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SuperMatt723
02-11-2007, 01:09
When did you get yours?

I had it on Christmas of 2000, but my family didn't like it, so we got an N64 by that February.

Then I got it three days ago from my friend with 2 controllers 2 VMUs and 6 games.

Nitrosport2000
02-11-2007, 01:27
Release day! I tried the Sonic demo in KB toy stores. I remember the day I first saw the Dreamcast. I pushed some kid out of the way so I can play Sonic hehehe. I had to have a Dreamcast. My parents wouldn't get me one because I was "addicted to games" so I begged my aunt for one. She broke down and finally got me one. I was also able to persuade my mom into getting me Sonic. She arrived just in time to grab the last copy at the time.

For the record, The Dreamcast was the first and only console I supported up until Sega pulled the plug. I then bought a Gamecube and bought an X-Box. I never really supported the PS2 until the last years of its life span. I bought 2 broken ones and made one working one hehe.

32x
02-11-2007, 02:14
I got my first one in Christmas of 2000 I think. Mum bought me a copy of Sonic Adventure to go with it. Ah seems like an age ago now. I sat there all day and wouldn't budge from Sonic. Eventually I think I did it then traded it in for SEGA Rally 2. Wasn't a great one, it had it's problems and had to go back, so I needed another copy of Sonic. The ones I own now though are solid and well...they just beat everything on the market. :)

Master hunter
02-11-2007, 03:01
14th October 1999 - The UK Launch.

The new Sonic game detailed in the old Sega Saturn Magazines had me hooked from day one. I was a total SEGA fanboy back then, I mean the bad kind. I remember the old countdown clock on segaweb.com and being disappointed when the date slipped from 23rd September to 14th October. Even more so as I had a holiday planned for the 16th for 2 weeks.

sonicfanRICH
02-11-2007, 05:57
I believe I got it around Christmas 2000 as well I think. Well one of those Christmases. It was my very first game console system and it was exciting. I played the demo disk to death and also the first game I got was Marvel vs Capcom. It was a great fighting game until it broke and I got Sonic Adventure. Then I forgot all about it. :)

ShoShoKid
02-11-2007, 07:32
My family got their first on Christmas 2000, it was the sports pack and it was my brother's gift. At the time I had just finished being a Nintendo fanboy and had become a Sony fanboy. I felt SEGA's games were too hard (likely because I had only really been exposed to the broken port of Altered Beast and Virtua Fighter). It wasn't until my 14th birthday I decided to check in on Dreamcast again.

Glad I did, today it is my favorite console of all time. It was a great birthday gift and my mom bought it only DAYS before EB Games took it off their site.

FPS_Leo
02-11-2007, 18:36
I got one second hand from Gamestation 3 years ago for £16.99, as you already may know.:) The reason I got it was because I was fed-up with my PS2 and wanted to try a SEGA console and I must say it was one of the better decisions I've made in my life.:P

Le SHARK
02-11-2007, 18:42
I got my DC on the day it came out from HMV, for free.

We had a system at work where we got capital bond vouchers for putting in leads to our sales dept. I ended up with £400 worth and that bought me the DC, 2x VMU's, Sonic, Powerstone, VF3tb, Ready to Rumble & 2x rumble packs. Think I put in a little too in the end. :)

7Force
03-11-2007, 00:31
About two years ago I brought one second hand. I wanted one on launch day but my parents said it was a waste of money and told me to wait for the PS2 (which I brought on launch day).

It's a shame because when I first saw the first pictures of Sonic Adventure in CVG I wanted one. I even remember playing the demo in Toys R Us a few weeks before launch and thought it was awesome. I had to wait for a long time to buy one.

foreversonic
03-11-2007, 15:01
Is it alright for me to say here that I haven't got a Dreamcast :(? The family stopped buying consoles after the Mega Drive and we didn't have a new console until we started buying our own consoles ourselves. My first being a PlayStation 2. I feel that I have missed out.

hedgehogsamurai
03-11-2007, 19:02
Let's see back in 2004 , my brother had bought KoF 99 and some other games which I wasn't familiar with. Yeah so a friend of his gave him the DC no charge with House of the Dead and Sonic Adventure 2.

sonicfanRICH
03-11-2007, 23:33
Is it alright for me to say here that I haven't got a Dreamcast :(? The family stopped buying consoles after the Mega Drive and we didn't have a new console until we started buying our own consoles ourselves. My first being a PlayStation 2. I feel that I have missed out.

You have missed out on a lot, but that's why it's more fun to go back and see what you've missed. It's never too late, even if you can't find the originals, you can find re-releases, remakes or stuff from the internet.

SegaMark
04-11-2007, 22:22
I first played a Dreamcast in the summer of 1999, at a local cinema on a demo pod, before it's release. I played the demos of Sonic Adventure and Ready 2 Rumble and they blew me away, the whale part of Sonic Adventure was amazing stuff back then. I continued to play demo pods in local stores before release, and asked my parents for one for that Christmas. I bought my VMU in October, two months before I got the console! I bought loads of magazines, read the news websites in school trying to learn as much as I can about this new amazing console.

My mate got one on launch and we played some Power Stone, and I bought HOTD2 with the gun in November before I had my console and played it at his, Christmas couldn't come quick enough for me.

Come Christmas day, I had a Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure and Sega Rally 2. My parents also picked up me a copy of Soul Calibur as a surprise present too.

Truly the best Christmas I've ever had, it will never be bettered.

7Force
05-11-2007, 00:27
I first played a Dreamcast in the summer of 1999, at a local cinema on a demo pod, before it's release. I played the demos of Sonic Adventure and Ready 2 Rumble and they blew me away, the whale part of Sonic Adventure was amazing stuff back then. I continued to play demo pods in local stores before release, and asked my parents for one for that Christmas. I bought my VMU in October, two months before I got the console! I bought loads of magazines, read the news websites in school trying to learn as much as I can about this new amazing console.

My mate got one on launch and we played some Power Stone, and I bought HOTD2 with the gun in November before I had my console and played it at his, Christmas couldn't come quick enough for me.

Come Christmas day, I had a Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure and Sega Rally 2. My parents also picked up me a copy of Soul Calibur as a surprise present too.

Truly the best Christmas I've ever had, it will never be bettered.
Your parents are awesome. I asked mine to get me a Dreamcast for Christmas and they said it was a waste of money and said wait for the PS2. I did not want to but I did since at the time I was still in college and had no money so I had to wait until I got a job after I finished college to buy one, by then it was to late. Sega dropped the DC and started making games for the PS2. After the DC's death I didn't buy one.

Though 3 years ago I bought one and boy did I miss out. I need to get more games, but as far as I can say this is a real gamers console. £30 well spent.;)

FPS_Leo
05-11-2007, 17:56
I asked mine to get me a Dreamcast for Christmas and they said it was a waste of money and said wait for the PS2.
I've heard a lot of stories people having shop assistants at games stores telling to wait for the PS2 instead of getting a Dreamcast, which probably hurt sales bad. :(

king0512
05-11-2007, 18:46
I don't exactly remember when I got mine but I do remember it was after the DC was dropped. My mom pretty much told me not to get any more consoles after getting the Saturn (at the time I got my DC I was still in high school) so I tricked my dad into going to the Gamestop store to get me one with my money. (Needless to say mom wasn't too happy about this.) The same story applied when I got my Gamecube as well (tricked dad to sending me to that same store while he was off ordering dinner from someplace nearby).

7Force
05-11-2007, 21:32
I've heard a lot of stories people having shop assistants at games stores telling to wait for the PS2 instead of getting a Dreamcast, which probably hurt sales bad. :(
Yeah I had a lot of those I remember the lady in one shop said the DC is not worth getting because you cant skip the cut scenes in Sonic Adventure. WTF:blink: So unskippable cut scenes instantly make a console crap? Meh.

