G4 Icons Episode #41: Sega Dreamcast

[@MovieMan74]

My Dreamcast is still hooked up to my television to this very day. It still runs as smoothly as it did back in 1999 and it’s the only way to play some real classics. Long live SEGA, and long live the Dreamcast.

[@idjut1080]

Me too, I use it blindly as a CD player primarily 🤟

[@deathmachinezack]

@@idjut1080 shoot I use it for CDs as much as I do games

[@TheEarthRealm]

That was even true up until 2011, when _Jet Grind Radio, Space Channel 5 part 2,_ _Crazy Taxi,_ and _Shenmue_ were ported to other consoles. 😮‍💨

[@LocalMultiplex]

lucky you, mine stopped working after fifteen years

[@WilliamMcCarthyIII]

I miss this TV channel so much

[@rainehappy7097]

it's back!!!

[@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo]

Miss the show, not the channel

[@lewisgrant7622]

@@rainehappy7097 and now it’s gone again

[@TheWorldOfRipX]

@@lewisgrant7622 not surprising the new version sucked incredibly. Remember when we didn't have politics in our games? That's when G4 was cool

[@lewisgrant7622]

@@TheWorldOfRipX if I remember correctly the host Indiana juniper black or as she goes by on twitter frosk. During the revived shows run said a lot of very controversial things that I won’t get into and left the show due to those controversies and a loss of viewers following her rant against ***ism in games

[@Copat87]

RIP Bernie 🙏 We'll never forget the Sega Dreamcast!

[@MegamanNG]

Happy 25th Anniversary to the SEGA Dreamcast. I loved it. It's such a shame that it couldn't save SEGA, in spite of all the crap that went down for them. Damn shame.

[@WECKmaster329]

The Dreamcast was a fun console. I remember playing the hell out of Jet Grind Radio on that system with my siblings and being blown away by the graphics and music. There was a lot of fun to be had even when sharing single player games with others.

[@koltontheo6758]

i dont mean to be so off topic but does anyone know of a way to get back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly forgot the password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me.

[@arianjason7622]

@Kolton Theo Instablaster ;)

[@koltontheo6758]

@Arian Jason I really appreciate your reply. I found the site on google and I'm in the hacking process atm. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

[@koltontheo6758]

@Arian Jason it worked and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy:D Thank you so much, you really help me out!

[@arianjason7622]

@Kolton Theo no problem :D

[@MegamanNG]

Long live the Dreamcast.

[@nataliegalassi4323]

MegamanNG. What to do?

[@notchinham316]

Do you know the Dreamcast documentary video where the narrator says "The Dream Was Dead" and it cut to a scene from Shenmue where the guy screams?

[@knucklesechidna2124]

Demand Dreamcast 2 with Sega exclusives!

[@rainehappy7097]

@@blueaero3284 The Master System was called the Mark III in Japan and was the sequel to the SG-1000. DC2 is a cool name for it.

[@davidford3968]

I got a Dreamcast as a birthday/christmas gift in 99. I loved it. My mom got me a PS2 in late 2001 and I played my Dreamcast more for a while, one of the big reasons she bought it was because of the DVD player. Truthfully back then, i was loving playing Dreamcast. I agree with a lot of what people are saying here had Dreamcast had a DVD player, I truly believe Sega would still be making consoles to this day. As great as Dreamcast was it not having a DVD player and Playstation 2 having one was what killed it, because the games were awesome and back then the 2K series sports games were much better then the EA Sports games

[@deathmachinezack]

I agree it shoulda had a DVD player but not only that sega shoulda went back to the drawing board added a second thumb stick to the controller and development for gta 3 on dreamcast shoulda continued and got finished and if dreamcast woulda got those and lasted longer we maybe coulda seen vice city and San Andreas on dreamcast

[@matthewmensah481]

Happy 25th Anniversary Sega Dreamcast 🌀🎮 1999-2024 🥳🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉

[@ocpofficialrep7026]

me as a kid: me: dad can i hook my sega dreamcast up to the internet dad: hook your what where? me: my sega dreamcast i can get on the internet and play against other people. It says i can on the box. dad: does it cost money? me: idk dad: no and that was the end of that.

[@greenbuddy45]

The Dreamcast was a console that was one that went unnoticed for quite some time but it was a great success in Sega's overall campaign.

