āOn the day that Sega launched its last ever videogame console, Dreamcast expert Tom Charnock provides you with a comprehensive guide to the system and explains why, even now in 2015, the machine remains an amazing piece of gaming tech that you should own.
I make no apologies here - I absolutely love the Dreamcast and everything about it. The hardware was top of the range in 1998, and the arcade leanings of the vast majority of its triple-A titles are exactly what still makes it such a special machine for many. Quick fire, short burst arcade games with graphics that were light years ahead of the competition back in the late 1990s made it everything a ānext genā system should have been; but it came and went almost in the blink of an eye. Before the streamers and confetti of the āmost successful console launch of all timeā had even settled, the Dreamcast was gone and forgotten by a lot of gamers. The thing is, the Dreamcast may have been dropped by Sega in early 2001 - just three years after it was released - but it never really went away. It was just resting, lying in wait for the renaissance to come; and now in 2015 it looks like the fates have finally begun to look favourably on this also-ran system. Join T3 as we take a look at the rise, the fall and the subsequent resurrection of the most criminally underachieving games machine of all time. Ladies and gentleman, the Sega Dreamcast.ā
