Happy Anniversary to the Dreamcast

[RyoHazuki84]

On this day in Japan, Dreamcast launched with just a few titles, Virtua Fighter 3TB, July, Godzilla Generations and I believe Pen Pen. And with Virtua Fighter 3TB, came Project Berkley. I actually bought an import Dreamcast in May of 1999. I had a feeling like the Saturn, it would be an import gamer's console and in some way, I was right. But it is still my favorite console of all time.

[lavrentis]

Didnt the DC have a terrible launch in Japan

[RyoHazuki84]

yeah, their only good launch title was virtua fighter 3tb and the japanese version didn't officially have a versus mode. it was 2 players, but if you won a fight, the loser would have to choose a new character and you were stuck with the character you won with.

godzilla generations got a lot of bad reviews, but it was one of my few guilty pleasure games and i still enjoy playing it.

[Fenix]

LoL Godzilla. It's a bad game but i used to have fun playing with it.
I'm not with you saying Dreamcast had a bad launch. Still remeber the videogames magazine showing people sleeping on streets to have one in Japan.

[KiBa]

Anyone remember Slave Zero?

[OL]

^^Was interested in that for PC. I think I played a demo. Never tried the Dreamcast version though..

[Bluecast]

^^Was interested in that for PC. I think I played a demo. Never tried the Dreamcast version though..

Played it yesterday on a demo disc. One of those games that use the 4 main buttons as how to move and the analog stick is inverted to aim. So down is up and up is down. Personally I hate that. Shows the DC needed another analog stick.

[OL]

I always use inverted aiming if I can, but it sounds like that would throw me off anyway, the whole business about moving with the right hand and aiming with the left.

[Bluecast]

Shame as I wanted to like it. MDK had a similar issue if I remember right.

[Sonikku]

If only they waited for Sonic Adventure/Soul Calibur to be available like they did with the states. Often a console will take off in the short run but the real test comes over the long haul. If you can't even do that much, you probably weren't the most prepared.

[Retro Gamer]

Wow, I cant believe 9/9/99 (The U.S. release) was that long ago. I remember kids skipping school on that day and spending $500 or more on the system, controllers, and some games.