The Sega Dreamcast - Review - Game Sack

Episode 52 - This is all about the Sega Dreamcast! The Dreamcast rules!
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[@GameSack]

The Dreamcast launch was actually the biggest launch ever at the time. Consumers are VERY forgiving. Otherwise the XBox 360 wouldn't be doing very well and the PS3 would have fizzled out as well after they had everyone's credit cards stolen. That's a lot worse than making a 32X or a Saturn. So the 32X and Saturn and Sega CD (seriously? It actually did very well) killing Sega due to lack of consumer interest is an urban legend at best. Sega's inept management and spending practices killed Sega.

[@themysticmungis2262]

The saturn sold extremely poorly and the dreamcast sold even less. The dreamcast had a huge launch but only in the states, and purely cause the console was the most powerful at the time, and no one gave a shit afterwards cause the dreamcast had barely any big video games outside of shenmue, sonic and code veronica. People knew that ps2 would have way bigger and better titles and that the other more advanced consoles were on the way.

[@easyparts-fj7mm]

This is a huge disappointment for Sega even the TurboGrafx 16 is better than the Dreamcast

[@franciscojr.millan2102]

Please... Would love a Dreamcast Part 2 Episode

[@packpock4369]

Are you kidding about Ikaruga you guys obviously aren't shooter fans. The complaining you had about the mechanics it what made it special. Graphics are clean and sharp, it's one one of the most iconic shooter's of the industry. I know you have your own opinions but I haven't heard anyone really complain that much about the game.

[@tomcook3860]

Great video.

[@iPlaySEGA]

Believe it or not, the SEGA Dreamcast was a KILLER System... But the world was not ready in 1998 for so much AWESOMENESS... :-(

[@sideswipe1261]

iPlaySEGA Amen. Though SOA chose to ruin most opportunities they should have grabbed, released the broadband adapter in US, the mouse for the die-hard “mouse/keyboard” fans. Dreamcast is still the best console to date. SEGA was the Master of Arcade fun at home. Compare “Shinobi” Arcade to Shinobi Master System; aside from the SMS giving you a life bar, and the obvious difference in graphics, it played the same as Arcade, same levels, enemies, attacks. Beautiful! Game company Tengen found a way to get their very ugly, very illegal ports of Shinobi and Afterburner to the NES. They looked like Atari 5200/7800 games.

[@BrineyBat]

You are right and the Dreamcast was the best thing

[@PALversusNTSC1]

still one of the best console ever made. ps im not a sega fan

[@popespalace823]

@@nerdman67 Because the ps2 played DVD's and the original Xbox was a powerful beast. I can see why they outsold the Dreamcast.

[@keymaster2024]

Sony ruled the industry and still does to this day in 2020.

[@Supersayainpikmin]

"Confidential Mission is the closest you're gonna get to Virtua Cop on the Dreamcast" Except you know... Virtua Cop 2.

[@dodgykebaab]

And Sega didn’t make a gun, except that they did!

[@thomastuthill5276]

@@dodgykebaab r

[@redjed100]

@KevinPike In Japan only.

[@redjed100]

@@dodgykebaab They didn’t release it in America due to the launch happening so close to Columbine.

[@Mephianse81]

More like a huge impact in my pants when I saw Soul Calibur for the first time.

[@MikeyMUnited]

Can't believe they didn't mention NFL Blitz 2000. That was amazing on the DC.

[@Sonnymac81]

Man Blitz and the MLB counterpart Slugfest were insanely fun to play against my friends. Shame both franchises died.

[@The-Fishkeeper]

It's absolutely incredible how many amazing games this thing has despite only been on the market for a little over 2 years. It's library can stand toe to toe with the other 6th gen consoles.

[@themysticmungis2262]

Most of the good games on dreamcast were arcade ports, and the other 6th gen consoles had games that pushed the boundaries for what could be done. It was very clear why no one wanted a dreamcast

[@Iliek]

@@themysticmungis2262 Both of your statements are in fact opinions.

[@themysticmungis2262]

@@Iliek it is not an opinion when I say that most dreamcast games were arcade games. That is a fact, most of them were deliberately made that way to prove how powerful the system was and that it could match the arcades in terms of graphical power. Sony on the other hand had a different mission statement and had moved on from the arcades, and so had everyone else. That’s why the dreamcast failed

[@Callieforniiaa]

@@themysticmungis2262 yeah this guy is Lowkey right. I mean Sega is a mostly arcade type of company. They did put mostly arcade games on it to show power. I had a Dreamcast in 2020. It was cool and all but I sold it and now am just emulating It on PC. But Dreamcast still go for allot today tbh cause they didn’t sell allot of them.

[@angrymobsters1599]

@@Iliek How is it an opinion of what he said is actually factual. Do some research and look up the library ffs lmao. Let's say it was not a fact though. His opinion is just as much respectable as the original posts "opinion"

[@MizfitZer0]

1:25 I love the way he just throws that N64 so perfectly behind him to go behind the sofa XD

[@diablerietandino1941]

Not even a mention of Metropolis street racer? It was one of the dreamcast's best games and had an amazing soundtrack for the time, heck I still listen to some of the songs every now and then.

[@Stu_Kennedy]

Yes. Thank you. I loved this game. Collecting the Kudos was a daily requirement for me.

[@RetroGamerBB]

long live the dreamcast! you can play online still, if you look in the right places.

