SEGA DREAMCAST SPECIAL: The Extraneous Add-On Episode!! | GEEK CRITIQUE

It's been 20 years since 9/9/99, but UH OH, I already made an episode about the Dreamcast! What's a card-carrying old-school Sega fanboy to do!? Easy: Make ANOTHER video on the same subject, gushing over the hardware and accessories, and answering a few common questions about the original episode. This is the Dreamcast add-on!
This episode was originally made as a Patreon exclusive bonus episode, but I'm releasing it here on KZbin in celebration of the Dreamcast's birthday! I hope you all enjoy it!
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[@Yuli_Ban]

"In SErvice of GAmes" Ha! Good reference.

[@gluttonousmaximus9048]

@Ahmad and skeleton That's how SEGA got its name in the mid 20th Century. Look it up.

[@game_crasher5725]

I see waht you did there

[@lewatoaofair2522]

6:43 "Everything they did was in SErvice of GAmes." That's actually what "SEGA" stands for.

[@duffman18]

I thought you were joking but it's actually true. Also I didn't know till now they began in Hawaii, not Japan

[@tinyguy9398]

I immediately came to the comments section to see whether or not I was beaten to the punch to point that one out, lol 😅

[@kargaroc386]

And what *kind* of "SErvice"? Military service of course. Sega got its start selling the 40s equivalent of arcade games (pinball/slot machines/etc) to military bases during and in the immediate aftermath of WW2.

[@cancerstinks1]

8:08 you know, for awhile the GameCube was the most underrated console ever. But then everyone realized it’s greatness. Dreamcast now has the title

[@FletcherReedsRandomness]

Unfortunately, we won't live to see a 9/9/999.

[@ponyVOX2025]

Unless we figure out how to freeze ourselves

[@SegaDream131]

Puhshaw....if Rome can do it 2020 years ago it can happen at anytime really.....

[@ClaudioVarone3299]

But maybe.. a 9/9/(20)99...

[@SegaDream131]

@@ClaudioVarone3299 The real question is will we even know what a video game is by then....

[@nousername191]

@@ClaudioVarone3299 Hey we can make it. Maybe. Just 80 more years. Anybody feeling lucky?

[@MajoraZ]

I'd argue the Xbox 360 still retained the "Video game-console" look, actually, at least the OG 360.

[@CaveyMoth]

I'm not a fan of that smushed rounded look. It's like someone put too much weight on top of it, or fed it too many twinkies. I prefer the aesthetic of the wii. It's compact and simple.

[@SegaDream131]

@@CaveyMoth And an ungodly sumbitch to work on....

[@aheiiv]

@@CaveyMoth never liked wii's design, there's definitely something unappealing about it

[@toooydoeur]

@@aheiiv nah

[@sedme0]

I'd argue the same for the PS3 and the PS5.

[@teslavoltagames3208]

It was also massive debt because of the Saturn, 32X, and the CD. It put Dreamcast DOA. They weren't solvent.

[@nousername191]

Jesus, 20 years already? Dad was right, Time always flies quicker than you think.

[@CaveyMoth]

I don't even think, and time is still flying by.

[@xboxice2005]

yeah i cant believe as well :(

[@VJEsper]

Seems like yesterday

[@saricubra2867]

Sonic Adventure is 20 years old too, still an unique good game to this day... on the dreamcast, not broken DX.

[@hectorcollazo8845]

20 years ago. Damn. We grew up too fast. 😞 Most of us millenials are now in our late 20s to mid 30s.

[@orjnad641]

I am so glad I finally got a Dreamcast a few months ago! One of my favorite memories as a child was going to my cousin's house and watching him and my uncle play this cool looking game called Sonic Adventure on this thing called a Dreamcast... It blew the GameBoy and N64 I had out of the water!

