9/9/99 was an amazing day in console history. RIP, sweet Dreamcast.
My blog post: http://blogs.sun.com/ChrisM/entry/happy_birthday_dreamcast
Horribly offtopic:
So… what’s up with the forum internals these weeks?
You hijacking my thread? 
Chalk it up to increased demand on my servers. Should be ok here. It is interesting when your database shoots you 3000+ error messages in e-mail…in a single hour…
Believe we are past it now
-Chris
Certainly interesting. But yeah, sorry to hijack your thread, but you didn’t post anything about the major outage, so first I was kinda curious, then it turned into this mystery, and now we can all sleep tight again.
‘back’ on topic:
I had a very brief experience with the Dreamcast… about 30 seconds.
It was this arcade down-hill ski-ing game, where I was standing on real skis attached to the machine. Quite a few strangers behind me watching my moves on that thing - needless to say I sucked at it, with few*2 eyes burning in my back, which explains the 30 seconds I guess.
Shenmue… :-*
I had one and I sold it. The games were teh suxor.
You take that back! Rez and Soul Calibur were worth the price of admission alone. ;D
As a result of this comment, I am now going to have to question everything you do here MR. DEMONPANTS! Perhaps you just didn’t play Jet Grind Radio, Virtua On, Sonic Adventure, Power Stone, SoulCalibur, Toy Commander, Grandia II, Skies of Arcadia, ChuChu Rocket, etc… TON of amazingly awesome games. The Dreamcast was greater than the sum of its parts.
[quote]Along with the web browser, it also ran Java applications and several games shipped with Java enabled components.
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Oh thats cool, shame we don’t have some of that currently.
Okay, I take it back.
I should have said, the games I had were teh suxor. I bought a Dreamcast with 12 games for $60, and I got them from a sports game nut so probably half were sports games, and the rest were marginal. Sonic Adventure was very fun, though. And I had something called like Blue Stinger that I thought should have been good but wasn’t.
Soul Calibur = awesome.
Jet Grind Radio = looks awesome.
Power Stone = awesome.
Toy Commander = awesome.
Skies of Arcadia = looks awesome.
Really I just got it too late… I already had Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and Soul Calibur 2 on the Gamecube by the time I bought it.