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  • čas přidán 16. 05. 2018
  • Everyone knows the Sega Dreamcast was something special. But not everyone knows WHY. There have been many generations of gamers who never played ANY Sega console, let alone the last one. So to pay tribute to everything SEGA was, here's what it was like to be there for Sega's glorious dying breath.
    Special thanks to The Dreamcast Junkyard for being an awesome site that I've read for over 10 years, to Sega Retro for being an invaluable resource, to Tickeroo for letting me use their PSO footage from 2001, to Tom Waterhouse for the original title card art (I used it as desktop wallpaper back in 2007!), and to Benjamin Woodring for sponsoring a Dreamcast retrospective way back in 2015! I hope it was worth the wait!
    Oh, and a HUGE thanks to the combined suggestions of @pyrrhickong on Twitter and my bird woman Alisha, for saving the PS2 rant near the end!
    LINKS:
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    Tickeroo's PSO Footage: • Phantasy Star Online V...
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  • @1lichfield
    @1lichfield Před 6 lety +3504

    I'm in shock.. I randomly found this video while checking my recommendation...I'm Spidey fucking hell. You even remembered what I looked like.

    • @1lichfield
      @1lichfield Před 6 lety +870

      Really hope you see this message. I'm glad all my late night gaming and PSO addiction back in the 90s didn't go wasted haha

    • @GeekCritique
      @GeekCritique  Před 6 lety +1050

      Holy crap, like, obviously I was _hoping_ you'd see it, but I didn't actually think it would happen! I couldn't remember the rest of our regular crew, but you were like my mentor in PSO! I'm pretty sure you taught me the Guild Card system, even, because I distinctly remember your name at the top of my list! I'm glad I got your RAmar's appearance right, too!
      I was an edgy teen at the time, so my first character was called "Shadow." I had a keybind to say "Chaos Control," and I'd always hit it when I went through warps.
      Let's see... I remember you were a bit older than the rest of us, like one time we were all disclosing our ages and you said, "Uh... sure, yes, I'm 12." I remember I had PSOv1 for like 10 days, until the community collectively convinced me to take it back and get v2 instead. But more than anything, I remember you (and your sister I assume, she commented too) being just the COOLEST, always taking the time to help me out and show me the ropes of a completely new style of game. For real: THANK YOU for everything!

    • @1lichfield
      @1lichfield Před 6 lety +1017

      Haha yes I remember you! I'm 36 now, I always knew you must of been an edgy teen haha Shadow and I remember your symbol chat. We did play with another girl and someone else but I can't remember their names.
      So bizarre how I just put your video on, I was agreeing with everything you was saying about Sega and especially the Dreamcast. I was a Sega fan my "home team" like you and I had a Saturn and needless to say was also laughed at!
      The strangest is probably my all time favourite and playing PSO with you and all the other random guys we met,really was the icing on the cake. Even the fear of being NOL'd when joining someone's party on PSO is a fond memory.
      I'm glad I met you and was able to take you under my wing and really help make PSO a great experience!

    • @Moto_Medics
      @Moto_Medics Před 6 lety +278

      woooaaahhhh crazy af "x-files theme plays"

    • @kevinthepilgrim
      @kevinthepilgrim Před 6 lety +348

      This is so awesome!
      Reading your story and you remembering the good times you shared.
      That’s why video games are so freaking awesome.

  • @mickmickymick6927
    @mickmickymick6927 Před 5 lety +539

    "The Dreamcast is as old now as the Atari 2600 was then".
    Oh God, I have to go sit in the corner for a while.

    • @robertdaone
      @robertdaone Před 5 lety +10

      LOL and I still have both systems!

    • @SegaDream131
      @SegaDream131 Před 5 lety +3

      @@robertdaone I have multiple😎 of Both!🤗

    • @ikec2894
      @ikec2894 Před 4 lety +4

      Holy f#ck I'm old😩😩😩

    • @frankthespank
      @frankthespank Před 4 lety +8

      Yeah dude... did you just turn 40 too? 40 is a hard one.... 30 was no big deal, 20 was awesome... but 40.... god damn we’re old farts now. 50 is gonna suck.

    • @nicholasperrin1097
      @nicholasperrin1097 Před 4 lety +3

      LOL, yah, that made me fool old as hell as well, man. Him talking about his 13 year old self when the PS2 was released was even worse, LOL. I had just got into college then.

  • @Markosmirel32
    @Markosmirel32 Před 4 lety +277

    This is like my 5th time watching this video, but I wish I could like it more than once. I was never a Sega fan, but growing up being somewhat poor, when they dropped in price my parents seized that opportunity to bring me home a new console for an amazing price. To this day it was the greatest experience I've had with a console. I enjoyed every game I had on it. It's the only console I still have from my childhood today, it survived our home being burned down and a couple moves. I love this console!

    • @user-nh5zd3ic8r
      @user-nh5zd3ic8r Před 4 lety +8

      Wow...I loved mine too

    • @sentokigames151
      @sentokigames151 Před 4 lety +6

      awesome to hear...I was a sega fan

    • @kh7955
      @kh7955 Před 4 lety +5

      Awesome story man. Seriously

    • @watamutha
      @watamutha Před 2 lety +1

      Maybe it burned your house b/c it thought you might love it more.

  • @cristianmastrocicco4552
    @cristianmastrocicco4552 Před 3 lety +101

    I was 15 when the Dreamcast released in the US, I remember buying one along with Sonic Adventure and Street Fighter 3. I was blown away by the graphics, bigger games and online capabilities. I was a fan of Phantasy Star Online, spending so much time on that revolutionary game. I met a girl while playing (She was a bit younger than me), and we immediately became friends. Obviously, due to the shutdown of the servers, we went our own separate ways. But 6 years later I found her on Facebook, and she became my girlfriend. We're still together, and we still play on our Dreamcast. Thank you for this nostalgic video, I admit I teared up while watching

  • @OfficialRedTeamReview
    @OfficialRedTeamReview Před 6 lety +155

    Crazy. Never knew Sega essentially had every idea back then that is now so popular.

    • @shady_the_one
      @shady_the_one Před 5 lety +23

      Well damn. They did SegaNet and Online Play before Xbox, they did the four controller thing before Xbox and GameCube(PlayStation 2 never got around to it), the portable console games before the Switch, motion control before the Kinect, I mean damn. For them to come back now would be hard. I'm sure it's wanted by many, but it's just not feasible for Sega, a company that hasn't touched consoles since the Dreamcast in 2001, to return in 2019, two generations after it's Swansong, and compete with the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Trust me, I have been trying to brainstorm this all night. I have nothing. There is nothing Sega can do that Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft haven't already done...
      Of course, that could be the Anti-Sega Return argument. A pro Sega return could be:
      -It could finish what it started with the Dreamcast
      -Sega has the money to do so.
      -Competition is always good, and there is a hell of a stalemate going on here and now. The return of the Sega Dreamcast could mean a stimulation in the market
      -Nostalgia

    • @Jack_80
      @Jack_80 Před 5 lety +18

      @@shady_the_one n64 was the first console to have 4 controller ports. my friends and i would play goldeneye almost constantly.

    • @shady_the_one
      @shady_the_one Před 5 lety +4

      @@Jack_80 shit. My mistake

    • @davidhailes7311
      @davidhailes7311 Před 5 lety +7

      @@shady_the_one Nintendo 64 had four controller functionality plus online play with the DD64

    • @shady_the_one
      @shady_the_one Před 5 lety +1

      @@davidhailes7311 I thought that was just a CD add-on

  • @tinguspingus2068
    @tinguspingus2068 Před 5 lety +498

    Sega was WAY ahead of their time and it’s sad that not a lot of people recognize that.

