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Although the Dreamcast was Sega’s final home console, it stood out at launch with powerful hardware and ahead-of-its-time innovations. Yet, it failed commercially. Sony’s PlayStation 2, with its DVD ...
As it turns out, Sega’s long defunct Dreamcast console is still thinking. The company behind the machine cut support long ago due in part to the commercial pressures applied by Sony’s ...
The Dreamcast was a proud moment for Sega, at least initially, being the first console to launch of a new generation. Unfortunately this didn’t translate into massive sales, and the plug was … ...
Jan. 31 -- It’s game over for the Sega Dreamcast. The struggling Japanese game maker said today it would stop production of its much-hyped console and focus on making games for what had been ...
Sega Enterprises Ltd. acknowleged Friday, Sept. 10, 1999, that some of the software for its new Dreamcast video-game machine doesn't work, only a day after the much-hyped system hit store shelves.
The Dreamcast's lifespan was from 1998 to 2001, when Sega’s Vice President, Hideki Sato, announced that production of the console would cease, and Sega would be moving into third-party publishing.
Sega launched Dreamcast with an ad campaign titled 'It's Thinking', which attempted to show off the power of the console. Moore joined Sega from Reebok, having never worked in games.
The Dreamcast was a testbed of sorts for Microsoft, with some of the console's games running on a custom version of Windows CE. When the Xbox arrived three years after the Dreamcast, ...
The Dreamcast may have only been around for a mere two years, but it managed to build itself one of the most impressive gaming libraries in history.
Originally written for the Dreamcast's 10th anniversary, this retrospective from Dan Whitehead is still a remarkable tribute to Sega's final home console. We're republishing this today, the 20th ...
The best Dreamcast games are as fantastic as they are diverse. While the Sega Dreamcast didn't have the longest shelf life, it did leave one hell of an impression. That's because of the work Sega ...
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Dreamcast's launch on Sept. 9, 1999 — or 9.9.99, as its promotional materials touted, possibly because that's 6666, the number of the super-devil, only ...