[@videoxxstudio]

I've played every Sonic stage in Sonic Adventure a couple of hours ago for it's 20th anniversery

[@saricubra2867]

I'm playing the entire game on PC with Dreamcast Conversion Mod, still an unique and good game to this day (only if the DX port doesn't exist).

[@ShadowStarkiller]

God, I remember just how wonderful that DC controller felt in my hands the first time I held it. Thanks for this, Josh.

[@aortaplatinum]

I envy you. I fuckin HATE that piece of shit lol

[@justflavio]

Josh: Thank you for backing the channel Me: *sweats nervously*

[@waywardlaser]

Speaking of rumble, once you've felt HD rumble in the joycons or pro controller for Switch, you'll never want to go back.

[@PigeonLord21]

7:06 The fact that you used Gamecube as the visual example warms my heart. That console was all about games and nothing else.

[@mIRChele]

Piracy was just a lame excuse. If it was really it, that meant that many people would buy the console because of the free games. But the sales of the console itself were poor

[@papersonic9941]

While I won't feny that pirscy was not the main reason for thr console's failure, no third party is gonna publish their games on a console easy to pirate unless it has a massive install base.

[@Naedlus]

It really didn't help that the Dreamcast was put out as a competitor to the PS1, not as a competitor for the PS2.

[@darthgamer9861]

Most companies that develop hardware rely on software sales, so I absolutely think Piracy was a factor.

[@Real_Scott_Pilgrim]

@@darthgamer9861 if we're talking now, then yes, piracy would have murdered this console, but take all of this into account 1. It was 1999, CD burners were luxuries only those with cash to spare could afford 2. You couldn't just rip a GD-ROM, CD drives couldn't read them. you had to wait for a piracy group to buy the game, and rip it using a Dreamcast dev kit 3. You also had to wait for the group to manually modify the game to delete garbage data, and/or compress files to create a special CDI file that could actually fit on a CD 4. You had to wait for the CDI file to be uploaded, which took insanely long 5. You had to download the game, and considering the extremely slow speeds of the time, this could take several days. 6. You had to burn the game, which could take multiple attempts, since burning CDI files is, to this day, not as simple as burning PS1 BIN & CUE files or anything of the sort So, yes, piracy was a thing, but it wasn't until years later that burning Dreamcast games became trivial, doing this in 1999 would've required a lot of money and patience, and at that point most people would rather go and buy the real game

[@RossComputerGuy]

I was born the day after they discontinued the Dreamcast, mine is a 2001 model so wd're both a similar age.

[@someuntakenname1]

I've never had or played a Dreamcast, but your videos are quickly convincing me to do so.

[@seacliff217]

Having only getting into the console long after it's release, I'd recommended it. As far as retro gaming goes, it's pretty affordable. Hardware is about $50 second-hand, and while some games are super pricey... if you don't mind going into Grey area there are sellers on eBay and Esty that sell reprints of even the most expensive games for about $20. Just be careful of the disc laser, which can cost almost just as much as the console itself to have a professional repair it.

[@nousername191]

For me it was bad timing. My parents already were the kind that were suspicious of excessive gaming (they were ok with it for small play sessions like an hour or two tops and would rather see me running around, playing outside) and weren't rolling in money to burn on me. The Dreamcast's downward spiral was obvious by 2000 and when I saw one in a second hand store and remembered the Genesis I foolishly sold, I could not in good faith ask my parents to buy a console that looked like it would crash and be useless in two or three years. I clould barely get them to buy me a Gameboy Color to join in on the Pokemon craze.

[@oris.corrupt]

Buy one. You won't regret it. Also look into the GDEMU.

[@TripleSMoon]

Aw man, was that bit at 1:45 a Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie reference?

[@Mario60bore]

The dreamcast may have died in console market but it did phenomenal in the arcade market with the Naomi 1 and 2 wouldnt you agree?