But the GAME I buy my games from said the DC was well worth it, even when SEGA dropped the bomb and said the DC will discontinued they said that it was still an awesome console with many classic games and well worth buying.

Mufasa
06-11-2007, 02:50
But the GAME I buy my games from said the DC was well worth it, even when SEGA dropped the bomb and said the DC will discontinued they said that it was still an awesome console with many classic games and well worth buying.

Well I'm glad they said it was "an awesome console with many classic games and well worth buying"... Now if only we can get a public apology from Atari for the Jaguar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar)... :P

SuperMatt723
08-11-2007, 01:08
Atari! Man, did that suck.

TF73
19-11-2007, 20:16
I had been looking forward to the DC ever since Sega announced it. And a friend of mine was in Japan on the release in of the machine. So you can guess what he bought for me there.;) But I have to admit that Pen Pen and Godzilla wasn't exactly worth the wait. Luckily the Dreamcast has delivered more then enough games that play like a dream!!:biggrin:

32x
19-11-2007, 20:36
I first played a Dreamcast in the summer of 1999, at a local cinema on a demo pod...

Re-reading this you just sent a load of memories coming back. "Demo pod", I remember them! Maybe I am getting old... Anyways I remember in the magazine I read (I think it was just as I got a Dreamcast), DC-UK were giving away one of them with Ready 2 Rumble on it, I would have loved one but didn't enter it, well I was happy with my Dreamcast on it's own so I didn't care too much during the time. ^_^

SegaMark
19-11-2007, 20:58
The next demo pod I see for sale, I'm snapping it right up. I've had chances to get one, but I finally have room to get one.

Hope I get one, they're awesome little demo units!

Stegblob
19-11-2007, 21:03
From what I remember, I got it around the time it was released. But I've got a bad memory, so I can't remember if that was back in 1998, 1999, or 2000. >_<

variant
19-11-2007, 22:12
I got mine as a Xmas present around the new millennium. I wanted the one bundled with Sonic Adventure that I saw a few weeks before in a KB Toys store, but it was gone/my guardians didn't get the right one. Thus I was kind of bummed that I got the version of the game that said SEGA ALL STARS and was thus not the original version. I was very happy with it, though I remember also getting SA2 and playing that before the first for some reason...Then I picked up Jet Grind Radio in a miscellaneous bin at COMPUSA and it was the beginning of a new era for me!

About two years ago I brought one second hand. I wanted one on launch day but my parents said it was a waste of money and told me to wait for the PS2 (which I brought on launch day).

It's a shame because when I first saw the first pictures of Sonic Adventure in CVG I wanted one. I even remember playing the demo in Toys R Us a few weeks before launch and thought it was awesome. I had to wait for a long time to buy one.
I remember reading that article as well. The pictures were so awesome, I just couldn't wait to play the game!

I bought my VMU in October, two months before I got the console! I bought loads of magazines, read the news websites in school trying to learn as much as I can about this new amazing console.
...
Truly the best Christmas I've ever had, it will never be bettered.
I know, reading about it and anticipating it was so enjoyable. I was just as joyful when I got mine!
But the GAME I buy my games from said the DC was well worth it, even when SEGA dropped the bomb and said the DC will discontinued they said that it was still an awesome console with many classic games and well worth buying.
That's really cool that your local game store had that attitude toward it!
The next demo pod I see for sale, I'm snapping it right up. I've had chances to get one, but I finally have room to get one.

Hope I get one, they're awesome little demo units!
Yeah, it would be cool to have one. Where'd you see them, eBay? If you ever see a Dev kit, that would be one to own. You could rent it out to the community and make new games!

fatherkrishna
20-11-2007, 23:44
Having been a massive fan of the Megadrive, then Saturn, by the time the Dreamcast hit the shops, I was a full time raver and had left video games behind. I'd already bought my kids a PS1 (under protest) and the PS2 seemed like the obvious choice... (Yes I was one of those people who bought a PS2 because it could play DVDs.)

In about 2004, I bought my nephew's Dreamcast because to him, it was a redundant console and I was just curious. I got it for buttons and it had Ecco... The kids were very uninterested, but I just fell in love with every aspect of it...

It reignited my interest in video games and since I've become an obsessive. I now own about eight of them, about 150 software titles, all the peripherals and still play it far more than my Wii or PS2. I've even got a see through green one and a portable Treamcast and several promotional items.

My one regret is that I didn't enjoy the honeymoon period when it was the innovator that the Wii is today... I've never enjoyed online gaming on the Dreamcast (or any other console for that matter), but I have browsed the internet on it (PAINFUL!).

My love for it spawned my input to the Dreamcast Junkyard, which appears on the radioSEGA links section.

It's still my second favourite console of all time (the first being the Saturn) I still think the potential it had seven years ago, remains untapped... How many of us have used the microphone peripheral for Caution Seaman?

LOL! I have! It rocks!

variant
21-11-2007, 00:44
So do you have the broadband adapter for the DC? I always wanted to utilize the internet features in games like Sonic Adventure 2 and Jet Grind Radio, but I had cable internet at the time and it was only 56k! Are there any people you can play with online or even the infrastructure to do so? Can you still access the graffiti archive via web in Jet Grind Radio?

Also, I found this other mic game posted on The Dreamcast Junkyard. Have you played that one? It's called KIRESTUBOY'S GAN-GA-GAN (http://the-dreamcast-junkyard.blogspot.com/) and really utilizes the mic in a creative way. I want to get it now!

Mufasa
21-11-2007, 03:20
Are there any people you can play with online or even the infrastructure to do so?

That reminds me of this conversation (http://www.radiosega.net/forum/showthread.php?p=944#post944) and the mention of SCHTHACK (http://www.schtserv.com/)...

variant
21-11-2007, 06:26
Oh my fucking life....I can play online! This just made my day. I really want to go play PSO and Quake III. It seems I can do that even though I'm in the US, but I'm not sure. Well, all this will take a lot of research, but it will be worth it!

A few questions for you Mufasa; if you know them, that's cool, if not, just tell me to research it on my own :)
-is the Online Consoles site (http://dreamcast.onlineconsoles.com/phpBB2/content_gameslist.php) and SCHTHACK both private/independent server providers for their games?
-if that is so, why does it have a Graveyard section on the Online Consoles site game list?
-if that is not true and those aren't private servers, how is that possible, since I just read that all SOJ servers were shut down in April of 2007.
thanks for any help!

Mufasa
21-11-2007, 06:46
A few questions for you Mufasa; if you know them, that's cool, if not, just tell me to research it on my own :)
You're pretty much on your own. Playing old Dreamcast games online is a topic that has little interest to me at the moment and would take significant research on a game by game basis.

Now one thing I will mention that might make something clear. Sometimes people don't like how companies run their servers. Sometimes people want to run their own servers. In both cases, you have to go around the company. So after much reverse engineering of both the game and the traffic sent back and forth, you can understand it enough to emulate what the main company server does. A fine example of this would be bnetd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_v._BnetD). It was a project designed to let people access their own Battle.net compatible servers not run by Blizzard allowing people to play games like Starcraft and Warcraft on a centralized server without Blizzard having any impact on how it is run or for how long.

AngelaAshford06
24-11-2007, 06:36
I got my Dreamcast way back in early '03 from an ex friend of my mom's. She babysat a niece and nephew and bought the used Dreamcast so they could have something to play with. They never used it, and it took up space, so she asked me if I wanted it. Of course, when a system is offered to you for free, you can't refuse that! My mom brought it home, but it sat there for a month or two in my room since the only two games it had were a football game and a baseball game (*dislikes most sports games*).

