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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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@Dan_CiTi said:

" No CvS2 or MvC2 or Ikaruga? STUPID.  "

FUCK YOU SEGA. RELEASE THESE GAMES YOU DON'T OWN ALREADY. STEAL THEM FROM CAPCOM AND TREASURE AND RELEASE THEM.
 
I agree that this is a shit collection, but I don't see why everyone expects Sega to bring you Power Stone. Ask Capcom about that. 
 
I want a real Powerstone 3 with more stages and characters. It would blow Smash Brothers away if it had enough content.
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Cool, but they should have released the Powerstone games.

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Really? Sega Bass Fishing? Space Xhannel 5 part 2?

Shit that game wasn't even RELEASED on the US Dreamcast.

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Sega just sucks in everything they do.

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@nick_verissimo: Was the GC re-release no good?  I remember the DC version fondly but never had a chance to try the GC version...it would give me a good reason to wipe the dust off my Wii, though.
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Did Sega take a poll to find out what games everyone was either tired of or didn't like in the first place and then put the results into this collection. Wow, epic fail.

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Wow, 5 sega games i absolutely don't want to play.

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Pretty much a lackluster collection, I was hoping for Powerstone to be included in this but I guess I'll live without it.

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Is that it? Fuck that.

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@EuanDewar said:
"  Im finding it hard to put into words how pointless this release sounds. "
Utterly pointless? Does that do the trick?
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What a joke!

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This is disappointing...one game I absolutely want to play again is Powerstone  =(

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 @Cessate said:
" MDK2, Jet Grind Radio, Seaman, ChuChu Rocket, Power Stone, Rez, Shenmu, Skies of Arcadia, Typing of the Dead, Sonic Adventure 2, Fatal Fury.... there's a good handful of games that would be suitable of a disk like this.  Sega is crazy as tits for avoiding all of these games. "
QFT
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time to make some crazzzzzzy money...

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MDK2, Jet Grind Radio, Seaman, ChuChu Rocket, Power Stone, Rez, Shenmu, Skies of Arcadia, Typing of the Dead, Sonic Adventure 2, Fatal Fury.... there's a good handful of games that would be suitable of a disk like this.
 
Sega is crazy as tits for avoiding all of these games.

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WHAT?  There is no [insert Dreamcast game here] included in this collection?  FUCKING BLASPHEMY! 

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Sega bass fishing rocks. However, I still have the system and the 'rod' controller. Yeah.

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Look on the bright side; if Sega ends up releasing Part 2 of the collection, it can't be much worse than this.

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I don't understand why you people think it's up to Sega to bring back 3rd party Dreamcast games. Some realistic expectations are in order, you know?

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@spartanv07 said:
" shingdiggah- you realize they can still put more games out right? "
and you realize that DC games are way bigger than genesis games right
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no third strike? Bullshit!

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shingdiggah- you realize they can still put more games out right?

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Sega did such a good job with the library of games on UltimateGenesis Collection, it's a shame they dont seem to be worrying so much about the quality of title's on this dreamcast one especially since this has such potential to make them huge money, if they added in titles like Sonic Adventure 2, Jet Set Radio, Shenmue, Chu Chu Rocket, Soul Calibur(i know they dont own that IP though) they could make some serious bank.
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No CvS2 or MvC2 or Ikaruga? STUPID. 

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I was wondering if Ikaruga would be included, but I realize that it has already been released.  Ikaruga is, in my mine, the only must-have from the Dreamcast.

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Even though my DC is still alive, I want this a lot.

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I could run Sega better than anyone in their management has for the past 15 years. To think that at one point, Sega was in a dead heat with Nintendo back when Genesis was king. 
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oh well

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@NekuSakuraba said:
" @ThePilgrums
No Power Stone games? Seaman? Jet Set Radio? Shenmue? Come on, this is just lazy.
This. Fuck you Sega, fuck you. "
I'm just amazed people had any expectations
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30 bucks for:
 
- Sonic Adventure (A game which is so outdated to today's standards that it is unbelieveable, plus pales in comparison to Sonic Adventure 2, the infinitely better sequel)
- Sega Bass Fishing
- Space Channel 5 Part 2
- Crazy Taxi (An arcade game which gets boring after about an hour of playing and lacks variety in gameplay modes)
 
No thanks. Sega should ask the question of "Would fans buy this" once they include either Sonic Adventure 2 or Jet Set Radio...

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what is so bad about this? It seems good to me. Sonic adventure is amazing,crazy taxi is great fun,only thing bad is that they took out the original soundtrack and ad's. Also space channel and bass fishing got good scores if i recall.

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SEGA rolling out the D squad.

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Ugh Sega, what's wrong with you? The Dreamcast had an amazing collection of games yet you somehow managed to put some of the games that have aged the worst into this collection. 

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@SkinnyBlue: 
As lame as the game sounds, I actually had that game when I owned tons of DC games (lost them when I moved). The game is pretty fun and deserves a little love. As boring as driving a taxi around sounds, Crazy Taxi did wonders by making it exciting. Fishing seems stupid on a video game, but with the controller (if they release it), this game is actually top notch fun.
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Why is Sega Bass Fishing here???

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Just give me a copy of Crazy Taxi 3 on the Xbox 360 and i'll be happy.  For the gamers that don't own a Dreamcast, there were some really good fun arcade games on that system....  Sega would be a better company if they would start working on new games alongs those lines instead of just giving us endless Sonic games. One favorite of mine comes to mind Dynamite Cop.    

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Where's Seaman? that game was so messed up.  Or even Jet Grind Radio or Shenmue or even Power Stone? C'mon Sega, why don't you listen to your fans and put out games that they may actually buy.

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Crazy Taxi without Offspring. NO 
 
Edit: Fuck you SEGA for lazily putting together a PC port collection

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They should add some type of competitive multiplayer (and not just leader boards) to Crazy Taxi.  That would be sweet.

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@NekuSakuraba said:
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No Power Stone games? Seaman? Jet Set Radio? Shenmue? Come on, this is just lazy.
This. Fuck you Sega, fuck you. "
Agreed.  
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What about Skies or Arcadia? 

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@ChineseTea said:
" I can't wait to not own these games again. For the second time. "
You made me snort coke out my nose.
 
Well played sir. Well played.
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The only thing that's remotely interesting to me is that Space Channel game. The idea of playing this on the PC is ... odd.

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Hmmm, color me disappointed. I was expecting more games.

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hey cool, games I never played 10 years ago because they sucked.

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This sounds like the stuff that should be in 'Dreamcast Collecton 5' not their first fucking one, fuck sake sega, this is shit. 

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@ThePilgrums
No Power Stone games? Seaman? Jet Set Radio? Shenmue? Come on, this is just lazy.
This. Fuck you Sega, fuck you.
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It's amazing how they've managed to combine something great (multiple Dreamcast games, on a disc) with something awful (what those games turn out to be). I mean, come on Sega, this is why gamers lost all faith in you, and you're just making it worse.

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Where's my Jet Set Radio?!

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4 games is not a Dreamcast collection. where's powerstone, skies of arcadia, Jet Grind Radio for starters!?