[@GameplayandTalk]

Ahhh, I love these Dreamcast anniversaries. It seems like everyone gets in on the fun and releases videos about it. Regarding the piracy thing, I think how much of an impact it seemed to have is going to vary from person to person. For me personally, Dreamcast piracy seemed pretty rampant. Granted, I wasn't in the 7th grade at the time--I was a senior in high school and so access to newer tech like CD rewritable drives was probably more common. There was a guy in particular in my PC repair class that had one and he would provide pirated games to people. While I legitimately supported all the new releases I could, I even used his "services" once when the Dreamcast homebrew version of Quake was released (I probably gave him $10 for it, heh) and when the Smash Pack was hacked to allow you to fill up a disc with Genesis ROMs. CD rewritable drives indeed weren't super cheap at the time, but it didn't take many to have a visible effect on how people acquired their games. The software attach rate thing is interesting. You've got me thinking now in regards to it and I am beginning to wonder if the ridiculous amount of budget priced releases on the Dreamcast hurt more than it helped. You had the All-Stars lineup pretty early on, not to mention all those quality $20 Capcom (and some Agetec) releases at the end of its life. Eh, really, I think I'm stretching for Dreamcast failure excuses by this point, but your point in the video at least got the gears turning in my brain.

[@ballthatbounces626]

Honestly in some ways the dream cast was ahead of it's time. Looking back at it now though it's hard to bieleve.

[@setteplays]

I never cared for Sega consoles because I grew up with nintendo everywhere. But you're so passionate that it's pretty darn entertaining and compelling. I want a lot of Sega consoles now. They're so gimmicky and Toy-y, I LOVE it.

[@rowancooke7831]

Loved my Dreamcast. I was one of the only people in my friends group that had a Dreamcast. I loved the controller at the time and the interactive memory card. I highly doubt piracy was what destroyed the console, I agree, we didn’t, couldn’t obtain the tech at the time. I remember when my family first got the internet and then a year or so later, the Dreamcast I never really got to enjoy phantasy star online as I just didn’t have the internet speed. In addition, I remember downloading music off Shazam at the time(did try Napster). It was an interesting time for consoles. I remember I had never seen such smooth graphics at the time on the Dreamcast. Oh such good nostalgia reflecting on the Dreamcast. I wouldn’t buy another console until years later with my first job, in which I bought an Xbox.

[@fizzymilk_]

You have never sounded more like Fozzie Bear than in the VMU section, and I love it.

[@shannonbateswillis5022]

Also, are you looking forward to the Genesis Mini?

[@paulmaloney4387]

*Can we expect Banjo-Kazooie episodes?*

[@tehbootfulboy1173]

Paul Maloney were still paining to see a banjo-kazooie episode AND a Yooka-Laylee

[@justflavio]

Eventually, yes

[@kenzonhundredpower]

fuck Banjo-Kazooie

[@orneryoverwatch7031]

Just speaking for myself... the Dreamcast seemed like the type of system that you basically would've *never* heard of unless you were a hardcore Sega fan. That is how it worked for me. My sister and I had a family friend in his late 20's (my sister and I were in middle school at the time) who had just picked up a Dreamcast and was singing it's praises. He was so busy with work, however, that he didn't have much time to play it. As such... when my sister and I asked if we could borrow his Dreamcast (for a couple of *months* lol) he was like "okay sure, why not?". I remember I played Soul Calibur and Power Stone 2 religiously... and surprisingly... my sister finished Shenmue (that game looked SO boring to me haha). It was a great console... but my point is, had our family friend not owned the console... there was NO WAY I would've ever heard of it, as I was focused on all the news regarding Nintendo's Dolphin (aka Gamecube) at the time.

[@CaveyMoth]

4:35 Hol' up. There were more than 6 games for the Nintendo 64?

[@SegaDream131]

Yeah but they suck ass....

[@saricubra2867]

People played N64 at launch only for mario 64, as for the Dreamcast, SA1. I will get many mario fans triggered, i have more fun with SA1 today than Mario, if i want mario, i would play World or Galaxy, as for the rest of the 3D games: Banjo Kazooie.

