Why didn't 1999/2000 you buy a Dreamcast and support Sega?

I did but i sadly went from Genesis to Playstation and passed on Saturn. Actually I bought more dreamcast games than most people even when everyone was pirating

Im 36 ;)

got mine at launch, still have it. i couldn't count how many games i have burned for it.

I did have one. had Blue Stinger, Shenmue and Sonic Adventure. I also played the demo cd a lot that had that small toy game or whatever, toy commander or some shit

maybe of the games weren't just ports of fighting games you can finish in 30 min it would have sold better.
shenmue is impressive, I'll give you that.

no games worth playing

I was a year old

That's not an excuse. Buy a Dreamcast.

Got one for Christmas in 2000 with Shenmue, JSR, CvS1 and MAHVEL. Was pretty based.

I had a buddy who got the Jap one when it came out. We had a small local arcade and the owner was cool so every Friday a bunch of us would get together, hook it up to the TV the owner had set up and just chill out playing Marvel. Good times and the huge amount of fightan is why I loved the Dreamcast since that's what I grew up playing in arcades.

I did, even got their internet too. Had to be the only person using the number, fastest I'd ever seen 56k.

Sadly I was only 5, but I would’ve had I known. I later did buy a sealed one for future use when some site was selling them a few years ago.

I was 8 years old and never heard of the console until several years later

I didn't get one but played at a local video game spot where you paid to play there for the day and we all hung out there after school. They had a couple Dreamcasts there and I loved them, thought they were based as hell and easily my favorite console at the time. If I wasn't 10 or whatever I was at the time, i'd of got one.

I was six and had no money
parents weren't exactly rich either, considering there were three of us little shits for any expendable money to have to filter through on toys and stuff
did get a genesis that year though, even if we never had anything besides what it came with and 99% of those games were shovelware, I sure played the fuck out of sonic 2 despite being absolute dogshit at it and never getting past that one staircase in Chemical Plant. 2P with my brother was fun as fuck, I don't even remember what the 1P tracks for Emerald Hill, Casino Night and Mystic Cave sound like by comparison to their 2P counterparts to this day.

Literally me
>go to Stop n Save
>get used DC, transparent blue controller and bargain bin games for like 45 bux

people did buy them they just didnt buy games because you could literally just burn any game you want and the thing would run it

i did but later sold it to get a ps2

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I got one at release on 9/9/99
Then another when they had close out prices.

I too bought a Mazda instead of a Dreamcast in '99.

i did. i even bought one of those expensive broadband adapters so i could play pso and quake 3

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I was like 3 man.

Because my dad had the foresight to never get a Sega console because he knew it would go out of the console game. Got every Nintendo, Sony, and MS console but I've never owned a single Sega console.

I did. And a NeoGeo Pocket Color. Chu Chu Rocket and Dive Alert are still two of my favorite games.

I remember dreamcast. Remember playing sonic 3 or something on it when I was like 7 at my neighbours (could you do that?) just remember the shape and everything of the console vividly.
Also remember ads for dreamcast, especially House of the dead 2 in stores.
My thoughts were with nintendo back then though. Looking at the dreamcast library, it seems pretty lackluster. Sonic 1, 2, shenmue, phantasy star online and jet grind radio seems to be the only noticable games on the system really. The rest is whatever even sports games and japanese games. Just a millenial hipster console.

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My dad bought a dreamcast second hand when a video rental place was going out of business. We bought a couple of games from walmart after we got it.
>Would you have bought one if you had known in advance that the Dreamcast flopping would be the end of Sega consoles?
Blue Stinger is my all time favorite dreamcast game. Of course I would send money to younger me to buy more dreamcasts.

Most people who still use this board were probably born after the Wii/360/PS3 were already out

>Quake 3 on DC
I'm so sorry

I'd probably just kill myself if I were you

I did and it was amazing. You literally can burn any game to a cd and it will play it without modding the console. Lots of people just rent a game and then burn a bunch of copies to pass around school. SEGA fucked themselves hard there.

My Mum back then said we could only have one console at a time. She sold our Megadrive for a Playstation.

it wasn't so bad. lan parties were great fun even if i got stomped by the one kid that bought the k&m

Zoomie here, what are some must-play Dreamcast games that aren't on PC or PS2? Seems like Sega eventually ported all of the big hits to PC aside from some exceptions like Power Stone.

I was 4, I couldn't.