[@user-bc3gt4nv9w]

😉😅

[@N0b0dyh3re]

*cough* DreamPi *cough*

[@asleeperj]

Oh, and my PS3 and XBOX 360 are both dead, but my dreamcast still plays Soul Caliber, and Sonic. It's more robust than those. It's one of the reasons I wont buy launch systems anymore. I bought a launch dreamcast that still works today, but both my launch 360 and PS3 died on me.

[@VonTaylan]

Bla bla bla.

[@zpushy633sora8]

The PS3 and Xbox 360 both sucks all because of the Red Ring of Death and the Yellow Light of Death which both can be Pain in the Ass 2 of the Worst Consoles ever Created I got the Xbox 360 Holiday Bundle 2009 that came with a Copy of Lego Batman and Pure Christmas Day 2009 Unfortunately my 360 Broke Down November 2013 (Right when the Xbox One was getting ready to Launch) so I was pissed off about that Aw Well!!!!!!!!

[@littymj7599]

The Xbox 360 s and ps3 slim are better versions without the red or yellow ring of death

[@gavinisdie]

I Got a Neat Launch Wii U, it Still Works Very Well

[@ProtoMario]

Dreamcast still sold more the PS VITA...

[@RoxasFromPoss]

Old school vs New school? K.O.! OLD SCHOOL WINS! PERFECT! *cough* street fighters

[@ProtoMario]

sonic1934 Right

[@DallasTheGreat28]

sonic1934 street fighter.

[@roundduckkira]

It also sold more the Wii U.

[@RobinDeRycke]

What's up Proto didn't expect to see you here #MaverikArmy

[@OldManTheseDays]

I bought one at launch back in the day and ended up taking it back to the store. There was a card inside that was a "thank you for purchasing" kind of thing. It made me feel kind of guilty about taking it back- like I was letting down all the people that worked so hard to release it. I bought one again when GameStop was liquidating them for 50 bucks.

[@areasevenpro]

How could you forget Sega Bass Fishing?

[@hannahbell6793]

the 2d graphics on Dreamcast are freaking amazing its like neo geo on crack while also drinking a gallon of monster energy

[@ultimateman1234]

Too bad only a handful utilize the 240p mode. : /

[@wschippr1]

pjohnston Most used the 480p mode, so, it's works out fine, as Native 480p is better than native 240p.

[@wojiaobill]

hannah bell you look like a school teacher but talk like a 14-year-old boy

[@chrispacheco8590]

Yup, Last Hope?

[@popespalace823]

@@wojiaobill ok, incel.

[@xWindreaderx]

Some people love NES, Snes, Playstation, Turbo Grafx, Atari 2600, but I love the Dreamcast the most! By far my favorite console!

[@Kafuinga]

That Guy It was a dream machine.

[@TheHabitman]

+Sopa de Caracol Si tu quieres bailar?

[@Kafuinga]

TheHabitman Sopa de Caracol HEY! Watanegiconsu ~~~~

[@gavinisdie]

Not my Favorite but has a Lqrge Soft Spot, my Favorite System is the 3DS

[@jesot]

Loved my Dreamcast, but was never much into arcade games, so I wasn't exactly the market for what it did best. I really wish I could have gotten a follow up to PDS, a "real" Phantasy Star game, and a Shining Force IV, but PSO and the sports games were absolutely fantastic. The Dreamcast was a great piece of hardware that was just poorly managed.

[@GameSack]

Let's not forget the Genesis, the Master System, the Sega Sports Pad, Alex Kidd in Hi-Tech World, that one time an employee worked over 40 hours in a week and had to be paid overtime and everything else that Sega ever did.

[@segadreamcast6099]

My grinding sound wasn't that bad!

[@acekingdom5050]

Once I find you, I’ll buy you so I can play what I missed out on

[@bennyhaha66]

What a great classic episode, I still love my dreamcast!

[@Tuppoo94]

Ah, I wish I could go back in time in my current form and relive the era from about 1994 to 2004.

[@bartbonneau3242]

This brings back memories of having wings at the pub with some friends and a fellow Dreamcast owner shows up late. First thing out of his mouth is "I've got WORMS!". I knew what he was talking about, but everyone else was like WTF?

[@AmberShort]

I still have my Dreamcast. My first Sega console. Won't part with it. Still in the box too. I wonder if Joe or Dave remember Bleem.. I tried to play it on my hdtv and it doesn't look all that great.

[@ThatOldSchoolMagic]

this is late but.. get a VGA box or another box from the beharbros and then get an M-Classic. The games will look better than using the yellow cable.

[@lonreed9743]

Amber Short bleemcast, yes I still have my dedicated vmu for my Dreamcast. Only had 3 PS to DC games at the time. I had the Tekken and Gran Turismo games. Loved it!

[@jimmiediedtoday]

Do you still have it?😂🙌

[@alessandropagano3254]

But it was the last

[@Callieforniiaa]

Lol just use retro arch with a PC and fly cast. That’s how I play Dreamcast games now. I sold my Dreamcast awhile ago. It was cool but I needed money and it took up space so

[@nak9953]

Great video! So awesome to see Dave and Joe prepared with awesome dialogue! Great chemistry between these two

[@leahl.416]

One of my greatest regrets in life was selling my Christmas gift copy of Marvel vs Capcom and the Official Agetec controller ;___; The Dreamcast was my first SEGA console. I was like "Darn, this thing is an awesome "arcade game" system!" which led me to going back in time and getting a Saturn. The Dreamcast was genuinely a good console. Unfortuately Only the Good Die Young. RIP!

