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Games That Defined The Dreamcast

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the love-that-orange-swirl dept.

Retrogaming with Racketboy has a piece looking at some of the console-defining titles we miss from that little white box. From the article: "Phantasy Star Online - Sega was one of the main pioneers in online console gaming. While they had modest online offering with both the Genesis and Saturn, the Dreamcast was the first of their consoles to have online capabilities built into the stock machine. The Dreamcast came standard with a 56k modem and also had a (expensive) LAN/Broadband adapter available as an upgrade. Phantasy Star Online paved the way for Sega's groundbreaking online network and for later networks like XBox Live."

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  1. PSO by nomadic · · Score: 3, Informative

    Phantasy Star Online was easily one of the most gorgeous games I've ever seen; vibrant colors, detailed artwork, and the music was pretty kickass too. The gameplay was more like a networked Gauntlet rather than a real MMORPG, and there's nothing wrong with that.

    The cheating, however, made it completely and utterly unplayable. Stupid game genie or gameshark or whatever the hell those cretins used.

  2. Re:The broadband adapter was barely worth noting. by nvrrobx · · Score: 3, Informative

    Phantasy Star Online did indeed support the Broadband adapter. I wasted several months of my life on that game.

    The US release would use the BBA if it was configured, but you didn't have a way to configure it without the Japanese Broadband Passport disc (which I had).

    Quake III Arena was the other game that supported it (the US release) and it worked really damned well.