I eventually bought one though

So you weren't actually around then? Probably not a good idea to comment on things you know nothing about. The amount of people with the know how alone was negligible. The amount of people that knew how to do it, had the capabilities, and then actually did do it instead of buying games was almost nonexistent.

It wasn't like today where everyone and their uncle knows about tpb.

Power Stone got ported to PSP
Skies of Arcadia got ported to Gamecube
A ton of games got ported to Xbox 360

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I did and loved it.

PS2 fags got BTFO for the 1st year PS2 was out, the PS2 launch lineup was weak as all fuck. And they all had the faulty lasers in them.

Meanwhile Dreamcast had a solid library. Now once 2001 rolled around and PS2 finally started getting actual games I caved and got a PS2. But the Dreamcast still got regular use.

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Because I was 11 and I had no money.

The guy my mom was fucking at the time I think his name was Dave he gave me his Dreamcast a couple years after it came out.

I bought in 99 because of a new Sonic game, Shenmue, Soulcalibur and knowing that would get great arcade versions instead of butchered versions like the Saturn. I also got a cheap 2nd Dreamcast in 2002 with SA1, Chuchu Rocket, Soulcalibur+a keyboard which was the 2nd keyboard I got since the first one was free
Had about 40 games at one point and still missed shit like Skies of Arcadia, that I pirated later.
Loads of fun with this console, definitely my favorite time playing videogames with unexpected games like JSR, Crazy Taxi or PSO. I never thought I would have that much fun with PSO

Seems odd, but Quake3Arena and UT were solid versions. They were also crossplay with PC from what I recall, keyboards were an option and burned copies worked well.

I had two for UT and Quake 3 LANs because my normalfag friends didn't have PCs because far fewer people had PCs back then.

I was still content with my SNES and N64 and PS1. I really just didn't even want a dreamcast. No games it had interested me in the slightest as a teen. I didn't even get a ps2 until like 2004.

My parents didn't like consoles. I had a Gameboy and that was it, no Super Nintendo, no N64 or PS1 when those hit. They finally broke and got us a PS2 in 2003 or something. Really sucked spending a good decade just trying to play console games and feeling like an ass to my friends when all I wanted to do was play Smash 64 for the first time in a month.

Propeller Arena (Airplane Dog Fighter game that was cancelled because of the decline of the Dreamcast and 9/11, full rip of the game came out in 2004. It's from the same team that made Crazy Taxi, and has a pop punk soundtrack from bands like Rise Against. Never been released to this day)

Illbleed, a really uinque Survival Horror game; Dreamcast exclusive

THPS 1 and 2, the definitive console ports (every time you land a trick in the first, the VMU compliments you. You beef, it insults you)

D2 is underrated

De La Jet Set Radio, a version of Jet Set Radio that has everything from the American and European releases of JSR (as those versions came out later with more and exclusive regional content) and fixed tons of bugs, this version is Japan only and a bit hard to find but this version was never re-released outside the Dreamcast.)

Heavy Metal Geomatrix is pretty much Power Stone but with the Heavy Metal Magazine license, I still recommend it

that's just off the top of my head

Blue Stinger, Chu Chu Rocket, Carrier, Toy Commander, Sonic Shuffle, Samba De Amigo, Illbleed, Jet Set Radio.

DLJSR is the basis for the modern ports though.

modern ports are missing a few songs, DLJSR has all the songs

I did. My all time favorite game was on the Dreamcast

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i did. I like it. Wish it survived.

Exclusive or best versions:Propeller Arena(game was never released because 9/11 happened, you need to get the iso),Toy Commander, Chu chu Rocket, Virtua Tennis 1 and 2, Metropolis Street Racer, Tokyo Xtreme Racer 1 and 2, Cannon Spike,Project Justice, House of the Dead2, Outrriger, Super Magnet Neo, Ready 2 Rumble 1 and 2

SA1 western version is the one with less glitches and better lightning. SA2 is also better than that HD version, or play the GC version.
DC's Soulcalibur 1 is still the best version by far and not butchered of modes like other versions.
Capcom fighters were also great, but these games like other Dreamcast games were released on PC and other consoles.
The 2k sport games were also great

Power Stone collection is fine, it has extras and allows playing all characters in both games, but the quality-wise is worse and sucked playing with that dpad or that "analog" on the psp.
Skies had extra content, but they fucked the music quality. Fuck, when does this shit get a HD version?