Sometime later...my mom took me to the mall and I was in Electronics Boutique browsing the Dreamcast games, when a couple caught my eye: Space Channel 5 and Resident Evil -Code: Veronica-. Space Channel 5 had a price I couldn't refuse ($2.99) and Veronica I was dying to play and was only $9.95, so I asked her if she would buy them for me. I told her how I didn't like the other games that came with the system, and after she saw how cheap they were, she gave the okay and I got my first two games.

I ended up playing both games to death. When I would go to school, I'd have the music from Space Channel 5 constantly playing through my head while thinking about what other Dreamcast games I should check out.

What can I say? I fell in love with my Dreamcast! ^_^

Kronix
25-11-2007, 01:58
Well, I finally got my Dreamcast over waiting for a month for it to get here via the slowest snail mail you can imagine. This guy sent it Parcel Post or Post Parcel. Whatever the one is that means "When you get around to it. You should mail this."

That really is what happens when you ship something like that. It's freaking SLOW and will only be shipped after everything else has.

So anyway I have a nice Jump pack and a VMC for my dreamcast and only have Record of Lodoss War. I'm hoping to get more games with it, and I wonder if it's true or not that it has the ability to play Saturn games.

32x
25-11-2007, 02:29
Welcome to the world of the greatest system in existence Kronix, if you hate the Dreamcast I'll wonder if theres something wrong with you. :P Seriously though, you can't go wrong with it, the system has so many AAA titles you can't possibly list them all. Good luck with it and get ready for gaming heaven! It was worth the wait. ;)

Kronix
25-11-2007, 04:27
Seriously just with this one game that I have it's amazing. Though the footsteps all sound the same. XP I swear that Records of Lodoss War was KOTOR before KOTOR was. Except it's active battles, and no real "Moral choice" system. But going through and picking different text to get out of a conflict or whatnot. Very cool.

EGGMAN
25-11-2007, 11:50
I was playing Dreamcast only in my Childhood. I had got the games: Crazy Taxi, Sonic Shuffle, NiGHTS Into Dreams (Yes, you have good ears :) )
I think that was it. :biggrin:

SegaMark
25-11-2007, 18:38
NiGHTS was not on the Dreamcast... -_-

SuperMatt723
25-11-2007, 21:34
You must've also had a Saturn.

Arufonzu
26-11-2007, 23:22
I got mine about...4 years after it was released. My dad bought it used from eBay for me.

I got 4 controllers (2 didn't work) a red VMU (now lost) a driving wheel (broken) a racing game (forgot the name of it, ah ha ha) and Sonic Shuffle.

My Dreamcast's power button is now stuck down...I've not had good luck with it. When I bought it I had to hold down the power button just to play it! XD

SuperMatt723
26-11-2007, 23:46
That sucks, especially that the Dreamcast has some very good games and that your facing problems with it. Most people never have major problems with their Dreamcast.

(BTW I am honored that this made it to the front page.)

dafalgan
29-11-2007, 22:05
Pre-ordered mine, together with Ready 2 Rumble, to make sure I would have one on launch day. :)
What a joy I had with "AAAAAfro Thunder".

(Plus counting down the days until Soul Caliber was released.)

7Force
29-11-2007, 23:22
Pre-ordered mine, together with Ready 2 Rumble, to make sure I would have one on launch day. :)
What a joy I had with "AAAAAfro Thunder".

That game is a classic I remember going into Virgin Megastore before the DC launch and that being the most popular game on the demo pods. In fact it was the most played game on the demo pods everywhere.

IndigoMoonlight
02-12-2007, 16:24
Well mine was my brothers before mine. I think he got it as a Christmas present in 2000. He gave it to me when he got an X-Box, (He's anti Playstation :P) but I'm not sure when that was, I think it was within the same month X-Box came out, so if anyone knows?

The only game that is mine for it is Sonic Adventure 2, the rest are all his. I've played them all, but doing so taught me that I'm terrified of shootemups, despite even at a young age I adored films that would scare me and now I find they don't scare me at all, yet... The Dreamcasts games struck fear into me! XD Dreamcast I still love you though.

MephilestheHedgehog
04-12-2007, 04:30
Well... I never got a Dreamcast... When I was turning four or five (I forget which) I was giving the choice between a Dreamcast or an N64... It just so happened I had more games I wanted from the N64... So I chose that... Though I have looooooooooong been a Sonic fan... used to watch the old cartoon show (SatAM), I never really liked the extra bits they had... and neither did I like the voicing they gave Sonic, but I believe I have justified that despite lack of a Dreamcast. I've always liked the Sonic the Hedgehog series, to a point.

Xorda
04-12-2007, 04:53
I bought my dreamcast two easters ago from my brother.

Psycho_Echidna
04-12-2007, 19:02
I received a Godzilla VMU in August 98 and had to wait until DC release date.
Ordered mine in Japan on Nov 98 with VF3tb and received Sonic Adventure in December shortly after... One of the best Christmases ever.

arranmc182
05-12-2007, 00:04
Well I got my Dreamcast in 2000 for my birthday. I was like OMG, look at the graphics playing the Re-volt and Sonic demo (made my mum get Sonic after playing the demo over and over) and Chu Chu Rocket (that came free) when I got Tony Hawk for the Dreamcast. It almost made my mate cry because he had it on the PS1 and it looked rubbish to the Dreamcast version. I still have my Dreamcast now.
:guitar:

vice86
05-12-2007, 21:19
I believe I bought my DC on launch day...9.9.99!! Actually got the Genesis and Saturn on launch day. It was cool back then..no huge lines or people making a ton of profit off eBay on consoles....those were the days. :)

Kronix
05-12-2007, 21:30
Yeah, but that was back in the day of when you were a gamer you were a nerd and nothing beyond that. It's kind of good that it's changed, but at the same time it's just as bad for the reasons you stated.

Also I have a question and it's kind of a stupid one. Is it true the Dreamcast can play Saturn games?

Mufasa
06-12-2007, 02:10
Also I have a question and it's kind of a stupid one. Is it true the Dreamcast can play Saturn games?

No (http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2005/12/faq-can-you-play-sega-saturn-games-on.html). You cannot play game discs made for Saturn on the Dreamcast.

RivaOni
08-12-2007, 17:42
The Dreamcast has to be my favourite console of all time.

I'd owned consoles previously, NES, Master System, Super NES, PlayStation (aswell as some older ones that had been handed down to me) but none of them grabbed me like the Dreamcast did.

I got mine two weeks after Crazy Taxi had launched, mainly because my friend who'd had the game since launch day had started to get annoyed with me dominating his scores on his VMU. But it wasn't until Phantasy Star Online was launched that I realised how much I loved the console, although I became heavily addicted to PSO (some people on here may just have come across me at some point using either Mumunk, Mumunk ver. 2001 or RivaOni).

Since then I've been through 5 PAL consoles (my PSO files were saved on those Joytech 4mb cards which seemed to enjoy frying the resistor in the controller ports board) and also now have a Japanese system.

Sbiky
10-12-2007, 15:12
I bought mine on October 2005 from 2nd hand and I really love it. When I was younger and DC was released I couldn't buy and always had the wish to take one for me. I bought it with the two Shenmue games and Sonic Adventure and played for hours every day like a child.

Bedlam Fox
10-12-2007, 21:31
I got my first Dreamcast on September 10, 1999. I couldn't get it any earlier cause it was supposed to be my birthday present the following 17th. I was so excited the entire day getting it. I got the Dreamcast along with Sonic Adventure and a VMU. I remember my parents getting mad at me cause they thought I didn't need a VMU to play the game since it cost an extra 30 bucks I believe (I still dont think they quite understand how important file saves and memory cards are to gaming). And I still love my Dreamcast to this day. It and all the 75-some games I have for it.

