A Decade Of Dreams

Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi!

Love me some Crazy Taxi.

 My favorite part of the Dreamcast was the VMU - Visual Memory UNit. Playing NFL 2K and using the VMU to call a secret audible was sooo sweet. I still can't believe noone has copied that design; it was great. The Dreamcast is dead. long live the Dreamcast.

" @Hailinel said:

" @Jinto: It's kind of hard to have a Quick Look of that when the servers aren't even running anymore. ;) "

There's always the single-player mode.  That would've been enough. "

Dreamcast hit when I was in college, so it was a perfect time to find other people with time on their hands to play games.  We quickly shelled out $70 a pop to get two of the best arcade stick I have ever owned (it was so good that I later rewired it to work with a PS2) and played Soul Calibur and Power Stone long into the night.  This was also the first system to pull me back into football games since Joe Montana on the Genesis.  NFL 2k was a great game that looked amazing.  Eventually we spent hours playing Chu-Chu rocket (a game that I will immediately buy if it comes out on XBL or WiiWare) and bathing in the surrealism of the game and its ability to just mess with people.   Then there was MDK, which was funny and awesome.
 
All in all it is probably the console that I have my best memories of, despite its short run.  PS2 and N64 got a lot of my playing time when not studying in college, but nothing really came close to the fun we had with the Dreamcast . . . except for Shenmue, that game was painful for me to play.

Man I remember when I first played the dreamcast, I thought it was  great, and I wished I had one. I only had the sega genesis 3 or 7 I think, it was fun when you played sonic in it.

@ArbitraryWater:

"How Many more moves does this have..." 
 What a dumb bitch hahahahahahahaha.  Well handled Jeff...I would have laughed in her face.

LEARN ABOUT A SUBJECT BEFORE YOU APPEAR ON NATIONAL TELEVISION INTERVIEWING SOMEONE ON IT.

" If I can say this with out any one trash talking me I would like to say that the Dreamcast was way better than the PS2. Too bad the name Sony sold a system and killed the better one. "

If I can say this with out any one trash talking me I would like to say that the Dreamcast was way better than the PS2. Too bad the name Sony sold a system and killed the better one.

" @Jinto: It's kind of hard to have a Quick Look of that when the servers aren't even running anymore. ;) "

I remember getting my Dreamcast for Christmas of 99. I was 13 and was the most amazed 13 year old when I saw Sonic Adventure. I could not stop playing that game. The semi-open world, great gameplay and graphics that I couldn't imagine before seeing them in action. I also remember all the time I spent playing Phantasy Star Online and enjoying what a next generation Resident Evil looked like in Code Veronica. It is sad to see it gone, but as Peter Moore put it so well, it introduced so many things that are must have features in our current generation of consoles.

" Things like this make me wish I was born a good deal earlier. All you people who got to experience this stuff are luckier then you know! "

Where's the PSO?!

Getting rank "AWESOME" on Crazy Taxi was a pretty wicked Dreamcast memory. That or becoming king of the world at THPS2. If I didn't have class/work/to play The Beatles Rock Band all day/night I would've plugged it in and played a little.

OMG I miss Dreamcast. I had one for awhile but didn't hold onto it for to long because I didn't realize how amazing it was at the time. One game that I did love was Jet Grind Radio. I know the quick look didn't excite the giant bomb kids but I loved this game. I though it was so cool and it looked great. It's a bummer that Sega had to bail. Miss you Dreamcast.

To this day the Dreamcast still rules, regardless of the sad downfall of this system I have slowly collected a nice stack of treasures for my Dreamcast.  For the longest time it was the system I would take with me when I traveled because I have a carrying case for it and there are plenty of amazing games for it to pass the time away.   
The first time I played Virtua Tennis on DC it brought me into a sports game fanaticism not matched since I had played Ice Hockey on the NES, I instantly fell in love with sports games all over again on that system also I'd compair the level of how much I played the NFL 2k's to how much I played Super Tecmo Bowl.

First thing that comes to mind:
 
BULLETS. BULLETS. BULLETS. BULLETS. ANTIDOTE. BULLETS.
 
Oh, Zombie Revenge.
 
But more importantly, Jet Grind Radio, Ikaruga, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Trizeal, Crazi Taxi, Skies of Arcadia... so many memories.

Such great games on the Dreamcast. I'm actually going to bring my Dreamcast to college this year.

Never owned a Dreamcast.

I loved skies of arcadia, played a lot of jet grind radio, crazy taxi, power stone 2, soul caliber, and there was this other game called like machina something it was pretty fun too.

The entirety of Grandia 2 is my favorite Dreamcast memory. That game was and still is an excellent example of how to make an exciting JRPG. 

I was a little irked to see none of the Dreamcast RPGs represented in Quick Looks, but you don't hear me not complaining.

