Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | 11:45 BST

US Dreamcast is 10 today

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Makes you feel old, right? The American Dreamcast launched ten years ago today. It really was the Vietnam of games consoles; you had to be there, man.

Sega’s last, valiant assault on the hardware market ended in grand drama when the machine was discontinued in the US in 2001, a cessation followed in Europe in 2002.

Fill your boots with Wikipedia nonsense. Read Peter Moore’s Dreamcast whimsy here.

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#1

Robo_1
09/09/09, 8:55 am

Lovely console – still fire it up for a bit of Jet Set Radio.

#2

Blerk
09/09/09, 8:56 am

Holy shit, ten years? You sort of forget that the DC was almost ‘between generations’, a stop gap between the PlayStation/N64 and PS2/Xbox/Cube.

#3

Patrick Garratt
09/09/09, 8:57 am

I honestly felt an emotional attachment to my Dreamcast. It’s demise is the greatest news story in modern games, as far as I’m concerned. Literally sensational.

#4

Freek
09/09/09, 9:02 am

Does a birthday still count when the product has long been canceled?

#5

Blerk
09/09/09, 9:03 am

I only ever knew one person who owned one. He always made us play that Ferrari game with the really terrible rock ‘music’.

/shudders

#6

Patrick Garratt
09/09/09, 9:11 am

Heh. That was impossible to play. Yu Suzuki, innit.

#7

Patrick Garratt
09/09/09, 9:26 am

We’re approaching 100,000 comments, by the way. Should do it today.

#8

Blerk
09/09/09, 9:27 am

It’s what the Dreamcast would’ve wanted. :-D

#9

Patrick Garratt
09/09/09, 9:29 am

*salutes*

#10

Roybott
09/09/09, 9:38 am

Does the 100,000th commenter get a prize? :)

I never personally owned a Dreamcast but I did love playing on my mates, and I’ve been meaning to pick one up for a while but never have. Maybe I will get one now…

#11

Blerk
09/09/09, 10:04 am

100,000th commenter wins a Dreamcast!

#12

JonFE
09/09/09, 10:26 am

Throw in some games as well and you’ve got yourself a deal :)

#13

Psychotext
09/09/09, 11:06 am

I read a really good article over at 1up for this last night: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3175865

Quite depressing, and I’m not even a Dreamcast fan.

#14

SticKboy
09/09/09, 11:16 am

Ah, the Dreamcast, home to so many great exclusives. Capcom really should resurrect Power Stone, that game was marvellous.

#15

cachucha
09/09/09, 1:02 pm

marvel vs capcom 2 baby!!
so many good games, I would have to write a whole essay about them, so long live a machine ahead way of its time :P

#16

wz
09/09/09, 2:47 pm

Where’s todays announcement for the DC2?

#17

MasterChiefFenix
09/09/09, 4:41 pm

I still play mine sometimes ^_^

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