Cornerb0y
14-12-2007, 07:10
I got my Dreamcast in 2002 for my birthday, and I have to say, it was the best birthday gift EVER! Not only that, but it was the only Sega console I got for any of my birthdays. I got that with Sonic Adventure, House Of The Dead 2, Crazy Taxi, and one other game I cannot remember. The day after my birthday I had my wisdom teeth removed and when I awoke from the surgery, I looked at the nurse, then my mom and said "this is some good stuff!" (referring to the drugs they gave me for the pain) and proceeded to laugh. And I started talking to the nurse about how I was gonna go home and play my new Dreamcast and she told me how her boyfriend had one with Crazy Taxi and how much she liked to play it! I love telling that story!

sonicyoda
14-12-2007, 15:01
I got me Dreamcast in 2004. A friend of mine had been bigging the console up for ages while the Playstation was slaughtering the video games market and I eventually gave in. I bought it unboxed for 30 quid in CEX after trading in some naff PS2 games. The first games I picked up were MSR (I hate that game so much) and Chu Chu Rocket. It then became my absolute mission to own Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 aswell as Shuffle (the mini-games are good...).

sonicguru
19-12-2007, 17:54
I got my Dreamcast for my 14th birthday in 2003. It came with 2 controllers, 2 light-guns, 2 VM-cards, 2 rumble-paks and 14 games which included Sonic Adventure 1 and 2.

Gavvie
19-12-2007, 21:57
I forget the year, but I got my Dreamcast as a main Christmas present...I think it was the year after it came out in the UK.

Anywho, I got it with an extra pad and a VMU. As for games, I got..hm..Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2, WWE Attitude, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Shadow Man and The Nomad Soul (most underrated game ever).

Even though it's sat in my cupboard, I love my Dreamcast. It's only sat in there because a) I want a SCART cable for it, and b) even if I did have a SCART cable, I doubt I have the room to set it up, which is a shame.

When I move into my own place, I'll have to ensure that I have the room for it.

Reknoc
19-12-2007, 22:08
When SEGA went down and game stores were pratically handing people Dreamcasts when you walk through the door.

Got it with an extra controller, VMU, Sonic Adventure, SEGA Rally (which didn't work and I ended up trading it in for some Ferrari game) and Chu Chu Rocket.

I also picked up Rayman 2 and Fighting Force 2 when I bought it.

Don't even know why I got one, but I'm glad I did.

Gavvie
19-12-2007, 22:10
Ferrari F355 Challenge? I have that, it's awesome :D

Got Sega Rally 2 as well, it's also awesome.

shnaz23
22-12-2007, 08:04
I remember back in 2000, I went to a carpet place with my parents and it had a Dreamcast in the kid's area. I was thinking "Hmm, it's somethinng to do", so I went over and started playing Sonic Adventure, and I was like "Whoa! Sweet." I ended up making my parents wait and complain. One time I stayed over my friend's house and we played Crazy Taxi and Power Stone the whole night. Around my birthday that year, all I did was talk about Dreamcast, but my parents never got one for me (Not even Christmas). I asked for it again for my birthday the next year and instead I got an Xbox. I decided to stop asking. Eventually in 2005, I purchased a refurbished Dreamcast with two controllers, two VMU's, a demo disc, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Power Stone 2, Marvel VS Capcom 2, and Chu Chu Rocket. Instead of playing the games I recieved for Christmas that year, I played my Dreamcast. I still play it constantly.:)

The GagaMann
22-12-2007, 14:24
For my Birthday on November 30th, 1999, about a month after the UK launch. Came with Sonic Adventure, Virtua Fighter 3, 2 controllers, a memory card and a keyboard. For some daft reason I decided to swap VF3 for Chef's Luv Shack, not the wisest choice I ever made!

variant
22-12-2007, 17:42
Ha, that's pretty funny. I actually remember that game being advertised. So, how was the game? I'm guessing not as good as Virtua Fighter 3....:)

The GagaMann
22-12-2007, 19:39
It was over in about half an hour! :P
Really, it was like a collection of Flash games wrapped around a boring quiz game, and worst of all it wasn't funny, which is more a less a requirement if you're gonna make a South Park game. Good old Acclaim..

original-since-1985
24-12-2007, 18:29
I swapped a PS1 for a Sega Dreamcast back in 2001 with a mate who never got on with it.
I enjoyed Crazy Taxi & Loony Tunes Racers on it and a few other titles. I brought Sonic Adventure a few years later so I unpacked it 2 play it and the machine would load up then reset itself? If anybody knows why it does this please tell me why as this happened with my Saturn and I traded both machines with a friend due to this!
I liked the Dreamcast. It was different from Sony's PS1 and Nintendo's N64.
I might upset some people here but some might agree that the Saturn & the Dreamcast just didnt satisfy like the megadrive did. Maybe its just me but I loved my days playing it and lying to my parents saying I didn't have homework so I could play it longer on a school night! It could be the fact that computer games are just CD's now & not a cartridge with a detailed sticker on it. Whats a CD cost these days? About 10p! At least when they were a cartridge you got some money's worth but thats just modern technology I guess.
I suppose the saddest thing is that Sega doesn't make consoles anymore which is a shame as the future generation of kids wouldn't have grown up with something as great as what we grew up with in the 90's.

Gavvie
24-12-2007, 18:37
Sega will never be able to get back into the hardware market, much as I'd like them to.

I do have to agree with what you said though, today's generation of kids won't grow up on the classics we did. They've been reared on GTA and anything else that has swearing and violence in, and won't really appreciate what games like Sonic, Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy and even older games like Space Invaders and Pong have done for the industry as a whole.

It's a shame really, because Sega and Nintendo, along with the big 3rd party developers, made the games industry what it is today, and companies like Sony and Microsoft are now reaping the rewards.

gezeo750
06-01-2008, 00:44
I got my Dreamcast in 2001 I think it was. It was Christmas Eve when we decided to open our gifts...technically it was Christmas day 12:00am. Anyway it was used, and wasn't even wrapped. It was just in a box with one game...Blue Stinger. I stayed up till at least 4am playing the game till I got good at it. I didn't have a VMU yet so I couldn't save. It was so much fun none the less. And I still have my DC, and it's still in great shape. It even survived in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina! Can't say the same about ol' Blue Stinger though. I sold it in '05.

dokkie
06-01-2008, 15:27
I've had a Japan Imported DC.
I don't really know exactly what date it was :) but it was way before the European launch!

When I saw Sonic, I had to have it!

Sephiroth
06-01-2008, 15:39
I think I got mine the Christmas after release. I think I had Sonic and Virtua Soccer, which was really lame as I was pants at it. :P

thejoyrider
12-01-2008, 02:50
This is my first post, so yo!

I actually bought back all my Sega gaming in the last 4 months. I had nearly a complete library of what to me was the best games for the Saturn and Dreamcast. As I was growing up I fell out of gaming, even though I was taking on a B.A. in 3d animation. It did take up a lot of my time and I ended up not really doing other "life" stuff.

I've recently come back to gaming in a big way. With a new appreciation, I'm slowly getting back those classics that next gen gaming (as wonderful as it is) doesn’t offer anymore (ie. X-Men vs Street Fighter).

Largely thanks to the massive Halo 3 spam the world over, I fell in love with the "believe" ads. Having played 1 casually with my mates, I occasionally played games here and there, multi play Monkey Ball, Halo, etc. Anyway, I just felt like getting back into it and wasted my cash on a 360. I found myself immersed in some very sexy next gen gaming, mostly FPS, and kinda felt like playing old Capcom and Sega Classics again.

My Dreamcast story happened a few months before the UK launch, which was what nearly 10 years ago?

Reason I got a Dreamcast was because I was so into the Saturn in a huge way that my gaming following had to continue on with Sega., which I guess can be saved for another forum thread.