    • @pp3k3jamail
      @pp3k3jamail Před 5 lety +24

      Remember turbo graphics 16? I miss those old consoles like the Sega Genesis Dreamcast and turbo graphics 16

    • @Getloose360
      @Getloose360 Před 5 lety +22

      @Benjamin umm because there aren't any other games besides FPS's right? Lol

    • @spursdynasty7378
      @spursdynasty7378 Před 5 lety +7

      Youngsters missed out or dont care.

    • @crashpal
      @crashpal Před 5 lety +16

      it did online before xbox live

    • @electrictroy2010
      @electrictroy2010 Před 5 lety +14

      SEGA kept screwing gamers with randomupgrades to the Genesis like 32X (and then barely supporting them). Gamers got tired of wasting their money and abandoned ship
      .

  • @heyitzrare
    @heyitzrare Před rokem +25

    This video sold me on a Dreamcast back in 2019, and I legitimately can't thank you enough for introducing me to what is, without a doubt, my *favorite* console of all time 💙

  • @krisgersch8480
    @krisgersch8480 Před 4 lety +102

    I just got my Dreamcast for Christmas and it is...
    One of the greatest, most innovative boxes of video game technology I've ever seen

    • @daleholbert3111
      @daleholbert3111 Před 4 lety +4

      had one love that shenmue game had a black concel

    • @kris-wj3wj
      @kris-wj3wj Před 4 lety +4

      I'm actually thinking about buying one for powerstone by itself lol. I was the guy with the odd "dreamcast" when I was a kid, but we all ended up at my house playing soul caliber and power stone several times a week. lol

    • @michaelmicoowoods712
      @michaelmicoowoods712 Před 3 lety +3

      Kris Gersch it was ahead of it time and it’s sad that it didn’t catch on due to the confusion and hysteria that PLAYSTATION brought

  • @WallBreakerOfficial
    @WallBreakerOfficial Před 6 lety +474

    The fact that you and Spidey found each other after all this time is the best thing I've seen on youtube this year.

    • @TRJ2241987
      @TRJ2241987 Před 5 lety +22

      I wish I could remember the names of anybody I used to chat with in the NBA2K1/2K2 chatrooms.....to this day the Dreamcast NBA2Ks were the only versions that ever had that feature to be able to talk with people for as long as you liked before you started up a game, and you could actually choose to start up a game with whoever you wanted, these days it is forced to be random or they have to already be on your friends list. You can't just mingle with strangers like you used to be able to.

    • @jedistreaming4006
      @jedistreaming4006 Před 5 lety +7

      I agree, I still got tears in my eyes from 30 minutes ago bro.

    • @nullvoid3545
      @nullvoid3545 Před 5 lety +2

      hmmmm....... im a skeptic.

    • @zalz
      @zalz Před 5 lety +2

      Wierd cross over anime

    • @Jackpkmn
      @Jackpkmn Před 4 lety +2

      ​@@nullvoid3545 I'm not, there's something about the phantasy star series specifically i think that makes this kind of thing happen. I've met more than one person who remembered me from schtserv or psu who were scattered to the wind by the server closures.

  • @kvltizt
    @kvltizt Před 4 lety +100

    "lol hamburger"
    "no you are"
    just like today

  • @mudaquetoca
    @mudaquetoca Před 4 lety +270

    "As always, SEGA was more interested in making a game groundbreaking than making one that was profitable"
    Today, SEGA does EXACTLY the opposite.

    • @vaibhavdabwalv1
      @vaibhavdabwalv1 Před 4 lety +49

      Yakuza? It is more GTA than GTA itself? They're still doing what they did back then.
      Except whatever the fk is going on with Sonic

    • @nunyadambidniss
      @nunyadambidniss Před 4 lety +8

      SEGA Died...
      Awhile Ago.

    • @enticingFicus
      @enticingFicus Před 4 lety +11

      SEGA was also home of many games that were just fun. Crazy Taxi comes to mind.

    • @T1Oracle
      @T1Oracle Před 4 lety +17

      Can you blame them? Gamers didn't show up for them.

    • @kh7955
      @kh7955 Před 4 lety +17

      @@T1Oracle yep. There was a time when Sega was a joke so everybody jumped ship. Kind of a bummer bc Sega was a fucking pioneer

  • @pablokpsctr
    @pablokpsctr Před 4 lety +71

    "I have all 150 pokemon" said someone at the Phantasy Star lobby hahahah

    • @pablokpsctr
      @pablokpsctr Před 4 lety +12

      What a great statenent of how far we've come in time

    • @supercat2087
      @supercat2087 Před 3 lety +5

      @@pablokpsctr crazy

  • @IamKnucks
    @IamKnucks Před 5 lety +100

    I lost my Dreamcast in a home robbery. Still hurts.

    • @leocalinawan8429
      @leocalinawan8429 Před 4 lety +15

      that sure hurts..but think of it like it could've converted that thief into a DC enthusiast

    • @davidkeys4284
      @davidkeys4284 Před 4 lety +9

      Damn that sucks

    • @theunknown0887
      @theunknown0887 Před 3 lety +2

      Damn that sucks for you I hope the games u had on it are available on steam…

    • @Golemoid
      @Golemoid Před 3 lety +10

      @@leocalinawan8429 more like a craigslist enthusiast lmao

    • @kinginblack3321
      @kinginblack3321 Před 3 lety +1

      Dang I legit felt bad hearing that

  • @TheGamingVue
    @TheGamingVue Před 5 lety +263

    The best version of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 was found ONLY on Dreamcast. I miss you sweet child...Rest In Peace.

    • @SMOKEYJOEKILO
      @SMOKEYJOEKILO Před 5 lety +25

      I wanna take you for a ride
      (Music)
      I wanna take you for a ride
      (Music)
      I wanna take you for a ride
      (Music)
      I wanna take you for a ride

    • @jarrettpennington4579
      @jarrettpennington4579 Před 5 lety +4

      Absolutely.

    • @godofdrill4857
      @godofdrill4857 Před 5 lety +3

      I got it for Xbox but it's not backwards compatible 😠

    • @frozWnX
      @frozWnX Před 4 lety +4

      I still play MvC, MvC2, SFA3, and have a burned copy of SF3 third strike still

    • @reekz1568
      @reekz1568 Před 4 lety +2

      Played it for millions of hours

  • @CODmontages110
    @CODmontages110 Před 3 lety +7

    The Dreamcast will never be forgotten. Out of all my games in my collection, next to my 3DS, I play my Dreamcast daily. There’s so many games on the system that sometimes I feel overwhelmed. Skies of Arcadia, Resident Evil 2 and 3, Dino Crisis, Sonic Adventure (1 and 2), Marvel vs Capcom 2, D2, Jet Grind Radio, Grandia, Crazy Taxi, EGG, Gigawing and Timestalkers. The Dreamcast has one of the best offerings of first party support and some third party support.

  • @Zergonzo
    @Zergonzo Před 4 lety +93

    This is one of the greatest Dreamcast videos on CZcams. Thanks for making it.

    • @Jack_80
      @Jack_80 Před 4 lety +1

      i hate these videos because every time i see them i start kicking myself for ever getting rid of my dreamcast and decent collection of games. soul calibur, sword of the berserk, re code veronica, ports of re2, re3, and dino crisis, and skies of arcadia are the ones i remember right now and there were probably a few more. i really wanna play sword of the berserk again, one of my favorite hack n slash games ever.

