the future. And don't get me started on the Hydro Thunder and its sound issues! I had to send back the disc to get a new disc with the music fixed!
LOL, I can go on and on. This system will always have a special place in my heart.
When we got our dreamcast we got the Generator vol 1 demo disc which had one of my favorite games of all time Power Stone, we played that forever till we got an actual game. Zombies Revenge, Crazy Taxi, Outrigger, 18 wheeler, Jet Grind Radio, Power Stone 2, RE: Code Veronica, Virtua Tennis, Alien Front Online, and many more....such a golden line up of amazing titles.
I’ve managed to fix a BUNCH of neglected Dreamcasts, retrobrite them and completely make some look like they’re BRAND new. I have special editions, custom case swaps, and every hardware Revision. I just retrobrite a Revision 0 which was otherwise totally flawless, looks fantastic and plays just as well! I love Revisions 0 and 1, 2s are EXTREMELY cheap! Remember to lubricate your laser rails with white lithium grease and clean the lens to make sure yours lasts as long as possible. I’m actually playing Mr. Driller on mine while listening 😂👍🏻
The fact that it even came with a web browser is amazing. I dont remember n64 or any playstation doing that up until playstation 3, also for 1999 the graphics were amazing, i played mysteries of the sith alot in the 90s on my old time pc and the graphics wernt as good as this
Sega had the best named consoles. I really wish they would get back in the game.
Good deal! Well do I remember getting mine. I had preordered it back around July or August of 1999 from the Electronics Boutique in Downtown Columbus OH, and 9-9-99 fell on a Thursday, the day before I got paid. So I went into work on the 10th before I had to be there, picked up my check and went down to get my preorder.
Didn't have enough to buy any games yet, so I went back to work, stashed it in security and worked my shift. That evening I hooked it up to the front room TV; two of my sisters (one lived next door with her family) and I recall one of my nieces, who was 11 at the time were there, then fired up the demo disc. I have to admit that everyone's jaw dropped to the floor while I was playing Sonic Adventure. It just looked so incredible after playing PS1 and Saturn for a couple of years.
I still have my original DC, though the drive no longer works. Since I do have two other functioning DCs (including a black Sega Sports variant). I'm planning to install a device in it to replace the drive with an SD card, and also replace the battery with a rechargeable socket. As a way to keep the dream alive, so to speak :)
Yeah, that's definitely a later box. My launch DC box I recall was mainly white with orange highlights. I kept the box but sadly, lost it in a move back in 2002. Since I was already building my own computers by that time, the only time I had my DC online was to either download some doodad from Sega (like that Hallowe'en patch for Sonic Adventure) or a site that archived both patches and saves to download. Pretty sure you don't need to do that these days, since there's a disc you can burn that has all the patches and VMU games but hey, advancement!
Dreamcast!!!
The dream cast was so ahead of it's time with online connectivity, if it wasn't for the PlayStation 2 undercutting it I can't even imagine the potential this system would have had
The Xbox consoles have been considered to be spiritual successors to the Dreamcast. As the Dreamcast was the first console with online capabilities and ran Windows CE. Even the controller layout was adopted by Microsoft.
Me and a buddy preordered a Dreamcast each and got 3 games each with it and I still remember getting back to his house after the midnight release and we both hooked up on different TVs and we had several other friends over and played all night. Really fond memories of this system
I'd love to get a hold of a Dreamcast, for its history if nothing else. It just has a lot of games I like compiled in one place--often the best versions of them too! Hopefully I can get one someday, regardless of if I have to use a DCEMU to enjoy its library.
I'm wishing for a mini-Dreamcast. I really enjoyed the genesis mini.
Always tempted to pick one up, but know we’d just never end up playing it. Still, always tempted 🤣
Greatest gaming system ever
That darn disc drive… the achilles heel of this console. It’s what killed my Dreamcast almost two years to the day after I got it for Christmas back in the day. I’ve had a couple since thanks to eBay and my current model I just swapped it for an SD reader and I love being able to have it with me still. So many great memories on this console…
Loved how plug & play the laser assembly was lol
I got my 1st Dreamcast, about a month ago. I always wanted it as a kid, but now I have it. I got mine for $30 from a thrift store, and received the same demo disk. The only thing it did not have, was the proper audio video cable (somehow it had Nintendo cables), but I was able to purchase one off of ebay for $6. Now I am looking for games, which is harder to find then I expected.
Ahh nice. I never grew up with Sega. I grew up with Playstation. But I always respected Sega. You could try other websites to find the games. PS1-PS2 is what I played as a kid and Gamecube on the side. 5th/6th gen days.
I want to play Skies of Arcadia but hopefully Sega remasters it for current gen consoles. They remastered Shenmue which I bought on PS4 with that collection from the Dreamcast version. Never played
Shenmue.
Best Buy was liquidating the Dreeamcast for $40 for that exact set. Bought 10 - gave a couple away, converted my personal unit (bought at launch) with GDEmu, Pico Power supply, HDMI mod, etc - STILL one of the best consoles ever released (along with Saturn and GameCube)
This takes me back to 9/9/1999 when I unboxed my brand new Dreamcast on launch day. Memories.