[@TheLoneAngel]

RIP Bernie Stolar 🙏🏼

[@greenbuddy45]

It was, exactly as stated, ahead of its time and was just an amazing console

[@ZEMO74]

I had a Japanese Dreamcast during this time. There were a ton of great games that were never released in America. The Giant Gram games, were some of the best wrestling games ever made.

[@alistahr]

I still play mine, favorite console of all time

[@Tornado1994]

alistahr SEGA wants to come back, they need your help. Sign these petitions: www.thepetitionsite.com/123/691/697/to-the-new-management-of-sega-of-america-and-sega-holdingsltd/#sign www.change.org/p/sega-of-america-to-design-and-release-a-sega-dreamcast-limited-edition-console www.change.org/p/sega-make-a-new-console-sega-spectrum

[@InfiniteRhombus]

+Tornado1994 this is stupid, sega does not care if you want a dreamcast 2 or not and petitioning them to make one is simply not going to happen, you have zero idea of how much money it costs and how much time and resources it takes to do something like that.

[@deathmachinezack]

@@InfiniteRhombus yeah well they should care cuz after all we're the fans/consumers

[@20Gossip]

Thank You Mr Stolar. RIP 🕯

[@Kuson2]

It's such a rotten and unfortunate thing that the Dreamcast failed. I never played this system in its heyday, but about 5 or 6 years ago I picked up on second hand at a retro gaming shop for about $40. My god was I missing out! I don't know what it is, but I love gaming on the Dreamcast. As for party fun...shit let me tell you, EVERYTIME I bring this thing to a party and we hook it up, everyone loves it. It allows us to enjoy games like Hydro Thunder, Dead or Alive 2, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Sega GT, Tony Hawk 1 & 2, Sonic shuffle..... It usually ends up staying plugged in all night long and all of the PS3's and 360's/PS4 Xbones etc go totally ignored. We all end up having a blast and laughing our asses off having an awesome time. Even people that don't game hop on my Dreamcast and love it. That alone is truly magic, and for some odd reason, it seems that no other system can ever truly duplicate that magic.

[@rayfran06]

yea man the Dreamcast I feel like never got to hit its stride. Toward the end the games were looking better and had better use of its power. Idk what it was but that console had a great way of showing depth of field. Say what you want about sports games but they did a great job of showing that technique. I got my Dreamcast when the ps2 came out. with that said I could.walk into a retro store or even a major retailer and spend 20 bucks on a stack of great games.

[@LUCKO2022]

I fucking HATE Dreamcast. If I was at a party and you had that garbage hooked up. I would take it and throw it out the high story window and watch it SMASH into the ground. Dreamcast sucked. I said it in 1999. I say it in 2018 and in the year 9999 I will still be saying Dreamcast was fucking GARBAGE.

[@robertl.wilson1199]

I know this comment is old af but bro named a bunch of games that are/were on the PS1/2 as well 😂

[@Noname15514]

Happy 20th, Dreamcast.

[@NefariousDreary]

I still have mine since 2002. I'll probably never lose that thing :).

[@BenJabituya]

Here because of the passing of Bernie Stolar.

[@PaulNat360]

4:28 great point

[@nostalgiaworks5999]

"We're still going to have all these games..." *A while later* "And by games, I meant Sonic games."

[@GiordanDiodato]

If their other series would SELL MORE THAN 70 MILLION UNITS, they'd make more.

[@knucklesechidna2124]

Sonic sells because he is a well designed mascot. No matter how shit the games are. Sonic Adventure 2 was the last truly outstanding Sonic game from Sega. Sonic Mania is great, but not by Sega themselves. Iizuka either needs to team up with Naka again, or leave the company or the franchise to someone more competent like Nagoshi.

[@bluewulv]

@@knucklesechidna2124 What did Nagoshi do again?

[@rainehappy7097]

@@bluewulv F-Zero GX, the Yakuza series, Fist of The North Star, Super Monkey Ball, and a bunch of classic SEGA games. I think he worked with Yu Suzuki too.

[@joshgellis3292]

G4 Channel lives on in our hearts, my brothers and sisters in the video game world! Online, offline alone or with friends! WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! G4 is like the 'Brian's Song' story in cable channels! While I'll never have the time to get into anything Sega related- I genuinely feel bad for what happened to them! 90% of the Dreamcast and it's history was done right and redemption after the Saturn era, total f-up.