    • @sludgemute
      @sludgemute Před 2 lety

      *the greatest

  • @PhyreI3ird
    @PhyreI3ird Před 6 lety +45

    You won *_sooo many points with me_* for mentioning Phantasy Star and then pulling the rug out from under me with Chu Chu Rocket and _then_ actually talked about PSO. Seriously idk which of those I love more.
    I never got to play the dreamcast online, and I was actually planning on getting one in the next couple months so this is fucking AWESOME! All the more incentive to buy the system again. It may be awhile but I guarantee you I'll be joining sometime :D

    • @WaterKirby1994
      @WaterKirby1994 Před 5 lety +1

      PSO2 really needs a western release. Gen 6 consoles really had the most going for them in terms of quality games, that's why we all remember Dreamcast, Gamecube, & PlayStation2 to this day. Although the PS2 probably had the worst hardware of the Gen6 Consoles in its initial release, where as Xbox was the most lacking in terms of games.

  • @EntithDeZephyr
    @EntithDeZephyr Před 4 lety +45

    I don't cry at funerals, but this brought a tear to my eye.

    • @ygobe2
      @ygobe2 Před 3 lety

      Is this a dreamcast talk or the end of the walking dead season 1 game

  • @museum1401
    @museum1401 Před 4 lety +56

    I've never even played a dreamcast but this was emotional...

  • @TampaTec
    @TampaTec Před 3 lety +105

    Sega was my home team too. Kinda sad dreamcast failed.

    • @gurgamous
      @gurgamous Před 3 lety +5

      It failed in keeping sega viable in the console market but it def succeeded in being a great console with great games.

    • @Texasmilitarydepartmentvid9654
      @Texasmilitarydepartmentvid9654 Před 3 lety +1

      The Dreamcast is amazing enough that i added it to my collection.

    • @brett84c
      @brett84c Před 3 lety +1

      I seemed to switch between Nintendo and Sega for each console generation. Went from NES, to Genesis, to N64, to Dreamcast. I absolutely adored my Dreamcast. It felt so sleek and advanced and the games were just incredible, namely Sonic Adventure, Powerstone, House of the Dead 2, and Shenmue, to name my favorites. I'll never forget the memories I had with it.

    • @dovic2293
      @dovic2293 Před 3 lety

      sega was broke by the time dreamcast came out they were $200 million in debt and could not recover

    • @crosstie417
      @crosstie417 Před 2 lety

      Sega and their risk taking and the different style games they put out, when everyone else is putting the same thing out every year, is what is missing now.

  • @PookyMage
    @PookyMage Před 5 lety +113

    god dam, that intro made feel old and cry... im 33 years old felt like i was 60.

    • @wesjohnson67
      @wesjohnson67 Před 5 lety +1

      Nice sounds good

    • @realbrownsfan3230
      @realbrownsfan3230 Před 5 lety +3

      Right with you at 32

    • @davaughn2376
      @davaughn2376 Před 5 lety +1

      I’m 30 and I had the system when I was in the 4th grade smh

    • @eden2esthar
      @eden2esthar Před 5 lety +2

      32 here...yea I remembered renting the dream cast at blockbuster when it came out....I'm old

    • @sethvalentine2873
      @sethvalentine2873 Před 5 lety +2

      About to be 36 this month. I bought this system JUST to play Mortal Kombat Gold and Resident Evil Code Veronica

  • @ItsMeSonicCraft
    @ItsMeSonicCraft Před 5 lety +29

    This is something that is hard to find on CZcams. This video MOVED me in so many ways. I've never played a dreamcast but I'm a big Sega fan. And the fact that you were able to talk about a video game console and make it be so emotional is impressive.

    • @userfriendly2737
      @userfriendly2737 Před 5 lety +2

      ItsMeSonicCraft YT Go find one. I'm NOT a huge SEGA fan, and only came to know about DreamCast through a roommate long after it was dead. It really is an *outstanding* machine, and it's so unfortunate for SEGA, but also the gaming community at large, that it came along too little too late. If you're a bit of a SEGA fanboy, you really owe it to yourself to see for yourself. I own one today, and honestly, a lot of the properties hold up quite well. 2k football is still my first choice for video football.

    • @wesjohnson67
      @wesjohnson67 Před 5 lety

      Bro u need to get you one and play it you wont be dissapoimted. Play virtua fighter 4 i think it is on it its amazing 👍 👍

    • @wesjohnson67
      @wesjohnson67 Před 5 lety

      Oh im sorry its soul caliber that i loved not VF

    • @g.s777
      @g.s777 Před 5 lety

      This really made me tap in to my past I got emotional as well.

    • @pit929tsakirhs7
      @pit929tsakirhs7 Před 5 lety

      why it hard to find.. seriously

  • @AdmiralBison
    @AdmiralBison Před 4 lety +27

    It seems the Genesis was Sega's most successful and iconic console that defined it, and went out bitter sweet with the Dream cast its finest.
    Support *games preservation* and *public domain* if you want to see your favorite games today, be reasonably priced, fairly common and easily accessible tomorrow.

  • @sonnyh.9091
    @sonnyh.9091 Před 3 lety +17

    I was just born when Dc was on the market. Still, almost 20 years later, I found out about the Dreamcast. At some point I couldn't stop thinking about this machine that packed a last dream. This machine that started an era.
    Now there's a DC in my collection. I payed a 100 bucks for it and it's worth the money. It sort of connects to me.

  • @waffletoast215
    @waffletoast215 Před 6 lety +202

    This was such a great retrospective. That rant against the PS2 cracked me up and I gotta admit the bit towards the end was a figurative tear jerker. Even though I didn't grow up with the Dreamcast like you did, I still own one and I'm such a big Sega fan that thinking about its failure gives me such a bittersweet feeling.
    ...why do I have a sudden urge to play Crazy Taxi now...?

    • @GeekCritique
      @GeekCritique  Před 6 lety +18

      ...YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH~!

    • @TwinSnake777
      @TwinSnake777 Před 6 lety +3

      WaffleToast215 you cracked up, I totally lost it. LOL.

    • @awakenedsoul2638
      @awakenedsoul2638 Před 6 lety +5

      marcus trelle
      There is no denying but you cannot deny that even after the failure of the Dreamcast it has a cult following today even the new generation is interested in it.

    • @ProJatior
      @ProJatior Před 6 lety

      Crazy Taxi is amazing.

    • @queencancerous5332
      @queencancerous5332 Před 5 lety +3

      The PS2 had better games though. Sega died because they had no idea how to evolve

  • @GreenChillZone
    @GreenChillZone Před 6 lety +8

    The Dreamcast was the first console that I ever played, and still my favorite. My earliest memory is watching the intro to Soul Calibur on my dad's system. The Dreamcast is so interesting to me because it was a transitional console: the last to sell itself as a home arcade, and the first to put online gaming on the forefront. I wish Sega today have even half of the creativity and fearlessness that they did back then.

  • @DaveXYZ369
    @DaveXYZ369 Před 4 lety +326

    People that love the Dreamcast are a special kind of Gamers.

    • @c3realK1ll4h
      @c3realK1ll4h Před 4 lety +3

      Retrovaporwaveaesthetic best console

    • @c3realK1ll4h
      @c3realK1ll4h Před 4 lety +13

      Retrovaporwaveaesthetic I played every console from the 1990s, for me SNES/n64 and Dreamcast were the best, they just had something different about them

    • @c3realK1ll4h
      @c3realK1ll4h Před 4 lety +6

      Rap Lawyer I got a Saturn at home, but nah, SNES/Dreamcast and N64 were the best

    • @dennismolina9033
      @dennismolina9033 Před 4 lety +7

      I still have my Dreamcast, i wouldn't trade it in, i play it every now and then, it's retro now lol

    • @dennisanderson8663
      @dennisanderson8663 Před 4 lety +9

      I played tons of Quake 3 online with the built-in modem. I also used the Planetweb browser a lot to browse the web and chat on IRC. That will always make the console more memorable to me than the PS2.