>list of Dreamcast exclusive games worth playing that aren't ported or remade
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Dreamcast mini when?

I did, PSO and Ooga Booga were my shit.

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When they start doing Gen6 mini consoles in 5-10 years

I got one for my birthday, as well as Final Fantasy 8 since it was released on the same day. I played the hell out of both of them.

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I was like 7

>never played it
Q3A on DC was fucking mint. Probably the best possible couch multiplayer for an FPS.
And it had DC vs. PC deathmatch if you were into that.

>D2

I never see this game talked about. I look at reviews and its like "2/5 the RPG mechanics lack depth" and not one hint of the absolute acid trip this game is. Unironically might be my favorite game on the system. Any modern games this crazy say so in the comments below™?

I played D and Enemy Zero recently and they were cool, Enemy Zero could have used a fucking map good lord, but nothing like D2.

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Already had PS1 and my next priority was buying a better PC. If it had a Final Fantasy level killer game, I would have bought it. Now that I've mentioned it, I had emulated PS1 games since 2002 or 2003, and even N64 games, but never Saturn nor Dreamcast. Heck, I had emulated Genesis games alot and might even try mk3.

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I did you nigger, a few weeks after it launched.

>Wanted one desperately for Sonic
>"You already have a PlayStation"
Looking back I probably wouldn't change a thing, not many interesting titles

I bought a dreamcast but pirated every single game. I had dozens of games, none of them real releases. I never owned a legit dc game. I had been pirating psx games for years but dc era is when I leaned to torrent.

Source?

How easy is it to pirate? Can I buy a DC right now and play everything?

Downloading isos with selfboot, right now everything should be like that. Not burning on the cheapest discs. Burning discs at like 4 or 8x speed. Disc size... depends of the iso, you need to lurk that, but usually a 800mb would be enough
It is rare a dreamcast not reading burning discs

Yes, you could buy a dreamcast now and pirate everything easily. If you use standard 700mb CDs you'll have to scene tips with compressed audio. You can buy 900mb CDs but obviously they're more expensive. You can also buy a gdemu for like $60, which will replace your optical drive with a SD card reader.

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I didn't even know these existed back then and I knew no one that had one. We were too exited for the GameCube and PS2 but even then we were still playing our older systems

My friend had one, so I played it at his house while I had PlayStation and Nintendo. So there wasn't a need. Plus, the only game in the library I cared about was Crazy Taxi, cause I didn't know what else was on the DC. So, it was an easy pass.

This was the best console of all time hands down fight me outside by the tetherball court at lunch

>4 score and 7 years of hurt
based beyond measure

Sega's infighting killed the company.

i did though.

>pre dreamcast
>'99
DC was 98 faggot. Stop making us look bad.

I bought one that had sonic adventure, space channel 5, and typing of the dead from a friend. Space channel 5 had an amazing style and music but was next to impossible to play. SA and TOTD were pretty kino though. I have it somewhere still but it felt like a meh console. Most things on it got ported elsewhere. I was still using my n64 until 2002 until i got an xbox for mechassault, halo, and jet set radio future.

More like we suck at rhythm games. I also bought that game back then but couldnt play it

Its not rhythm. Its a memory game. Its like simon says. It makes me so mad because its one of those games where i love everything about it except the gameplay. I gave the sequel a chance when it came to XBLA/PSN in 2011 and still had the same problem. If they put button prompts or direction arrows on your turn i think many more would remember it, mention it, recommend it.

in japan. it came out 9.9.99 here in the states. god the next generation magazine hyped the hell out of it. and low loading mvc got me hooked

But I did. And it became my favorite console of all time.

>tfw no more friday night sleepovers with friends while playing Powerstone & PSO

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>A game where Abraham Lincoln, a leprechaun, a disco dude from the 70s, a pirate, and the fucking Grim Reaper all compete with a bunch of insane tribals to satisfy a volcano goddess named Ooga Booga
Game was so fucking out there but I loved every second of it.

>PSO
>those phone bills
I had to stop playing that. Having some isp contract was expensive on that time

did you have the official mouse and keyboard too? I did. That thing was ahead of its time

I did buy a dreamcast instead of a ps2 and got fucked in the ass thanks to sega never bought another console in my damn life

Ok? He's saying he's pre dreamcast though. It existed in a part of the world before he existed therefore he is not pre dreamcast. Everyone knows about the 9.9.99 thing but that was in one fucking territory. Europe got it in I wanna say november that year.