[@adamhovey407]

Josh Gellis yeah, Dreamcast, did everything right, but the Saturn launch was an abysmal failure. Do you watch gaming historian? He actually just did a video about Sega's biggest failures or mistakes I don't remember how he said it

[@deathmachinezack]

@@adamhovey407 I love dreamcast but dreamcast lacked one feature saturn had granted you needed a separately sold MPEG card and that was the ability to enjoy movies on video CD yes I'm aware video CD wasn't as big here in the states as it was in Asian markets but if dreamcast woulda allowed you to watch movies (whether DVDs or another format even if they just continued using video CDs) on it it probably woulda been a game system that could have appealed to the kids and the parents like the Playstation 2 did

[@Inevitable037]

20 years today!

[@TimmiiGamingChannel]

I got Dreamcast for my bday and I still have it today.

[@BleachFan9891]

The little console that almost could.

[@DanielRamBeats]

Pirate King 89 lol!

[@Funboyjosh2924]

Damn, I was 3 at the time of u guys typing that...

[@DreamcastFan-101]

Interesting that the journo claims he had to sign an NDA to see Dreamcast in secret at E3 1998 and couldn’t speak about it “for months”. E3 1998 ran from 28th to 30th May 1998, while Sega officially unveiled the Dreamcast in Japan at the New Challenge Conference on May 21st 1998 - and Edge UK magazine, issue 60 (July 98, released in June as magazines always released dated a month ahead), did a multi page spread on Dreamcast with the front cover “SEGA IS DEAD LONG LIVE DREAMCAST”. In effect, the guys claim about E3 98, signing NDA’s and not being able to speak about Dreamcast “for months”, is a lie.

[@MMZERO9]

Happy 20th Anniversary Dreamcast!

[@msvelvetcrowe]

Just got mine today and I already love it long live the legacy Dreamcast forever

[@Blueflag04]

if only dreamcast 2 is real

[@Twinwar]

Rest in peace Bernie Stolar.

[@meowmochimeow]

How is it possible for this guy to not only look like Steve Carell but sound like him also...

[@TheBenSanders]

I didn't notice that in the many times I've watched this video. That's insane the similarities.

[@bluewulv]

Who looked like steve carrll?

[@BenJabituya]

@@bluewulv You mean Steven Kent?

[@bluewulv]

@@BenJabituya ?

[@handlethis78]

​@@bluewulv Did you not watch the video? Steven Kent is one of the interviewees in the episode...

[@Hondunu]

All hail the Dreamcast (and Virtual Boy **Tomodauchi Life Reference**)

[@msvelvetcrowe]

The Legacy Will Never Die!

[@bluewulv]

SA1 n' 2, MVC1 n' 2, Power Stone 1 n' 2, Skies of Arcadia, SC, SF3TS, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, HOTD2, TOTD, Chuchu Rocket, and that's just to name a few awesome games that still hold up to this day.

[@deathmachinezack]

It took too long for my brain to figure out SC is short for soul caliber

[@dathardscopetho2459]

POWER STONE NEEDS TO BE REVIVED!!(the psp port was incredible tho)

[@nonanimeprofilepic]

I grew up with the dreamcast and ps2 and i had more memories with the dreamcast

[@willie1000001]

I'm about to order a Dreamcast from Amazon now....

[@adamhovey407]

Be careful, I did once and it didn't work, and they were supposed to pick it up, to exchange it for another one, and they never came out here to get it.

[@mrbransformer4184]

Hi, I have great 100% Dreamcast here in email. Give money gift card to Tarmart and we will get you Dreamcats today now!

[@willie1000001]

@@adamhovey407 I bought 2. The first one had an issue with the power input. But I bought one in LIKE NEW condition with a Dreamcast HDMI cable and it worked perfectly.

[@mistamontiel00]

19:49 what song is that ? Beaute

[@ink50]

A time when things were simpler

[@leon323]

This was the last system that felt like a gamers system. I had almost every system from the NES classic and up and the SEGA Dreamcast is still my favorite most fun system of all time

[@memohdfromwwe_]

There was not one bad game on the Dreamcast, hard to bring one up. So many fun games to play and that's what it is all about! I would have my friends come over my place to play Dreamcast (2001 / 2002ish) we would play Fighting Games, Sport Games, name it.

[@damightybenstein]

Who's here after Bernie Stolar passed? #RIP

[@ChaostotheVII]

Me and my friends Emulated ChuChu Rocket recently on retropi... Wow what a party game!