  • @ingrogies1
    @ingrogies1 Před 4 lety +86

    I lost my temper one Christmas while playing Trivial Pursuit with my Friends and some family members. I was on a team and we were asked the question, which games console was the first to have online play? Seeing as I was into games every on the team assumed this would be my big moment! I answered the Dreamcast but the card said the original Xbox. I wasn't very happy!

    • @ossnd5238
      @ossnd5238 Před 4 lety +19

      That still would have been wrong. The Super Famicom had satellite internet access. Even before that the Famicom had internet access, and I believe even the Intellivision and Atari was able to connect to a network.

    • @jackoff1826
      @jackoff1826 Před 4 lety +2

      Even the Saturn had online far before everybody else

    • @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917
      @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 Před 4 lety +3

      Turk What is really interesting to me is how the hardware was implemented in the Xbox before the release of Xbox Live itself.
      I remember a relative of mine randomly got me an Xbox when I was a kid in 2001 right after its release and because of that, my Xbox didn’t have the “Xbox Live” option in the Xbox Start Menu, and it wasn’t only until I received a random disk in the mail with a
      free 2 weeks of Xbox Live that I discovered that little Ethernet adapter on the back.
      I swear to god I was like “what is this...” when I got that disk in the mail and it introduced me to online gaming. Soon after I got CS 1.6 on my PC and Halo 2 on my Xbox and I was hooked.
      That was almost 20 years ago. Damn.

    • @kh7955
      @kh7955 Před 4 lety

      Sega had Sega Channel in 94

    • @kh7955
      @kh7955 Před 4 lety

      I remember having to hook the original Xbox up to a laptop to play halo online and it was usually against military guys. That was prob 4 months after halo came out

  • @TheSaskOtaku
    @TheSaskOtaku Před 6 lety +19

    Excuse me for a sec, need to wipe the tears from my eyes. I never had a Dreamcast growing up, but my friend did and I remember playing Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi on it. Seeing this has given me a new respect to Sega fans and the Dreamcast.

    • @GeekCritique
      @GeekCritique  Před 6 lety +6

      Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! My whole goal here was to try to communicate what it was like to be a SEGA fan when the Dreamcast was new, and I'm really happy that came through for you. :)

    • @Schrsmnymkr
      @Schrsmnymkr Před 4 lety

      Prairie Boy Gamer I myself never had a Dreamcast but I had the sega genesis. Then a PlayStation and after that ps2 with Spider-Man and spy hunter

  • @Nin10Guy
    @Nin10Guy Před 6 lety +20

    I didn't own a Dreamcast till 2014 so I have no nostalgic memories of the console during its hey-day. Despite this and looking back on it in retrospect, I can really see why people are giving it so much credit. The Dreamcast truely is one of the most underrated consoles ever and I feel bad that I didn't pick one up back when it came out.

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice Před 6 lety

      Nin10Guy
      Ya I had dreamcast in college. Nba 2k and 2k1 were sick. People would come over to play it. You could also burn dreamcast games pretty easily

  • @bryanbighatbear2562
    @bryanbighatbear2562 Před 4 lety +18

    I just bought a Sega Dreamcast 2 months ago and I have been enjoying it ever since. It was the first time ever played one when I bought it.
    Got me an old crtv and just having fun that was a really good video thank you sir

    • @TheRealFaceyNeck
      @TheRealFaceyNeck Před 4 lety +4

      It's incredible. It's so strange how a video game console can do poorly, even when it's the most powerful home console, with great games. At least it's still around today. Now that I've watched this video, and hearing that the Online functionality is back, I'll probably pick one up. The idea that I could play Marvel vs Capcom 2 the way it was first played Online all those years ago sounds too good to pass up.

  • @casualcadaver
    @casualcadaver Před 4 lety +4

    I got a Dreamcast Christmas of 1999 and I have never been more blown away by progress in graphics and sound and power. Games like Soul Calibur and Shenmu still look good today imagine how it looked back in 99.

  • @darkknight1938
    @darkknight1938 Před 6 lety +10

    I can't believe it's been almost 20 years. Where does time go? I bought my Dreamcast at launch and was so blown away by it. Nothing came close. It's so sad that it failed because it's library was amazing! I still play mine to this day and if I had to choose between Dreamcast and PS2, I'd pick Dreamcast any day!👍👍

  • @ConnerTheWaffle
    @ConnerTheWaffle Před 6 lety +171

    Phantasy Star Online was such a memorable game when I was younger. My first expierience with the game was on the Gamecube, and I played 3 player split screen locally. Still even then the memories and hours I have with that game is unreal!

    • @sammyyo461
      @sammyyo461 Před 6 lety +7

      Same!! Phantasy Star Online was my most favorite Gamecube title EVAAAR!!! > w

    • @GeekCritique
      @GeekCritique  Před 6 lety +19

      Heck yeah, split-screen on the Gamecube version was SUCH a fantastic move.

    • @simoncotten5886
      @simoncotten5886 Před 6 lety

      The Geek Critique How's It Going?

    • @BobisOnlyBob
      @BobisOnlyBob Před 6 lety +7

      Just hearing the music... it was like my heart leapt out of my chest and 15 years of forgotten nostalgia came pouring out

    • @sheikahshroom5220
      @sheikahshroom5220 Před 6 lety

      Whats up man? Love your vids. ;)

  • @aionarkhe5260
    @aionarkhe5260 Před 4 lety +59

    Legit scrolled the comments looking for Dreamcast haters that weirdly pop up in most videos, bit of a pleasant surprise not to see one.

    • @raemdespairbringer
      @raemdespairbringer Před 2 lety +3

      I have nothing but love for that awesome SEGA machine, I was an only Nintendo consoles owner, the moment I could go and buy the Dreamcast, all my hype turned into joy and that never fade away, right now I'm looking for one because I shared my Sports version with a friend and he sold it to have money for the PS2 and I will never forgive him for not even give me the chance to keep it

    • @itsknighttime9572
      @itsknighttime9572 Před 2 lety +4

      The dreamcast is fucking terrible

    • @themindfulmoron3790
      @themindfulmoron3790 Před rokem

      ​@@itsknighttime9572 So, like, what do you gain from this besides just being an ass for the sake of it?

    • @barrett.50caliber
      @barrett.50caliber Před rokem +1

      ​@@itsknighttime9572lies.

    • @itsknighttime9572
      @itsknighttime9572 Před rokem

      @@barrett.50caliber you're wrong

  • @MattC78
    @MattC78 Před 4 lety +24

    The Dreamcast was one of the best consoles ever made. I had one with like 30 games. It was awesome. I also loved all the arcade ports the Dreamcast had, like Soul Caliber, and Marvel VS Capcom.

  • @HybridAngelZero
    @HybridAngelZero Před 6 lety +48

    The Dreamcast was the last true classic game console, the PS2 is what rang in the modern era. Even though I wouldn't own a Dreamcast until 2006, I still have an immense amount of love and respect for the system

    • @pjmlfc05
      @pjmlfc05 Před 6 lety

      Micaiah the Otaku Gamer [HybridAngelZero] so did the dreamcast really with its modem. For pure gaming the SNES was the last great console pre modern gaming era.

  • @thrillhouse_vanhouten
    @thrillhouse_vanhouten Před 6 lety +40

    The Dreamcast startup sounds at the beginning of the video REALLY brought me back. The Dreamcast was LOUD, I forgot all about that.

    • @AdamTheGameBoy
      @AdamTheGameBoy Před 6 lety +3

      Yeah, it sounds like a wood chipper and drowns out the TV.

    • @haaxxx9
      @haaxxx9 Před 6 lety +1

      If you put a blank disk in, it might sound like a slowly revving 350z!

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts Před 5 lety

      Having had 6 Dreamcasts (yard sales and goodwill, mostly) one was notoriously louder than the rest.