[@donotresussitate]

This just snuck in my auto play feed. Got me reminiscing about the early days of this channel.

[@exzisd]

As more years go past the Dreamcast has aged like fine wine. I think it was the best of it's generation in many aspects and could have been even better if SEGA was able to properly market it. Aside from being ahead of the curve it had so many great looking 3D games that ran at 60FPS. It's a well designed system with a creative somewhat unconventional control. Although it's library is small it's a top tier retro console. I remember seeing it at the game stores when it came out but by the time I saved up money to get a new console it wasn't for sale anymore and I only knew 1 friend who had one. Years later my church Youth Pastor gave me one with a bunch of games for free! Later in life, down on my luck, I sold it for booze. One of my bigger regrets in life when it comes to gaming trades.

[@stradlemonkey444]

It's really sad and pathetic that other companies sat around and waited to see what SEGA would pioneer next, then at the last moment beef up their consoles slightly, rip-off SEGA's ideas, add a chip to their box and beat them in the end. First console I know of with built in net access, keyboard, mouse, mega online multiplayer (Phantasy Star Online) that actually *translated* instantly to 5 languages with global play. Still my favorite machine.

[@5thDragonDreamCaster]

Rountree's DIABEETUS is acting up, ignore him.

[@5thDragonDreamCaster]

The Dreamcast's downfall was largely the result of it not being able to play DVDs. The Gamecube came out a few years later when the price of DVD players had dropped, and even still, the PS2 outsold them all.

[@MrZarewna]

They could've made a Dreamcast 2.0 version which would've been a bit more powerful and maybe add some components competitors had. You have to fight, not just give up.

[@popespalace823]

That's what sega did to nintendo with the Genesis. It's also what basically every company does when releasing a game console.

[@chrisfern4699]

Pope's Palace No, Sega didn’t wait for Nintendo to release the SNES, the SNES came 2 years after the Genesis. If anything Nintendo had the opportunity to see what the genny was capable.

[@DrMcMoist]

Those were some terrific punches at the end. Are you a professional martial artist?

[@LiquidDIO]

There's literally a myriad reasons for Dreamcast's fail. Sega hemorrhaging money, them attempting to simultaneously support Genesis, Game Gear, Nomad, Saturn, Master System, 32x, Sega CD...that's a SHIT TON of hardware there. Secondly, while Sega thought ahead on many things, they ultimately failed to predict the popularity of ONE emergent technology at that time. DVDs. PS2's ability to playback DVD movies is the major reason Sega lost the Asian market first. Akihabara's game shops began being replaced by DVD movie shops during that time, and PS2s were far cheaper than dedicated DVD players. Their last move was the North American launch, but their mishandling of that, and Microsoft emerging into the console market pretty much spelled the end.

[@Prizrak-hv6qk]

How did Sega "mishandle" the most successful console launch in history (up to that time)?!? The launch was huge, with plenty of ads and hype. Just wish I had some money back then... In general, selling over 10 millions consoles in two years is great too. The console was selling more than well-enough for long-term support if Sega was in better financial shape. I mean, PC-Engine/TurboGrafx sold like 15 million unit in its life-time, but got support for 7 years. DC didn't have a DVD player, but was $100 and then $150 cheaper than the PS2 and plenty of us didn't give a rat's ass about DVDs.

[@Hellwyck]

*I HAVE A DREAMcast* - Martin Luther King jr.

[@Supersayainpikmin]

Did Sony assassinate him?

[@gavinisdie]

@matt take the L without debate

[@thisisnotachannel]

There's something about that sound of the laser eye grinding up and down that slotted rod that makes me feel... warm and fuzzy. "Whir, whir, click... gggrrrrnnd... whir, click".

[@odinsplaygrounds]

Love your console reviews. Informative and fun. Please do more! :) Cover them all!

[@decimatorentertainmentstud8523]

The Sega Dreamcast was a dream come true from the startup to the game itself

[@ethanworkman8828]

These graphics look insane for the time

[@serenemountain6769]

Yeah, it was a dream console XD

[@JamCooper]

If you think Dead or Alive, or Soul Caliber are mashers, you don't know how to play.

[@GameSack]

How can you tell me I don't know how to play when I constantly walk through the game? Against another human no game is a button masher, but single player? Definitely.

[@VonTaylan]

Game Sack WhoTF Playing fighting games single player !!!??? they must have no lives !!!!!!!!1

[@markkirby9621]

Game Sack You need to play doa on hard, the computer will counter nearly every move you perform, forcing you to learn the, deep for the time, counter timing system and thus making the game not a button masher, also you may play it by mashing buttons but a player who can counter and knows the high, low, middle attacks would destroy you. Any game is a masher if you don't know how to play.

[@davebladegun3009]

I play fighting games competitively, and I can confidently say that both the DOA and Soul Calibur series are simplistic and not super deep. You can pick up nearly any Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, or Tekken game and immediately feel its depth when you're playing against a skilled player, or even the CPU. DOA and Soul Calibur are definitely good games, but they do not have the same level of depth as many other series. Hell, there are wrestling games on the Nintendo 64 that have more depth than most of the DOA games.

[@Revz8bit]

Dave Bladegun , I always felt like DOA was about mind games than execution of long combos

[@TheRealDustinNunn]

My favorite Dreamcast game of all time: Sonic Adventure 1.

