Anime Forum Games Links Movies Music Profiles Survivor TV Shows The Sega Dreamcast was released on September 9TH 1999. The system was met with many mixed reviews. A lot of people loved the system but plenty hated it cause Sega last system, The saturn, floped big time. The American launch of the Dreamcast wasn't very good at all. Most games didn't work cause of an error with the disc makers. There was only a couple worth while games released at the launch, those being Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure. The other games were average or slightly above. A lot of important things were missing from the launch like the jump pack which took over a month to be released and the offical light gun which was never released in America. The Dreamcast came with shirt, demo, browser 1.0, one controler, a phone cord and a modem. When I first got my Dreamcast I didn't have enough money for a game or a VMU so i played the demo which I thought was really dissapointing. I then set up the Dreamcast by the phone jack to go online, at this time I didn't have a computer. I sign up for the AT&T service and I'm surfing in minutes. I'm having the time of my life messing with the internet. I didn't have any problems typing with the controler cause I wasn't use to using a keyboard. The main Sega page was badly designed at this time and it was a pain to find the search engine. I stayed up for 8 hours surfing the net and looking at all the things I never knew about. Finally I got tired and went to bed and when i woke up i got right back online. During this time I picked up two games, Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure and I also got a VMU. I played Sonic Adventure for a few minutes but got bored with it so I poped in soul Calibur and was amazed at how awesome it looked. I played this for eight hours straight and unlocked everything. How mad i was that I unlocked everything so fast. I then started playing Sonic Adventure and got stuck on a very stupid part so I had to go out and buy a guide which was useless, at this time I had never heard of www.gamefaqs.com. I got bored of my two games and surfing the net so I tried out this thing called "chat" I had no clue what I was doing and got banned a couple times for "spamming" when all I wanted to do was change rooms. I figured everything out in a week or so and had a great time. Suddenly Sega decideds to change their site and it's down for a few months and a lot of chat rooms got deleted. I got sick of waiting for the site to come back up so I went and traded in my Playstation collection (over 200 games) for about 24 Dreamcast games, i was in heaven but I soon relized that most of them sucked real hard and I started missing all my old games. After waiting a couple more months a new browser came out for the Dreamcast (1.219) which got me back into the internet scene. This browser was a lot better than the first one but it froze more but I could handle that, around this time my free keyboard arrived (thank god). This is when I stated my fist website which sucked real bad and I refuse to share it with anyone. A month or s later a game called ChuChu Rocket comes out and its the first online game (yay) sadly it sucked online cause of this stupid delay after clicks. I think I played the game for a whole week and never touched it again. When the Dreamcast reached it's one year mark it got it's second online game (yes it took THAT long) the game was just a PC port that the had to tone down to run on the Dreamcast. Around this time my Dreamcast broke (this will happen 9 more times in less than a year). Just so this doesn't get any longer I will say I lost interest in The Dreamcast by the time the second online game came out. Sega promised gamers the ultimate system and no one got it. The system has mostly arcade ports and the hyped games were very bad. A lot of things were promised but they never happened. The Dreamcast library is rather small compared to other systems and is lacking in must own games. The system has since stoped being made and keeps getting cheaper. Dreamcast started off with a stumble but got better then it suddenly took a nose dive into the ground. It wasn't a bad system but it wasn't great either. Sega didn't deliver what they promised and there wasn't enough must have games. I give the Sega Dreamcast system a 7/10. This is Logan signing off.