LOL. I pre-ordered mine from axengames.co.uk (gone) for £499.99 (don’t laugh). I got the Japanese launch console with the orange box with the Japanese ad campaigns that came with Virtua Fighter 3TB with the highly limited edition hour long VCD interview with Yu Suzuki on project Berkley (a very early beta rendition of what we know now as Shenmue). If you guys can get a copy of the 2 disc VF3 TB Japanese edition, get it just for that. There’s some awesome reminiscing and FMV footage of early Shenmue that never made it. I also got Sonic Adventure with that deal too. I was so chuffed when I got it. It was god damn awesome! That was the first time I bought a true import console.

To be fair I never did end up buying PAL or US games except the English translation of Shenmue. As far as Saturn and Dreamcast gaming goes in my view, the 60hz uncut Japanese versions are much sexier, earlier releases, sexier packing and CD cases. I remember buying Powerstone brand new for £60 at CEX (when they used to be good back in the day). I also remember paying £120 for House of the Dead 2 with 2 official guns. Oh the money and the wastage looking back.

caligari
15-01-2008, 23:32
UK launch for me.

I remember having a pre-order on from a certain online gaming store. I was convinced that my first console was faulty when it arrived, so I had another painful wait for a replacement console (of course that's nothing in comparison to what most 360 owners have to go through on a monthly basis!). They gave me about £30 in vouchers to make up for the extra hassle, so it wasn't all bad.

I seem to remember my first games being Trickstyle and Powerstone...but was Powerstone actually a launch game? My memory seems to be failing me. :s

Trickstyle doesn't hold up too well when played today, but my friend and I were convinced that it was better than Wipeout. \o/

Arxilla Uchiha
16-01-2008, 02:55
Well, I think I got the Dreamcast around 1998. I played some demo games for it, but my very first game I played for it was Sonic Adventure! It was such an awesome game, but then my little sister broke Sonic Adventure and the demo games my dad got for me and my sister, so I couldn't play the Dreamcast:mad:. I got another copy of Sonic adventure, except its now called "Sonic Adventure DX: Directors Cut", and goes to the Gamecube but since my sister messed up my Gamecube *yet again:mad:*. I now play "Sonic Adventure DX: Directors Cut" on my Wii! xD I'm still completing missions on that game. LOL and yet I'm still trying to beat missions on Sonic and the Secret Rings and Sonic Adventure DX Directors cut. :3. I became a very big Sonic the Hedgehog fan after Sonic Adventure came out for the Dreamcast!:)

thejoyrider
16-01-2008, 15:56
UK launch for me.
I seem to remember my first games being Trickstyle and Powerstone...but was Powerstone actually a launch game? My memory seems to be failing me. :s

It was an early release game but not a launch. Launch games were Sonic Adventure, VF3 TB followed by crap like Godzilla, Seaman and Blue Stinger.

Gavvie
16-01-2008, 21:53
I had Trickstyle. It wasn't all that bad, if I remember correctly. Rock hard towards the end, though.

32x
16-01-2008, 22:12
I had Trickstyle. It wasn't all that bad, if I remember correctly. Rock hard towards the end, though.
I still own and play that game. Good title. Never completed it though, too hard. :blush: Launch title if I remember correctly. Hard to get used to it again because of the controls when you have been away from it for a while.

Gavvie
16-01-2008, 22:45
I think I got as far as London, and then couldn't complete it. Either that, or I was on the trick levels. It's been too long since I last played it.

Probably should be a game I buy if I ever get around to hooking my Dreamcast up again.

PuzzleNoise!
22-01-2008, 15:40
I've bought my Dreamcast from a guy, who lives in this city. It was like destiny! One day, me and a friend walked around in the city. I was talking about how much I would like to have a Dreamcast. A guy in the near heard me, came and asked how much I would pay. I was like "Oh my gosh, that's the best day in my life"! He gave me his Dreamcast, along with a BootLoader:blink: something with a Rudolf, I don't know what it's good for. Maybe for dustcollecting. Also I got Soul Calibur and Dead or Alive 2...

And now, two years later, I bought... 15 more games? I just LOVE it.

SegaMark
22-01-2008, 18:18
The bootloader will be the Utopia boot disc, it allows you to play imported games, although its main use is to allow pirate copies of games to be played.

Mufasa
22-01-2008, 20:07
He gave me his Dreamcast, along with a BootLoader:blink: something with a Rudolf, I don't know what it's good for.

The bootloader will be the Utopia boot disc

Yeah that 3-D reindeer is something you don't forget. :) I also remember the Utopia boot disc as my first disc burned that proved to me that you can boot discs you burned yourself without a mod chip in the DreamCast. :rolleyes:

PuzzleNoise!
22-01-2008, 20:23
If you can play games without modchips on the DC, there have to be some good homebrewgames out there! Do you guys know any? O.O

32x
22-01-2008, 20:29
If you can play games without modchips on the DC, there have to be some good homebrewgames out there! Do you guys know any? O.O

Here (http://radiosega.net/forum/showthread.php?t=535) & here (http://radiosega.net/forum/showthread.php?t=511). Knock yourself out, and try not to break the Dreamcast while your at it. There is a huge homebrew and hacker scene for the DC so.

camrynknight18
25-01-2008, 19:33
I got it for my birthday in 7th grade. I had been looking forward to it since it was first announced and for all that time all I could think about was Sonic Adventure.

massive-dannage
25-01-2008, 23:37
I got mine when I woke up one morning and I saw a Dreamcast sat next to my television along with Chu Chu rocket and the last best Sonic game, Sonic Adventure. XD

The Captain
26-01-2008, 01:48
^ That's 'cause I bought 'em! Traded a load of stuff in, too. :P

And then worked up a £250 phone bill with the Dreamkey. :lol: Was an ace net client though, wish I could get a broadband adaptor!

Sonicmark
03-02-2008, 15:06
Like Master Hunter, I was a real SEGA Fanboy and read about it in a magazine then got it on the release day.

7Force
03-02-2008, 20:55
I got it for my birthday in 7th grade. I had been looking forward to it since it was first announced and for all that time all I could think about was Sonic Adventure.

I was like that when I was in school when I saw the first screenshots of it in a games mag. Then after a few months Toys R Us had some demo pods running a demo of Sonic Adventure, when I first saw that killer whale chasing Sonic my jaw just hit the floor it was the cooest thing I had ever seen.

Its a shame that the newer Sonic games don't have the same impact as SA so far they have all been 'Meh'.

Kool Chao
04-02-2008, 01:34
I can't believe I missed this thread... Anyway, here's my story:
I first read about the Dreamcast on a games magazine and saw some screenshots of Sonic Adventure. I had been a SEGA and Sonic fan since I was a little kid, so I decided I had to get that console. However, I wasn't working at the time, still going to school. But I was getting a monthly payment from school, nothing much, so I had to keep saving up money for a whole year.
I bought my DC a few months after the launch day but when I got my hands on the console and first tried out Sonic Adventure, I felt like I never felt before!
It was the first console I bought entirely with my own money and it took some time but it was worth it!

Sojiroh
04-02-2008, 17:27
I got my Dreamcast a few weeks after it was discontinued, by that time I only played PS1 and N64. When I got my DC I was astonished by the awesome graphics. I remember that the first game I played on my DC was RE:CV. I still play my DC everyday and I love it.

**First post BTW :P**

TheMightyLebeau
06-02-2008, 13:10
I've forgotten exactly when, but it wasn't very long after the Japanese launch. I had to have one! After reading the first issue of the official magazine, and watching the preview video (cassette, not DVD!!!) and seeing what it was capable of I imported one as soon as I could, and as I had just started my first proper job this was pretty easy.

I got the console, 2 pads, 2 VMUs and Marvel vs. Capcom. My friends who were very exited by the prospect of playing on this new state of the art console, but were furious when I came home with a 2D beat em up. (Screw em, it was friggin MvsC.)

Then I was buying import games like nobody business, I had Soul Caliber the day after its Japanese release, Crazy Taxi (probably the reason I got one was the fact that all the arcade conversions were 'arcade perfect') and Code Veronica, which I had finished before my brother had got RE3 Nemesis (and almost entirely in Japanese, but at least the game had English voices!).

