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Sega Announces Dreamcast Collection For 360 And PC

It's like 9/9/99 all over again!

The rumored “Dreamcast Collection” that appeared on GameStop in late 2010 is a real thing, and it’s hitting next month, Feb. 22 for the Xbox 360 on a disc and the PC as a digital download. Sounds exciting, but you should probably go ahead and lower your expectations. It's cool, I'll wait.

OK, so this collection contains four visually enhanced DC games, all of which have already hit Xbox Live Arcade and PSN, or are slated to in the future. That’s right--Sega Bass Fishing, Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, and Space Channel 5 Part 2 are all shipping in this collection, which I’d imagine is really targeted to the massive crowd of Xbox 360 owners who don’t bother with connecting their consoles to the Internet, and the PC people who can't get these titles easily the legit way.  
 


 
== TEASER ==Sega, unfortunately, isn’t talking price just yet (which is weird), but as Joystiq points out, the GameStop listing had it pegged for 30 bucks. We'll have to see. 
 
Here's what we found when we dug into a couple of these XBLA releases last year. (Skip to around the 15-minute mark in this here first one.) 

  
   
 

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mnzy

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Somebody should go to SEGA, slam their door in and just fucking yell the names of their best Dreamcast games. This is not a " Dreamcast collection".

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that's barely even a 'collection'. you get sonic adventure, presumably an edited version of crazy taxi without offspring etc, yada yada, blah blah. there is a lot of really good games for the dreamcast that would merit being in a proper collection. this is just typical sega tripe and more bad decision making - just like bad decisions that lead to the dreamcast failing.

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I love how games like Sega Saga suggest that Sony was the evil corporation that killed them. 
 
No Sega, you killed yourself through your overwhelming incompetence.

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All I want from you Sega is a fucking XBLA/PSN release of Sonic CD.

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My Excitement Sky Rocketed, and then it plummeted straight into the ground.

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where's my jet grind/set radiooooooo

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laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame

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I would buy Powerstone 1 and 2 again as a package.  It's a shame that franchise was discarded.

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Sega and failure are one and the same, yeah? :\

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That's the Space Channel 5 with Michael Jackson in it right? 

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Anytime I hear about Dreamcast games being ported to other systems for digital distribution I get a little bit hopeful that Skies of Arcadia will be put out...alas, that will never happen.

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Damn sega no Shenmue,Jet set radio or Seaman? WTF!!!

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what a waste of plastic

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wait. i just looked through all six pages of comments and didn't see a single vmu "what a disappointment" picture. that's really strange.

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Bleh. And for a second there I thought they were actually going to release good games.

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The lack of SA2 saddens me, dammit!

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This collection needs more Seaman and Leonard Nimoy.

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no Offspring in Crazy Taxi = NO GO!

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@Stonyman65 said:
" whoa I just read "Sega announces Dreamcast" and I was like "WHAT THE FUCK!!" "
Combined with the Arx Fatalis patch, it's early-aughts all over again.
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Sega, you're breaking my heart. I was actually hyped that they were releasing a collection, but now I'm just insulted.

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Laaame. Give me the GOODS sega!

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CHU CHU ROCKET OR BUST.

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All I care about in that collection is Space Channel.
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whoa I just read "Sega announces Dreamcast" and I was like "WHAT THE FUCK!!"

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More proof that Sega has no fucking clue what to do these days. There are so many good dreamcast games and this is what they scrounge up?

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Epic announcement.

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Jet Grind Radio please!1111111111111111111
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I was hoping for something like the Genesis Collection they put out, where it would be a comprehensive collection of all the Sega produced Dreamcast games.  Instead we get two that are already on XBLA, one of which doesn't have it's original music, and then two games that no one ever wanted to play in the first place.  Sega Bass Fishing?  REALLY?

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this is the worst dreamcast collection I could have ever imagined

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Crazy Taxi could be interesting if it featured the original soundtrack, but I highly doubt it. :(

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You've been pimping Chu Chu Rocket for mobile devices for MONTHS and can't get it onto a console?
 
I'm quite disappointed, sirs.

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@JacDG said:
" @SkinnyBlue said:
" Sega Bass Fishing? Aren't there...more exciting games for the Dreamcast to put on this disc? "
no "
Yes.  Chu Chu Rocket.
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@heatDrive88 said:
" Awesome, more ways that I can remember just how much Crazy Taxi sucks to play today.   YEAH I SAID IT. DEAL WITH IT. "
I bought a really cheap PS2 copy recently. 
 
While I loved it ten years ago... its unplayable now.
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My guess is that they're saving the better titles for releases later on. Remember those screens that leaked showing JSR achievements?

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@heatDrive88 said:
" Awesome, more ways that I can remember just how much Crazy Taxi sucks to play today.   YEAH I SAID IT. DEAL WITH IT. "
Yeh I know what you mean man.  But its not that it sucked so much as it was a game very much of the time where open world environments hadnt really been explored like this before.  Crazy Taxi is good for nostalga but not for very long. 
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@Zabant:  What about people who only visit Giant Bomb? The only reason I knew about this before now is because I visit neogaf. And there's the point that people might want to talk about it on this site... If NBC does a news story do FOX and ABC say, "Damn! NBC reported this first, fuck we can't do it now!".
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lame. 
 
i could just buy these games for my real dreamcast

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Crazy Taxi is okay, but we need some jet set radio and phantasty star online.

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Awesome, more ways that I can remember just how much Crazy Taxi sucks to play today.
 
YEAH I SAID IT. DEAL WITH IT.

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I never owned a Dreamcast and it would be fun to have a neat compilation (maybe 2 discs) of different Dreamcast titles I missed out on.  But this shit isn't going to cut it.  Wish they'd put the effort into getting license rights to a couple of non-Sega titles.

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So, Sega's still being crazy?  Got it.

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Fucking lame

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I already have a Dreamcast. Why should I care?

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Cool, except I don't give half a shit about of any of these games. Bust out Seaman or Shenmue and we'll talk.
 
@Claude said:

" It's like watching the Dreamcast die all over again. "
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Um, my Dreamcast is still set up in the living room and I have all those games with the exception of Sega Bass Fishing. 

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Couldn't have asked for Jet Grind Radio or both Power Stones?  Guess they're waiting to release Sonic Adventure 2 for $5 more than it is on the GameCube.

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Dont care enough to look up the name 
 
But release the cell shaded skating game. Only one worth playing. 
 
Jet set radio or something...

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That's a pretty lame ass collection.

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It is like Sega Hits, B-sides. 

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Fuck off Sega