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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. The best Dreamcast game by Lord+Kestrel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    was of course Crazy Taxi.

  2. I'd have to go Crazy Taxi and Chu Chu Rocket by Rifter13 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those 2 were, to me, the defining dreamcast experience, for me. Though, I think you could kind of make a case for Hydro Thunder. (porting that arcade game to the console was cool... though, it was really more than the console could handle). I also really liked Rush 2049. The DC really did have some wonderful games. Heck, the only real sports game I picked up in the past several years, was the NFL 2k title. :-) Using the little display in the controller to pick plays, was pure brilliance. (so, I would have to add NFL 2k to that group)

  3. Re:Yet another Wikipedia scouring by a+gash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you wrote it on Wikipedia, him pasteing segments of your article here is COMPLETELY fair use.