[@deriancantrell1362]

+Dustin Nunn it's my first game ever and I agree

[@jbway86]

+Derian Cantrell First game? You young?

[@TheLunaluxe]

+JB I'm younger that the system

[@deriancantrell1362]

so am i

[@jbway86]

damn yall young... But atleast you got the chance to play it and realize how much of a gem it was.

[@SonicBoone56]

The Sega Dreamcast is one of the greatest systems ever. I just don't have the best games for it, so I can't tell how great they are. Still, it has a much better variety of games than today. It's not full of first person shooters. Dreamcast forever.

[@marklechman2225]

I've watched this one probably 4 or 5 times now, mainly for Joe's excellent facial expressions.

[@DiamondOre24]

Finding this 6 years later, it's fine quality holds up, and is still very entertaining!

[@StalinBrosef]

Man this video is coming up on 10 years old. It's a retro retro game review.

[@real_armadillo]

Short life you say? I don't agree with you. The Dreamcast is still receiving new games and brand new accessories are really cheap. I recently got a brand new controller and a VMU for 10 bucks. Sega may have stopped the production a long time ago, but the community is keeping it alive. Without a doubt one of the best consoles of all time, if not the best.

[@Redrally]

The other thing that hurt the Dreamcast was its piss-poor marketing. Europe was pretty much a guaranteed Sega zone but the only TV adverts used for the Dreamcast showed off its ability to send emails and play online. I was 11 at the time and I truly did not understand the point of online gaming, especially online gaming with dial-up! So the entire time the Dreamcast was out, I had no clue what games it had, apart from Soul Calibur (and some Sonic game of some sort). If Sega had bothered to advertise ITS GAMES then it would not have slumped so poorly. On the plus side, Sega's model of encouraging 2nd party developers had an influence on Sony's relations with their 1st parties...

[@Lastcastor]

How so?

[@Redrally]

If you're talking about the 2nd parties under Sega, well basically they were called 2nd parties in the sense that they were 1st party studios, but they were given enough freedom and support so that they could behave like independent 3rd party studios. This is how the majority of 1st parties are treated by Sony today.

[@Lastcastor]

Thanks for that

[@BrySkye]

I wouldn't go quite that far. By the time the Dreamcast came out, Europe was no longer the Sega zone it had been in the 8 and 16-bit eras. While it was initially lose, by late 1996, the Playstation had not only overtaken the Saturn but was rapidly gaining momentum. To be quite honest, I seem to recall the Dreamcast being more heavily marketed in Europe than the Playstation and Nintendo 64. TV was never a good means of finding new games, that's why magazines were still essential in the UK, and the Official Dreamcast Magazine was pretty damn good.

[@DenverStarkey]

the deamcast is not what brought the dreamcast down , it was the previous decade of bad choices in hardware that sega made namely the 32x and the sega Saturn. dream cast was actually pulling sega out of that financial hole , but sadly it was "too little, too late" situation.

[@soluxx2759]

Great system! i was ten years old when my uncle first bouth this on launch and i remember being excited to want to play it, the little screen on the controller was what buzzzed me out the most, the games i remember playing were soul calibur and time cop, and there was one where your fighting bad guys on a ship, cant remember it but it was quite fun

[@Technolocaust]

Just got excited / motivated to fix and post my Dreamcast CMOS battery date and time video. Long Live the Dreamcast! thx Game Sack

[@OmgWtfLolFtwBrb]

How can you complain about the blood in Mortal Kombat, but give Soul Caliber grief for not putting in scars and blood when they get hit with the weapons?

[@hellknight03]

I will never regret telling my mom " Mom I don't want a ps2 I want a Sega Dreamcast..." one of the best decisions of my life.

[@AgentDanielCross]

I regret not being old enough to be aware of it. I get the feel of stepping inside a long abandoned ruin of an civilization.

[@benjaminzuniga4911]

@@AgentDanielCross an civilization

[@maurice482390]

the production value of this channel is excellent keep it up y'all

[@marakarthegreat]

12:42 "It's like a silver teletubby" I don't know why that's hilarious

[@midnightrocker7]

the graphics on the Dreamcast were so smooth, sharp, lush and colorful compared to the Playstation one, but the downfall of that console was the lack of games and it didnt have DVD technology like the Playstation 2 did when that came out a year and a half later in late 2000

[@BFKAnthony817]

Lack of games? 700 games in a 2 year life span is a lot for any system.

[@gaveroid418]

BFKAnthony817 That's (probably not how it went down due to scheduling but) approximately 2 new games released every day.

[@BFKAnthony817]

DejaVoodooDoll Amen brother, keep preaching it.

[@BFKAnthony817]

***** I been thinking that for years couldn't agree more.

[@Tornado1994]

DejaVoodooDoll Sony is trying to do the same thing with Yu Suzuki's Shenmue 3 Kickstarter. If you read the actual KS, you'll find out that everything Sony claimed last night about it is completely false. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3

[@Tksupreme]

The four-player deathmatch for Toy Commander is one of the best multiplayer experiences on the system! Some of the other good multiplayer games I enjoyed were Ooga Booga and Unreal Tournament. Also, if you ever do a Dreamcast part 2 episode, make sure you mention Rez!

[@homeygfunk7]

I recently discovered this channel, and I have to say that I'm impressed. I thought I was the only person still holding onto my Dreamcasts, thought the GameCube was underrated, liked Keith Courage, etc. I also have a near identical entertainment center as pictured at around 26:30. Mine has two drawers instead of cabinets near the bottom though, so... take that.