    • @babybear6723
      @babybear6723 Před 5 lety

      Ikr u couldn't sneak on your GAme

  • @ianeons9278
    @ianeons9278 Před 3 lety +46

    "Like most 13 year olds I didn't even know the definition of newance"
    I can confirm this to be accurate

  • @zfalcon44
    @zfalcon44 Před 3 lety +6

    Thank you for this video. I've been binge watching Dreamcast stuff since quarantine & I just bought a Dreamcast for the first time. The passion you displayed for the console makes me really excited to play it! Thank you for the information you shared - I'll definitely be looking into it more!

  • @orrozconleche
    @orrozconleche Před 6 lety +8

    Over the course of the last 9 months I've watched your videos when I have something to do and I can't thank you enough for being such an entertaining and genuine person. Growing up I didn't own any Sega consoles and watching this one made me feel like I owned a Dreamcast. I'm incredibly happy CZcams worked out for you and there's nothing I love more than someone who takes time with their craft to make videos like these that imo, anyone can enjoy. This was amazing

  • @rjk1031
    @rjk1031 Před 5 lety +36

    This guy sounds exactly like the voice in Sega Bass Fishing....”YOU GOT A SPECIAL LURE!”

  • @MANOFGOD9000
    @MANOFGOD9000 Před 4 lety +20

    Ryo: That's cool, but seriously do you know where any sailors hang out or not?!! XD

  • @frozWnX
    @frozWnX Před 4 lety +23

    this.... is everything. I was 11 when Dreamcast came out and loved Sega. Prior to the Dreamcast I had a Genesis, Nomad and two 32x (but both were buggy af). I did enjoy NES and Mario games as well, but Sega always came first. I was really into Diablo 2 around the time Sega announced their shutdown, and neglected it because MvC2 and a few other games were still on for release.
    When I finally realized what had happened, I was very let down. I have not bought a new gaming system since the Dreamcast in '99. I got into CPS2 emulation and Blizzard games until the spark finally burned out and the gaming industry just wasn't what it once was that appealed to a g33k like me. Still, my Dreamcast has remained under my TV for almost 20yrs now, and I don't foresee that ever changing!
    Great video, it's good to know I'm not alone. Also yes, I def wanna get that dialup wifi adapter so I can kick it with the bois.

  • @bekkaboo90
    @bekkaboo90 Před 5 lety +51

    This made me so happy. Thought I’d never be able to get online on my dc again. Can’t wait to join the new community

    • @aetheralmeowstic2392
      @aetheralmeowstic2392 Před 4 lety +1

      Actually, the DreamPi is a Raspberry Pi-based device that converts a broadband connection to a dial-up one your Dreamcast can use. Buy one of these, and your Dreamcast will be online again.

    • @nefrig7920
      @nefrig7920 Před 4 lety

      Hello... What games are back online for the DC?

  • @dmcerrrmmmm
    @dmcerrrmmmm Před 5 lety +38

    Playing Shenmue on the Dreamcast is still one of my most memorable gaming moments.

    • @ldrake911
      @ldrake911 Před 5 lety +2

      "Let's get sweaty." - Ryu

    • @aimlessgamer6187
      @aimlessgamer6187 Před 5 lety +1

      You hyped for shenmue 3?

    • @dmcerrrmmmm
      @dmcerrrmmmm Před 5 lety +1

      @@aimlessgamer6187 looks interesting from what I've seen so far...cant wait.

    • @aimlessgamer6187
      @aimlessgamer6187 Před 5 lety +2

      I put $300 down on kickstarter.

    • @thelordofsalem3044
      @thelordofsalem3044 Před 4 lety

      I was simply going to buy the Dreamcast just to play Shenmue up until I heard 1 and 2 were being remastered and that's when I bought that instead. Having beaten the first one last year, I can't believe I hadn't bought it before... It's been a long time since high school that any game has filled me with great memories from playing it.

  • @Astroni800
    @Astroni800 Před 4 lety +6

    Sooo good for Dreamcast anniversary! Thanks for that journey, friend, that was great.
    "Live and learn! hanging on the edge of tomorrow..!
    Live and learn! from the works of yesterday..."

  • @belmod5409
    @belmod5409 Před 4 lety +15

    I remembered playing nba 2k for the first time on dreamcast, I remember u could make ur own team and even change the logo to sonic the hedgehog

    • @kh7955
      @kh7955 Před 4 lety +2

      NBA 2k was mind blowing at the time

    • @danieledwards8892
      @danieledwards8892 Před 3 lety +1

      Did that game have the 'street' mode? I remember my brother and I played the street mode more than any other game mode. Fantastic:)

    • @jaymtl79
      @jaymtl79 Před 3 lety

      It took me a week to hit my first FT

  • @doraeguyakaneddie6586
    @doraeguyakaneddie6586 Před 5 lety +82

    “I have all 150 Pokémon. I’m so cool”
    Just wait until that guy discovers Sun and Moon

    • @Alexander_l322
      @Alexander_l322 Před 5 lety +1

      He already did

    • @hayatuthunder5270
      @hayatuthunder5270 Před 5 lety +2

      Sun and Moon was the worst Pokemon game I have ever played. (From a competitive standpoint)

  • @epm1012
    @epm1012 Před 6 lety +318

    This is legitimately saddening.

  • @krymera666x7
    @krymera666x7 Před 4 lety +4

    Quake 3 online ate up so many hours of my life. I was a Sega kid growing up and really loved this system.
    The only one I ever pre ordered.

  • @stonecold5373
    @stonecold5373 Před 5 lety +124

    This system was so good.....disappoints me how underappreciated it was and how fast it died. So much capability here......RE Code Veronica was simply amazing, as well as Soul Calibur, NFL 2K, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, Knights, House of the Dead....the list goes on and on.

  • @Avrysatos
    @Avrysatos Před 5 lety +29

    When I went away to college, I brought my dreamcast with me because the dreamcast was mine, the ps2 belonged to our whole family. I had about 10 games and a few burned cds. Those burned cds contained nintendo games and the like, because dreamcast ran windows, emulators were quick to be made for it.
    I didn't realize how revolutionary online play was. It's rather amazing. Thank you for the video.

  • @khdaniely
    @khdaniely Před 4 lety +3

    Excellent video man. I remember waiting in line with my friends on the night of 9/9/99. I was 19 in college and pre-ordered that bad boy. The system was truly ahead of its time.

  • @YoungRiffaka00TV
    @YoungRiffaka00TV Před 4 lety +8

    Im not a gamer at all but even i wondered wtf happened to dreamcast they were slept on heavily

  • @SuperballsSupervidsOnYT
    @SuperballsSupervidsOnYT Před 6 lety +6

    Dreamcast nostalgia always hits me in the feels. I remember the seething hatred I felt for Sony at the time, that little white box was like my best friend and I was going through some major hard times in life, but I knew I could always go home and play some Shenmue, Test Drive: LeMans, Jet Set Radio or Metropolis Street Racer.

    • @shin-ishikiri-no
      @shin-ishikiri-no Před rokem

      I felt more hatred towards Xbox for trying to steal the Dreamcasts's VMU concept (albeit very badly). Nintendo was alright, but that's mostly because the Gamecube started importing SEGA titles on Gamecube. If a Dreamcast 2 were made, I would definitely have prioritized that console over Nintendo. Sony PS2 just had so many JRPGs that my brother was bound to get one. Nintendo of today has been better with the Switch era, but they babify everything these days. I feel like Mario is for 2 year olds... and the difficulty keeps getting lower.

  • @ShadowDrakken
    @ShadowDrakken Před 5 lety +35

    DreamCast was, and continues to be my favorite system. It had the best games for its era. Games that were just fun and controls that just worked. Everything was tuned so well.

