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Sega to Release New Dreamcast Bundle?
Craig writes "Is Sega planning to release a new bundle for the supposed commercially dead Dreamcast Console? According to Many Dreamcast sites it will be bundled with a new commercial game and released sometime in February. Engadget has commentary and speculation." From the Engadget site: "... German gaming site Gamefront.de is claiming they're going to be re-releasing the frickin' Dreamcast bundled with Radilgy and some limited edition telephone card or something. But our wish come true from the Ghost of Hackable Consoles Past will probably be Japan-only though, distributed through Sega Direct for ¥10,000 (about $83 US) -- still, could this be the triumphant return of Sega hardware, even if only just nostalgia-gear?"
A group of people tried to make an open-source-friendly, Linux-based game console called the Indrema. They failed.
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A group of people DID make an open-source-friendly, Linux-based handheld game console called the GP2X, a successor to the GP32. It rocks. Two 200MHz CPUs (one acts as a 2D GPU), emulates pretty much everything up to SNES (and PSX very very slowly). 3.5" screen, 8 buttons and an 8-way dpad.
About a year ago EB Games was blowing out all their Dreamcasts. I picked one up for $20 in mint condition along with about 10 games; cost about $40 total. They also sell 15 games for $50 here: http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/groups/15games50bucks/d reamcast.asp although most of them aren't the greatest.
I'm sincerely sorry if I offended you. I mean it. I tend to get all rustic when I talk about where I live (I'm originally from Vancouver), and meant "coon" as meaning a "raccoon" rather than a perjorative for a black person. The expression "a coon's age" is an idiom that refers to the mistaken belief that raccoons live for a long time, and didn't even know that "coon" was a derrogatory term. Again, very sorry if I offended you; it was not intentional.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.