[@clouds5]

Soul Calibur blew me and my friends completely away back in the day :) Good memories.

[@futuredirector999]

The animations in that tennis game were really good

[@TheVanillatech]

futuredirector999 The Dreamcast was the first console to do what they ALL do now ... blatently rip off PC hardware and put it in a small plastic box. Thats why the Dreamcast wasted the competition from a technical point of view. If I remember it used a modified Pentium III 700Mhz CPU (fast as shit back in 1999/2000), a Power VR2 graphics chip (which was as fast as a VooDoo 2, but had better clarity) among other benefits. The DC was awesome.

[@matrixandraia]

I loved the Dreamcast - one of the greatest video game consoles of all time!! I was sorry that it went out so fast... Best Gundam style game ever came out for it too - Gundam Side Story 0079. I still have it. =)

[@SpenzOT]

They forgot to add in Techromancer. I loved that game. Basically a mech fighting game that was comprised of fighters representing almost every single major mecha anime ever made.

[@EcksGamer]

i would have to say Gundam DX is better

[@AngryCalvin]

I have owned about a couple dozen mech games and played them like crazy in the 90's. They vanished almost completely. This game looks much like the ones I played. Wish they would release it on Steam. I have been a PC gamer for almost 30 years now. Sega consoles always interested me and I regretted most not having a Dreamcast.

[@Night-Jester]

Love rewatching episodes guys. Your videos help me a lot in my own personal way. Hate seeing the dummy comments because people didnt pay attention but keep up the great work please guys.

[@therealkzero]

I remember my Dreamcast. I had imported it from a store online, that did COD orders. I remember ordering Sonic Adventure, Sega Rally, Blue Stinger, extra controller, keyboard and it came with 2 Famitsu magazines, one of which had strategies for Blue Stinger. I had MAJOR bragging rights since I had one, and the US version wasn't coming out for like 6-7 months or so, which made my room the absolute hot spot in my town. I eventually got the US version when it came out and I remember picking up House of the Dead, a light gun, and a gaming chair called the Intensor. Back then gaming chairs weren't common, so everyone that came over was blown away by the combination of HoTD, and every shot and scripted sequence rumbling their body and the floor (came with a subwoofer), Ready 2 Rumble's punches or plopping in a music CD and letting the bass roar. Dreamcast is an amazing console and i'm glad I still have mine and a decent library of games for it. Also, Power Stone for the win!

[@Hot1000Forever]

Hey guys just wanted to say that you got a great channel here and really need your own tv show

[@joemel2]

I loved my dreamcast, I even bought another recently on ebay. Sega did so many things right with the system and games, and so many things wrong with marketing. I think one of the biggest problems the dreamcast had was it lost out on hype for the ps2 and it couldn't play dvd's which was a big deal breaker for lots of people at the time with the ps2 being able to and not too far away. I applaud sega for trying to kickstart online console gaming, but they were ahead of their time taking the leap too early before most people had broadband and while it was still hard to have consistently stable online games. I wish it had been a bigger success and by now we were all proud owners of a dreamcast 3 or 4.........hell I'd still buy a dreamcast 2 if they relased it!

[@Sephirothxxxxxxxxxxx]

Dreamcast 2 would be tight as hell.

[@floggyWM1]

they released dreamcast too late ps1 and n64 been out for a while, and people were waiting for ps2 and gamecube

[@floggyWM1]

during that time i didnt know anybody who had saturn, and nobody really was talking about saturn.. it was nintendo and ps... dreamcast was also pricey i think, i think games was also expensive like 70-80 bucks... but my friend owned dreamcast and he was burning games of the internet, so i played a lot of dreamcast games at his house, but regardless of how good it was ps2 and gamecube was on its way and people were druling over ps2

[@joemel2]

Mr. Perfect It wasn't released to late, it was too early really. Sega were really making a big deal about the dreamcast's online capabilities, which really only the pc had at the time, but the console market wasn't ready for that leap yet as broadband was nnot the norm at that stage. Sony stole the jump on the other consoles in a more practical area with dvd's by being the only console that could also be a dvd player. That appealed to a lot of people who wouldn't need to buy 2 different media devices (parents) and dvd's were ready to go, unlike online gaming. It's a shame because the games were good, the system was good, sega's best since the megadrive, but really the damage was already done by the sega cd, 32x and Saturn!

[@floggyWM1]

thats the thing, nobody was checking out for saturn... i didnt know 1 person that owed one, it was either ps1 or n64... plus saturn was mad expensive.. by the time n64 and ps1 was around for 4 some years, only then dreamcast was released, it was much better in graphic but it had few games, they were expensive and easy to pirtate. one of my friends at that time owned dreamcast and he burned game after game, and then about 10 months after dreamcast was released sony announced that it was releasing ps2 soon, and then nintendo followed with gamecube. so at that time when dreamcast was way too expensive and ps2 on the way nobody really wanted dreamcast. ps2 and gamecube were more powerful than drreamcast, not by much but they were..

[@jamburg82]

no mention of Bleemcast! it was really cool to play Gran Turismo 2 on my Dreamcast in 480p!!!

[@vixtro]

Kudos for showing Blue Stinger in the montage, I was really hoping, but didn't expect it. Just one of those games that is blatantly not technically well made, but oozes charm and is great fun to play if you can get over it's technical flaws. One of my favourite games of all time for all of those reasons.