Sega really fucked over their library by releasing early. The Dreamcast was bound to fail after you make deals with publishers and then decide to release early due to “if you’re not first you’re last” when competing with other consoles.

I bought one. Honestly regret my decision, would've rather gotten a PS2 instead.

Same. I even had the maracas for Samba de Amigo.

>Heavy Metal Geomatrix is pretty much Power Stone but with the Heavy Metal Magazine license, I still recommend it

It was more like Spawn - In the Demon's Hand than Power Stone.

best game on the dreamcast launch
I also had sonic adventure, grandia II, illbleed, jet set radio, blue stinger, RE:CV, Powerstones, Shenmue, crazy taxi, skies of arcadia
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I was broke back then.
I regret not buying it in the late 2000s when they found a ton of new old stock though.

I love the Dreamcast since it has the best versions of some of my favourite games, and they all look incredible with VGA output

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sega fucked themselves and it would have taken 75 million dreamcast units sold in 2 years to offset their stupidity and internal shit flinging between the divisions all of it started by the japs who were originally jealous of the EU success of the master system.

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my older brother got it then sold it for a PS2

best decision ever

They fucked up badly with the Saturn so I imagine people at the time we're still feeling the burn from that and didn't want to try the Dreamcast. They arguably shot themselves in the foot even earlier, during the Genesis era.

Source? I'm not calling bullshit I just want to read up on this cause I'm curious.

Sony stole all their market share with the PS1. Even if the PS2 never existed Sega would have still probably pulled out of the console market.

I did buy one. I got all the big games for it except PSO (wasn't my thing then, I regret that). And it was a waste of money. Sonic sucked, Skies of Arcadia was better when it was ported, Shenmue sucked and still sucks, the VMU was useless, and every other game was mediocre.

Zoom away about how wrong I am. You weren't even alive.

I was in junior high in 99 and you're objectively wrong.

Doesn't help that there was a severe lack of quality control during the Genesis which is why I said they shot themselves in the foot long before the Saturn came along. Which is a fucking shame since the games on that beast were amazing.

I did. Day one. With several games. Kept buying games, too. Bought kb/mouse and even the fucking broadband adapter. Supported them to the bitter end and was the last console I ever bought.

They didn't fuck up. The PS1 and N64 courted a new generation of gaming with style-over-substance bullshit while Sega tried to keep making tradiditonal fucking games on Saturn. Sega eventually started making some style-over-substance for DC like Sonic Adventure (ugh) but they still were vastly superior to the dreck on the PS2 and NGC.

no. none of my local game stores carried them at the time.

What a fucking concept. "Hey, we're going to make FPS games for our console but game controllers suck for them, HERE'S A FUCKING MOUSE AND KEYBOARD."
Sega knew their shit. Too bad dumb fucking nugamers abandoned them for Sony and Nintendo's utter garbage.

But I did and it's my favorite console ever. Only a few months ago did I dig it out again and found out it could play pirated games burned to a CD-R without any modding. Shit's crazy man. Also bought a rumble pack and translucent memory card because they're cool as fuck.

I begged my mom and dad for a Dreamcast for Christmas after seeing the fucking whale part of Sonic Adventure. My favorite games were Power Stone, Crazy Taxi, Grand Theft Auto 2 and Marvel vs Capcom.

Because I was 5 years old when it ceased production. I do regret the fact that Sega died so that Sony could censor our games though.

>They didn't fuck up
>too complicated to work with
>lack of third party support for the Saturn (which you can blame on the N64 and PS1 for that)
>they lost the sports audience they had during the Genesis
>infighting between Sega of America and Japan
>that weird fucking commercial in America for the Saturn
>they didn't adapt to the shifting market
I feel like I'm missing some things but you get my point.

Dreamcast is a weird thing in my memory, my uncle used to have one when he was still living with my grandma
I remember it vividly... But i also dont... Coz i remember playing it sometimes, but i dont remember any games i played on the system... You get me?

>infighting between Sega of America and Japan

This and the decisions they made with the Saturn and 32X killed them more than anything

1999 me was too busy chasing my sister around the house with a wet towel

I forgot about the add-ons to the Genesis which made it absolutely ridiculous.

I did, purely because I so badly wanted to play Jet Grind.

