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ivan, I remember like yesterday the release of Dreamcast and the date 9.9.99 and the HUGE promotional effort put behind that console.
I bought it less than a week later, with Crazy Taxi and some "winter games" type of game, as well as one of the Madden NFL titles, and I don't think I bought any other games for that console, lol! I played *the hell* out of those three, though.
I really thought the Dreamcast was gonna be as widely adopted as the Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo, or the Nintendo 64 and Playstation were, but it sort of went *adjacent* to those other consoles, and when it came down to it, folks my age (I was 16 in 99) just sort of stuck with their "old faithful" systems, and continued to populate their N64/PS libraries with more games.
I loved the memory card system on the Dreamcast, though. Like a mini Gameboy. Pretty cool.
Definitely still a devoted cult following for that system, though. And I am glad I bought it back then. Hell, I knew a dude who bought one in 2014 on eBay JUST because he loved the damn thing so much from back in the day!
Good times!
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