[@Corristo89]

Maybe the Dreamcast could've saved itself by supporting DVDs. At launch, the PS2 was one of the best and cheapest DVD players out there, just like when the PS3 came out with Blu-Ray support and ended up being one of the best and cheapest Blu-Ray players. In terms of processing power, the Dreamcast could easily compete with the Gamecube, PS2 und Xbox. But Sega had simply lost too much consumer faith, 3rd party support and money to keep the console on the market. Microsoft on the other hand had a full war chest and could force the Xbox on the market and keep it there, even if it was selling at a loss.

[@riDQlous441]

Corristo89 dreamcast was the weakest of 6th generation. xbox was a pc that can play games like morrowind which game cube couldnt play and ps2 really really couldnt play. and dreamcast is a lot weaker than ps2. the reason dramcast lost was because of terrible corporate decisions with cd and 32x

[@851852093114208513]

Well yeah, but Nintendo has fuckin Mario and Zelda and Smash Brothers and shit, you know, I mean they could dump the script to Bee movie, transcribe it to wing dings, and ship that on a disc as the next Zelda game, and people would still love it. The PS2 could also play PS1 games, which was a big sell to people who owned the first Playstation, and had loads of games. I mean, a lot of the games were shit, but because the library was SO RIDICULOUSLY HUGE, the small percentage of great games still ended up being a really impressive number. Sega, well... what Sega shared with other consoles, other consoles did better (nobody would question that the SNES versions of games were superior to the Genesis versions), and what was their Mario? Sonic? Even the good Sonic games aren't fun. Gotta go fast, good luck. You'll need it since you can only see about six character lengths in front of you at any given time.

[@shinkansenhype8694]

riDQlous And don't forget the sega saturn.

[@Captain_Neckbeard]

The Dreamcast was the last console that got me really excited. I was so happy the christmas I got one.

[@Tornado1994]

Jeremy Seal SEGA is trying to come back. recruit.sega.jp/fresh2016/vision/segainteractive/ They NEED your help. Sign the petition(s): www.thepetitionsite.com/123/691/697/to-the-new-management-of-sega-of-america-and-sega-holdingsltd/#sign

[@edtx82]

the extra scene at the end was great, lol. 'can i play too?' SLAP!

[@ThatGuy-km1lc]

I love toy commander and yalls dry humor on all episodes while i was stationed in Colorado for six years wish i meet yall dudes

[@cruls5026]

Dated graphics? I hate it when people complain about that yet they love their 16bit consoles... I would agree that 2d ages better than 3d though.

[@ultimateman1234]

You argued for and against your own point.

[@wschippr1]

pjohnston Lol I know, 2D game play has also generally aged better than early 3D gameplay.

[@dziltener]

Dreamcast isn't early 3D anymore, though.

[@PALversusNTSC1]

not agree, although i'm from the 2d era. there are alot of great 2d games, strange thing is, this is the 2d era where these games do best. indie games brought it to life, with alot more and better games then in the actual 2d eras. the concepts are way better now. buy still as an older hardcore gamer, ive always dreamed games would become super realistic, more emotional, you can more indentify with the caracters.

[@batmanmotherfucker]

9/9/19. It's still thinking.

[@Chotwink]

This channel is criminally underrated

[@GameSack]

Oh yeah I think Dave might even have one. It won't work with US copies of House of the Dead for some reason, but 3rd party light guns will.

[@rgerber]

The Dreamcast ist the most beautyful console ever. I also love the logo and the general direction. Too bad it died hard

[@techkingonline]

Still playing my dreamcast in 2021 and probably will next year too, and the year after that lol

[@zapbranigan8029]

Remember my best mate had one of these, playing soul caliber and code veronica are some of my fondest memories, it was mind blowing at the time to go from psone to this beast.

[@lacriaturadekentucky]

Imagine an alternate timeline where the Dreamcast succeeded and led to a sort of renaissance for Sega. That'd be crazy, but I'd be here for it.

[@Snotnarok]

The Dreamcast was always impressive back then and it wasn't just the visuals, so many games ran at 60FPS, that butter smooth speed that just made the games all the more visually jaw dropping. Something that consoles these days seem to forget and ignore. Every game that was ever eye catching for me on a next gen system through out my life was a game running at 60fps.

[@MrThunderwing]

Whatchu talikin' about at 14:48 Joe? There was an official Sega Dreamcast lightgun, I used to own one.

[@GameSack]

Not in the US there wasn't.

[@MrThunderwing]

+Game Sack Hmmm, another curious decision by Sega of America. I guess the argument about them not wanting bad publicity related to guns in the wake of the Columbine shootings is a valid one. But on the other hand the Dreamcast gun looks more like something out of Star Trek than GTA III. Wasn't this around the same time Bernie Stolar was trying to single handedly destroy Sega from the inside out?

[@homersams9015]

+MrThunderwing Bernie stoller was fired a day before the dreamcasts launch.

[@homersams9015]

+Homer sams *Stolar

[@Innocuils]

+MrThunderwing I had one as well, but it was an import gun for House of the Dead.

[@vintagetvandexciting]

one of my fav consules and i still own it since 2001

[@joedigger9919]

Man, you can always tell when people are not big unto fighting games when they say you only need to mash buttons. Though I am more of a 2d fighter fan I respect 3d fighters and Soul Calibur is not a button masher. Sure if you have 2 people that are not that good you can get away with it but if you play someone with even a bit of skill you will get your ass handed to you if you button mash.