Ive had so many good games for it I can't actually pick one favorite, though as far as multiplayer goes, Powerstone still gets regular plays, as does House of the Dead 2 and Virtual On.

Then one day I bought a UK magazine that came with an Action Replay demo disc, which then made my machine region free. I found that out entirely by accident.

I don't know how anybody couldn't want a DC. It had everything! Awesome specs, awesome games awesome accessories.

In a word? AWESOME.

Adam Novagen
08-02-2008, 00:25
Hey hey RadioSEGA!!! The name's Adam Novagen (NOH - vuh - jen.) I'm a sixteen year old male programmer, techie, and major gamer. OH WOW, SA1's PLAYING! Yeah RS!!!

Okay, so when'd I get my DC? Hmmm, lemme think... *gears grinding*
I think it was about a year and a half ago now. I got it second hand for $20 as a birthday present.:blush: IN MY DEFENSE, I'd wanted a DC ever since I'd first seen it. I just couldn't AFFORD it. OKAY?! :P
Anyway, I got it for the purpose of playing ONE GAME: Sonic Adventure. YEAH SONIC!!! :guitar: I still love that game, although I think SA2 is even better. Shadow's cool!

Okay, the MIRACLE. About two months ago, my DC stopped working. Sort of. See, the CONSOLE still worked fine, but the laser unit died, rendering it unable to read any games. Not good. :blink: I tried to fix it, being a techie myself, but no good; lasers are one of the few things I can't do anything with. I was ready to give my DC a sad goodbye. :sadgoodbye:
Actually, I was sort of in denial, like this: :wet: As a consequence, I didn't have the heart to get rid of it. Then, one day, for no reason at all, I got the feeling I should plug it in. "Yeah right," I thought, "what good'll that do?" But without really knowing why, I did anyway. I popped in Sonic Adventure 2...

.....

AND THE DC BOOTED THE GAME!!! THE LASER HAD RECOVERED FROM BEING COMPLETELY DEAD!!!

I swear, this is NOT a joke or exaggeration. My DC actually recovered from a near-fatal malfunction, all on its own. Sega, I salute you FOREVER!!! :rockin:

Anonycat
11-02-2008, 01:45
In 2001, my school held a raffle with a Dreamcast and $100 cash as prizes. I first took a glance over it and found the ticket prices too high for my liking, but after several weeks of advertising the raffle, ticket sales were still low. It got to the point where one day, I was called over to the table where they were selling tickets and asked if I wanted to enter, and said no. At that point I was suddenly offered a deep discount on prices, and looking at the bag of tickets sold so far, it seemed like a positive expected-value proposition, so I put $2.50 into tickets. The contest rolled around...and I didn't win. However, the winner didn't come forward, so a week later they drew again, and this time I had picked myself up one Dreamcast.

At the time, I was actually aiming for the cash, and was planning on selling the DC, but one day I decided to test it out...and upon seeing the demo disc, I had a keeper. Seven years later, it's been worth it.

sonicfanRICH
11-02-2008, 10:29
In 2001, my school held a raffle with a Dreamcast and $100 cash as prizes. I first took a glance over it and found the ticket prices too high for my liking, but after several weeks of advertising the raffle, ticket sales were still low. It got to the point where one day, I was called over to the table where they were selling tickets and asked if I wanted to enter, and said no. At that point I was suddenly offered a deep discount on prices, and looking at the bag of tickets sold so far, it seemed like a positive expected-value proposition, so I put $2.50 into tickets. The contest rolled around...and I didn't win. However, the winner didn't come forward, so a week later they drew again, and this time I had picked myself up one Dreamcast.

At the time, I was actually aiming for the cash, and was planning on selling the DC, but one day I decided to test it out...and upon seeing the demo disc, I had a keeper. Seven years later, it's been worth it.

That's a cool story. You were pretty lucky! Nice choice on keeping the Dreamcast.

Rolan
13-02-2008, 20:02
I got mine when the Dreamcast was dying and it was cheaper to get a Dreamcast with 3 games than to get a pair of PS2 games. The fact that Dreamcast games were down to £1.99 helped my decision a lot. Although I soon realized there was a reason why they were £1.99.:(

Dutt
14-02-2008, 14:24
I picked up my first Dreamcast about 3 or so years ago. By chance really, I was at a local boot sale and just saw it sitting there on a table. Remembering how desperately I wanted one back when they first came out, and that my parents were (for lack of a better term) tighter than duck's arses, I couldn't pass it up, it was finally my chance to pick up the one console I had particularly wanted for so long! So I haggled with the seller a bit and managed to pick it up, along with a couple of games, for a little over £20. Absolute steal, in my opinion. I've always been a bit skeptical when it comes to buying second hand consoles, because of not truley knowing their condition and history, but in this case I really couldn't pass it up, knowing it was probably the only chance I'd have of finding one at that time.
Luckily for me it worked like a charm, and served me extremely well.
My Dreamcast finally gave out late last year, over christmas time, I'd been having problems for a while of it cutting out in the middle of games and resetting randomly. I even went as far as opening it up and resetting the pins (a known trick to stretch out the lifespan a bit) but it didn't really help at all. I decided it would be best to just let it be, rather than fight a losing battle with it.
Will I get another Dreamcast? Maybe, I'm always on the lookout for a good deal on one, it's still to this day one of my favourite consoles..

Albel Nox
15-02-2008, 20:36
I got mine in December 1999 from Electronics Boutique (yes! they were still going then!)

I remember walking into the shop and just making an impulse purchase (I was waiting for the PS2 for next March).

Cant remember the games I got with it - other than Chu Chu Rocket, I think Sonic Adventure and a Tomb Raider one.

Oh and an RGB Scart cable. :)

Dutt
16-02-2008, 12:04
I got mine in December 1999 from Electronics Boutique (yes! they were still going then!)

I remember walking into the shop and just making an impulse purchase (I was waiting for the PS2 for next March).

Cant remember the games I got with it - other than Chu Chu Rocket, I think Sonic Adventure and a Tomb Raider one.

Oh and an RGB Scart cable. :)

Good lord I couldn't imagine playing my DC without an RGB scart, I don't know if it's just my TV, but the quality is awful without it. Just a shame really that some games wouldn't work with it..

Gavvie
16-02-2008, 16:37
Really? What games weren't compatible with a Scart cable?

Dutt
16-02-2008, 17:43
Really? What games weren't compatible with a Scart cable?

I'm not sure about western releases, but I have a few Japanese imports that won't work with a Scart.

snume
22-02-2008, 23:32
My wife bought me one for Christmas 99 along with NFL2K and Sonic Adventure. :P I had already had a Saturn and a Genesis so had to have a DC. I was not disappointed. Still :wub: the little white box.

SaturnsDream
09-03-2008, 21:51
October 30th 1999 when i first got mine, I also had a blonde moment in the shop and dropped it. I can't remember what games i first got for it.

scragnut
15-03-2008, 16:28
got mine shortly after launch day - remember playing Sega Rally 2 until around 3-4 am.

THEN made the mistake of showing my partner Blue Stinger - didn't get near it again until she'd finished it.....

Still have my original Dreamcast, though the lens is worn - anyone know where I can get a new one?

I have another Dreamcast that I still use - House of the Dead 2 still rocks as does Sega Rally 2.
I liked that game so much I also got a Japanese one so that I could drive the Ford Escort RS Cosworth - this car wasn't in the English version.

Long Live the Dreamcast!

Schezo
15-03-2008, 18:41
It's a little funny. About 2 years ago, one of my best friends (and my rival in many games) was having some problems at home and practically lived with me for about 2 months. He bringed alot of his stuff to my place, one of them being his dreamcast, so he could play Shenmue 2. Once he moved back to his place, he left alot of his stuff at my place. So I still has his Dreamcast (and GameCube, though I barely touch that one) and it's one of the consoles I play most (only bested by my Saturn).