[@TF267]

I miss these days!

[@arthurbrax6561]

Bernie stolar go to hell, he said jrpg would not sell in America and blocked their sales on the Saturn and then ff7 came out and that was that!

[@brandonselitetv1436]

Frank Rivers nobody knew FF7 would be a huge hit.

[@ravager48]

Brandon Lee As big as the other Final Fantasy games were, that wasn't to be expected.

[@arthouseanime4150]

He said Saturn games weren’t fun and it wasn’t the future

[@geebee6010]

Damn jew

[@ValSempai]

There is a timeline in SOME alternater universe where the Sega Dreamcast doesnt exist.....and that is my personal hell

[@mattkillam2033]

The dreamcast is the hipster console. Everybody says they love it nowadays but they all bought ps2s back in the day

[@Victoria3232-j7o]

Matt Killam Sega Dreamcast was the last true gamers console sony Putting a dvd player made the PlayStation 2 more appealing to people besides videogamers.

[@knucklesechidna2124]

I got PS2 as a hand me down. My cousin had Dreamcast, but he always sold his consoles and games online. All his Dreamcast games were burned CDs, not the actual games themselves. I had to buy my own DC earlier this year just to finally experience it proper.

[@geebee6010]

I had/have both. Only reason I got a PS2 was because every game I wanted wasn’t on Dreamcast.

[@SolCresta3405]

Don't know about you, but Ryo's anguished reactions to the Dreamcast's cancellation kinda cracks me up. XD

[@AGoat1971]

If you were alive at the time you would know, the DVD Player on the PS2 was everything. DVD Players on their own were 3-400 dollars.

[@adamhovey407]

You're still alive to me.

[@janitorboy16]

RIP Bernie Stolar

[@mannofsociety31]

Ah yes. The SEGA Dreamcast. This underrated system is one of the reigning champions in my book of consoles. Sure, it unfortunately didn’t have a DVD player and was forgotten by most of society when the PlayStation 2 released but the Dreamcast and other consoles like it will always have a special place in my heart. P.S. I kinda hate how this video felt kinda biased towards Stolar. Granted I can respect on how he had tried to reestablish SEGA but how he had treated the Saturn in its last years was just pathetic. Aside all from that, I hope he can still rest in peace…

[@Tallahassee21]

i imagine that this is in due part to how difficult it seems sega was to it’s american division. whether the book was partial fiction or not, maybe some of the things in console wars were true. as far as what bernie stolar said about the console, sega alienating the retailers with low stock and surprise launch , high price and limited games, berni was right that saturn was dead at that point, both playstation and n64 took over the market share sega won in the early 90s.

[@stephencase]

In the end marketing sells games and that is how Sega fell apart very quickly. It is a shame that this console, the greatest console Sega ever produced, was its last one.

[@JIX9ISLER1986]

Happy Birthday dreamcast September 9-9-99 21st birthday !!!

[@bluewulv]

When you think about it now, with seganet, the dreamcast could have introduced patches and updates for fighting games. Imagune if MVC2 was patched so all characters and possible team combinatiins were viable enough to be Evo tourney winning levels of competitive

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

The American Launch of the Saturn was the reason why Sega was suffering.

[@rainehappy7097]

The 32x was pointless too. Not enough arcade games and the ones it did have were either already on Genesis or on Saturn and done much better on those systems without needing expensive add ons.

[@CommonSenseless1993]

The only games I had for my Dreamcast were Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Shenmue, and Crazy Taxi.

[@chileanguyfleegman]

Awesome games, three of the best for the DC

[@RhythmGrizz]

Ouch. Only 3...

[@germanher7528]

I had about 30+ cause it got hacked real quick

[@rainehappy7097]

@@RhythmGrizz Think about it, the DC was only around for so long, and most of us kids could only get games for birthdays and Christmas/Hannukah/whatever. Some of us never got a chance due to either stores not carrying them or just not enough press or advertising. It's how we wind up with hidden gems.

[@bluewulv]

Whatever happened to that episode about Sonic himself?

[@dylanhoppe7506]

welllll g4 is making a comeback so hopefully we’ll see more icons in the future??

[@Celerott]

It probably is just rumors, but it would be awesome. I also heard a rumor that Sega is doing a modern version of the Dreamcast... with all of today's technology. That's probably just another rumor, but it would do wonders for the gaming industry, and in my opinion it would be the largest comeback in the industry.

