Skies of Arcadia? GC?
Ahhhhhh 2001. The year I bought my PS2 specifically to play Harvest Moon Back to Nature. Good call on my part.
Ahhhhh 2001. The year the Dreamcast died. 
gamingeek said:Skies of Arcadia? GC?
Yup. They have the back-cover ad as well.
Ravenprose said:Ahhhhh 2001. The year the Dreamcast died.
That was very sad, I still ove DC!
_Bear said:That was very sad, I still ove DC!
I was playing mine yesterday, NBA2K1 -- it still holds up.
How sad is that? I also bought a Dreamcast in 2001 and completely forgot about it. I picked up the Dreamcast Sonic bundle that came with Sonic Adventure, Sonic Shuffle (worst party game of all time) and a demo of the first level of Sonic Adventure 2. I just never got into the console. Never understood the love it received. And I loathed that controller.
robio said:How sad is that? I also bought a Dreamcast in 2001 and completely forgot about it. I picked up the Dreamcast Sonic bundle that came with Sonic Adventure, Sonic Shuffle (worst party game of all time) and a demo of the first level of Sonic Adventure 2. I just never got into the console. Never understood the love it received. And I loathed that controller.
You obviously suck, Phantom Hourglass lover! 
Ravenprose said:robio said:How sad is that? I also bought a Dreamcast in 2001 and completely forgot about it. I picked up the Dreamcast Sonic bundle that came with Sonic Adventure, Sonic Shuffle (worst party game of all time) and a demo of the first level of Sonic Adventure 2. I just never got into the console. Never understood the love it received. And I loathed that controller.
You obviously suck, Phantom Hourglass lover!
Robio... I thought I knew ye.
But since your first exposure was Sonic Shuffle (whic is the second worst party game ever, after Hail to the Chimp), I guess I can't blame you. First game I played was Soul Calibur, so as a result I was a Dreamcast fan.
aspro said:Ravenprose said:robio said:How sad is that? I also bought a Dreamcast in 2001 and completely forgot about it. I picked up the Dreamcast Sonic bundle that came with Sonic Adventure, Sonic Shuffle (worst party game of all time) and a demo of the first level of Sonic Adventure 2. I just never got into the console. Never understood the love it received. And I loathed that controller.
You obviously suck, Phantom Hourglass lover!
Robio... I thought I knew ye.But since your first exposure was Sonic Shuffle (whic is the second worst party game ever, after Hail to the Chimp), I guess I can't blame you. First game I played was Soul Calibur, so as a result I was a Dreamcast fan.
When I bought the DC I got the Street Fighter 3 combo game that had SF3 and SF3 2nd Impact and Crazy Taxi. Both were good games, and Crazy Taxi still is one of my favorite games of all time, but every time I rented a game for it I managed to pick one of the pure crap games like Record of the Lodess War or somthing like that. Plus I hated that controller. Just did not work for me.
aspro said:gamingeek said:Skies of Arcadia? GC?
Yup. They have the back-cover ad as well.
In January 2001? I would've sworn that would be for the Dreamcast.
travo said:aspro said:gamingeek said:Skies of Arcadia? GC?
Yup. They have the back-cover ad as well.In January 2001? I would've sworn that would be for the Dreamcast.
SORRY. YES DC, NOT GC! Dreamcast!!!
The Dreamcast was magical. It was on the cutting edge of online play, I felt like a pioneer of console gaming playing the first ever online football game. Playing with my friend almost every single night PSO, meeting up with the same gang and going on our quest for the best rares. The graphics were incredible. Resident Evil Code Veronica, so beautiful. Playing Shenmue which is so unlike anything else that I will always remember the first time I played it. Falling in love with 3D Sonic.
I miss that Sega.
Dvader said:The Dreamcast was magical. It was on the cutting edge of online play, I felt like a pioneer of console gaming playing the first ever online football game. Playing with my friend almost every single night PSO, meeting up with the same gang and going on our quest for the best rares. The graphics were incredible. Resident Evil Code Veronica, so beautiful. Playing Shenmue which is so unlike anything else that I will always remember the first time I played it. Falling in love with 3D Sonic.
I miss that Sega.
I never owned one. I was still a 'Tendo fanboy back then.
I remember where I was when I first saw F-Zero, Soul Calibur, Halo and Gears of War. All of those games were announcements of the arrival of the "next generation", but none of them are seared in my memory like when I saw Soul Calibur. I think that was the first time it came over me that "the arcades are dead". And they were.
I remember watching a NBA game play on the Dreamcast at a Best Buy and being so impressed with the individual people in the crowd.
aspro said:I remember where I was when I first saw F-Zero, Soul Calibur, Halo and Gears of War. All of those games were announcements of the arrival of the "next generation", but none of them are seared in my memory like when I saw Soul Calibur. I think that was the first time it came over me that "the arcades are dead". And they were.
Yup. Soul Calibur and NFL 2K were the ones to blow my mind. I still maintain that PS1/N64 to DC has been the last major graphical leap. I dont feel like PS2 to PS3 was as dramatic, that felt more like a refinement.
Dvader said:aspro said:I remember where I was when I first saw F-Zero, Soul Calibur, Halo and Gears of War. All of those games were announcements of the arrival of the "next generation", but none of them are seared in my memory like when I saw Soul Calibur. I think that was the first time it came over me that "the arcades are dead". And they were.
Yup. Soul Calibur and NFL 2K were the ones to blow my mind. I still maintain that PS1/N64 to DC has been the last major graphical leap. I dont feel like PS2 to PS3 was as dramatic, that felt more like a refinement.
I certainly agree. No more blocky heads.
Dreamcast is exremely overrated.
Saturn > Dreamcast. Search your feeling, you know it to be true.
Reading an old Electronic Gaming Monthly last night. Some cool excerpts:
(Pictured below, Jay Allard before he became Micheal Stipe)
(Prior to the XB reveal EGM talks to Jay Allard, a balding chubby man in business casual, and Seamus Blackley at Microsoft) :
"...there's on part of the tech package...the hard drive, that harbinger of all things PC. Just the thought of it conjures up... system crashes. No Problem, Blackley promises -- the Xbox won't crash. [What about] game patches that have to be downloaded and installed to fix bugs? "No deal, Blackley is quick to add, "If a patch comes through in a game proposal," he says, "we send out the nuclear weapons".
Some of the Games reviewed in this issue: (Holy Shit)
Jet Grind Radio, Metropolis Street Racer, NBA2K1, Samba de Amigo, Skies of Arcadia (Game of the Month), Shenmue, Tonh Hawk Pro Skater 2, Driver 2, Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, Timesplitters, Unreal Tournament, Pokemon Gold and Silver.
There is a small ad for Ogre Battle 64 for the N64 for $56.95.
In their 50 things to keep an eye on there is this section about "WAP":
"...short for "Wireless Application Protocol," WAP is a technology that allows you to access the internet, use applications, and even play games on your cell phone. ...[it] has already been embraced in both Japan and Europe where the gaming side of things has been extremely influential. A large number of publishers already have plans to build WAP games networks, and there are even plans afoot to see many Game Boy games converted to the system. You'll just point your cell phone at the appropriate server, download the game, and get charged for it through your cellular bill."
SEGA ads EVERYWHERE including a 3 page spread that on the first pages says "Two Words" and on the second and third page say "Shenmue" and "Dreamcast".
An editorial by John Davison about the newly announced re-boot of the Twisted Metal Franchise titled "What's Old is New Again". (Yes this is ten years ago).