He told me he might want them back one day, but untill then I can keep them. So I've been playing alot of Jet set radio, Ikaruga, Dino Crisis, Puyo Puyo Fever, and Skies of Arcadia. Lovely games, all of them.:)

amcdc79
20-03-2008, 00:24
Being a big Nintendo fan I had enough good new games(LOZ-MM,Conkers Bad Fur Day,Banjo Tooie) never mind all the ones I already playing (Diddy Kong Racing,Mario Kart,DK-64,Jet Force Gemini,MP3,Goldeneye etc.) to tide me over till around Christmas 2001.

EB were selling brand new Smash Pack Dreamcast for $68.99 when it was $49.99 in the States so I decided to buy myself one as a Christmas present. I also bought a vmu, Sonic Adventure and Shenmue so with Taxes it came to about $150.00.

A couple of days after being blown away by SA I went to rent some games and was told that the major chain had shipped all of theirs to a store about a half hours drive away. That store had thousands of DC games all marked down to $19.99 so I picked three and went to pay. At the counter the clerk informed me that they were in fact $4.99, so off I went for seven more.

When I got home with the good news,my better half says good score lets get more,so the whole family went with me to get five more. In a matter of a couple days I went from no games to 17,if I only knew then what I know now,I would have bought a lot more.
I was amazed at the quality of the games,and I kept thinking why did this system fail? Timing? Lack of advertising? Piracy?( a huge gaming friend would inform me about it later) Who knows?

All I do know is that I wish I had bought one sooner.

Kool Chao
20-03-2008, 01:12
A couple of days after being blown away by SA I went to rent some games and was told that the major chain had shipped all of theirs to a store about a half hours drive away. That store had thousands of DC games all marked down to $19.99 so I picked three and went to pay. At the counter the clerk informed me that they were in fact $4.99, so off I went for seven more.

When I got home with the good news,my better half says good score lets get more,so the whole family went with me to get five more. In a matter of a couple days I went from no games to 17...
Wow, great deal! I also remember going to pay for one game (can't remember each one) and the clerk telling me that it was half the price it was marked down! So I got another one, that being Metropolis: Street Racer, one of my DC favourite games!
The Dreamcast really made a strong impression on all of us. Also, welcome to Radio SEGA, amcdc79!:)

amcdc79
22-03-2008, 21:05
Hey thanks for the welcome,this seems like a cool place to visit and exchange stories,info,etc. regarding Sega and their many great consoles. The Dreamcast is my first Sega console,and I now know why over the years they have had so many fans. They are a true gaming company with so many ip's,it really hurts to know that they may never put out another console. The crazy thing about the Dreamcast is that I may play other consoles,but I keep coming back to it, because the games are so much fun I just do not ever get tired of playing them.

shadow1w2
02-04-2008, 20:09
I bought mine first day it came out here in the US.
September 9th, 1999.
Loved it ever since.
Man nearly ten years, how time flies.

Sonya Magenta
03-04-2008, 00:18
I got mine when I was 10 or 9. The first games I got were Sonic Adventure and that one sample disk game. My dad randomly decided to buy it, and it still works to this day. I've had it for almost 8 years. I have 8 games on my dreamcast, and half are Sonic games.

Omega
04-04-2008, 02:55
I got mine 3 years ago. It was used, but I had waited 6 long years to get one. When I got my first game system, the N64, I could have got a Dreamcast. But at the time, I didn't know how much better it was. Now, I'm looking for a Broadband adapter, a new copy of Shenmue and some other games for it.

Superjoe
19-04-2008, 14:58
I got mine on launch day in Harrogate, from an independent shop called "Warp Nine". Got Ready to Rumble, walked back to my car where my girlfriend was waiting for me, and she sent me back to get Sonic, lol.

Annoyingly she didnt even like it, lol.
Still have mine but its all boxed up.

M1CR0X
06-05-2008, 02:37
I got mine in March of 2008. Bought it used for $20. Came with system (duh), controller, power plug, and a 3rd party RF switch (<--this one weirded me out.).

richarddavies
06-05-2008, 17:13
Wow, and was that your first Dreamcast? What do you think up to yet?

arranmc182
08-05-2008, 13:31
I got mine in March of 2008. Bought it used for $20. Came with system (duh), controller, power plug, and a 3rd party RF switch (<--this one weirded me out.).

If you can get a RGB Scart or VGA Box with AV on it so you can play games that don't run on VGA with a flick of a switch, just look on eBay. RGB scart you can pick up for less than £10 & VGA for less than £25/30 on eBay. It's worth it because RF sucks. I have had to go back to RF. My RGB scart bit the bust after 3 years of hard use. If you find it hard to use the Dreamcast controller, like some of my friends, do get the MadCatz Dreamcast controller. That has rubber grips and and rubber on the analogue stick. Lots of my friends like them better but I like both but MadCatz was the only company to make good 3rd party stuff for the Dreamcast.

Mistress_Ishbo
08-05-2008, 14:29
Well my story is kinda lame.. ;)

I wanted one when it came our in 9/9/99 but my family couldn't afford it. So I just stayed with my Gen 2 for a very very long time!

The my boyfriend, this year for my birthday got me one. OMG

What I have been missing!!! He got me one with the box that has all the sega characters on it, it's beautiful! I am very happy I have one. I always wanted one and complained! Haha it came with 1 game.

Sonic adventure and the web browser! Haha Thanks for hearing my story. I know I didn't get my at launch. And that makes me rather sad!!!

dage_the_mage
11-05-2008, 02:34
i buy and fix them

Kool Chao
11-05-2008, 13:03
i buy and fix them
Ok, good... Care to elaborate? The thread is about your story...

Tikal
19-05-2008, 01:52
Dreamcast was my first and only launch system from SEGA, that I’ve got the first day one (nearly)! I ordered the Japanese one the day it was possible to buy and paid 1000 DM (500 €). It took 2 weeks.. but the Saturday my Dreamcast arrived I was soooo happy! I started with a VMU, that I got since a month and the 4 games, Sonic (of course!!), PenPen, VF3 and Incomming.
The first days I got to play in black and white, because of my old TV. But as I got a new one with NTSC, I played and finished Sonic again. ^^

It was such a great time!!

The PAL System I bought much later. It was in the stores since 2 or 3 months ago. And that's just because of the Dreamarena! ^^

Killer French Bread
27-05-2008, 14:04
I bought mine on the first day. I sold it a couple of years later for a guitar. I realised I can't play guitar so I sold that. I bought back the Dreamcast again.

Th3_uN1Qu3
16-06-2008, 02:48
I got mine pretty late, in 2006. I never really liked the PS2 and I read a lot about the DC so when I found an offer for a PAL Dreamcast with two controllers and RGB cable on the sales section of a local PC / console hardware forum, I went ahead and bought it. That was a few days before Christmas. :) Loved the system from the first second, remember putting my games on pause and leaving the console on overnight to be able to complete them as I didn't have a memory card at that time.

One year later, its optical drive broke. The piece where you put the disc (I dunno what it's called in English) had been wobbly for quite some time and finally gave up. Was a sad day... :(

After more than an year of searching, I finally found another one around here about a month ago. In the meantime I had gotten a VMU, and along with the console I also acquired a jump pack. The fun is back, yay! Soldered a Li-Polymer battery from an old cellphone in, this way I'll never have to worry about the date getting reset again. ;)

Today I played Dino Crisis all day and completed it once, more to go though. I think I'm going to play some Sonic tomorrow. :biggrin:

Miggi
22-06-2008, 12:12
Great stories, they warm my heart.