[@raykc1]

dreamcast awesome console of its time.

[@cville991]

I’m surprised they didn’t mention the prototype DVD adapter.

[@DanielRamBeats]

They should have talked more about Phantasy Star Online, the first online RPG for a console and the problem that the utopia bootdisc gave them with easily copied and bootable games.

[@ZEMO74]

Daniel Ram That killed them as well. The games were easy to bootleg.

[@DanielRamBeats]

totally, but it was such a cool era to be apart of. Not sure if you ever played PSO when there was rampid cheating etc? It was a game totally taken over by the community, barely anyone played the game to play it.. It was all about who had the best cheats lol

[@ZEMO74]

Oh yeah man. I have been a gamer since the early 80's. I remember all that. 

[@Kuson2]

+Shogun “ShogunWarrior74” Warrior I have an entire binder full of games I burned to blank CDR's about 5 years back, definitely easy to pirate, though it's funny cause what killed the system then is what allows me to enjoy it now. Dreamcast games are really hard to find where I live.

[@cncfan]

Chobits poster at 14:49

[@boromir0062]

Gotcha to love Sega hardware.

[@shikarbabulall3897]

So if Dreamcast had a DVD rom would Sega still be around today making consoles?

[@remixchild]

Yeah

[@tonyreyes89]

Happy 20

[@bluewulv]

I can only imagine if Sega only made the Genesis, Lock On games fir Genesis, and Dreamcast and none of their failed machines.

[@rainehappy7097]

Maybe have the 32x as just a lock on cart instead of a clunky add-on requiring it's own plugs that could properly emulate Model 2 games? Or just make a 32x system?

[@bluewulv]

@@rainehappy7097 That's what the neptune was gonna be

[@evanbongers4709]

Its a real shame how unappreciated the Saturn was because despite its complexity it had some really great games like nights, panzer dragoon saga, shining force 3, and the best ports of 2D fighting games. In some aspects it was actually more powerful than the playstation but sega butchered the launch and did a poor job of advertising that is why that the Saturn failed, not because of bad games or an "outdated" controller.

[@awakenedsoul2638]

If only SEGA did not keep pushing and planned very well for the Dreamcast putting DVD and HDD in it and made it more powerful and convinced third party game companies to develop games for it even if Sony Playstation 2 is more powerful it will hold its own ground.

[@geebee6010]

PS2 also has the worst graphics out of the 3 consoles.

[@deathmachinezack]

@@geebee6010 well technically that generation had 4 consoles but the og Xbox came out not too far away from when dreamcast got discontinued in 01

[@TheEarthRealm]

8:24 Not in Japan it wasn't! It even outsold the Nintendo 64 by a wide margin in Japan. And Nintendo had been _legendary_ up until that point in Japan. 💁🏿‍♂️

[@timcrawford7306]

So all these years later we are still talking about Dreamcast and not PS2. The Dreamcast was and still is the superior console.

[@unconditionalmalice]

🧢

[@JIX9ISLER1986]

it had a better launch than ps2 but it was not better overall

[@GMBalHajri1990]

I don't appreciate how this video was clearly biased towards stolar. They made a victim out of him that got fired by his Japanese ''overlord'' but they didn't explain why he was fired in the first place. He butchered the launch date by abruptly announcing it outta blue without letting the retailers know beforehand sothey can get their stocks ordered properly, which made them mad that Walmart even boycotted the Dreamcast and refused to sell it. He also went against the price suggested by SoJ and sold the system at 199 which was disastrous for Sega because it meant that they had to sell far more units to be profitable at that price point. Then we have infamous blunder where he literally said that the Saturn wasn't the future of Sega, effectively destroying any hopes for its success in the NA market, not to mention him actively preventing the DC from getting great Japanese ports because ''lol weeb''.