Wow, this... Makes me want a dreamcast. God-damn it, I need to save-up for a macbook.

i loved the Dreamcast, easily my favourite console ever, it was home to so many awsome games not to mention 2 of my favourite RPGs of all time, Skies Of Arcadia and Grandia 2, and all the awsome arcade madness like crazy taxi, soul caliber, samba do amigo, zombie revenge and house of the dead 2, just flicking through lists of games today has made me so crazily nostagic, anyone remember the episode 1 pod racer game? utter genius, and not to mention Phantasy Star Online, that along with Quake 3 Arena, were my first forays into home console internet gaming, sega basically proved it could be done 
 
even got my gamer tag from the Dreamcast
 
was loving Blue Stinger at the time PSO came out, made a character that was a HUcast (thats a robot for peeps who have never played it) when it came to name him my mind fell straight to Stinger and then i thought mk2 sound cool on the end, especial cos my real name is Mark, the end is history. been using Stingermk2 for gaming stuff ever since,  i also use the name scarlet for female characters i create in games and that originates from PSO aswell, my first  FOneweal was called Scarlet, i dont particuly remember why though, lol
 
loving the quick look guys, i couldnt agree more about getting some dreamcast greatness on XBLA especially Chu Chu Rocket or Powerstone 2, i would shell out instantly for most of the games that were on the Dreamcast

I played PC only back in the 90's laughing at console's pitiful attempt at 3d rendering. Now I only play consoles....

RIP Dreamcast. So many good games.

Seaman was one of the first games I played that completely baffled me with how bizarre it was. 
 
I loved that game.

"NFL2K "

Yes No Yes!

I love the Quick Look guys. It is great that you made so many. The Dreamcast has an overly fond memory in my head to this day.

damn... chu chu rocket.......beeen awhile like 9 years

"NFL2K "

I'm still haunted by that loud clanking boots sound from Record of Lodoss War, but a great game, nonetheless. I think this is the console that I have the most number of 3rd party peripherals like that aluminum alloy joystick from Interact and weird PS/2 adaptors from Hong Kong for some mouse/keyboard action in Quake II Arena.

i remember wanting to get a dreamcast badly after playing that spawn game at a friends house.

When those people were crowded around playing their Dreamcast I was playing my N64.  I do have a memory of the Dreamcast, though, I remember standing in KB Toys playing Sonic on the Dreamcast with my brother.  That was a long time ago, wow.

Crazy Taxi still the one game I play on the Dreamcast like crazy.  I love that game and wish Sega would bring one out on the Xbox 360.   WHHHHEEEEEENNNNNN  SSEEEEEEGGGGGAAAAA WHHHHHEEENNNNN  I ASK YOU!!!!!

I imported the DC in 98, mainly to play House of the Dead 2 (with the real Sega gun) and Blue Stinger.  Then games like Power Stone and Soul Calibur came out, showing how games could look with new hardware.  Later on there was the promising yet underwhelming PSO, then games that could only exist on a Sega console like Seaman, D2, Rent a Hero, Space Channel 5, Rez, Shenmue and others.  It also had the great Gundam game: Rise From the Ashes see a US release, and it didn't suck.
 
The DC was also loved by many becuae it could run just about anything.  That phat Windows CE logo might anger some, but it's that OS that allowed it to be the hackers' choice for all kinds of software.  Games were easilly pirated since the GD-ROM was actually a regular CD with most of the error buffering removed, allowing for the extra space.  The drawback though was the discs were prone to bad QC because of this - resulting in the early production issues of the launch games that was reported in the US.  Eventually odd discs with crude labels popped up in small shops, emulators of old consoles with 100s of roms on the disc were playable on the DC, making it a great way to play old favorites on your TV.
 
The DC was also the first console that connected to the Web, with a browser and the ability to play games online - sometimes even against PC players - opening the door to the future of modern consoles.
 
Probably my fondest memory was playing Kikaioh (Tech Romancer).  I had managed to actually find an arcade back then that had Tech Romancer, and i loved that game.  It ran on the old arcade board based on the PSX (Titan?) and I was crushed when Capcom said they didn't plan on doing a PS port.  2 years later it was announced it was getting a DC version with updated graphics and more content, making it officially a must buy.  I imported it from Japan, then bought the US version later on to show my support.
 
My last games I bought were the European-only releases of Headhunter and Shenmue 2.  Headhunter was okay, a little too ambitious for the hardware, but it was a decent little game.  Shenmue 2 was a way to finally play the follow up to Shenmue that the US wouldn't see for years until the XBOX release, and this version was in Japanese with subtitles, making it much more immersing than the laughable English track of the original.
 
It's hard to believe it's been 11 years since the DC, I remember it being the first console I was really excited about since the Genesis.  Unfortunately it didn't attain the success of that console, but it still has a soul that lives on in many players that remember the last Sega console.

I played a ton of Chu Chu last night. 

How have I not heard about this game?!!! 
I need this chu chu rocket game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
I will by a dream cast just for this game!

I really need to pick this up again...i'm sure I can find a cheap Dreamcast now anyway online.
 
Maybe a cheap copy of MVC 2 also...but thats unlikely...

Shenmue, Power Stone 1 and 2, Crazy Taxi, Jet Grind Radio, had alot of original games, I lobed it not sure why it didn't do so good.

Dreamcast was a golden toy from the era of gaming that was ruled by sega.....but now lets all have a silence for the machine that was a powerhouse.

PSO was so much fun near the end of its life! 90% of the people that played it had a gameshark and everybody would just go around killing eachother and stealing shit.  It basically became a contest of who had the best combination of gameshark codes.

I never had a Dreamcast, and that is my most favourite memory of it.