    • @germanher7528
      @germanher7528 Před 5 lety

      The only thing I hated was the controller, it would be the thing that made me stop playing from the pain

    • @Bristecom
      @Bristecom Před 5 lety +2

      @@germanher7528 I guess everyone is different. I played Dreamcast for countless hours on end and the controller never bothered me. A lot of people love the PlayStation controller but I always hated it and found them painful after a while. My all-time favorite is the Xbox 360 controller or maybe the Japanese original Xbox controller.

    • @RBRM3
      @RBRM3 Před 5 lety

      No, I'm pretty sure Mario was all the way through.

    • @electrictroy2010
      @electrictroy2010 Před 5 lety +3

      Gamers wee also tired of SEGA screwing them with Genesis upgrades (like 32X) and then barely supporting them. When the Saturn was released the gamers abandoned ship rather than waste any more money (ditto with Dreamcast)
      .

  • @Charles-jj2su
    @Charles-jj2su Před 4 lety +4

    I played house of the dead 2 with my dad all the time as a kid. The dreamcast wasn’t just a game console, it was like a personal arcade. It’s special.

  • @AwakeByDesignFAN69
    @AwakeByDesignFAN69 Před rokem +1

    Great video.
    My first console was a sega mega drive. Loved it
    I miss sega so much.
    They were the 90s for me along with the Nintendo 64.

  • @Lakitu1134
    @Lakitu1134 Před 6 lety +13

    17:52 Holy crap! Everyone was counting down the days to my 5th birthday?! I'm flattered!

  • @TaurusOxford
    @TaurusOxford Před 6 lety +22

    The Geek returns!

  • @swaggsavage313
    @swaggsavage313 Před 4 lety +18

    I literally just purchased a Dreamcast I remember having one back then

  • @Brawler_1337
    @Brawler_1337 Před 4 lety +26

    Well, damn. Guess I’m getting a Dreamcast now.

  • @cflo1386
    @cflo1386 Před 5 lety +43

    Twenty years later I still have my Dream Cast, and it's still my favorite gaming console.

    • @theawardgoesto1
      @theawardgoesto1 Před 5 lety +3

      Yes i still have mine also, all black Sega Sports edition. About 30 games and 5 VMU's

    • @electrictroy2010
      @electrictroy2010 Před 5 lety +2

      I considered buying a DREAMCAST but many of the games were ported to GameCube (example: Skies of Arcadia) or PlayStation (Space Channel 5-1 and 5-2) so I found no compelling reason to buy a Dreamcast
      .

    • @fidelcastrosolis5108
      @fidelcastrosolis5108 Před 4 lety

      JL your lucky I sold it 2 years later when it first came out. I miss it alote.

    • @JohnyLim6393
      @JohnyLim6393 Před 4 lety

      I still have mine, 2 units and still working properly.
      But the lack of USB or SD slot make it hard to modify it for CD-less gaming

    • @starfireprincess
      @starfireprincess Před 4 lety

      I have a dreamcast emulator on my phone runs everything at fullspeed

  • @CJ-dk5xj
    @CJ-dk5xj Před 5 lety +38

    The most underrated game of all time came from this system. Power Stone 2!! Greatest fighting game to ever exist!!

    • @montelhelem8707
      @montelhelem8707 Před 3 lety

      @GuruTruthSpeak I love the first game but it's so frustrating at times 😂😤 Everyone reacts fast af lol

  • @alexisjordan3303
    @alexisjordan3303 Před 4 lety +2

    Man, thank you so much for this video. The comment about Sega being the home team speaks so much to me. My special games on the Dreamcast were Sonic Adventure, Soulcalibur and Code Veronica, but i especially want to mention a less-known but extraordinary game called Toy Commander, that made me feel like a child well into my twenties... ah such memories.

  • @soniquefus
    @soniquefus Před 6 lety +23

    OH man this brought tears to my eyes. I still have my Dreamcast and I kinda want boot it up now honestly. I'm really glad that you can still play online and that homebrew games are still being made for it. It's so nice to see people won't let this system die. It really was a special system and super powerful even to this day

    • @GoDokuNoDAN
      @GoDokuNoDAN Před 5 lety +1

      Dashell Boat Yeah my Japanese launch Dreamcast still works. Sometimes I stream Virtua Fighter 3TB, it gets more views and hostings than when I stream Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown! Retro power!

    • @leedleeeee
      @leedleeeee Před 5 lety

      I still play tony hawks pro skater 2 on it and house of the dead 2

    • @Jack_80
      @Jack_80 Před 5 lety

      i so badly wish i held onto my dreamcast. i had a pretty nice game collection for it. i really misz sword of the beserk and soul calibur. i played one of the more recent soul caliburs, part 5 i think, and i thought it sucked, i had so much more fun with the first game on dreamcast.

    • @MrDeedsly
      @MrDeedsly Před 5 lety

      @@Jack_80 Loved Sword of the Beserk. Just wished it was a little longer. Great game but very it's a very short playthrough.

  • @KISSFan1977
    @KISSFan1977 Před 6 lety +35

    I am 40 now and was always a SEGA loyalist back then. My system bias died when the Dreamcast died. P.S. I actually have all the systems they made and got them at launch LOL.

    • @fairrttg989
      @fairrttg989 Před 5 lety +3

      what a gem! 80s guy here! Had them all. Best memories. I cant play these new consoles. Too much updates, downloads, etc. But the old ones??? The start sound of pS2 or here. Dreamcast???
      Takes me back when I was a boy!
      I might get one at eBay!!!

    • @mkratos17
      @mkratos17 Před 5 lety +1

      Crypto Power there's emulators no need to get a console

    • @fairrttg989
      @fairrttg989 Před 5 lety +2

      @@mkratos17 brother. Emulators are like sex dolls. I don't respect that. I need the real thing. The original dreamcast controller, the boot up sound, disc, VMU, etc. The entire Dreamcast feeling. You can't get that on emulators.
      Thanks anyway brother

    • @WaluigiisthekingASmith
      @WaluigiisthekingASmith Před 5 lety

      nintendo doesn't do well because it sells huge amounts of software or hardware but because they survive while the dreamcast could have done well sega unlike nintendo had a reputation nintendo howeverr oly had 2 terrible systems and could fall back on their handhelds

  • @DieAlteistwiederda
    @DieAlteistwiederda Před 4 lety +1

    We didn't have one but my older brother used to borrow consoles from his friends for a while every now and then and damn playing with the Dream cast was the most fun out of all of them.
    Also that damn comfortable controller even my lefty self could easily work with instead of those super uncomfortable PS One controller I still hate to this day and I also never got warm with the other PS controllers to this day.
    Every game we played on the Dreamcast just felt so smooth and beautifully crafted.

  • @luliby2309
    @luliby2309 Před 3 lety +1

    My god, I'm one of those people who never played any Sega consoles and I had absolutely _no_ idea that Sega had so many ideas that were so far ahead of their time. Being a music guy, I've seen so many bands who were ahead of their time that didn't get all the recognition they deserved at the time, but eventually became legends. This is like the other side of that coin, where this crazy ambition does _not_ pan out well and it ends up costing them.

  • @GameplayandTalk
    @GameplayandTalk Před 6 lety +100

    Man, such a tear-jerker of an episode. That PS2 rant was hilarious though--most of us Dreamcast fans back then felt the same, so don't feel like it was just your 13-year-old self being unreasonable. It really wasn't impressive when it was new (that eventually changed, naturally).

