SpaceGazelle wrote:

Soul Calibur was quite a sight back in the day. It was the first time it felt like real arcade power at home.

That was the system seller for me. Bought it for Soul Calibur but found much to love as the games library grew.

PSO ate my life for a while, 1p per minute dial-up at a time. I couldn't play Quake III on Dreamcast at all, though: there was no option to invert the Y axis. Every game was me running around looking at the sky or staring at my feet.

Oh man, the dial-up bills with Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament!

g.man wrote:

Well this is quite a thing...



wasn't even aware of it's existence.

batshit mental

g.man

what the fuck

Keen for Dear Esther 16p deathmatch update then

Syph79 wrote:

I think I'll feel the same way about the Switch in 20 years.

Mmmmmm. Same.

My launch DC came from the Electronics Boutique in the St Enoch Centre in Glasgow. We traded in our PS1 and everything we had for it towards it, and walked away with the console, two controllers, one VMU, Sonic Adventure, and the promise of more games coming for Xmas from mum and dad not long after. I was 12.

I remember the fact that EB had special big DC-branded plastic bags that the bundle went in. I always thought, and still do, think wee details like that are cool. I remember being mad at my dad cos he wouldn't let me carry it. He was tight as anything and thought we'd get mugged on the way to the car, he was just protecting his mild investment. Silly thinking of it now tbh..

Disaster did in fact strike when we got home and set it up. Sonic Adventure, the game I'd looked forward to for so long, the game that I'd poured over every blurry screenshot of for the past nine months, the realisation of the long held dream I had of "what if sonic was like, super shiny and stuff", the new entry in my fave series (was definitely a dude with attitude growing up)... Didn't work. It crashed every time going from the main hub to the second area, so all we had was the first level, and it's charms worn off quickly.

So the next day we were back in, and got our replacement. The major difference about this trip was dad was with us. Mum was not. My dad always kept a bit of dough hush hush and we knew it, so we got on and on and on at him to buy us another game and we'd just keep it secret from mum. If she came in our room when we were playing it, we'd just say it was a demo. She didn't know any better.

So we chose Dynamite Cop. And proceeded to complete it in half an hour. There were no extras.

The following weekend we were at the Forge Shopping Centre in the east end of town, and took that back and chose Power Stone. I remember vividly listening to the Rangers game on the radio whilst I read the instructions in the back of my dad's Volvo and they were in the retail park shopping somewhere. And the love affair began..

I think I got Soul Calibur that Xmas.

Anyway....

Lovely Gav, I enjoy reading recollections like that!

Liv, Powerstone got a release on the PSP randomly so the code must exist somewhere. A remaster would be excellent although for the record I preferred 1 to 2 even though 2 had 4 player shenanigans I found the arenas were not as engaging.

That is a game I bought but could not get any of my mates into and as a result left me playing the single player which was not up to much. Looking back the DC really could have benefitted with a dual analogue to be honest! Playing these now the control feels so alien!

Eric wrote:

That is a game I bought but could not get any of my mates into and as a result left me playing the single player which was not up to much. Looking back the DC really could have benefitted with a dual analogue to be honest! Playing these now the control feels so alien!

All I ever played was single player, but it was stupid addictive. Also beat CoD to a kill confirmed play mode by several years.

Had forgotten about the cack handed controls. Movement on the face buttons and look on the left analogue stick. How I managed that but not Quake III I'll never know.

Whilst we're on the topic:

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/11/feature_20_dreamcast_games_wed_love_to_see_on_nintendo_switch

Keep the DC chat going please but just noted this on eBay:
It is immaculate:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/113392571580

DC was a standard setting groundbreaking console. You had to be there....

It's no even a 2-player game. And their times up. Fucking amateurs.

I loved my DC.  Just had that usung hero vibe about it.

F355 with a wheel was amazing.
MSR with it's radio tracks and maps was brilliant.  I spent some time comparing it to a London A-Z.
Quake III with mouse and joypad (preferred the dpad over the keyboard for movement)

And the biggest thing for me - it allowed 50/60Hz options.  No more importing consoles.

Originally had absolutely no knowledge or interest in the Dreamcast before getting one, but it went on to become one of my absolute favourites. 

It was the run-up to Christmas 2001, and as my brother and I were staunch N64 boys we had been devouring every little morsel of news about the Gamecube. It had released in Japan in September, but the UK wasn't set to see it until the following summer. Our local indie shop, the sadly-departed CA Games, carried chipped NTSC 'cubes and ran enticing attract screen demos from them on one of their tellies all day long. We were desperately begging our mum to consider getting us one rather than wait the extra 8 months for it to release here, which would have been a ridiculous cash outlay in hindsight, but you don't really have a concept of that when you're 11.

Come Christmas day, we went to unwrap the big boxes in a giddy frenzy, only to be greeted with a brand new Dreamcast alongside a pair of controllers, VMUs, and four games (Virtua Fighter 3, Worms World Party, Sonic Adventure 2, and Phantasy Star Online). After patiently explaining that there was no chance she was dropping that much money on an import Gamecube, she told us to plug in and enjoy this instead. 

What an amazing Christmas that was. And I'm fairly sure the phone bills I ran up playing Phantasy Star Online in the following months dwarfed the price she would have paid for that Gamecube many times over. Woops.

Fightmans were awesome on it too Capcom, Namco and SNK showed it some real love.