The Dreamcast Anniversary Project!

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

I already made a thread about this here:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... =1&t=15391

I figured that I would try to get the idea as much exposure as I can and do a crossover bump here in our most trafficked section, if anyone here has a Digg account and can post this up or is on good footing/in the know with some gaming news outlets please help out! I don't really post anywhere besides here on RacketBoy so I could use all the help and public support I can get!

Anyhow I'm trying to see if I can somehow get Google to honor the Dreamcast's 10th Anniversary by doing one of their famous logo changes like they do to acknowledge pop culture icons and holidays. I need to know how to get in touch with them and support from other Dreamcast fans on a large level would be a great example to show them the idea has support!

[Pookie]

I already made a thread about this here:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... =1&t=15391

I figured that I would try to get the idea as much exposure as I can and do a crossover bump here in our most trafficked section, if anyone here has a Digg account and can post this up or is on good footing/in the know with some gaming news outlets please help out! I don't really post anywhere besides here on RacketBoy so I could use all the help and public support I can get!

Anyhow I'm trying to see if I can somehow get Google to honor the Dreamcast's 10th Anniversary by doing one of their famous logo changes like they do to acknowledge pop culture icons and holidays. I need to know how to get in touch with them and support from other Dreamcast fans on a large level would be a great example to show them the idea has support!

You can't compare the Dreamcast to events that changed the course of human history! Plus, it is not really culturally relevant. I know you love it, but I did not accomplish anything like the NES.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

I already made a thread about this here:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... =1&t=15391

I figured that I would try to get the idea as much exposure as I can and do a crossover bump here in our most trafficked section, if anyone here has a Digg account and can post this up or is on good footing/in the know with some gaming news outlets please help out! I don't really post anywhere besides here on RacketBoy so I could use all the help and public support I can get!

Anyhow I'm trying to see if I can somehow get Google to honor the Dreamcast's 10th Anniversary by doing one of their famous logo changes like they do to acknowledge pop culture icons and holidays. I need to know how to get in touch with them and support from other Dreamcast fans on a large level would be a great example to show them the idea has support!

You can't compare the Dreamcast to events that changed the course of human history! Plus, it is not really culturally relevant. I know you love it, but I did not accomplish anything like the NES.

Bullshit, the DC was just as important as the NES, it gave us franchises that became gaming legends, interactive controllers via the VMU, our first taste of High Def. via VGA, a simplified way to game online at home without a PC, the ability to simply and easily browse the internet on the TV, arcade perfect home ports, hardware so easy to program for it defined how developers now look at machines and their code, GD-ROM's and expanded storage formats instead of the norm, a classy and minimalistic donsole design that looked humble but simultaneously radiated an aura of pure energy, a return to games focused primarily on fun, class and style all around.

It was just as important as the NES, just for different reasons that made it an equal icon in my eyes. The little gray toaster saved the industry, but later the little white box shot it into the future of what then could and now has become the new defining standard of gaming and it's interconnectivity.

EDIT: Fixed spelling.

[Pookie]

My question to you is, How is the Dreamcast culturally relevant? The Dreamcast is a small niche in the gaming community. Nintendo can be attributed to making video gaming part of pop culture, the Dreamcast never achieved anything close. Hell, there was nothing planned for the Genesis 20th anniversary, and that was a commercial success!

Look man, I love Sega and the Dreamcast, but you can't expect it to join the ranks of; Michael Jackson, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, James Dean, Ray Charles, Ted Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, the moon landing, our Independence, WW2, The Civil Rights Movement, Cloning, Mapping of the Human Genome, the Model-T, etc...

[dlmvii]

I already made a thread about this here:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... =1&t=15391

I figured that I would try to get the idea as much exposure as I can and do a crossover bump here in our most trafficked section, if anyone here has a Digg account and can post this up or is on good footing/in the know with some gaming news outlets please help out! I don't really post anywhere besides here on RacketBoy so I could use all the help and public support I can get!

Anyhow I'm trying to see if I can somehow get Google to honor the Dreamcast's 10th Anniversary by doing one of their famous logo changes like they do to acknowledge pop culture icons and holidays. I need to know how to get in touch with them and support from other Dreamcast fans on a large level would be a great example to show them the idea has support!

You can't compare the Dreamcast to events that changed the course of human history! Plus, it is not really culturally relevant. I know you love it, but I did not accomplish anything like the NES.

Bullshit, the DC was just as important as the NES, it gave us franchises that became gaming legends, interactive controllers via the VMU, our first taste of High Def. via VGA, a simplified way to game online at home without a PC, the ability to simply and easily browse the internet on the TV, arcade perfect home ports, hardware so easy to program for it defined how developers now look at machines and their code, GD-ROM's and expanded storage formats instead of the norm, a classy and minimalistic donsole design that looked humble but simultaneously radiated an aura of pure energy, a return to games focused primarily on fun, class and style all around.

It was just as important as the NES, just for different reasons that made it an equal icon in my eyes. The little gray toaster saved the industry, but later the little white box shot it into the future of what then could and now has become the new defining standard of gaming and it's interconnectivity.

EDIT: Fixed spelling.

While the Dreamcast may be appreciated by a (very small) subset of gamers, you cannot possibly suggest that it was as important to the public as the NES. The NES was a cultural phenomenon, and more or less saved the video game industry single handedly.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

I'm not saying it was a massive public success, but the system's a cult classic that I feel deserves to be honored in some form at least once by a mainstream outlet. Is that too much to ask? I mean sure it's no NES, but it's what it left in it's wake both in the spotlight and behind the scenes that really matters.

[MrPopo]

I'm not saying it was a massive public success, but the system's a cult classic that I feel deserves to be honored in some form at least once by a mainstream outlet. Is that too much to ask?

Yes, yes it is. It's just like the Fairchild Channel F; it did some things before everyone else, but everyone else who followed did it so much better.

[pepharytheworm]

There is a good chance they might use it. I could only find a couple of important events that happen 9/9 and no holidays. Christopher columbus set sail to the west, Wright Bros. First flight for a Hr., NBC was formed. Blacks allowed in white Alabama schools, California becomes 31st state, 1st use of TV laugh track, Elvis Presley appears on national TV for the first time, and 1st "bug" in a computer program (a real bug, moth, where the term came from). There is more but thats all the most important ones I could find none of them are going to be an important anniversary year. There are some birthdates but nobody really famous.And of course the Beatles thing I mention earlier on your other post

I'll try to see if I can garner interest at other sites.

[Pookie]

I'm not saying it was a massive public success, but the system's a cult classic that I feel deserves to be honored in some form at least once by a mainstream outlet. Is that too much to ask? I mean sure it's no NES, but it's what it left in it's wake both in the spotlight and behind the scenes that really matters.

Don't let this consume you

I am pretty sure you have read the thread about lukemorse1's final video
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... &sk=t&sd=a

I read your profile and it states that you are 17. So, you are probably a high school senior, or a college freshman. Focus your time and energy on school/work/family/friends, and not on this. Video gaming should be a hobby, and it should not get to the point of having a strangle hold on your life.

[vash23n]

perhaps getting google to change their icon in order to acknowledge video gaming in general would be more successful and worthwhile to all the fans out there. sorry if someone already suggested that.