[@SegaDream131]

@@saricubra2867 When I got my 64 I didnt have any games yet so I flew the controllers around like toy planes.....

[@saricubra2867]

@@SegaDream131 Well, the n64 controller is an alien spaceship.

[@SegaDream131]

@@saricubra2867 Exaclty what my 13 year old mind thought....

[@WaddleDee105]

I love how personal your Dreamcast retrospective videos are! Makes me really nostalgic.

[@SdudyoyO]

Genesis was my introduction to video games. Saturn was my introduction to 3D games. Dreamcast was my introduction to some of the best games I've ever played.

[@SynthetiThespis]

I got a dreamcast 10 years ago and my favorite gaming memories are from that time. I seriously yearn for another one now after seeing your video. Great stuff!

[@philatio1744]

So, you've never watched the first dreamcast video?

[@deathray252]

I’ve been playing plenty of dreamcast the past two days 😊 It was my first console, and what an introduction to gaming it was. My dad was a pirate so we had most of its library. I still have mine and return to it regularly!

[@mechajay3358]

The Dreamcast was the first Sega console I ever played. The memories I had with it were priceless. Happy 20th!

[@Brione30]

14:44 Are you seriously playing “We’re All Dudes” from Good Burger?! Amazing

[@GeekCritique]

It's basically the theme of the mid-late 90s in my mind.

[@Nintokis]

7:50 Okay dude, that was a slick transition, not gonna lie.

[@nowheretog0]

My first console I got with my own money back in 7th grade. It was crazy to me that no one at my school knew anything about it. But I would draw all the members of the GG's on my school notebooks and would skate around town with my Sony MD Walkman listening to the Jet Set Radio Soundtrack I grabbed off of Napster. It's a shame those times are behind us, but I appreciate the video! It took me back! Keep it up!

[@SplashtheOtter]

Don't think I didn't notice the Sega Hard Girls ED instrumental there in the background

[@NYCKZ360]

I feel like we have the same passion for the dreamcast. I'm 24 and I believe the dreamcast was the first video game console I ever saw. Along with Sonic Adventure 1 when I was 5. With ps1 being next.

[@zakvvv666]

It's unreal knowing a gaming youtuber I respect so much picked up the jump pack so close to where I live, especially with how hard it is to find other gamers in this area.

[@arlobo1]

I was asking myself yesterday if you were ever gonna upload those patreon exclusive videos to youtube, what a surprise

[@knicks2030]

This will blow your mind. I pre-ordered this on wait for it...wait for it...Amazon. I had it day one and it was the first system I got on day one. I loved my Sega Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure was mind-blowing back in the day.

[@mathewm6294]

Happy Birthday, Dreamcast!!! My favs were House of the Dead 2, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2, and Jet Grind Radio...

That soundtrack was really a killer. Great job man, kudos to you.

[@kurtownsj00]

Everyone my age in highschool when it came out who DIDN'T get one would almost always say: "Ehh I'm saving up for a PS2" The whole piracy thing was pretty late in the cycle, I didn't know anyone else who actually got their Utopia boot disk or whatever working reliably. ps- dualshock design still sucks. regardless of stick placement I hated the long throws with loose springs. I had the same clear green VMU, modded that one with an LED (that I see you have one of as well!)

[@propheinx2250]

Yes and no. The piracy meant that no 3rd party developers would make games for it. No 3rd party developers meant that the dreamcast couldn't turn it around. Consider ps4 and Xbox 1. Sony lost that console war initially, but over time became the superior. This was because of 3rd party developers making games for ps4 where Xbox was losing 3rd party developers. If ps4 was so easy to pirate that its system was cracked open within the 1st 2 months of existence, those 3rd party developers wouldn't have bothered with ps4 games. As a side note consider how the PC gets shitty port after shitty port. It's because PC is the king of game piracy. Why waste efforts on a good port when you're only gonna make half the sales at best. Let's stop pretending piracy doesn't effect the gaming market, when it's been shown multiple times that it does.