I however queued up for mine at a toys R us in Romford "London" in the freezing cold to get one of the launch consoles. I remeber being the second last person to get one. I still remeber it like yesterday, it had sonic adventure and a tokyo highway challenge. Completley blown away by the graphics and sound. Even to this day it fairs up well. :wub:

JamesC
22-06-2008, 17:53
My story isn't outrageously interesting, but here goes.

I had been a Nintendo fan my whole life, mostly because that's what my older brother enjoyed. I remember I'd always play Genesis at friends houses, but my family didn't have the money back then to be splurging on an SNES and the Genesis. So naturally my brother wanted the SNES and that's what we had.

So that continued on with me being a huge N64 fan. Then came the day when my friend Nate showed me the Dreamcast in a magazine. It took him about a month of extolling all the Dreamcast's virtues, but finally I said "Alright, fine. I'll ask for it for Christmas."

So I did. I got it on Xmas 1999 with the game "Incoming". I asked for Sonic Adventure, but apparently the store was sold out. Either way, I bought Blue Stinger, Sonic Adventure, and Soul Calibur.

Needless to say, DC became my favorite videogame console of all time, and Sega my favorite developer/publisher. That little thing was amazing.

Sorry if tldr.

JohnDover
24-06-2008, 12:40
Two summers ago attending a random car boot sale found a sealed japanese dreamcast that the bloke had found in his garage...it was labelled as a megadrive and cost me £15!

Can anybody tell me why the Jap games were in standard CD boxes but the uk games came in poor quality 'chunky' cases?

GamerGeorge
01-07-2008, 14:09
I originally got a Dreamcast when it launched, nearly ten years ago on 9/9/99, probably at Electronics Boutique. I don't remember much from that day, but I do believe my mom also got me Soul Calibur (maybe from Best Buy) on launch day, among other titles.

Agente Rolf
01-07-2008, 17:35
I got my Dreamcast when it was "dying", in 2003. I'm not sure, but I think when I bought it, it comes with 13 games.
The Dreamcast games impulsed me to buy one, mainly Soul Calibur, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Bio Hazard: Code Veronica and a lot more. My Lord, I remember as if it were today that I stayed almost 24 h playing Phantasy Star Online! What a cool game it is (It still is to me)!

Nowadays I still buy Dreamcast games and acessories, because I collect videogames.
Dreamcast rocks!

JoeMusashi
01-07-2008, 17:38
I believe I got mine in December of 1999 for my birthday from my Dad, who used to be the person who bought me all my video games when I was a kid. I got it with Sonic Adventure, which was awesome, I remember I immediately mastered the controls.

Dreamcarnage
16-07-2008, 20:53
Here comes a novel.

Well my story, like any other dreamcast story, begins in 1999. It was the year I got my PlayStation and I was at the store to pick up another game. I got Spyro the Dragon for my birthday and wanted Crash 2 Cortex Strikes Back.

Then I see a demo pod with a Dreamcast inside and the first thing I say out loud is, "What a weird looking PlayStation". One of the people that works there said that's Dreamcast; something I didn't realise until years later.

Well I was a PlayStation-man at the time and didn't care or want another system; after all I was only 6/7/8 years old so I had a good time with PS1.

Well several years later, I fell in love with a little game called Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, at that time, (2006), I only had a PS2, so I needed a console to play it on. That was the first time I learnt what a Dreamcast was, but sadly I ended up getting a Gamecube for the game. The main reason was that my mom didn't like the idea of me getting a dead system.

But, in the following years and months after, I couldn't stop thinking about the Dreamcast, had started to read about it, watch movies on youtube; I really wanted it.

My first step began fall 2007 when at my local gamestore they had two copies of Dino Crisis for the Dreamcast. I was suprised but decided I shall buy one because it was cheap and it's Dreamcast:biggrin:

So, March this year, I ordered a Dreamcast with 2 controllers 2 VMUs, Shenmue and Sonic Adventure.

Too bad that the guy forgot 1 vmu and a controller, so I got them 3 months to later, but, I got a DreamKey and Sonic on the Master System as a extra gift.

Gotta love the console, one of my favs. ^^

MrEthernex
11-10-2008, 23:23
I got mine I believe March of 2008. Yeah, very recent, but I heard from my friend that this store had a used one for $20 USD. It was in great shape, but it only had one controller, no VMUs, no games, and it had a RF Unit instead of composite cables (yellow, white, red). They sold games there for only about $3 USD, but none of them looked interesting.

So that's my story.

PS: They also had a model 1 Sega Genesis for $20 USD, too :P.

sh9nryu
11-10-2008, 23:40
After drooling over info and pics of Project Katana in my trustworthy copies of Sega Saturn Magazine I finally managed to purchase mine in 2000 and played Soul Calibur 3-4 hours solid a day for a month. Awesome console, awesome game. I was so excited about the DC because of my affection for the Saturn and snapped up the major titles that came out for it. I loved the design of the packaging and have still got the original boxes, inserts etc.

I still use it frequently today with my most recent purchase for it being Garou a month ago. It's gone a bit yellow now - BOOOOO - but that doesn't tarnish my opinion: it's the best looking console ever made.

soldierblade
20-10-2008, 00:56
I lost count. I've had probably 4 or 5, using the last two for replacement parts (GD-ROM drive) to resurrect the 3rd. I believe I got the first one sometime early in 2000. I bought it with Crazy Taxi and soon afterward bought Street Fighter 3 DI. My most recent DC console is sadly collecting dust. It's last drive transplant was a success, however the drive has started to fail sometimes and DC's are becoming harder to find cheap. So I savor its final running time, only taking it out for a game of Ikaruga or Third Strike occasionally and sometimes a little PSO single player.

SegaShinja
15-03-2009, 11:05
Christmas 1999, and I never stopped playing it since. It's been through a flood and a lot of moving around, but it still works great. I love it so much, that I just recently started "rescuing" Dreamcasts whereever I see under priced and under played units. I only have 3 now, but I think I'm going to paint one of the white ones and do the same with any others I decide to buy. I love it.

sonicfanRICH
15-03-2009, 11:42
Yes, that's what we need, a "dreamcast rescue unit"! Keep the dreamcast alive!

SegaShinja
15-03-2009, 12:16
Yes, that's what we need, a "dreamcast rescue unit"! Keep the dreamcast alive!

Yeah, the DC is loosing no vitality in this house. :biggrin:

mazonemayu
26-03-2009, 20:00
a friend bought it on launchday, with all the stuff that came out with it, went home to test it all out (he was a huge Nintendo freak), decided it wasn't his cup of tea after an few hours, came to my house & let me have it for half the price he (or his parents)paid. The bloody thing hadn't even been out of the box for a day.

sggg chalky
07-05-2009, 22:48
I got mine on UK release day. I remember driving home from Uni to collect my pre-order from town for £190 (I thought i'd got a good deal, whoops!)
I bought:
1. Trickstyle
2. Power Stone
3. Blue Stinger (anyone remember it? it's not as bad as the reviews..)

The next month i got House of the Dead 2 (with gun) and Sonic Adventure, and a memory card (I know, a month without one!):ohmy:

I've loved every minute of it!! Especially when my cousin got a PS2 for xmas and all we played on it was FF8 (for PS1), then played Shenmue, Jet Set Radio and MSR all day at mine!

Gavvie
17-05-2009, 16:24
You know what playing the games makes me think man, I am glad SEGA is not in the console race anymore.

And why would this be, exactly?

i need fruit
08-01-2010, 16:21
Mine was in 2001 I got sonic adventure with it as well. I still have fond memories of that game which is why I have never gone back to it on other consoles.
I begged my parents for it so much that Dad said
"We’ll pay half if you score a try in rugby... today" and that was it, those fools felt my pain that day. Looking back I felt a bit sorry for them, nothing is scarier than a 15 year old boy on a Sunday morning with that kind of incentive!
:biggrin: