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I never had one. Thinking of picking one up. Tell me what games are essential. GO!

:[ (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

KNiGHTS
Super Puzzle Fighter Alpha
Virtua Fighter 2/Fighting Vipers/Fighters Megamix
Shining Wisdom III
Guardian Heroes
Street Fighter Alpha (2)
Darkstalkers 2: Night Warriors (**************)
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Dragon Force

Sentimental faves: Mystara, Rayman

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

the controller always put me off

c7n (Cozen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

those were on the dreamcast?

jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, I read "Dreamcast" and mentally substituted "Saturn".

Space Channel 5
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Samba de Amigo
Soul Calibur II

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

My favourite console ever.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Jet Grind Radio
Crazy Taxi
Shenmue
MDK 2 (!!!!!!!!)

kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

JGR DEFINITELY (although the X-Box version is superior)

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Rez
Jet Set Radio
Ikaruga
Chu Chu Rocket
Powerstone 2 (with mates) (super smash kinda makes powerstone obselete tho)
Skies of Arcadia is okay if you like long-ass console RPGs, ditto Grandia II.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Make sure you get the American version of JGR/JSR, the extra stages and skaters totally make it make sense & make it paced right.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

"Memmmmbers of the Golden Rrrrhino" on that nearlast hardest stage is my favourite sonic moment in any game ever.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

(um that's in JGR not sonic obv) (the dreamcast sonics are wrth playing if you like sonic games, the bossfights are sweet)

haha Ecco?

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I love Dreamcast.

Mars Matrix
Psyvariar 2
Seventh Cross Evolution
Soul Calibur
Sonic Adventure
Street Fighter III Third Strike

allen riley (allenriley), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

waitwait what was that totally messed up fish-head-man game?

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Woah seventh cross looks INSANE! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YUV0/planetweb/104-0245560-4224746

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Jet Set Radio, i prefer the dreamcast one to the xbox. Xbox completely gets rid of the insane streetfighter style moves needed to do the graffiti and i always thought that was a nice touch. The dreamcast one felt more 'arcadey' in a hectic meeting deadlines sort of way, i can't remember if the xbox got rid of timelimits altogheter or just made it far easier but i certainly remember not liking it as much.

Rez, tho it's always the ps2 one i play since i can optical cable that up to my stereo system.
Space channel 5, again i mostly play the ps2 one since it works much better with my stereo.

Powerstone 2
Shenmue
Chu Chu Rocket

jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

totally messed up fish-head-man game?

fuck, i can't remember. it had the mic that you could talk into, and tell the thing to do shit. It was like David Cronenberg decided to make his own man-fish-slave game.

kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm the only person who hated Shenmue, aren't I?

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

The fish-man game had the unfortunate name of Seaman.

adam (adam), Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

It's really disturbing when your Seaman dies. Leonard Nimoy drops the news real hard.

allen riley (allenriley), Friday, 28 October 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Metropolis Street Racer was Dreamcast wasn't it?

ledge (ledge), Friday, 28 October 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

No, i hate Shenmue as well.

Code Veronica if you like the Res Evil games.

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

Did nobody else like Toy Commander? I thought this was brilliant.

I am proud to say I completed this as it was nuts hard.

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh god, I had forgotten all about Toy Commander making me its absolute bitch. Last time a video game frustrated me that badly, I was trying to land the plane on the aircraft carrier in Top Gun when I was a kid.

JGR is essential. The Sonic parts of the second Sonic game may be my favorite use of the system. If you have friends with whom you get fucked up and play video games, the UFC and Virtua Tennis games are king of everything.

Bonus: if you're into wrestling games, there's a very great Fire Pro available, and you can boot imports from an easily-downloadable bootdisc

James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 3 November 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

If you have friends with whom you get fucked up and play video games, the UFC and Virtua Tennis games are king of everything.

So OTM!

Marvel vs Capcom 2 was very good for this too.

melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 3 November 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Thinking of picking one up.

did you get one yet? let's have an update, here. this is an important project!

allen riley (allenriley), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

ok so! the modem on my computer is fucked and causes the whole machine to lock every ten online minutes.

Would a sane thing to do be to buy the internet thingie for my DC and a DC keyboard? Would that even work at this five-years-on point? Could I post on ILX from bed?

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 10 November 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

My friend was asking this very same question last night.(only without the ILX content)

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Ooga Booga
Bangai-O

Matt Sephton (emsef), Saturday, 12 November 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

The Leprachaun level on Ooga Booga was INSANE.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba76jf8e45Y

Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 01:39 (sixteen years ago)

knights is one of those games where i read everything about how great it was and dreamt about playing it for so long but have still never played it

damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:05 (sixteen years ago)

i would be so happy if only i could play knights one time :/

diggvm rm xlwv (Lamp), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:12 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.anime.com/Sakura_Wars/images/circle-01.jpg

now we only live in a dreamcast of the mind

diggvm rm xlwv (Lamp), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:12 (sixteen years ago)

i have NiGHTS, with the 3D pad and all. never made a lick of sense when i was playing it.

Korg Boy Polysix (haitch), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

u shld read the wiki article for cyber troopers virtual-on oratorio tangram its very lucid and clear and purposeful

this cold and furious despair (Lamp), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:30 (sixteen years ago)

speaking of games that existed for the home console SEGA Dreamcast

this cold and furious despair (Lamp), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:31 (sixteen years ago)

I bought an import copy of Frame Gride and was gonna buy an arcade stick to play it with but never got around to it ;_;

tony dayo (dyao), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 03:36 (sixteen years ago)

this is why cankles got banned huh

cozwn, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 08:41 (sixteen years ago)

still got my Nights and 360 controller too.

played it whilst on a space cake, now that was something else.