    • @kylecampbell565
      @kylecampbell565 Před 5 lety +6

      GamingTV kingdom hearts 1 kingdom hearts 2 the Ratchet, Jak and Sly series would like to have a word with you

    • @LUCKO2022
      @LUCKO2022 Před 5 lety +3

      Yeah, only by fall 2001 when GTA III, Final Fantasy X, Devil May Cry, MGS2 and all those other shitty games that never sold well at all proved how the PS2 sucked.... (SARCASM).
      Get your head out of your ass. Playstation is where the real gamers went after Sega fucked up the Saturn and fucked over consumers. It's Sega's own fault that caused the DC to die and it deserved to die for being the shit console it is. Hell the Switch which is another PIECE OF CRAP CONSOLE is better than Dreamcast. Atari Jaguar is better than Dreamcast. TIGER WRISTWATCH GAMES ARE BETTER THAN ALL OF DREAMCAST GAME EVER MADE.

    • @ironlung9189
      @ironlung9189 Před 5 lety +5

      Shenmue was better than anything ps2 had. It took a while for the ps2's graphics to match that quality too.

    • @duckknuckles7880
      @duckknuckles7880 Před 5 lety +13

      Darth Grumpy you forgot to put (SARCASM) at the end of the 2nd paragraph there

    • @Igorcastrochucre
      @Igorcastrochucre Před 5 lety +5

      @@ironlung9189 Yeah, but Shenmue is one game and I ain't giving up a machine that plays Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, SMT: Nocturne, FFX, etc. for a game with pretty graphics.

  • @jdude9365
    @jdude9365 Před 6 lety +6

    Fantastic video, man! This is a great look back at the most underrated console in gaming history. It’s interesting to see how the Dreamcast introduced many features that future consoles would later build upon and perfect. That PS2 launch rant was hilarious by the way.

  • @blazeseraz8330
    @blazeseraz8330 Před 4 lety +1

    Hi, I must say that this video has made an small impact on me. I have 25 years and didn't knew about the Dreamcast only until about recently. However, the emotion on which you speak about the system, has make search for a Dreamcast. I believe that a system that can have someone speak with so much passion and soul is something that I really need to test for myself. Amazing video

  • @pa-ikollo1851
    @pa-ikollo1851 Před 4 lety

    So many videos have been made about this topic yet yours hit the spot, took me back to the days of old. Good job (nothing can really be over done if done right)

  • @ZdsZodyrus
    @ZdsZodyrus Před 6 lety +27

    I started with the N64 when I was 7. And have still not played a Sega system. But this video makes me wanna give it a shot.

    • @filipmartinez1162
      @filipmartinez1162 Před 6 lety +6

      Zodyrus Sevaron That’s a shame, I went from N64 -> Dreamcast and loved every game on the system. The high Rez VGA mode looks almost HD on modern TVs too so it’s still super clean looking. Powerstone is almost like a 3D smash brothers, you’ll like it

    • @lilmercy23
      @lilmercy23 Před 6 lety +1

      Dreamcast is legit one of the best systems ever

    • @WaterKirby1994
      @WaterKirby1994 Před 5 lety

      6th Gen Consoles was literally the best age for gaming. You got the Dreamcast & Gamecube both that Gen even though combined they weren't able to compare to the PS2 in terms of sales.

  • @darknekoenforcer
    @darknekoenforcer Před 6 lety +6

    Dreamcast was the first console I owned as a kid and it is still my favorite console because of the games it had

  • @DhinCardoso
    @DhinCardoso Před 3 měsíci

    5 years later and I keep revisiting it... the best video ever made on Dreamcast subject. Love it to the core. Ty ♥

  • @AUBCodeII
    @AUBCodeII Před rokem +2

    My favorite Dreamcast game is Jet Set Radio. Fun fact, the Brazilian copies of this game came with a manual written in Brazilian Portuguese, which was very rare at the time.

  • @BusterTBMPlays
    @BusterTBMPlays Před 6 lety +36

    Damn, I was not expecting myself to be THIS invested into this video as I got practically no history with the sega consoles at all (could have been the area I lived)But your story was so damn interesting to follow, this console was more ambitious than it could handle and with what you experienced with it, you should be happy you have that memory, never let go of that.Speaking of, that ending where you spoke about wanting to continue into the later sonic games, will shadow the hedgehog be one of the games you will adress?
    Personally if you do, I hope you won't be TOO harsh on it, it did some things well, but I also understand what it did to the sonic franchise.

    • @WaterKirby1994
      @WaterKirby1994 Před 5 lety +1

      Shadow the Hedgehog was great, it was trying to market Sonic to adult players & it actually was an enjoyable darker spin on the Sonic Series with it's over the top edgyness. Playing it feels good these days considering how much of a joke the tone of Modern Sonic games is these days. Pontac & Graff never should have been hired to begin with, although Ian Flynn came up with a passable sequel plot for the game.

  • @AB-cw5zc
    @AB-cw5zc Před 5 lety +94

    You made a 24 minute video on the Dreamcast and no mention of the greatest fighting game of alltime, Marvel vs Capcom 2? Dreamcast had the best version.

    • @madmax0583
      @madmax0583 Před 5 lety +6

      A B YES! Thank you for reminding me of the days of when capcom brought amazing games to Dreamcast: 1st)Marvel ve. capcom 2 (which is still my favorite iteration of the line)...how about Power Stone? That was great in its own right

    • @blackon38
      @blackon38 Před 5 lety +4

      @@madmax0583 I loved power stone, how you just run around grabbing things and throwing while you are fighting.

    • @Vectrex4Life
      @Vectrex4Life Před 5 lety +3

      Well, the NAOMI had the best version.

    • @ShortFuseFighting
      @ShortFuseFighting Před 5 lety

      @@Vectrex4Life
      stop being obtuse on purpose...its annoying!

    • @Vectrex4Life
      @Vectrex4Life Před 5 lety +3

      @@ShortFuseFighting What can I say, I'm an arcade enthusiast who loves arcade gaming much more than console or PC gaming.

  • @koophuisN
    @koophuisN Před 4 lety +1

    i am 24 years old, i played virtua tennis and ecco the dolphin for the dreamcast, my uncle's dreamcast by the way. i have 3 ps2's and 3 ps3's and this month i'm going to buy the nintendo 64 and become a speedrunner of goldeneye 007 and perfect dark. one day i will buy all the sega consoles if i'm still able to do it as i stand now crying over this video... because in my life as a gamer i discovered the graphics don't do it for me, instead it is the gameplay. i remember my brother, who has passed away, playing resident evil 2 for the playstation 1, i was a kid back then and i was super scared of the game but nonetheless i know the first level from back to front and never played it. thank you the geek critique for inspiring me and to feel no shame of liking these old games, my friends don't understand me and they think it'll be money thrown away but i can't play these new games... even happened a couple years ago with cs go, i ended up going back to cs 1.6 because i feel that is the real counter strike for me, much like with starcraft brood war and half life.
    i used to feel alone but now i know there are people who understand and share my passion for these old games

  • @Percheron
    @Percheron Před 4 lety

    Amazing. I'm from Brazil and never heard anything about your channel.
    Good thing is that is never too late to discover pieces of gold like this. Congratulations!
    I was fighting for Dreamcast back in the day... And I'll never stop!

  • @jonathonrhyne7295
    @jonathonrhyne7295 Před 6 lety +10

    I think this may be the best video you've produced so far. That's coming from someone who never had a Dreamcast nor has ever played one. It's obvious that a lot of heartfelt thought went into making this one.

    • @GeekCritique
      @GeekCritique  Před 6 lety +2

      Thank you, and _YEAH_, it really took a lot out of me! I spent the better part of a month just tweaking the script.

    • @azx7023
      @azx7023 Před 6 lety

      I agree. I've never been a Sega fan, but I literally teared up twice in this video. Keep being one of the best channels on youtube Josh. Good Luck.

  • @Armaron06
    @Armaron06 Před 5 lety +62

    The Dreamcast would have lasted another 10 yrs if I had bought one. Just me. It's all my fault.. Sorry.

