How many of you have or had a Dreamcast at the same time? Probably most of you are around my age (21). When it came out, I just fooled my friends who owned one until I got my own Dreamcast console by trading my friend a copy of Metal Gear Solid 2 for his. Unfortunately, thanks to the innovation of exchanging games for cash, I immediately went to the nearest game store and sold it for $ 30. At the time, I didn’t realize the profound impact the Dreamcast had on the gaming world. and how, even after almost a decade, people enjoy playing the Dreamcast and its games.
I remember seeing NFL 2K on display at Toys R Us and being completely mesmerized. When I went to my friend’s house and watched him explore the world of Grandia II, I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. Dreamcast was the first next-gen console and it showed gamers a whole new level of graphics and gameplay not seen on previous consoles like the Nintendo 64 and Playstation. Zombies looked exactly how zombies should look in House of the Dead 2 and Skies of Arcadia took RPGs to new heights in terms of gameplay and graphics.
I still speculate today as to why the Dreamcast crashed and burned, starting strong during a year-long fight until the PS2 came and ended it. Despite the difference in hardware specs between the two consoles, it was difficult for me to find a discrepancy in the graphics between them.
Of course, there were many factors that contributed to the downfall of Dreamcasts, one was the reputation of its main rival, PlayStation 2. Gamers who already owned a PlayStation were steadfast in their loyalty to Sony and Sega’s attempts to persuade them were in vain. . Even many people at the time were predicting that Dreamcast would win the console war, as the PS2 games introduced when the console came out were pretty horrible, so their future was pretty uncertain.
Despite that, the Dreamcast legacy will live on; Nostalgic gamers still enjoy classics like Shenmue, Soul Calibur, and Sonic. Who knows? Maybe Sega will listen to the pleas of the players and come out with what everyone really wants, Dreamcast 2.