[@billywhitmore5784]

I've wanted to get a Dreamcast for a few months now, but made myself wait for the 20th anniversary of 9/9/99 to buy it.

[@MACZ2021]

I got an ad for the Sega Genesis classic console right before the video loaded. Thank you Sega!

[@noipoi5403]

Brand new TGC! Heck yeah!

[@samuelhamilton4437]

That PSO music triggers nostalgia overdrive.. thousands of hours playing that game when I was in my teens.

[@jacoblott1617]

I am leaving a comment. Partially because it says there are 419 comments, which i just cant allow for obvious reasons. The other bit is my thanks that i need to give you for another amazing video about my favorite console. There seems to be this common feeling among Dreamcast fans, which I can't quite put my finger on with words. For me, it feels like in another alternate reality parallel to ours, the dreamcast hung on long enough for its sheer merits to save it and Sega from the road they took in our reality, got to live out the lifespan it deserved with the hundreds more games that 4 or 5 more years would've brought us. Maybe 911 didnt happen there, i dunno, quite a rabbit trail. The dc had such a fun spirit to so much of its library, something ill forever return to it for. Woo!

[@jonathanfaber3291]

The other problem with the Dreamcast as DVD player idea (and this is built more on personal bias than hard evidence since I was scant weeks old by its discontinuation date) but while video gaming is fairly legit nowadays, I argue the late 90s and early 2000s was still a time when video games and their manufacturers were "weird things for nerds or other weird people". And it would also mean that Sega would have to get both their consoles and their games in fairly established tech/department stores rather than in videogame stores, which wasn't an impossible task, but you couldn't put a Dreamcast with the other gaming stuff (as marketing execs, and shelf-stockers would want) for simplicity, and also have it in a general Tech sector (which only Sega wants), because it makes restocking for said store more difficult. It'd just be easier for the store to leave it in a gaming section. Furthermore, I'm still fairly sure that it would have caused marketing problems, as the gaming crowd and the non-gaming crowd would probably get the wrong impressions- gamers would think The Dreamcast was primarily for nongamers, and I don't think nongamers would buy it "'cause it's a games console. Yknow, a toy, for children"

[@verficationaccount]

Love the style of this video, it seems like making it was as much fun as watching it!

[@chromatticxbl4341]

Love the keyblade in the background at 7:20

[@Yuli_Ban]

The design philosophy you're looking for to describe the Dreamcast is "Y2K Aesthetic"

[@snekladyrobin]

Y'know, the more I watch these geeky critiques, the more I want to also join the ranks of your Patreon backers. Especially after getting this glimpse of what bonuses await. But I just spent most of my money on a brand new Switch OLED that I might never have bought if your critiques hadn't also made me a Metroid fan and I also want to get and play Tropical Freeze after seeing your critique and agh- I think I'm rambling. Maybe I should give that whole job thing another shot.

[@GeekCritique]

No rush, TGC'll be here! And congrats on that OLED, Dread seems like it was MADE for it.

[@snekladyrobin]

I'm honestly lucky I managed to get that OLED in the first place. In the days after I managed to secure it, the availability dropped like a rock and the price shot up like a rocket, so I'm extra grateful for it.

[@shannonbateswillis5022]

Cool! Can’t wait to see more of your videos! Also, I still feel the same way about the PS vita, as you do about the Dreamcast! And, shout out to my favorite Southern Gamer!

[@caleb6755]

Vita user eh? Have you played Soul Sacrifice?

[@itsaharper3495]

OMG you used the music from the Masterpiece theatre on PBS! IDK if it's originally from something else, but that's the first thing I thought of.