[@GameSack]

In single player on the default difficulty, all you have to do is mash buttons to win. Therefore it's a button-masher. We rarely play in 2-player mode. We don't have friends over all the time like it seems everyone else does. Obviously no fighting game would be a button masher in two-player mode. That goes without saying.

[@joedigger9919]

+Game Sack That's true of a lot of fighters but really fighting games are meant to play with 2 players. And yea I know how against the cpu doing as such can get boring and old pretty fast. I will say I was more so meaning if you were fighting a human opponent. No hate at all meant to be slung your way or anything as I enjoy all your vids. I will say that, unless I just overlooked it, I'm surprised that you guys have yet to do a video on a Microsoft console. I mean doing one on the OG Xbox would be fun to see as there were some awesome games, like bloodwake, crimson skies, and mech assult, that many people don't know or forgot about because they didn't have sequels. Anyway, keep up the awesome work :-)

[@GameSack]

Joe Digger A good fighting game will keep a single player happy. I like the majority of the Street Fighters and KoFs for this reason. I much prefer playing pretty much any game in single player mode since I'm the furthest thing from a social butterfly. We'll et to the Xbox eventually.

[@851852093114208513]

That's sort of the problem with fighting games. Button mashing is sort of the dominant strategy for a lot of them until either you or the person you're fighting is good enough to counter it. I've never played a fighting game with friends where button mashing wasn't the strongest way to fight, because nobody got much better than they needed to be to beat the game. That frame-perfect shit professionals do isn't really realistic for most people

[@legbert123]

Well both of you guys could play each other, you wouldnt even need to leave the house.

[@metalbrainmextrememetalent6810]

Guilty gear was on Dreamcast? I had no idea.

[@ThatOldSchoolMagic]

Guilty Gear X

[@starpier]

Yes and it is the best 2D fighting game on the system. The only one which has real high definition textures on the DC as well.

[@barbequesque]

the jet set radio segment with dave being an MC is my favorite sketch, NAY, my favorite thing in all of game sack.

[@weeblbob233]

Enjoying this 30/08/2019. Great upload. Dreamcast was my first introduction to a console that the pc could burn games for. Still love it.

[@TheRosemontag]

Sega Dreamcast its still thinking.

[@devmiles]

so sad that this is sega's last released console.. sometimes i wish that sega was still among us in the console market. the dreamcast is a true piece of gem with a sick library of games .. and we know it was killed by the ps2. but man...so many great great games.. i have it hooked up to my sega blast city cabinet with a controller hack. remember powerstone, soul caliber, the epic rpg's, fighters .. i still enjoy all. i miss sega!

[@Tornado1994]

Ammer Reduron They are TRYING to come back. recruit.sega.jp/fresh2016/vision/segainteractive/ Sign the petition, there's another one embedded in: www.thepetitionsite.com/123/691/697/to-the-new-management-of-sega-of-america-and-sega-holdingsltd/#sign

[@TurpDotNet]

Just found your channel and I must say it is excellent! Subbed!

[@southernply22]

Capcom vs SNK 2 was my favorite game to play on the Dreamcast

[@Wair18]

I loved the dreamcast. It was pretty awesome for its time.

[@chaver28]

my dreamcast dont make no grinding disc noise lolz

[@asleeperj]

My did, then I slapped it. It stopped doing that afterwards. Never did it again.

[@josh87saa]

Julian lol...that's awesome....classic systems: have any problems, slam with fist and everything works again!

[@AltaryaDeFlammes1996]

josh87saa Game glitching? Not loading at all? Blowing it allways work EVEN IN CDs!!!!(no it doesn't, oh I miss cartidages...)

[@REPOMAN24722]

Mine also doesn't and I still have it.

[@PikaLink91]

Bought mine used, it doesn't have it, though I do get the beeeeeeeeep sound.

[@jan-eriksandli6221]

That intro is spot on how my experience were. The Nintendo 64 hype got me and I sold my PlayStation and bought an N64. As soon as I got my Dreamcast It showed me that my irritations about the graphics and sound were well-founded. My game shoop at the time lied and said that the cartridges had more potential than a cd space-wise with no loading. Now I believe Mario 64 is like 20+ megs, and the biggest cartridge ever was resident evil2 (700+megs). Didn't the NeoGeo have games that size btw?.

[@FandangoBatter]

I'll never forget 9/9/99 I loved the dreamcast. Picked it up at launch on a whim and it was one of my favorite consoles.

[@michaelwolfe9496]

The Dreamcast had some awesome 1st and 3rd person shooters such as Quake 3, Outtrigger, and Unreal Tournament. But if you want to play them, the mouse and keyboard are a must! Having them drastically improves the game play.

[@garethbraint]

Any chance of doing the Amiga cd32??

[@GameSack]

Not for a while, I've never even seen one in real life!

[@garethbraint]

That's a shame. It was an ok console back in the day but man did it have some rubbish games.

[@McDaniel77]

Awesome work, your videos are professionally done!

[@MustacheManx]

Love the Midori evil zone theme in the beginning up the video ! keep up the great work guys.

[@loganjorgensen]

Great look back guys. Dave old games have dated graphics, I wonder why that is? :P Yeah the controller was a weak spot, still confuses me to this day why they would replace the perfect Saturn D-pad with that hard angular cross. Also if they could have worked in something like the N64's 6 face buttons for FPS game control layout as Goldeneye did I think I would be playing FPS games rather than avoiding them on Dreamcast.