[@rainehappy7097]

Cheaper price let them sell more units though. The Saturn was priced so high that nobody could afford it the minute it launched prematurely. Stolar made some bogus decisions but SOJ is stubborn as heck. They let things slide with the Genesis and that sold really well. Genesis was priced well and had excellent pack in games. Their president at the time was Kalinske and he really knew his stuff compared to Stolar. I think what should have happened is they should have avoided the Sega CD and 32X and just focused on Genesis and Game Gear until the Saturn came out. It still wasn't that long of a wait considering how closely the 32X came out to the Saturn's release date. It was a collosal waste of money for games that were better ported on Saturn like the Sega Ages collection. Not only that, but SOJ refused to use tech that ended up with different companies that would have made the Saturn cheaper to produce and improved performance exponentially. Nintendo is just as guilty during this time with mistakes made with the N64, but at least it was easier to program for. It just cost a lot more. One thing the N64 did have though was Super Mario 64. The Saturn didn't have a solid 3D Sonic game that was completely original or a fullblown 3D platofrmer on par with Super Mario 64. I really have no idea how well Sonic XTreme would have done, but there was a lot of hype for it back then. At least we got Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast, which was probably even better than anything Nintendo made up to that point. Add that to it being a launch title alongside games like Soul Calibur and Crazy Taxi which were arcade perfect, and you have the strongest selling console at launch. What's even better is Dreamcast games have aged beautifully compared to Saturn games. The only games I can think of on Saturn from launch that are still worth playing are the Virtua games and Daytona USA, even with the limitations at the time. It was all on the hardware being too expensive and the software being underwhelming. Genesis meanwhile was doing perfect. They had games like Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and Disney's Aladdin that were selling like hotcakes. They were also games that didn't require add ons like the Sega CD or 32X. Again it would have been better if the Sega CD and 32x were just ignored and focus was put on Genesis and Saturn. If they had done this, Dreamcast would have had more money to burn and most likely stuck around a few more years even alongside the Sony PS2. There's even concept designs for a Dreamcast with a DVD player add on. If they had made a second Dreamcast as an update with the DVD included, it would have put them back at the top.

[@mohammedganai9636]

@@rainehappy7097 There are so many games you're looking on the Saturn side: Radiant Silvergun, the Panzer Dragoon trilogy, Guardian Heroes, Capcom's 2d ports. The PS1 couldn't handle the latter without major compromises (or at all with RS). Also, the Saturn pad was a masterpiece, while the Dreamcast, while usable for 3d, was otherwise magnitudes more clunky.

[@eupher2]

Stolar is the reason the Saturn had very few games in North America. In Japan the Saturn had 1400 games that never made it outside of Japan, because Stolar wouldn't allow them to be brought over. Also one time when Stolar was asked about the Saturn. He said the most stupidest he could ever say about it. He told the whole world the Saturn is not our future. He did an amazing job with the Dreamcast full props there, but terrible job with the Saturn.

[@NehemiahDC]

They fumbled by not having 2 joysticks and less buttons than the n64. If it had dvd it would have lasted way longer.

[@joypadbandit624]

If you ever hear that SEGA is getting a press conference slot at E3...Know that it will be about it's next console..Just put a stamp on that.

[@dacypher22]

Sega isn't big enough to launch and support a console anymore. I wish they would. Sega consoles were a huge part of my youth and I would love to see them make another run at it. But it won't happen.

[@deathmachinezack]

@@dacypher22 sadly your right and I say sadly because I love sega like a now deceased wife or child and would give the world just to see their glorious glow return even if it were a one and done kinda thing

[@LilleyComix97]

RIP Bernie

[@HuGiv5]

Loved DC but it collected dust since Ps2 came out.

[@cjhs2006]

What I Wanna Know's Why Did The Dreamcast Controller Have That Screen in it

[@cartergamegeek]

It's a VMU. It's the Visual Memory Unit. It's a Memory Card that can be removed to play some simple mini games. It was a system within a system. Not many games used the VMU for mini games. And you could buy Dreamcast Memory cards that were not a VMU. It was used a bit more in Japan. But the idea was cool. It was nice being able to remove the VMU and interact with some games. But the Dreamcas was short lived so that was not really done. Plus with the normal Dreamcast Memory Cards it made VMU stuff tricky to make because not everyone had a VMU. As a bonus it lights up and has displays things. Normally just a logo or character face.

[@cjhs2006]

+cartergamegeek ok,Thanks For Explaining That to me

[@cartergamegeek]

Jodee Rebecca Davey You're welcome. As someone trying to get going on KZbin i enjoy teaching people about gaming. It's nice to see all my random gaming knowledge being put to good use. I'm a nerd that picked up a lot of random gaming facts over the years. Part of the reason i wanted to get going on KZbin i thought some of my random gaming knowledge might teach people something. My main drive is i wanted my best friend Sean and my brother Carson along for the ride too. I thought our interactions while gaming were worth recording. So we can get random and off topic a lot. But we all have a good bit of gaming knowledge. In the right moments we can easily teach people random and interesting gaming facts. It's fun interacting with people. And it's fun teaching people. The world of gaming is interesting. It's crazy to watch games and even consoles live and die before a lot of people are even born. Our passion is gaming. And hopefully in a month or two i will finally be able to record and edit videos. And maybe all of our gaming knowledge can be put to good use. I was thinking of using Patreon to make money if the KZbin Channel started doing well. Anyway i enjoyed helping you. It reminded me why i'm trying to get going on KZbin.