Because i've imported a japanese console in 98 with VF3 TB. Your move, zoomer.

Zoom-Zoom...mer?

HoTD2 with lightguns was kino
My memory card batteries died after like two years after we got them and I was too young and stupid to replace them.

To this day HoTD2 still has easily the funniest voice acting I've ever heard in a video game.

Sega wasn't popular here and everyone thought they were knockoff PS1's

No. I was a SNES boy.

I had one. I didn't buy it though, I was 5 years old

Pfft imagine not buying a console straight out of the womb

I felt the same way about the game. I thought everything about it was pretty cool looking but the gameplay just didn't work for me. If it was just a rhythm game then it would have been great.

Nah. My uncle had one though. I had the PS1 and N64 still until GC came out

>Why didn't 1999/2000 you buy a Dreamcast and support Sega?
Because Sega Saturn fucking flopped hard after being expensive as shit and Sega not knowing what they were doing.

The Dreamcast had a good launch, but no games worth buying for it for a while and it still had the stink of Sega fucking up THRICE post-Genesis to really ever consider buying it.

Literally google any fucking Sega history. It's a known thing.

This happened to me with my cousin's Game Gear, all I remember is playing crazy amounts of Sonic but I know I played a ton more on it.

I wasn't born yet

Because year 2000 me was 10 and didn't have money to buy one. I did try to get my parents to buy one though.

1 felt a pure arcade game. I also played in arcade machines and it was 10/10 port
2 with pair matches were so damn fun.

>no games worth buying for it
>when Power Stone and Soulcalibur were launch games
>when Crazy Taxi was released like 3 months later
Every fucking month Dreamcast had a good game and exclusive at the time. It also had the best versions of multiplat games
Toy Commander was also a launch game

i get it, your uncle touched you

I did buy a Dreamcast, still have it. Console was actually just way ahead of it's time. this is coming form a ps2/n64/xbox HUEG idort

That first Sonic Adventure game...holy shit at the time the graphics looked fucking space aged. Also Dreamcast games started pushing the online first, I believe it was Chu Chu rocket

also fucking POWERSTONE
That weird ass house of the dead game but on a cruise ship

CRAZY TAXI
Dreamcast 2 please SEGA
maybe not

I was a kid and had no money. My parents didn’t get it because they were mad over how quickly Sega abandoned the Saturn as we were one of the few people in North America to buy a Saturn. Also the Dreamcast couldn’t play dvds

sega of japan got very jealous, to the point that during the development of saturn they were offered the vastly superior N64 hardware (before it became the N64) and turned it down because they thought their in house design was better

Dreamcast was shit compared to Saturn
> No Mega Man
> No Bomberman
> No Castlevania
> No Tempo
It's like they wanted it to flop

It was $700

I bought it when it went down to $399

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It could have gotten some of those if it lasted more than 3 years

I am too. We got to see the greatest ages in gaming. From the atari and the nes, to the 16bit era, to the age of 3D with psx and n64, all the way till now. I could have never imagined this back in 1992

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Bitch, I was a child when Dreamcast came out. Children don't get to choose their own consoles, they get whatever their parents buy them if they get anything at all.

n64 floppped almost as bad as the DC though

The N64 outsold the dreamcast over 3x. And even if it did fail, that doesn't mean declining simpler, cheaper, more powerful hardware wasn't a bad move

Because I was 13 and I had no income.

Because I was 8 and my dad just bought rocking 450mhz p3 256mb ram tnt2 16mb turbo and a sound blaster 5.1se pc with a huge 19" ctx crt and 5.1 surround sound

I emulated ps1 and other shit on it as well

Wouldn't THPS2X be the definitive edition?

Because Sega got shit fucking games and PlayStation did not. When Saturn could only get Tomb Raider 1 and Resident Evil 1, PlayStation went on to get games like RE2, RE3 and the ENTIRE Tomb Raider collection of games. Why the FUCK would i support their trash platform and not get games? Why would it be any different for the dreamcast with the PS2 right around the corner? I made the right choice, twice. The answer is "because games." What a retarded thread.

hardware didnt matter just because saturn and DC failing was due to brand trust in sega being so low after all the other failed consoles and peripherals the company released and immediately dropped support for

I got it for my birthday right before I turned 12.

>Power Stone
>Gundam 0079: Rise from Ashes
Ah that takes me back.

I did, you assclown.

my nigga, I still emulate this every now and then