The Sega Dreamcast Birthday Surprise of 1999 - My Retro Life
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2021
- For my 13th birthday in April of 1999, Mom and Dad teamed up to get me a Japanese Sega Dreamcast with games - including Sonic Adventure! It was one of the most epic days of my life, and Dad caught it all on tape.
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The Sega Dreamcast Birthday Surprise of 1999 - My Retro Life 
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thanks for sharing these precious memories with us 🕹❤️
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It brings me immense joy to be able to share these memories in this format. Thank YOU for giving me the platform from which to share them!
Never seen the official RUclips account comment before 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I’m not surprised though. Your content reminds me of OG RUclips. Circa 2005-9 lol
Wow really?
As a father I think this is a great and honorable way to honor your father's legacy 👌👍
💯
Couldn't agree more. It's really heartwarming on top of the cool gaming memories.
Factual
You had a great childhood
Your dad was a legendary human. Definitely the cool dad of the neighborhood.
Rich too
@@MBoss-ro6qdyou can definitely tell they were not rich lower middle class maybe. Dad just was cool lol
I remember 9/9/99 so well. My mom let me stay home from school so I could pick mine up from Babbage’s. Dreamcast had the best launch line up and was such an amazing system to play.
It was the last great console launch if you ask me!
Based mom
I also pre-ordered mine from Babbage's and got it on launch day. But I had to wait to pick it up after school lol.
I got mine two weeks after it launched.
Your dad is an absolute legend! You lived a life most of us kids in the 90’s could only dream of! Thanks for sharing
You had the dad every kid wanted
Man, you had a childhood ripped right out of a movie, Tyler. Nerf Wars, pizza birthday parties, the best new consoles, etc 🥲
Those were some incredible years! So thankful for those times
It's great watching these videos and seeing how excited your dad gets. My father died in 99 and the last game he played was Shadows of the Empire on 64. I still have his saved game.
Train level was hard
Wow... You still have his saved game. That's pretty cool
RIP to your dad
Will the battery need to be replaced?
That's a great way to keep your father's memory , sorry for your loss
Soulcalibur on DC is one of the best launch titles. PERIOD.
Totally a system seller!
@@MyRetroLife Soulcalibur > Halo: CE
When I was younger my step dad bought me some used DC games including Soul Calibur, Quake III and Crazy Taxi at a garage sale he went to. Thing is he didn’t really follow that I didn’t own a Dreamcast but I said the hell with it, he got me these cool games so I bought the system for myself.
I honestly can not understand why this series isn't more popular. As a father this has damn near brought a tear to my eye at times and has inspired me to break out the camera and record my 4 year old as much as possible as she has already discovered a love for video games. I hope one day she can look back at these recordings.
Shout out to Tyler for being such a good sport when his dad was always recording his gaming antics. As a dad, I know that meant a lot to him.
The reason why your channel stands out from the rest of the video game RUclips channel is you have Footage in documents of your childhood gaming And you were able to get video game consoles before other countries did & that's cool
His dad was the first "streamer".
There's nothing like chilling out with family on Sundays and watching my retro live
Thank You
Absolutely
I can’t thank you enough for sharing these memories, it’s honestly the closest I can get to a time machine. I always wanted to get a Dreamcast as a kid and it’s the one major console I never got. It’s incredible the amount of time I spent dreaming of getting one.
Having one before the US release must have felt like you unlocked the future, I remember how jaw dropping the graphics were back then
The graphics are still very unique to other consoles. I still play dreamcast and it's unbelievable how ahead of its time it really was. I still think those games hold up to today and aged very well. The feeling you get when you play it is unlike any other. If you thought the Dreamcast was awesome, you should check out the Sega Naomi arcades!! I wish Sega never stopped making consoles but I truly think no other console launch has equalled the amount of hype the dreamcast did!
Your father was a amazing person. If we had more people like this the world would be a much better place!
I remember having a childhood like this in the 90s and 2000s.... My family kind of fell apart along the way....but thanks for sharing this stuff. I miss that kind of life.
The atmosphere around the Dreamcast launch was truly special.
This brought to tears to my eyes brother, seeing you so happy as a child with your dad. You’re blessed truly
I remember the days when you were looking forward to every new console coming out back in the days. Born 1979 and every new console up to sega dreamcast was epic. Now the magic is gone i fell.
Its all the same thing but rebranded and updated
There really isn't a big leap in graphical detail when new consoles come out, there's not much more that can be done with console tech (we have had the internet and pretty much every major media component included in game consoles since '99-2000), online shopping has killed the launch day wait outside the store...
