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I actually purchased an Asian Dreamcast back in the day just so I could play the obscure Mecha game Frame Gride, which was crafted by the same brilliant developer responsible for the Armored Core series. Frame Gride is somewhat of a medieval take on the giant robot genre that Japanese gamers hold so dear. What made the game revolutionary was the fact that it featured a very crude form of on-line play that forced players to call in to a server to battle against others via the Japanese Dreamcast’s humble 33.6k modem. As many of you will recall the Dreamcast was launched in the US with the more standard 56k modem and could be upgraded for broadband with an optional adapter.
I had countless hours of fun playing Unreal Tournament and Daytona USA on my US Dreamcast as both of those titles had on-line play that ran incredibly smooth given the limitations of dial-up Internet. To my mind the DC was an excellent system that helped pave the way for the success that the Xbox 360 enjoys today with Microsoft’s XBL service.
The Dreamcast was a great system, but Sega's mistakes with the Sega CD (few good games), 32X (didn't support it after 6 months), and Saturn (alienated some retailers with the surprise launch, also hard to develop for) in the mid-1990's sunk the Dreamcast. If Sega had launched the Saturn like they did the Dreamcast (and not ever released the 32X), Sega might still be a hardware manufacturer today, or at least the Dreamcast (and Saturn) would have much more successful.
NFL 2K1 and Virtua Tennis in particular were really great games on the Dreamcast.
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