[@Ucceah]

interresting tidbit: the saturn and dreamcast had the only gamepads, to this day, using magnetic hall effect sensors, to track the movement, making them impervious to wear. the centering mechanism was also designed to not be affected by any wear. the deampad's analog stick wasnt the greatest, but with a bit of lubrication, it easily outlived the pad's fire buttons, and still worked fine when the stick end was worn down mirror smooth ofter hundreds of hours.

[@P10NE3R1111]

All this Phantasy Star music is really tugging at my nostalgia. I might have to pull that out again. I admittedly never played the Dreamcast during its official life, but I do have a fondness for it. Especially since PSO came from it, even if I play that mainly on GC

[@tall_black_man4998]

The star trek analogy was just brilliant!!!

[@DoctorApotheosis]

Every time I catch a wrestling reference in these videos, it makes me happy.

[@tesslivv1523]

i owned a dreamcast in 2001, but i had a ps1, sega, and nes. my parents usually couldnt afford the newer consoles like the ps2 at that time, but ya we got a dreamcast pretty easy by 2001 and i just love looking at it, and the controller was cool. We didnt have any games but as a kid something about it really made me curious about it. Something special, I wish I was able to fully experience it I was only like 5

[@SalivatingSteve]

When the Dreamcast was still being supported, I had cable internet and a CD burner. BUT my family’s computer was a PowerMac G3. To burn Dreamcast games, the most common method involved using the Windows-only program Disc Juggler and it’s proprietary CDI images. I appreciate that the Dreamcast console itself was very small considering how powerful it was for the time.

[@michaelmanning9028]

Exactly, I couldn't burn a game in 2000, the earliest I was successful was 2009 or so and sega certainly didn't loose any money by that time

[@SegaDream131]

Bro, we were burning ps1 games for years before the DC came out, and as soon as I seen it had a play cd option I knew it was going to be simple.... GD-rom be damned.... In 2001 I was burning DVDs..... Made bank.....

[@michaelmanning9028]

@@SegaDream131 I'm not saying it didn't hurt sega, but you were the minority at that time for sure

[@SegaDream131]

@@michaelmanning9028 You have no idea....there was a time when(after producing proof of concept) carribean drug pushers in south Fl wanted my process.... They even showed me one of their cook houses with nothing but bath tubs where the chinese dudes make their methamphetamine.....they were pumping play dough makers like madmen, I used to think the guys making take out were quick.....just one of them guys had 1000 rolls made and drying in about 30 min.....insane....😲

[@SianaGearz]

The Dreamcast stick is most durable ever made besides Saturn 3D one. If you ever have an issue with it, you tear it down, wash it out and re-lubricate it with white lithium, it'll be great for another 10-20 years until next maintenance. It's best to place plastic parts (white transparent ones) into water for a day to prevent shrinkage, cracking and abrasion, since it's all polyamide, do this about once every 10 years. Massive, beefy return spring (because there is no potentiometer harness in the way), and it has contactless Hall effect sensing which instead of sensing indirect motion transmitted by flimsy arms, senses the true stick position. Not everyone likes the feel, but it's deliberate. There's a preload plate that changes vertical position depending on direction you're pressing the stick in, letting you know whether you're hitting the principle diagonals. It's also the reason the stick head is prone to turning a tiny bit. I think it's disadvantageous in hindsight, but for the time it was adequate, as people weren't necessarily used to full analogue control and needed a direction hint - i got super confused with a DualShock myself and could never quite push it straight on. Similarly, not having more buttons or a second stick is stupid in hindsight, it was adequate for the time. Funny thing, the second stick, extra buttons C Z and D are foreseen in the gamepad protocol, so if the console survived, a more versatile gamepad would have happened.

