Happy Birthday, Dreamcast!

[CD AGES]

You're 14 today and we wanted to show you some appreciation! Who would you like us to invite to the party?

I'd invite your friends, Phantasy Star Online, Crazy Taxi, and Shenmue.
Who would you invite to the party, Racketboy community?

Finally! a Dreamcast 14th Bday thread. Those are some great friends of DC to invite to the celebration. I would invite Powerstone series and MVC Series and DOA2 to the party... Even though they all eventually start a ruckus at the festivities

Happy Birthday Dreamcast!

[marurun]

A 4-player Toy Commander party would be tons of fun.

[ZeroAX]

It speaks a lot about the quality of 3D platformers if people aren't even willing to count some of the best 3D platformers of all time as 3D platformers.

Like most people give a crap about getting the full ending in a Sonic game (from storyline perspective, not from completionist perspective). I play Sonic Adventure to do platforming as Sonic. In SA1 I can just do that, in SA2 I have to suffer through the Tails and Knuckles levels.

I'm not willing to count it because I had to grind through the 3D parts to unlock more 2D parts. It's like how I don't count the SA1 and 2 non Sonic-Shadow stages.

True but after you play through them once you can just replay the Sonic/Shadow levels. I know it might not matter to you cause you found them so unbarable to begin with, but I didn't, and I just found the Sonic/Shadow levels from SA2 so superior to their SA1 counterparts that I'd rather play through the Tails and Knuckles levels to unlock them, rather than replay SA1 Sonic stages. That's just how I feel.

[Menegrothx]

True but after you play through them once you can just replay the Sonic/Shadow levels. I know it might not matter to you cause you found them so unbarable to begin with, but I didn't

But I almost broke my controller in rage getting there, dying to a meteorite in the last Knuckles level, thanks to the godawful camera angles and controls. Nothing better than getting a game over when you have 2 diamonds after playing the same stage literally for over half an hour.
The Knuckles stages in SA1 never made me that frustrated, and they were optional on top of that.

I just found the Sonic/Shadow levels from SA2 so superior to their SA1 counterparts that I'd rather play through the Tails and Knuckles levels to unlock them, rather than replay SA1 Sonic stages. That's just how I feel.

It's been longer since my SA1 play through, but the last few Sonic&Shadow levels were littered with cheap deaths, I don't remember SA1 being that bad. If there wasn't game overs in the game, it wouldn't be a problem. But no, you must beat the stage with a certain number of lives or just keep on playing it over and over again untill you've memorized it to the point that you can beat it.

[ZeroAX]

Hm I didn't have so much trouble with the last Knuckles stage, and I will agree that the very last Sonic and Shadow stages started the addiction sonic team had with bad grinding sections that went overboard in Sonic Heroes.

[BogusMeatFactory]

I am inviting the folks in Jet Grind Radio to do the decorations, Space Channel Five and Samba De Amigo to do the music, I would invite Shenmue, but they would just sit in the corner and be all sad and woeful. I would have Seaman in a fish tank talking trash to the guests. Crazy Taxi would be there to do Valet and then we would spend the whole day playing Powerstone 1 and 2.

[Blu]

I am inviting the folks in Jet Grind Radio to do the decorations, Space Channel Five and Samba De Amigo to do the music, I would invite Shenmue, but they would just sit in the corner and be all sad and woeful. I would have Seaman in a fish tank talking trash to the guests. Crazy Taxi would be there to do Valet and then we would spend the whole day playing Powerstone 1 and 2.

/thread.

Happy birthday Dreamcast! Here's a toast to you!

[s1mplehumar]

I still remember buying mine at launch at Sears. My friend who worked there rang it up as a toaster or something so I paid like 30 bucks for it. He got one for himself, but couldn't ring himself up so he asked a co-worker to do the same thing but not before stuffing games into the box! Looking back I can't believe we did stupid things like that.

Anyway, that is my first Dreamcast memory. Happy Birthday!

$30 definitely beats $199. Times were tough in 1999.

You beat me to it, Blu. I nearly posted this morning (12:30 A.M.-ish) when I kicked off the party with Jet Set Radio. I'll be rotating PSO, and a handful of the other usual suspects later on.

9.9.99!

[pierrot]

9.9.99 was a big day for me. I remember selling my SNES, N64, PS1 and games for those systems, during the weeks leading up to the release, in order to put the money toward my pre-order. Still the only system/game I've ever pre-ordered, to this day. I got home with the console, and found out my copy of Sonic Adventure was a bad burn. At least I had NFL 2k (and possible Soul Calibur) to tide me over until the re-issued copies came in.


Would be a huge party, but I don't think it would be complete without Elemental Gimmick Gear, Napple Tale, Skies of Arcadia, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Street FIghter III, SF Rush 2049, REZ and Ikaruga in attendance.

[Blu]

If only the servers were up, and the broadband adapter more available, we could have us a Racketboy PSO party. Alas, those days are gone, but the spirit lives on!