[@cjhs2006]

+cartergamegeek I Really Hope That Your Channel Gets up,&,Running,Let me Know When it Does,so I Can Subscribe

[@cartergamegeek]

Jodee Rebecca Davey I just need a Uninterruptible Power Supply and Sony Vegas Pro 13. Then Sean and Carson need free time. But i'm close. If things work out we might be making videos by next month. This is all i need. I have an Elgato HD and a Blue Yeti Mic. So i can record. I just can do advanced editing without Sony Vegas Pro 13. And the Uninterruptible Power Supply will help keep my stuff safe in case the power goes out. That is a good thing to have.

[@MEDZFactor]

Jake Kazdal is the American version of Hideki Kamiya.

[@BenJabituya]

Am I the only one who thinks that narrator sounds like Sonic The Hedgehog?

[@deathmachinezack]

It's possible cuz personally I don't think the narrator does

[@notchinham316]

Steve Carell and David Draiman crossover?

[@derkcast620]

Wait NEC made the graphics chip? wasn't Turboduo still a competitor at this time?!?

[@brandonselitetv1436]

Derk Cast no

[@BrokeNerfing]

I love Sega. Master System 4 life!

[@StudioUAC]

This makes me depressed. Thinking back to when games were fun and not identity politics. I was once proud to say i was a gamer

20:37 not exactly true. PS2 became legendary for a reason. In 2001 alone PS2 launched GT3, Twisted Metal Black, Ico, Silent Hill 2, Jak and Daxter, Devil May Cry, GTA3, MGS2, FFX etc. Playstation owners had plenty to be happy about that Dreamcast owners could only dream of.

[@DraculaXHunter101]

Man, that's not the point. The Dreamcast actually pushed boundaries for online titles, if it wasn't for Dreamcast I don't think online gaming at the moment would be as powerful as it could be. Plus, the Playstation 2 launch was pretty ass. If it wasn't for the DVD player. It would have never sold as well as it did in 2000. It had some revolutionary games like Shenmue and Jet Set Radio. Fantastic graphics for the time. Some of the best fighting games ever produced like Soul Calibur, Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Power Stone. Playstation 2 was great, but the Dreamcast really was ahead of its time in 1998.

[@AgentMorgan2010]

The Dreamcast was dead by 2001, so your comment, and all those great games you're mentioning, are completely immaterial. In the year 2000, when it launched, the PS2 had jack and shit. A DVD player and backwards compatibility for PS1 games. That's what the vast majority of PS2 early-adopters were doing with their PS2 that year. Meanwhile, Dreamcast was enjoying a kick-ass library of quality titles that were fun and utterly unique. PS2's launch lineup was utter shit, and nothing on it at that time even looked as good as anything on Dreamcast. Ugly jaggies like a mother fucker. The PS2 wasn't even worth owning until the tail-end of 2001, when all those seminal titles finally released that holiday season, and the Dreamcast was already long dead and buried.

[@kingsleyjackson8287]

If Dreamcast had a DVD player/EA games maybe it would lost longer

[@CattyMintgum]

Still waiting for Power Stone 3...: c

[@rainehappy7097]

Tell Capcom.

[@Rooster128]

I like how when talking about Saturn having "unfun" games they are showing Bug on the screen. BITCH WUT. Bug was incredibly fun! WHATCHOO TALKIN ABOUT?

[@rainehappy7097]

Bug was corny compared to Sonic. You could slap Sonic in Bug and it would have sold better. Sonic has a cool personality. Bug feels like discount Gex.