I mean, look at the difference in gaming from 1980 to 2000. Almost a leap in light-years. The difference between 2000 and 2020 is not that major. Halo CE from 2001 is still a totally enjoyable game in 2021, 20 years later. Games on Atari in 1980 were leap-frogged by the NES so drastically, a mere 5 years later, that they were almost unplayable.
1982 here. I feel the same. NES was huge, SNES was Mindblowing, PS1/N64 omg .. PS2/Dreamcast O_O!!!! Then it started to go downhill with little to no innovation. For those with PC those years saw games like DOOM, Diablo, C&C, Starcraft, Unreal Tournament etc. Arcades where still going strong with releases like Daytona USA, MK, Killer Instinct, SF2, Konami TMNT .. Those were golden years.
Hey guys! Make sure you're subscribed with notifications on, because this is just Part 1 of the story! Next up is our story with Dreamcast in the year 2000 - all the way to the end of the console's life. Did you own a Dreamcast back when it was new? I'd love to hear any of your Dreamcast memories.
Yes sir!
Done!
I got a Dreamcast just got RE Code Veronica I had to have it lol
cant wait for it
It changed everything: My first system was a Famiclone, which I got in '98 or '99.
The very first game I played in the built-in list was Yie Ar Kung-Fu.
Among others that stuck with me the most were Super Mario Bros. ; Circus Charlie; Tiny Toon Adventures; TMNT; Lode Runner...
My friend since '98 had a PS1 with Tekken 3 and several demos, so that exposure was a big jump in tech.
Now imagine going from that world to the Christmas of 2000 with a Dreamcast!
Firstly, I popped in the Dream On Vol.2 demo disc: Rayman 2: The Great escape, a "real 3D" world running at a locked 60 fps.
Immediately after that, I booted the bundled-in Sonic Adventure: Between the vibrant colors, the blinding sun at Emerald Coast and that camera close-up on Sonic just before the first boss battle, it impressed me even more than Rayman did.
But what really made my balls prematurely drop at 8-years-old, was Shenmue.
That game helped me tremendously in learning English, as well as making me perceive Japanese culture beyond the Anime archetype to which I'd been exposed to in my baby years (Dragon Ball).
I'd wager that one of the greatest elements in that game's design shows itself in this exact circumstance:
A kid with a very basic notion of a foreign language, being able to gather clues through raw exploration, to complete the journey without any outside help, be it guides; magazines; or an older family member of friend.
Aside from Shenmue and Shenmue II being my all-time favorites of any system, there's:
Skies Of Arcadia;
Jet Set Radio;
Capcom vs. SNK;
Street Fighter Alpha 3;
Soul Calibur;
Sonic Adventure 1 & 2;
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2;
Spider-Man;
Sega Extreme Sports;
Metropolis Street Racer.
This is beautiful, that’s why I still have all console my father bought for me.. gold memories !
Bro, just looking at this footage is a nostalgia trip for myself. Me and you are the same age and I can picture what I was doing around this time. I was in school constantly reading Next Gen Magazine looking at dreamcast articles. My dad got the Dreamcast for me on Christmas that year and I received Sonic Adventure, Blue Stinger, Ready 2 Rumble, Soul Calibur, Power Stone, Marvel vs Capcom, Arcade Stick, VMU, and a extra Dreamcast Controller (MadKatz Controller). Its still the best Christmas for me till this day, my parents always went all out on me and my siblings like this.
@heera rodriguez Im still around, still upload, it have a discord and I stream now. My mugenlord channel is just gaming and less Mugen. My channel has been shadow banned because of topics i discuss on the channel and my political opinion. So i have a new channel with my brothers where we cover gaming news and topics.
Im way past they Mugen drama.
My parents died when I was 8 count yourself lucky you had a normal childhood
Let’s a go!
I got mine on Christmas of '99. I played most of the games in the arcade and getting this console was like bringing the arcade into your living room. This was the last console that had that "special" magic feeling when you played it. When consoles weren't just a means to an end to play video games there were certain game you could ONLY experience on a specific system.
No original xbox
@@JDOGFTW Nope, I did want it though
You’re so cool Tyler! Dreamcast is still my favorite console of all time. I got mine after they price dropped to $99 and got pulled into all the great games I had missed. It the was the first console I went online with and played online multiplayer. Gaming was done right back then it was just the wrong timing.
Hey thanks man! I totally agree. I feel like the Dreamcast was the last truly magical console launch… maybe the Switch though!
I also got my Dreamcast from Japan early. I didn’t know there was a voltage difference between Japan and America and ended up frying my Dreamcast after about 4 months. Lesson learned because now I use step down converter’s.
I also wasn’t aware of the voltage difference but luckily never had a console failure because of it but I always wondered why some would get incredibly hot to the touch and my white Saturn actually turned yellow only in the location above the internal power supply as a result of the high temperatures. Now I of course use a stepdown converter. 👍
Damn man. Your father must have had some serious connections to get everything from Japan especially almost a half a year ahead of release. Today, it's so much easier getting anything from anywhere but in 99??? That's just really cool. I remember getting mine on launch day at Toys R us, I couldn't believe how awesome it was!
I love these videos. They bring back so many memories of that era. My Dad loves games too. To bad I couldn't have documented it.
You just did you remember!
Imagine having such a wonderful childhood, at least what we see from these videos.
I only just turned 18, but these stories are so awesome, and while I don't want to get too specific, I know someone who's parent isn't great, so seeing that your dad was actually a dad is heartwarming. I'm glad that you had a dad like him, and I'm glad that you were kind enough to share your stories with him with all of us. 💙
I may not have been around for the release of the console since I 16 however the Dreamcast holds a special place in my heart as the second console that I ever bought myself.Even though the thing is old, it still is just as good and played as my modern systems like the ps4 and the switch.Thanks for uploading this, your naratation and the video make this truly an experience.
Few things are more exciting than getting a new console.
Absolutely
I still have that when I buy a new console
Ow men i really like your channel.
Sharing your personal video's and memories with us fellow Retro Gamers.
your dad knows whats kids need in the 90/00
Another beautiful video that hits me in the nostalgia and makes me happy and sad at the same time. God i miss the late 90’s/early 2000’s...
Great video! brought back memories of when my mum bought us the Dreamcast back in 2000. One of the best gifts ever! Sonic adventures and Shenmue were my favourite Dreamcast games. Amazing times
Watching kids playing outside most of time is nostalgia these days. You never see that anymore.
Maybe where you live.
Where is this dad that recorded everything. He deserves a trophy.
You and your dad were literally living the dream with the Dreamcast, Sega had cast the spell to wright the wrongs of the Saturn, even if it was short lived, Btw always wondered how you played JP imports with them in Japanese.
We used to use walkthroughs on Gamefaqs for getting through games heavy in Japanese.
@@MyRetroLife I did exactly the same! i imported shenmue Jp version and played through it with a walkthrough from gamefaqs XD
Ah, the 1990s. I miss them so.
I can remember slowly getting older and searching the back of every game for the two player symbol and the trickery with the two player online only symbols.
I just wanted to play with the people in the room with me 😂.
I'm jealous of your childhood. Your dad is the best.
I love how excited your dad gets a long with you. It's super sweet.
There’s something super soothing about watching old footage from back in the day 😃
Your videos just make me feel so many emotions. It’s like I’m reliving my childhood. Thank you so much. Keep up the amazing videos.
Appreciate this comment! Happy to make these videos
Congratulations RUclips just put you on channel on the rise
I saw that! Thanks for letting me know. 🙌
Dude, you’re dad was incredible. The only thing my dad gave me were beatings. And he thought video games were satanic.
Growing up without a father, I'm glad to see that family like these exist
I remember how loud many Dreamcast games were and I loved that because it kinda made me think I was playing loud arcade games in my home. Thanks for the memories!
This was awesome to see. Dreamcast was my favorite sega system was upset when it was segas last system. My dad friend gave us his dreamcast when he got the ps2 and man did i play the hell out of it. Awesome experience to see others loving this system.
Nothing will beat having your friends while playing in the same room. Best momments ever
It’s so sad seeing how much generations have changed over the years. I miss it when times were simpler to where you weren’t lame according to what video games you played :(
As someone who just got and is experiencing the Dreamcast and it’s games for the first time, this delights me to see. Thanks for sharing the memories with us.
Your videos are among the best things on RUclips. Warm blanket of nostalgia. Feels like my own experiences rising from deep from my memory.
I always feel a sense of nostalgia from your wonderful videos. They’re like a virtual time machine. Different families and friends but the same emotions are strummed up where I remember my own experiences as a kid. Thanks a lot Tyler. It’s not really just about the games. It’s the people. The experience of youth in the 90s. Brilliant content and always a touching tribute to your dad who captured these moments for you. Thanks for sharing them.
I really appreciate you sharing these memories with us. My family and I love watching your memories of the past. Born in 1980 this takes me back
Watching your videos makes me smile. It's more than just about the video games, it's the memories and experiences attached to them. It shows a lot of the similarities we have even though we're different ages and different backgrounds, many of of us can related to these videos. And just watching the bond between you and your dad. I can tell he really loved you and wanted to see his son happy. Your happiness was his happiness.
I was born in 85 so were not far apart at all and I watch your videos and get so melancholy, happy, sad. Life was so simple and so awesome. I’m a strong gamer..I’ve never given it up and never will, But thanks for sharing your life with us and those of us that weren’t smart enough to record these awesome moments. You’re an mvp on my RUclips brotha 💪🏼
You can just feel the love. And amazing times this boy and his dad had. My dad liked games too I’d love to show him what we have today! Thanks for sharing mate
watching these videos makes me feel part of these memories, as if they were mine and I was present in them... thank you for these feelings
This video makes me so grateful for my dad. My story with the dreamcast was so similar. Thank you for sharing this video which provoked a whole heap of nostalgia for me.
Your laughter when your dad puts the camera on you is so heartwarming and awesome because id be the same way with being in a moment like that! Shoutout to dad for catching all these moments on film!
Seeing your vids is truly a treasure. It reminds me of all the amazing times I had with my own dad playing these games.
Wow I got to say this is awesome, glad I found this channel. I wish we had captured more of our family moments like this. It truly brings you back in time.
Man this video brought tears to my eyes. Dreamcast is easily one of my favourite consoles of all time and seeing these memories takes me back to simpler times. Thanks for sharing them with us.
Tyler, I'm the same age and I just have to say, wow, a 13 year old in 1999 couldn't ask for anything more for their birthday than to get the Dreamcast and a bunch of games months before its release in the U.S. and to be able to share that experience with your friends and have Nerf war! Thanks for sharing, brother!
Absolutely Kevin! It was such a blast. A childhood well remembered
Easily more than enough to make a grown man cry. I love your pops Tyler. His energy is still felt regardless of leaving the physical realm.dont ever fukkin forget that! Merry Christmas to your family and your mom
This channel is a fever dream and comfort food all at the same time.
Just stumbled across this channel, I love it. I'm about to turn 43 and been gaming for 37years, I've always been a gamer and will be till the day I die. Love reliving these moments, I loved the Dreamcast, it was a great system
How do you film these videos without shedding a tear? You got me fighting tears as a grown man.
Thanks for sharing this precious, intimate footage of your family.
To me since a child, gaming has always been a form of escapism, born 94' into a very volatile relationship, being able to turn on my n64 or the faithful gameboy colour and get lost for hours in these amazing worlds of sprites, colours and sounds, life seemed worry-free if only for those golden moments.
I wish I had a Dad there like yours to capture and share them with.
Much love ❤
These are just the best videos on RUclips. Thanks so much for sharing, and keeping them here. Happy New Year!
Your dad was an amazing human being and his light shines through all of these videos sometimes I come here not to only learn about the past and what made the consoles and Relics I now collect as a 19 year old so breath-taking but to also receive a chuckle or two from your father sometimes I need that and he always knows how to make you laugh rest in peace ❤
I'm glad you can share these memories. Thankful for your dad to film such moments, but also thankful for you to have the time to research through your archives and edit these videos and to share it online! I do hope others who have similar home movies can share online.
you can tell this man lived to see his kid happy amazing father
I found your channel about 2 years ago and man does it bring back some memories. I was born in 86 so all of your videos are relevant to me!
Oh yeah and pretty cool to have RUclips actually comment on your video! 😁
I have watched tons of retro unboxing videos on youtube, and they've never really bought back memories for me. Until I seen your Xbox original day one video, that your dad got as you came home from school. The flood gates of memories came back so hard that I almost started to cry. Not only are there things I remember from the video game console that is shown, but I look at things in your house that I remember being in my home or my friends houses in the 90's, early 2000s. At lot of your videos (the playstation one hit very hard)just brings back so many great memories from the days before social media, the days when you had to read a gaming magazine to find out about the hot new tech coming out. It's so insane, i can't believe you have unboxing videos from the 90s. Im very glad that you share this all for us to see. Your dad was a truly great man, (Heck your whole family is awesome) I can see the love you have for him, just as much as I can see the love he had for his son. Even if it was as simple as buying a gaming console or playing video games.
This has been one of the best channels I have ever come across.
When Soul Calibur’s song started playing I left a beautiful tear, what a great times, I really miss those times when I got my Dreamcast in my childhood, those great times, it really got me happy, thank you for this beautiful video!
Love my Dreamcast!! Sega all day! Saturn and Dreamcast are 2 of my favorite systems. Sad day when Sega left the hardware market. It's awesome that you have all these videos , with great memories! Kudos
I'm so glad you have these memories forever. I got it at release from my dad but definitely not 5 months earlier. Lucky and blessed as am i
Respect to your dad for filming these home videos like they were motion pictures
Damn, this was such a flex back in 1999! and all the launch games...this must have cost a fortune back then.
I'm that father that buys his sons all the systems, games and plays everything with them. I'm blue collar and can't afford everything but I want to foster my boy's imagination and wonder. I hope they enjoy it as much as you did. I grew up on NES and SNES.
My parents were tolerant of games but didn't understand why someone would buy the NES, invest in tons of games and accessories only to want a SNES.
Thank goodness my aunt came to the rescue, God rest her soul. She understood and bought me a SNES for my birthday. Whether you knew it or not Aunt Cheryl, you made a young boy's year and I'm forever greatful.
I love how he cared so much about you being able to play the best new games and consoles no matter the cost or task to obtain all these amazing treasures he did it all for you that's a truly caring and amazing person these videos hold so much nostalgia it absolutely fantastic
Hey Tyler, you had the coolest dad dude! Love watching these videos. My brother imported our Dreamcast from Japan the back end of 1998 (it may have even been the launch) and it blew us away the House of the Dead 2, Sonic Adventure, Sega Rally 2 & Soul Calibur that come out on launch or soon thereafter and it was awesome. I’ve never had that experience from a console launch since, it really was the future and Dreamcast was way ahead of it time. Keep up the great work man!
Thanks for commenting Matthew! That’s so cool that your brother imported it too!
Your dad was so awesome. I’ve binged watched this channel since I found it.
The whole series you done is the best on RUclips in my opinion you captured the spirit of family beautiful
Love this video! I was a senior in high school on 9.9.99 and the Dreamcast was my first day one console purchase ever🙌🏾. Just became a dad and hoping to create some of these moments one day in the future ❣️
Thank you for sharing these memories with us. I remember when I got my first Dreamcast as a hand me down from my uncle. The one I got didn’t have all the cables so I wasn’t able to play it and they ended up junking it later on. Despite that it sewed the seeds for an immense fascination for the system and I remember learning all I could about it and it made me really want one. I finally got one on Christmas last year and I absolutely fell in love. This is such a great system and I’ll always remember it fondly. Got it when I was 19 and I just turned 20 today. 8 years worth of waiting to get one and it was absolutely worth it.
Great video. Your father was a really great dad. Watching these reminds me of my own family moving from Long Island to Texas although we ended up in the DFW Metroplex in the 80s. I got a Commodore 64 for Xmas and made a lot of lifelong friends around that computer.
That is so impressive that you was able to get this much material from old home videos. Really enjoy watching this stuff. I think we all do! So much nostalgia. Great job editing as well. Seriously! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Your content is genuinely heartwarming and in many ways will be educational for future generations. Keep up the good work.
At times your videos bring tears to my eyes. Those were some of the best years of my life too
Crazy Taxi was my real intro to the Dreamcast , love all your vids always takes me back in the day and brings up old memories
Thank you for releasing this video. Brought back so many memories of my childhood and epic consoles like the Dreamcast and N64. Can you imagine waking into a store and buying a console?! Can't even do that these days, even a year after launch 😆
My heart! These videos are great. What a cool time to grow up. Thanks for sharing these!
Thanks so much for this, Tyler. You and your father perfectly captured the era, and the excitement of Dreamcast's launch.
I turned 14 on May 1st, 1999, legal working age at the time in Florida. I worked all summer at a Publix pushing shopping carts, to afford the Dreamcast, Hydro Thunder, Ready 2 Rumble, Sonic Adventure, Pen Pen Tricelon, and House of the Dead 2. 9/9/99 still means so much to me.
Your video brought the memories flooding back. Thank you again, Tyler.
Whoa, instantly subbed. This is nostalgia fuel if I ever saw it.
Back then my friends and family wouldn't even let me touch their Dreamcast, people used to not even tell people they owned one lol, highly coveted item!
Your videos rock....bring back so many memories for me...but no lie being your friend growing up musta been the best...you always had the new systems before anyone....great times 💯
thanks for uploading these videos brings many memories of those times for me.