The Dreamcast 7 Years Old and Still Marching

Craig writes "The Dreamcast turned 7 only a few days ago but still the amateur developers and fans keep the Dream alive, only a week ago was the final of the DreamOn Coding Competition and today the announcement of a new Commercial Shootemup. The Scene centres around DCEmu with multinational support from French & Spanish sites with the majority of releases stored at Dreamcast Homebrew."

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That is the US release date.

[Traegorn]

The DreamCast debuted in Japan back in November of 1998.

Re:Of course it's still around

[November 1, 2005]

Ha! Sega screwed up with the Master System, the Sega CD, the Game Gear, and the Nomad as well. Giving Sega credit where credit is due - they got the middle stages of the Genesis life-cycle right. (Recall that the time period between when the Genesis came out and it was competing against the aging NES and when Sega finally got Sonic the Hedgehog to actually move a few units was not that brief) Other than that, Sega has never marketed hardware well.

Another new homebrew/commercial release

[Man In Black]

I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned, but the Goat Store is also releasing Cool Herders really soon, which would be the 4th title they've published for the system (The others being Feet of Fury, Inhabitants, and Maqiupai). I have my copy on pre-order and am very much looking forward to it. These releases may not be as extravagant as "regular" commercial releases, but they're still plenty of fun.