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:11 (sixteen years ago)

now i want to play toy commander !

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:12 (sixteen years ago)

wait, the virtual-on sequel was called ORATORIO TANGRAM? that is the worst random japanese use of english ever

thomp, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 20:16 (sixteen years ago)

i would buy all this seaman DLC; this is a million dollar idea.

write about this significant and fascinating and comlex artist (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 04:54 (sixteen years ago)

never for--

damn, it was two days ago

Nhex, Friday, 11 September 2009 04:54 (sixteen years ago)

I guess this is the latest game from the Seaman guy... ???????????????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7OaC72yW1c

Jeff LeVine, Friday, 11 September 2009 06:01 (sixteen years ago)

How many times can he remake SimTower? Geez!

Nhex, Friday, 11 September 2009 06:25 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaeXdG0Wo3I

Nhex, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:12 (sixteen years ago)

i never got a dreamcast btw

candice spergin (cankles), Friday, 18 September 2009 00:27 (sixteen years ago)

poor poor litle cankles

EVERYBODY WANNA BOOOOO ME BUT I’M A FAN OF REAL POP CULTURE! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 September 2009 04:51 (sixteen years ago)

my dreamcast died :(

Jeff LeVine, Friday, 18 September 2009 05:39 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPzbtVc9d9Y

Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 27 September 2009 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

a true classic in commercial songs

Nhex, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

boredoms? eye?

three input girls just wanna have fun (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

just dug out my old DC at lunchtime to see if it worked. yes it does.

played Toy Commander, Sega Rally 2, Dave Mirra, Daytona, and Crazy Taxi.

Toy Commander, I loved this and it's still pretty smart. Freakin hard to get into, controls aren't great, but starting from the first level again seems to be a good idea.

Sega Rally 2, it's amazing to see this against the realism of Dirt etc now. With it's rock and house music blasting away and 4 tracks to choose from.

Dave Mirra, urgh the same sodding horrible tune that plays throughout this. Apart from that, enjoyed it.

Daytona, I think this stayed on for about three seconds.

Crazy Taxi, just laughed my head off at the music and the voices of the passengers. Love the mini games, although I've completely forgotten the little control tricks that gave you more speed etc.

I would love to see Toy Commander revised again, is there anything similar out there?

if you wanna gamble, take that shit to vegas (Ste), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 14:46 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Games/Reviews/toy_soldiers_xbla/

My bad Van Buren! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 15:30 (fifteen years ago)

man toy commander was great. agreed on the controls though, my buddy would pull that one out when i went over and he'd always stomp me b/c i couldn't sort out the control situation BUT if it was fixed properly that game had a LOT of great ideas. like split screen goldeneye meets three vikings on-the-fly switching stuff if i remember correctly. greatness.

Alderaan Duran (Will M.), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 23:02 (fifteen years ago)

I LOVE U SEGA DREAMCAST I WILL NAME MY 1ST BORN CHILD AFTER U...

dearth of the hipster (Lamp), Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:40 (fifteen years ago)

"these are my children, Chu Chu and Jet Grind Cobo"

the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

I NAME MY DAUGHTER... SEGA DREAMCAST HERSHOWITZ

dearth of the hipster (Lamp), Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:13 (fifteen years ago)

I NAME MY SON... MOSHE NLN

dearth of the hipster (Lamp), Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:13 (fifteen years ago)

GOTTA EARN THAT SHIT BOY NOTHINGS FREE IN THIS LIFE EXCEPT SEGA DREAMCAST GAMES... LOL BOOT DISC

dearth of the hipster (Lamp), Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:14 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

Why are all my Dreamcast games worth more now than they were when I bought them new

, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 00:05 (eleven years ago)

Are you saying I am sitting on a gold mine?

* dramatic pause, sound of boot, computerized voice says "SEEEEE-GAAAA"

⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 00:07 (eleven years ago)

I dunno, man

Mars Matrix is going for like $60 on eBay

, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 00:08 (eleven years ago)

I probably just have the ones that were cheap, and then when the DC piracy hacks came out I had a bunch more :/

I got Shenmue, at least

⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 02:01 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Played some Jet Grind Radio for the first time. SO GOOD! I love the music in this game. I was playing with the menu music for like a minute once cos it was a perfect 808 cowbell. It is fun to control too, I only wish there were no cops. As soon as I start getting the hang of a level they come out and do that repetitive nagging sound over and over again and slow you down. It's worse than the beeping in the original Zelda, as far a game mechanics that kinda get in the way.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 02:57 (ten years ago)

The story is really cool and the characters are neat. I like the shoegaze-y song they play when introducing Gum. It all has a very late 90s cyberpunk feel to it, and the music is straight out of heyday MTV2.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 02:59 (ten years ago)

I should see if the sequel, which I never really played much of, is available for online purchase on something I own now. Agreed, though, JGR is so much fun

μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 03:28 (ten years ago)

just ordered a vga cable for my dreamcast, thanks for the thread revive

μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 04:41 (ten years ago)

sadly, JSRF doesn't seem to have ever been ported up, though the 360 is backwards compatible with it. hopefully someday - it's m/l a decent remake of the original

Nhex, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 06:55 (ten years ago)


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