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How it felt to watch this awesome console fail back in the day (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

My college suitemates had one and I loved powerstone and others. First hand experience. Had an Xbox and PS2. Still didn't buy one of these.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh, never thought I'd see a reference to Don McLean in the wild that wasn't American Pie.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I thought it was a NOFX song for years

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Why in the hell did Sega not put up any sort of anti pirating safeguards on this thing? Even my buddy who was always talking about how dreamcast was the best system, had a stack of all the Dreamcast games copied, because the Dreamcast would read and play copied games.

It was killed by its own fan base and lack of anti pirating

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Oh but it did, first the GD-ROM that had 1GB and the only way to get the games into a CD was to cut the assets making it a worse experience and... playing recorded CD-ROMs on a Dreamcast was a very efficient way to destroy its drive.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Bernie Stolar was also to blame because he was the reason a majority of the Dreamcast library was not localized outside of Japan

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[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

It was the best.

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Too soon...

What makes me happy though is the Dreamcast is still going strong today with fan translations, indie games (and more) and online play.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

I still regret selling mine.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Berserk was such an awesome game

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

dont cum in your dreamcast

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Well there goes my plan to make new baby Dreamcasts

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 1 points 3 months ago

Abe's a freak

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

But it didn't fail :)

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