[@neorebu]

@@rainehappy7097 oooof

[@deathmachinezack]

@@rainehappy7097 I about pissed my shorts laughing at bug feels like discount gex

[@cyberfrank-bx2nv]

as a Sega fan, I had these complains; the machine was white, it looked like a Nintendo machine. the controllers were not the 6 buttons I was used to. I hated the memory cards gimmick, in practice, it was flawed. the battery did not last long, it felt cheap. a dvd drive would have been more attractive as an entertainment system. where was the next gen streets of rage and golden axe? the Sega name was tainted, and bad rumors inspired no confidence. if I was Sega.... I d build a very cheap console based on the dreamcast architecture, but with built in memory. a $100 - 150 price point with just Sega in house hits from all their history starting from the genesis and arcade. I d market it same as the edgy Sega scream style it was known for. I d try to get the old EA titles that still play nice today like; the strike and road rash series. populous, syndicate and c&c. it d be a very affordable retro console, as much fun as a 67 mustang. I d love to play these games but, I m not willing to find old genesis saturn consoles. at $100, it would be irresistible to get it all in one shot.

[@jagartharn6361]

The PS2 didnt kill the Dreamcast Sega did.

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

If Sega scraped the Sega CD, 32X and launch the Saturn on September 1995 for $199 or $299. Sega will be not lose money and lasted for the future generations. But instead overall the Saturn was 👎 and the Dreamcast was 👍 and but the problem the #1 biggest gunshot for the Dreamcast was the PS2

[@rainehappy7097]

Add that to PS2 being backwards compatible with PSone. Nintendo and Sega didn't have consoles with backwards compatibility at the time. Gamecube did eventually with the Game Boy Player but you had to buy it seperately. XBOX could play DVDs but you needed a fancy dodad and a remote.

[@LazyPirate8]

Universal or G4 should've brought this show back. Maybe g4 wouldn't have died again

[@ShortFuseFighting]

Project Justice....nuff said

[@DraculaXHunter101]

2:43, *"It did not have very good games."* Maybe it's because you prevented the best Japanese games from coming to America Mr. Stolar? 9:22, That is such a lie.

[@sebastiann.8088]

Yeah. Fuck Bernie Stolar

[@rainehappy7097]

SOJ was stubborn too. Kalinske left because he wasn't in control anymore. He helped the Genesis sell in the US whereas in Japan it didn't do so well. When SOJ took over in the Saturn era, it was the other way around. Dreamcast was like the best of SOJ but it sold better in the US. Kind of weird how that happened.

[@TheKeithvidz]

Sega's burned reputation doomed it. Screwed up previous consoles and gamers didn't forgive

[@adamhovey407]

TheKeithvidz this is my biggest problem with the Sega Saturn, it's not that the Saturn itself was bad, mind you, it's that the launch was a disaster, and it's because of that disastrous launch, that Dreamcast didn't achieve the popularity it should have had.

[@jacklazzaro9820]

PS2 doesn't match the graphics of the Dreamcast. Just compare Crazy Taxi on both formats.

[@AntonioJarquin]

That's a fool comparission, because "Crazy Taxi" was just a port. Take a look at graphics on "Metropolis Street Racer" and "Gran Turismo 3". Both exclusives games.

[@cf105cp]

Look at MGS2 and 3 alone, and then shut the fuck up. Those 2 games ALONE show how Powerful PS2 was.

[@rainehappy7097]

Soul Calibur.

[@mycomputergl0wsblu]

PS2 in every aspect was more impressive. You are blind and deaf if you think otherwise. I love the Dreamcast and enjoy mine very much. But facts are facts.

[@deathmachinezack]

@@mycomputergl0wsblu yoooo idk bro I'd say your about 97 percent right but ik for a fact some ps2 games kinda looked muddy but that could be more a title budget thing than a hardware thing

[@Bertha339]

The channel G4 has been discontinued since 2013 or 14

[@MrRick4191]

if i have my choice i pick the ps2 over the dreamcast every time

[@AgentMorgan2010]

Don't make me choose. I love them both.

[@nickolasecker9596]

Thanks Sony, for ruining the Dreamcast by including a DVD player with a game console. That's what we were all soooo bothered about, "I don't care if the games are sub par, I can wait a year or two for some good games to finally show up, so long as I can watch The Waterboy on DVD.

[@joypadbandit624]

Worked,didn't it? lol

[@adamhovey407]

Nickolas Ecker The Waterboy, seriously? It was Adam Sandler that did Sega in?

[@mattkillam2033]

Yeah cuz all the playstation games were so subpar

[@Victoria3232-j7o]

Nickolas Ecker Sony did nothing Sega Killed themselves.

[@AntonioJarquin]

Why don't you blame SEGA for not including it? xD

[@kezisthename]

rip Bernie