[@foorocker91]

Great video man. I love your style and have for years now! Keep it up. I was never a Dreamcast kid, I was young and still was on my N64 until about 2002, but you’ve made me care about this system and wish I owned one! Even though I’ve played most of the Dreamcast games on Xbox ha

[@JoshProdPixelHeart]

yes we are all fans of Sega Dreamcast and we ll continue to program and release games on this fantastic system

[@spartaninthebox9101]

Excellently worded analysis! I particularly enjoyed the bit about game systems looking like game systems. Speaking of, 9:52 ya gotta grab that Lightning Collection White Ranger helmet to round out your collection. Considering the quality of the Marvel helmets, I'm betting it's going to be pretty good.

[@brianriff8550]

What you mentioned here with game systems looking like video game consoles, it reminded me of why i want a PS5. It immediately impressed me for trying to do something besides look like a big black slab and i love it so much. its so sleek and curvy and pretty and i love its use of color. Gimme more game consoles that at least TRY to not feel like a gaming pc

[@Jordan3DS]

Once Tom's theme started, I was sold. Best Dreamcast video on KZbin!

[@firedrake110]

Who else is shook that the Dreamcast is 20 years old? My memory is like, "dude, it's only two or three console gens ago lol" and while that's true, consoles have a much longer lifespan nowadays. Oh, as an aside, my tie ratio is 7 for the dreamcast

[@Gcrab71989]

My father in law, who is far from tech savvy, had their entire dreamcast library on burned discs, I think it played a much bigger role than you think.

[@GNAWalker1992]

Happy 20th Anniversary Dreamcast. I remember the games.

[@DiegoPalestro]

happy birthday Dreamcast!

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

Happy 20th birthday, Dreamcast!! 🎉🎊🎂🎈🎀🎁🎇🎆

[@Billyblue98]

I still think the Dualshocks always remain the best of their generations, but considering Sega consoles came out before their *main* competitors three generations in a row they can be forgiven for being a bit behind the designs (except I do agree that having the extra two buttons is A-okay and I don't know why four face buttons became standard).

[@todesziege]

I guess Sony and Microsoft both using it and both refusing to ever update their controller designs while together absolutely dominating the past four generations did "help" to standardize it.

[@onetwo6039]

Wow. If sega did everything in service of games with all sorts peripherals than Nintendo and sega weren't so different.

[@kargaroc386]

To add to the dialup point given here: It would've taken a stupidly long time, yeah. But that 56K speed was the bleeding, ragged edge of the possible with dialup. In those days, I routinely got speeds closer to 43K or so. Lots of people still only got 33.6K. At 45K, that 42 hours becomes 53 hours. At 33.6K, it becomes over 70 hours! But, its even worse than that, *because:* It was also *unreliable!* Calls used to drop all the time, and that includes the call to your ISP. Pretty much every browser's download utility in that era would just stop downloading a file if the connection dropped, leaving you with half of a file, and no way to get the other half. There were download managers that *could* restart a file download from where it left off, which would make things better, but that's just yet another thing you would *need to know about.* And if they didn't know, they'd have to *start all over from the beginning!* For most people, if they started downloading a game, then they could earn enough money to buy the game legit *and* play it all the way through by the time they finish the download. And of course that's *if* they had a new computer with a CD burner.

[@daisukedoi9284]

Oh boy, exclusive videos.

[@epychan922]

enjoyed this video i grew up with the dreamcast but didn't get one till later

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

I agree that piracy wasn’t the main reason the Dreamcast died, but downloading games from the internet wasn’t how the Dreamcast piracy scene worked, instead the games were often distrusted via real people, you would contact a member of Echelon or at least someone involved with it who lived near you, and they would give you the CDs I’m person. Apparently a lot of these people would get jobs at game stores, rip the files, and then give away burned CDs to people who requested it on the BBS.

[@thedennysgrandslam7687]

I've been looking forward to this

[@SR-388]

Twice the pride, double the fall lol

[@polycube868]

15:11 that's a beautiful CRT.