    • @AUBCodeII
      @AUBCodeII Před 4 lety +8

      Just tell me your credit card number and the three little numbers in the back and everything will be fine, k?

    • @brucewayne-ej3cx
      @brucewayne-ej3cx Před 4 lety +3

      God damn you man, why WHY!!!

    • @kuldeepbhati7813
      @kuldeepbhati7813 Před 4 lety +2

      you are Gene Snitsky in reverse

    • @AlvaroChuquiureZadig
      @AlvaroChuquiureZadig Před 4 lety +2

      Anyone who owns a dreamcast to this day the console is still working

    • @kinginblack3321
      @kinginblack3321 Před 3 lety +1

      I hope ur happy
      Jerk

  • @AwlrightProductions
    @AwlrightProductions Před 4 lety +1

    I really, really appreciate that you started the video with the "Dilapidated Way" track from Sonic Adventure 1. What a fantastic soundtrack. Great video. Thank you.

  • @blagd
    @blagd Před 3 lety

    Awesome video man.. closing on Live and Learn gave me goosebumps!

  • @impurfekt
    @impurfekt Před 5 lety +207

    The Dreamcast was the last system to break my heart. Every game I played on it was superb. I even looked at porn and sent emails with it over dial-up.

    • @TRJ2241987
      @TRJ2241987 Před 5 lety +60

      lol this was my porn machine as a teen for the early 2000s.....no web history, parents clueless lol

    • @Coockiez-007
      @Coockiez-007 Před 5 lety +67

      the first faps are always the most emotional

    • @GoDokuNoDAN
      @GoDokuNoDAN Před 5 lety +7

      impurfekt lol, Dreamcast porn.

    • @bennattj
      @bennattj Před 5 lety +7

      Yeah, it was the last for me too...because it was the last Sega system...I'm afraid they could have fucked me again if they had continued...

    • @Survivor-ng4te
      @Survivor-ng4te Před 5 lety +38

      Thank you for telling me. I’ll make sure to sanitize any controllers I purchase for the dreamcast

  • @onetwo6039
    @onetwo6039 Před 5 lety +137

    9-9-99
    Sega genesis mini release date 9-19-19
    How about that. 🤔😉

    • @markweston216
      @markweston216 Před 5 lety +16

      19/9/19 ffs

    • @onetwo6039
      @onetwo6039 Před 5 lety +2

      @@markweston216 I currently need 5 more likes for another 19. 😂

    • @reeseon10
      @reeseon10 Před 5 lety

      i gotchu, 4 more now

    • @spursdynasty7378
      @spursdynasty7378 Před 5 lety +1

      I remember waiting for September 9th to get it. Good memories

    • @fidelcastrosolis5108
      @fidelcastrosolis5108 Před 4 lety

      One Two kool. I'm glad for that. How time flies its been 20 years.

  • @cashnelson2306
    @cashnelson2306 Před 3 lety +5

    "The dreamcast is as old now as the atari 2600 was then" oh jesus christ

  • @Blahaj-the-1kea-shark
    @Blahaj-the-1kea-shark Před 5 měsíci

    I know im 5(+24) years late to the party, but i got a dreamcast and this video has helped me LOOOVE IT!!!!! Im gopefully going to be able to get a DreamPi soon, and I hope I'm able to see you online at some point! Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful machine!

  • @SQGReviewShow
    @SQGReviewShow Před 6 lety +8

    I've been waiting for this. I"m not even really a Dreamcast fanatic, but I do love console retrospectives and this is probably the best video I've seen on the Dreamcast. Well done, Josh! :D

    • @SQGReviewShow
      @SQGReviewShow Před 6 lety +1

      Btw, NO MENTION OF KAO THE KANGAROO? LIKE, IT DEFINED THE DREAMCAST! XD

  • @craig9180
    @craig9180 Před 5 lety +9

    This video made me dig out my Dreamcast. What a legendary console !!

  • @Semiantomatic
    @Semiantomatic Před 4 lety +1

    That was very heartfelt and sincere. I was ten when this came out, it was instrumental to my childhood, thanks for the video.

  • @spagooglydood294
    @spagooglydood294 Před 24 dny

    I love this video. And come back to it regularly because of my love for the Dreamcast and what it meant to me at the time and for the industry at large. Love your work so much Josh.

  • @caleb6755
    @caleb6755 Před 6 lety +10

    The Dreamcast has that Mega Man X helmet light-thingy on it. Just saying. Also, it's good to see how nostalgic and emotional you can get over games/a console. It can be sad to have a system that you really like start getting outdated or overshadowed. Let's never forget our old favorites! God bless you, and Miiverse forever. :)

    • @GeekCritique
      @GeekCritique  Před 6 lety +1

      WOAH, it totally does!

    • @caleb6755
      @caleb6755 Před 6 lety +1

      A response! You've made my day! Thank you!!!!!

  • @Session
    @Session Před 5 lety +16

    pso was incredible. lost endless playing it. sadly there hasn’t been anything else like it still to this day

    • @mariomario7379
      @mariomario7379 Před 4 lety +2

      Xbox one version releases April!

    • @lunarscales_
      @lunarscales_ Před 3 lety +1

      It's not a DVD BOX VIDEO! It's a video about a dream that was made with passion and was the LAST video game system...

  • @DutchPs3Gamer
    @DutchPs3Gamer Před 4 lety

    Dude. i just saw this today but what a amazing video. You brought tears to my eyes with your love for this amazing console. Got mine on release date in Amsterdam. I got very few sleep the weeks after.

  • @brodogg1313
    @brodogg1313 Před rokem

    Spent so much time playing the Dreamcast in my college dorm room. Epic 4 player sessions of power stone, Tony hawk high score contests, and soul calibur tournaments
    .. so many good memories, thanks for making this video 📷

  • @BenPara16
    @BenPara16 Před 6 lety +6

    Great video! I never knew I could feel so sad for a console's fate. When I was younger I bought a copy of Ecco the Dolphin Deffender of the Future for the Dreamcast before I even owned one, because I loved the Ecco games on Genesis. I spent so long looking for a DC as a kid but never saw them in stores, now I know why, guess I was a little late :( I eventually picked up the PS2 version of Ecco and loved the hell out of it, but after watching your video I've decided to find my old DC version of Ecco and snatch up a used DC from Ebay or something just to honor the memory of the Dreamcast! Again, great video! Keep up the awesome work :D

  • @Nexus9_KD6-4.8
    @Nexus9_KD6-4.8 Před 5 lety +48

    Dreamcast was absolutely ahead of its time. It was a sixth generation console two years before the sixth generation. Had Sega not already been so hurt by previous blunders the Dreamcast would have been able to hold its own against the PS2 and GameCube (from a technical standpoint in much the same way the TG16/PC Engine compared to the Genesis and SNES). It would have been the underdog, but still competent, and we all know games make the system. It simply wasn't in the cards. Too much damage already done.

    • @spursdynasty7378
      @spursdynasty7378 Před 5 lety +2

      They failed to understand their customers in the West. That's where Xbox came in.

    • @pit929tsakirhs7
      @pit929tsakirhs7 Před 5 lety

      it had bad marketing

    • @electrictroy2010
      @electrictroy2010 Před 5 lety +4

      Gamers wee also tired of SEGA screwing them with Genesis upgrades (like 32X) and then barely supporting them. When the Saturn was released the gamers abandoned ship rather than waste any more money (ditto with Dreamcast)
      .

    • @23GreyFox
      @23GreyFox Před 4 lety +2

      @@electrictroy2010 The dreamcast and saturn did bad in europe too, without the mistakes they did in north america.

    • @leocalinawan8429
      @leocalinawan8429 Před 4 lety +1

      screw all that..it was a way of life, like being a rebel