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Dreamcast Tribute Revisits Cult Console, Games

Posted by simoniker on from the everything-in-black-and-white dept.

Buster Chan writes "NTSC-uk has begun their two-week long tribute to the almighty Sega Dreamcast, including an editorial recounting favorite memories of Sega's final (so far) hardware, as writers 'give their views of one of the most prolific consoles of recent times', the first 128-bit console. They also run new reviews revisiting Cosmic Smash, checking out Get Bass, and analyzing the very Japanese Tokyo Bus Guide." Although it was so long ago we can barely remember, what were your favorite Dreamcast titles?

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  1. Favorite dreamcast highlights: by lightspawn · · Score: 1, Troll

    * Resident evil 2 (or is it 3?) formatting a non-VMU memory cards if it finds one (two different types of memory cards, one launched later and not backwards compatible - nice going)

    * Games like Skies of Arcadia letting you know hidden items are near by making the VMU beep and the rumble thing rumble - again, both lost on some players.

    * Sega explaining they don't need to perform any usability testing since any usability issues (like using the SAME TRIGGER BUTTON to spray paint AND center the camera in Jet Grind Radio) would be caught by their QA.

    * Sega announcing games will be pay-to-play, essentially killing the online servers.

    * Sega making Alien Front Online offline forever (less than 10 months after the game's launch) by hardcoding an IP address they lost on the client side, and refusing to admit any responsibility since customers can still play the offline training missions. - This would actually make a very winnable class action case (how long do companies have to support an online game if they did not announce a cut-off date before people purchased it - if you want to get a class action victory under your legal belt, lemme now).

    I'm not that sorry to see SEGA leave the console market. Admit it - Nintendo was always the funner of the two. I am sorry they were replaced by our favorite monopoly, but that was obvious the moment they signed that windows-CE-libs-for-DC deal. Let's home the market will be able at some point to support a new console (hardware + software) company - but it doesn't seem that likely just yet.