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First Platform and Game You Ever Played; And Year (Optional)
Topic Started: Oct 24 2010, 06:42 PM (363 Views)
husekhan
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The Dreamcast was alive for a year and then Sony ended it and Sega as a console maker with the PS2.

I may be a fan boy, but I just feel there were so many more quality games on the N64. 007 and Ocarina of Time were probably the most influential games of that decade. That was back in the days where the PS1 and N64 were the main consoles (no Xbox) so N64 had as many mature games as the PS1 did.
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Garber
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i loved sega genesis
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Maarten_Spetzna
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Genesis was awesome...until Sega for some reason thought they needed rediculous add-ons to keep the system alive. The Sega CD was just too before it's time...and the 32x was just a piece of garbage.

And to comment on Dreamcast...It was actually not as bad as everyone said it was. I was about 10 to 11 when it came out (1999), and I remember buying it with Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi and Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles for Christmas of that year. The graphics on the first level of Sonic Adventure absouletely blew me away, and I couldn't believe how refined the game was. The other two games were pretty much a miss. Dreamcast was awesome for the first year...but Sega just failed to market it correctly after they lost so much money on the failures of the Sega CD, 32x, and Sega Saturn. And Sony just obliterated it with the PS2. (Just to correct you, Sega sponsered Dreamcast until 2001...but games continued to be produced until 2004.)

If only they had a better marketing campaign...maybe they would still be making systems.
Edited by Maarten_Spetzna, Oct 27 2010, 10:33 PM.
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I loved playing my uncle's Dreamcast. I thought Sonic Adventure was the shit, and Soul Calibur was just awesome, imo. I was going to buy it off him several years ago, but he had already sold it =/

On a related note, Playstation Network has released Sonic Adventure on the Playstation Store for $15. I plan on picking it up eventually. I don't know if Xbox Marketplace has it, but they have the Dreamcast's Soul Calibur, and I'm a little jealous over that.
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husekhan
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Oct 27 2010, 10:30 PM
Genesis was awesome...until Sega for some reason thought they needed rediculous add-ons to keep the system alive. The Sega CD was just too before it's time...and the 32x was just a piece of garbage.

And to comment on Dreamcast...It was actually not as bad as everyone said it was. I was about 10 to 11 when it came out (1999), and I remember buying it with Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi and Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles for Christmas of that year. The graphics on the first level of Sonic Adventure absouletely blew me away, and I couldn't believe how refined the game was. The other two games were pretty much a miss. Dreamcast was awesome for the first year...but Sega just failed to market it correctly after they lost so much money on the failures of the Sega CD, 32x, and Sega Saturn. And Sony just obliterated it with the PS2. (Just to correct you, Sega sponsered Dreamcast until 2001...but games continued to be produced until 2004.)

If only they had a better marketing campaign...maybe they would still be making systems.
Wasn't one of the Sega later consoles announced at E3 that it was now released, months before it was actually supposed to come out?

I remember reading GameInformer one time where they actually said that they were making a new DreamCast game in 2010 o_O
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Maarten_Spetzna
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husekhan
Oct 28 2010, 04:17 PM
Wasn't one of the Sega later consoles announced at E3 that it was now released, months before it was actually supposed to come out?


That was Sega Saturn. And that's why the Saturn recieved barely any third party support, and totally flopped. Meanwhile the system's hardware was more advanced than the Nintendo 64, Sony Playstation, and arguably the Nintendo Gamecube.

I could go into the long boring story about how the Sega Neptune was planned in 1995...but eventually became the Sega 32x, which was quite possibly the biggest failure in gaming ever. (Yes worse than E.T.) But it's unnessecary and I'm sure you can easily look it up yourself.

Hence I was said Sega fails at Marketing.
Edited by Maarten_Spetzna, Oct 29 2010, 01:44 AM.
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First Platform was the NES and it was probably Super Mario Brothers xD

It was when I was 2 years old, and I played wolfenstein 3d and doom on the computer at the age of 2 at my grandparents house.... I was a born gamer xD
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