[@elijahbradley704]

I got a sega genesis mini ad on this video. I am very happy

[@SNNetwork]

playing pso were some of the beat memories of my gaming life also unreal tourney w keyboard and mouse q3 arena

[@ced214]

I got it Christmas 99 lol nfl2k blew my mind, when it died I couldn't wrap my brain around it, literally everybody I knew had a Dreamcast

[@hansweiss469]

(I know this comment is late), but Happy Birthday Sega Dreamcast, and keep up the great work TGC.

[@Angel-jl7zv]

Man that phantasy star song so sweet

[@Zipzeolocke]

I love your heavy use of Ska music in your videos! I feel like that genre is not as popular as it should be, so underappreciated! Just like the Sega Dreamcast! It definitely wasn't my favorite system, and the PS2 was… But I did indeed still love the Dreamcast

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Rumble had to be toned down due to some lawsuits I think. I remember hearing such a reason but I don’t remember the exact source.

[@reddeath1117]

It's been a while since I've seen the last Dreamcast video but do you ever bring up the amazing fighting games the Dreamcast had?

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

1:08-YOU CAN DO THAT!?!?!?

[@Acheo_]

Every time I watch one of these videos, a stream of memories comes back to me. It may be completely unnecessary, but I’d like to recall my initial thoughts on the Dreamcast, as someone too young to really witness the end for themselves. I was only old enough to be playing GameCube games by the time I started playing games (age 4 or 5). But 2 or 3 years later, when I learned that the Sonic Adventure games on the GameCube were updated from this thing called a Dreamcast, a system that SEGA themselves made...I was intrigued...and was quickly surprised at what it was capable of. Online?! VMUs?! The thing seemed like it was from the future. But as I quickly learned, it was from a very distant past. To my younger self, the idea of a major game company just...not make game systems anymore...it was just foreign. I mean, the Crash of 1983, that experience, for you, myself, and many other people older than I am, didn’t have that feeling of a monumental change in the gaming landscape, since we weren’t there. That’s how I feel about the Dreamcast; Unlike many of those older than I, I’ll never quite understand what it was like for SEGA to be a main player in the hardware market. But here I am. Weirdly, I feel like I’ve gravitated stronger to SEGA in more recent years, and I feel like it’s because I was able to live those experiences and feelings of SEGA through videos, especially yours. They may have had a spot in my childhood, but that was in the era where Sonic Team made many games besides Sonic, and franchises like Monkey Ball were still getting regular releases. A lot of SEGA kind of disappeared as I got older, and only came back because of my curiosity browsing sites like KZbin. I found channels like yours, which were more than happy to feed that curiosity. I even bought a Saturn, as a twenty year-old in 2019. I just wanted to say that, if there are other people like myself floating around somewhere, then I think you and many others have definitely succeeded in keeping the Dreamcast, and those cherished memories of SEGA, alive.

[@spartansfan1026]

Ha, I recognized that Genesis rendition of the TNG theme right away... great game.

[@hectorcollazo8845]

Great video, Josh. Never owned a Dreamcast, but loved playing it nonetheless in stores. Btw, love your Power Rangers stuff. My jaw dropped when I saw your Time Force DVD, Red and Green Ranger helmets, and Saba. 😎

[@maddosshmillore]

To be honest I loved this video, Josh should do more hardware focus videos. I know that’s not he’s normal thing but it would still be cool

[@BlueTomorrows]

As someone who was born 4 years after this thing launched in North America, I can assure you I wasn't even the only 7th grader to play Dreamcast games. Obviously not on their intended platform but DC games none the lest, and more than just SA1 and 2

[@flamingsword3123]

I think that a neo geo episode would be great since terry is in smash

[@castwarrior8262]

I knew you wouldn't forget

[@stevep9177]

The VMU was basically the original "companion app", and the DC was the first to go online... So ahead of its time!

[@pittsburghlife32]

Oh man please make a critique of Samus returns already haha that would be amazing and have you thought about making any videos of the castlevania games similar to 2d Metroid I think you would enjoy those as well either way keep up the great videos