I miss when companies were allowed to have a sense of humor. Depicted perfectly by the description on the back of the Dreamcast. That system was so far ahead of its time, it just slew systems of its time. I loved playing Sword of the Berserk. My buddy and I played that for HOURS!
You'll find this interesting, a few weeks ago I found a brand new in box dreamcast in my basement which I forgot I had bought 😂
Yeah I hate it when that happens 😆
Man!! The dreamcast generator disc also came with the dreamcast that I owned when I was a kid. Lots of good memories with it!!
i remember playing crazi taxi for maybe every weekend of an entire year of high school. my fingers were absolutely destroyed by that controller. what a system. thanks, john, for bringing me back. RIP Dreamcast
Instantly liked the video before it even started. The dreamcast is one of my all time favorite consoles. I remember when I played NBA 2K and NFL 2K I was blown away by the graphics. The sonic level had me hypnotize in toysrus as a kid watching that whale chase sonic was epic.
It was the first console that I ever bought brand new instead of used. I remember being blown away the first time I played RE: Code Veronica. Loved that console.
I got my DC from my local used shop in 2002 for $40. I still love it and just was playing Tony Hawk on it a few days ago!
It was new in box for $50 by end of 2001. I got mine January 2001 for my birthday used for $75 and a month later got a Gamepro magazine where Sega announced they weren't going to make it anymore and the price dropped from $150 to $100. They stated games would be released through the end of the year, really made me sad until I realized I could get a ton of games for dirt cheap all year lol, had a good 20+ games by Christmas that year.
The System always felt like a PS1,N64 and PS2 put together because of the games that were shared between them.
Like MvC, Soul Reaver, Rayman 2, Dino Crisis, Resident Evil2&3, Dead or Alive 2, Frogger2, Guilty Gear X, Grandia 2, JoJo, Bangai-O, Spider-man, Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness etc..
I loved my dream cast ! Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Shemnue, Jet Set Radio and Tony Hawk and many more.
Nfl2k was unreal!!!! Calling plays in the vmu I think that’s what they were called was next level
My first childhood memory that I remember was with the family at our cottage and my uncle hooked up his Dreamcast to his projector and we played revolt and vigilante 8 2nd offense, the dreamcast holds a special place in my heart and I hope to one day play it again, just wishing we could see a Dreamcast mini, that would be sweet!
I remember my brother and I getting our Dreamcast on release day 9-9-99 at Sam’s Club and getting NBA 2K. I was blown away that the players were blinking.
Also yes, you can play Phantasy Star Online on the DC. You need either a dial up connection (and a phone line, duh), the Broadband Adapter or a dreampi.
The Dreamcast is my favorite system of all time.
I like how the date said 1998. Crazy.
@The programming crypto guy I wish I remember when I bought mine. I remember they were pretty much giving them away when I got mine...must've been towards the end of the life cycle. I think mine was like $100.
My favorite game was rushed 2049. I’m Herton and arcade at the time and start playing up there and then I got it for this. Very cool
That text on the box, love it. Have a thumbs up for reading it again, the nostalgia!
This console was the best!!!!! Way ahead of its time. I still have a brand new one I bought at toys r us when the dreamcast was discontinued for $49.99
Had mine one day after release. Still now in 2022 it's my favorite system of all time.
Dude, the Dreamcast is my favorite console! I agree with you. I was an adult and just married and my wife suggested I get a new console. We went to Toys R Us and remember looking at the DC video stand next to the PS2 and thinking the DC graphics blew Sony out of the water. I ended up buying the DC Black Sports Edition version. I can fire it up right now and it plays great. I just need to replace the battery.
Yep got my first Dreamcast in early 2019. It is complete in box with everything it came with and works perfectly.
still have mine. This system was beyond it's time. Tamogachi type of memory cards, Crazy taxi, Sonic Adventures. Monkey ball. Good times.
@The programming crypto guy Might be thinking Gamecube then. Still Playing sonic on this console was breath taken.
Slave Zero, Sword of Berzerk, Cannon Spike ,and Spawn : in the Demons Hand were my addictions on this console!!! 👍🏿👍🏿
I still remember my excitement as a kid getting the dreamcast. It was system so ahead of its time
When I bought my second Dreamcast the store left a Typing of the Dead disc in it, so naturally I had to buy the keyboard. So much fun.
Oh wow, look at that. Dreamcast is the ultimate gaming system.
I did not know that. Learn something new every day.
I was in the PS2 camp when the Dreamcast was out and never appreciated it during its lifetime.
That’s a HUGE shame because the Dreamcast has a huge library of amazing games that run at a higher resolution & with progressive scan.
I was able to get my hands on a Dreamcast (almost 20 years after its release) and have had a blast playing everything from Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Power Stone to the Resident Evil games and CannonSpike.
It really is a tragedy to the industry losing Sega as a console manufacturer because the Dreamcast was a solidly built powerhouse.