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Steel Battalion
Guitar Hero
X Gaming
Bass Fishing
DDR
Samba De Amigo
Taiko Drum Master
Beatmania
Light gun

You can't combine all or even two of these controllers without killing game play.

2-D, arcade-stype fighters aren't dead by a long shot. Most of the community has just gone underground. Instead of playing in arcades, they buy arcade sticks and play on their consoles. But there are still places for fans of 2d fighters, and dozens or hundreds of tournaments every year.

2-D, arcade-stype fighters aren't dead by a long shot. Most of the community has just gone underground. Instead of playing in arcades, they buy arcade sticks and play on their consoles. But there are still places for fans of 2d fighters, and dozens or hundreds of tournaments every year.

"new bulky hardware for a genre that mostly runs off one game, DDR"

Though DDR has overshadowed most games in the Rythmn/dance genre, a most underrated game that hardly saw American shores was Samba De Amigo (here and here). It started off as an arcade game with maraca controllers (something you wouldn't likely see in American arcades), and was then ported to the Dreamcast. They even had maraca controllers for the 'real' experience. I guess it was the failure of the Dreamcast (Despite the many good games released for it), or the strangness of shaking maracas to latin beat with a dancing monkey, but it's one game you aren't likely to see in stores again, despite the enormous enjoyment one can get out of it.
Perhaps if the monkey had been Donkey Kong it would have taken off?

Makes me think of a sweet little girl

Dead? Where have you guys been the last 3 years. DC is bigger then it has ever been.

It says un dead. The system died, then rose again to continue on. Much like a zombie, though that includes the unfortunate brain eating thing.

It is usually capitalized like that. For example, check THIS and THIS articles.

Grandia 2 .

Three years later [1989], Sega took another shot at the home videogame market with the Sega Genesis, a 16-bit next generation system far superior to the NES. At launch, the Genesis (sold as the 'Mega Drive' in Europe and Japan) was $189 and came packaged with one controller and Altered Beast. The "Power Base Converter," an adapter that allowed Sega Master System games on the Genesis was immediately released and Sega planned to release a modem and possibly a keyboard for the system by the end of the year.
Although NEC's TurboGrafx-16 had beaten the Genesis to market by over four months, the Genesis was backed up by strong third-party support (Electronic Arts being the most significant), great marketing, good timing, and popular games. It wasn't until the release of the Super NES in late 1991 that Sega faced stiff competition, but by then the Genesis had amassed a large user-base and was releasing blockbuster games like Sonic the Hedgehog.

Oh, wait, I played this game. Unless you're playing it for multiplayer (which is still crap), it's horrific. I made the mistake of spending 10$ on the Dreamcast version in a clearance bin. Don't waste your time downloading it unless you're playing it with at least 4 people.

To summarize, it has horrid, empty, repetitive landscapes. You end up fighting the controls to v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y climb up cliffs to get at items. If you meet the AI, it'll usually wait until you're in range, and then fire a whole bunch. It doesn't really try to flank you or do anything cool, not that it'd matter (since all tanks tend to be really slow). Sound wise, get used to the sound of a tank engine. That and shooting is all that Rockstar included. There are no music tracks at all. It's one of the bottom 10 Dreamcast games ever released. Naturally, IGN gave it an 83% and called it a "surprisingly deep game once you get into it" -- but they're shills anyways. PlanetDreamcast's review is much better.

Sega is coming out with its DreamEye camera... article and pictures. Oh wait, it's already out. It was released in the summer of 2000.

Ok, maybe the dreamcast was pulled before they could sell this outside the japanese market. But, sony coming out with a product THREE YEARS after its competitors doesn't get me too excited. Sega had some other kick-ass hardware: its VMU had a much more usable screen compared to sony's almost useless pocketstation screen (which sony never released in the US), plus there is a dev community for it! I guess we just have to wait for Sony to come out with a fishing controller before we get excited with their innovation!

Sega is coming out with its DreamEye camera... article and pictures. Oh wait, it's already out. It was released in the summer of 2000.

Ok, maybe the dreamcast was pulled before they could sell this outside the japanese market. But, sony coming out with a product THREE YEARS after its competitors doesn't get me too excited. Sega had some other kick-ass hardware: its VMU had a much more usable screen compared to sony's almost useless pocketstation screen (which sony never released in the US), plus there is a dev community for it! I guess we just have to wait for Sony to come out with a fishing controller before we get excited with their innovation!

I believe Sony and Trevor Bayliss are understood to be forming a partnership, so I predict the next playstation will be completely portable, with completely wireless controllers. Both the console and the controllers will be entirely powered by the power of wind up. The crank to wind up the controller may also be used as a Fishing/Hammer throw/Cycling/Organ grinder simulator, much like the original Sega Fishing rod.

The actual reason for the delay for the release date is the need to try to decrease the amount of work needed to keep the console operating. Currently the console needs the equivalent of reeling in forty seven Killer Whales per second, or 47 kW/S to generate even simple gouraud shading. Though Mr. Bayliss believes that this may be overcome through some form of "magic".

From amazon anyway, there is no buy button and they don't have any in stock. Adding it to one's wish list gives " This item is currently unavailable. "

I have been looking around for a good joystick for the Dreamcast, and the one from Agetec pointed to in the above amazon link seems to be the best from what I hear. The problem is that Agetec has stopped producing them and they are almost as rare to find and get as Kryptonite. I have tried looking around a few months back in stores that Agetec listed and could not find one. There are places online that I can get them which is also rare, but I don't really trust them and one store would not take my credit card order for some unknown reason.

Good luck finding a decent arcade stick. Besides this one and the one by interact which is also hard to find, all the others I have seen are cheap pieces of junk.

For those interested you can see both joysticks here)

Originally the Dreamcast was supposed to be liquid-cooled. We were pretty excited to open up the case and check that out -- no doubt it would involve hundreds of tiny valves and pipes and pumps and very small migrant laborers to work them. However, Sega seems to have engineered the Dreamcast to run without overheating and scrapped the liquid-cooling -- we saw no evidence of it when we poked around.

Instead, heat is distributed out through a large metal plate that acts as both shielding as well as a heat sink. A sizable fan runs when the system is on to circulate air -- it's both effective and a little noisy. We've had no overheating problems with the Dreamcast, even after extended 12-hour or more sessions.

- PlannetDreamcast

I would reluctantly guess that we can expect to see more of Sega's best stuff on XBox. I am of two minds about this, because it will tempt me to buy an XBox, and I already wanted a Gamecube.

The rest of the article on Sega's history is at http://www.planetdreamcast.com/about/ seg a/