[@floggyWM1]

FPS always sucked to me on consoles,

[@BFKAnthony817]

Or you know, you could play them the way they were meant to be played with the official mouse and keyboard. Every FPS game supports them.

[@loganjorgensen]

BFKAnthony817 It was a nice option to have, superior option. ;) But I always look how far a system controller design succeeds for many genres by itself, the DC analog triggers are quite nice for racers, decent setup for 3rd person action, weak fighting game D-pad, and for FPS no real plan for it in the layout which I equate to Japanese influences IE. no FPS market. Additional money always goes towards more games preferably in the long run or more controllers for friends, 4 maybe lol. :)

[@GiordanDiodato]

Logan Jorgensen meh I like the DC controller more.

[@loganjorgensen]

Giordan Diodato Do tell, what do you like better? :)

[@moderatesunited]

Soul Calibre and Dead or Alive are not button mashers. You mash buttons and I'll win every time. Also Sega didn't give up. They were hemorrhaging money. PS2 was soon to be released. The Dreamcast was a huge success in America but failed to achieve sales success in Japan. Thus they lacked key support from Japanese developers. Also complicating things were decisions from EA and others that they had been burned in the past by the Saturn's poor sales in North America so they made no games for the Dreamcast. Nintendo was able to survive the failure of the N64 in Japan because of the success they had in North America. The Saturn for years outsold the N64 in Japan. Sega burned customers with the 32x, Sega CD and Saturn that made three failed systems in North America in a row. So even though the Dreamcast did well here Sega no longer had enough cash to battle Sony.

[@pontoontp]

Dead or Alive definitely was (and still is) a button masher. It's far too easy to do counters in doa. The only reason DOA franchise still lives is due to bewbs. The most technical and competitive 3D fighter is sega's virtua fighter series. Soul calibur was great but still had a few balance problems.(Unfortunately SC died with SC2 and now people just care about SC for boobs)

[@zembryoz]

Grene Launfal No way. The only reason you're finding counters easy in DOA2 is because you're playing against people with little skill who telegraph their moves. There are three levels of counter in DOA. Play against someone with some real skill.

[@lwispe]

Love my Dreamcast, especially since a friend gave me his console and entire game collection at no charge :P Gotta love that Powerstone! If anything I bet DC helped popularize CD burners and broadband internet for many gamers back in the early 2000's...

[@Sinn0100]

Jet Set Radio was the very first gsme to ever use cell shading in a game. I remember Jet Set being talked about by so many people and publications as being groundbreaking. It had an open feel to it and was drop dead georgeous when it came out. I had a Dreamcast on day one and remember bragging about how amazing it was to friends at the time. I literally got my first apartment the same week that the Dreamcast came out and having people over constantly playing it. When Jet Set Radio hit it was like something really clicked woth us. The music, gameplay, and graphics were just out of this world. We played Jet Set Radio, Soul Caliber, NFL2K, and Phantasy Star until the wheels feel off...even preferring the Dreamcast in many cases over the PS2. My roommate and I (both gamers with great jobs at the time...money simply did not matter) actually had multiple TV's setup in the livingroom for multiple games at once. It was like having our own arcade that only friends went to and it was great. This brings me back guys, thank you....oh man, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 on both the Dreamcast and PS2 (which was better battles).

[@CarlitoBandido]

I fucking love the dreamcast

[@CarlitoBandido]

For give my swearing

[@CarlitoBandido]

One of my first Successful hardware work was fixing the Dreamcast controller

[@courage1363]

Hey Game Sack there's a rumor going on that there is likely going to be a a Sega Dreamcast 2 in development.

[@stradlemonkey444]

Overall, nice job! I wish more games in the montage had more focal time but it happens. Do t quit! I'll be looking for the rest of your SEGA console/game reviews soon! Cheers! I've pushed "power" on my 360 about 5 times in 5 years. Dreamcast w/VGA box countless in the same span of time.

[@sideswipe1261]

Hey guys! Thanks for your videos! I’m watching your DC overview now! I wish you’d given Outtrigger more praise- or at least mention you CAN play 1st person with a tap of a button. As far as controls go, with all DC FPS games, map you’re controller like this (if possible). 1. Use the 4 buttons on the right for movement. 2. Analogue stick for aiming/looking. 3. Triggers to fire. 4. D-Pad for changing weapons/ switch from First to Third perspective and anything I forgot. I gotta say that it takes getting used to, swapping the sides of of the controller, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes 2nd nature. Apply the same mapping (if possible) to games like Outtrigger, Quake 3: Arena, Unreal Tournament, Fur Fighters, Spawn (if you chose to buy that Disc of Turds), Half Life- it’s real, was Gold status; ready to ship then suddenly dropped! available if you look hard enough, (as is Shenmue 2, English subtitles). I first encountered this controller flip-flop, using the action buttons AS a d-pad, in MDK2 (GREAT game that I suck at). The above configuration is the best for playing DC FPS’. I *hate* mouse & keyboard gaming. Absolutely *hate* it. But you have options!

[@Rogerioapsandrade]

The Dreamcast was a great console. I had to admit that I had more fun with the Nintendo 64, but there were some unique games on the Dreamcast that couldn´t be find anywhere. Too bad it had a short life.

[@Prizrak-hv6qk]

N64 was one of the worst consoles of all time, while Dreamcast was one of the best. Everything on N64 looks and plays like shit now. Many Dreamcast games still hold up.