Mar
28
Dreamcast Games
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Living in an age of gadget geeks, where the newest and coolest toys rule the sales charts, it’s hard to fathom that a console that is over 10 years old, still being news worthy. But the Sega Dreamcast is just such a machine. While Sega stop producing the machine over eight years ago, there are still games being developed for the Dreamcast in 2009. Rush Rush Rally Racing, Dux, Little Ninja, and Age Of The Beast are only a handful games, but give the age of the machine, that’s still a pretty remarkable fact these days.
The Achilles heel of any new gaming consoles on their release is an absence of available games. Buying a gaming console with no games, is akin to buying an automobile with no engine. Fortunately,, for Sega the Dreamcasat never really fell ill to this affliction. Even though EA shied away from the Dreamcast due to bad experiences with the Saturn, Sega and other developers produced enough games to keep the rabid dream cast fans a happy bunch.
Sonic Adventure, Hydro Thunder, and Sould Calibur are a few titles from the early days of the dream cast that helped produce record sales. The Madden series of NFL 2K1, and NFL 2001 proved to be popular games, as they rolled on to sales of over a half million units. To this day, a few of those original games still top the top ten lists of games for the Dreamcast along with Marvel VS Capcom 2, Resident Evil Code: Vero, Shenmue, Street Fighter 3, Sonic Adventure 2, Skies of Acadia, Sonic Adventure, Resident Evil 2, Phantasy Star Online, and Marvel VS Capcom.
Contrary to popular belief, the Nintentdo Wii, wasn’t the first console to put the “fun” back into gaming, Sega did it over a decade ago.
Mar
28
Sega Dreamcast
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In the world of cutthroat gaming consoles, it has always seemed to be a game of nothing is as good as the latest and greatest new toys. Anything (hardware or software) more than six months old, is considered to be less than passé. The Nintento Wii has broken through somewhat in the modern era by pushing the fun factor over technical advances, but they are not the first to be successful with a somewhat more maverick approach. The Sega Dreamcast was just such a machine, and given the fact that the Dreamcast was released in late 1998 and still has new games being developed for it today, it’s story is even that much more remarkable.
“It’s Thinking”, was the motto, behind the Dreamcast, but in reality, it was the people who built and market the console that were “Really Thinking”. The Dreamcast was ahead of it’s time in many ways, and that surely has to be one of the reasons why, it still continues to be a contender for the attention of gamers worldwide. In a tech age, where everything from your phone to your blu-ray player has internet capabilities, it may seem strange to remember a time when most electronics had no wi-fi capability. The Dreamcast, was actually the first console to include a built in modem, and full customer internet support.
A quick search for the term Dreamcast on Google shows over 20 million possible websites for the console. This in 2009, when it would seem that the Nintentdo Wii, the Sony PS3, and the Microsoft Xbox rule the roost for gaming console machines. The Dreamcast sold a record breaking quarter million consoles within the first twenty four hours it was released.