Peter Moore talks Dreamcast 10 years later

[darth los]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6217053...dlines;title;3 I know cap is gonna be on this shit !! (He's the reason i posted it. ) If he hasn't nutted in his pants at the mere mention of the dreamcast yet.

[capncnut]

To this day, I think you can look back at the Dreamcast as being a benchmark in how to launch a console, how to push technology forward, and how to change the view of observers as to what video games are all about. Damn straight. Some of the Dreamcast's best-loved and most memorable games - Shenmue, Jet Grind Radio, Skies of Arcadia, Seaman, Crazy Taxi - were original intellectual properties. What's the game that was mentioned first? What was it? Interesting article there, Darth. I think the longevity of the console, if well backed, could've ensured a good 10+ years. Games are still being made for it now, although not officially.

[darth los]

Damn straight. What's the game that was mentioned first? What was it? Interesting article there, Darth. I think the longevity of the console, if well backed, could've ensured a good 10+ years. Games are still being made for it now, although not officially. Thnx. it's ironic that the company who made the best console had to get out of that business. That's the reason I still hold out hope that they'll get back into it one of these days.

[Danny]

Thnx. it's ironic that the company who made the best console had to get out of that business. That's the reason I still hold out hope that they'll get back into it one of these days. given there recent resurgence of original ip's like valkyria chronicles and all the patents they made in the last few monts makes me think its not that impossible. then there recent videos like this: ^the recent trailer for "project needlehouse" rumored to be a launch title for a 10th anniversary upgraded dreamcast of the same name. - as is every sega game this year, but god knows id buy a dreamcast 2 day 1.

[darth los]

One wonders what they've been cooking up in the lab all this time. Everyone knows that the dreamcast was way ahead of it's time and was basically the prototype to systems like the 360 and the wide ranging functionality of today's consoles. I wonder if they will once again be the inovators of the industry.

[AcesandEights]

I'm glad i didn't have to peel out cash for a Dreamcast, but Crazy Taxi and virtua tennis were great on that system. And Shenmue was a nice step forward for consoles, I thought.

[bassman]

I hate to be the new guy here....but what is it that made Dreamcast so much better than the systems we have now or at that time? I remember my brother's Dreamcast and it was fun, but I only remember it having a handful of games. And none of them were that ground breaking, imo. Fill me in, here.

[darth los]

I hate to be the new guy here....but what is it that made Dreamcast so much better than the systems we have now or at that time? I remember my brother's Dreamcast and it was fun, but I only remember it having a handful of games. And none of them were that ground breaking, imo. Fill me in, here. ( Ducks for cover while donning flame retardant suit)

[Danny]

I hate to be the new guy here....but what is it that made Dreamcast so much better than the systems we have now or at that time? I remember my brother's Dreamcast and it was fun, but I only remember it having a handful of games. And none of them were that ground breaking, imo. Fill me in, here. when it first came out the only console competitors where the n64 and ps1, it had online play, a browser, superior graphics, a vmu memory card that could be used as a serperate mini handheld, i could really ramble on but the biggest fault between it and the ps2 was it couldnt play dvds and it was rushed out too soon so its graphics were more of a midway point between the g5 and g6 consoles, but the games really sold it, crazy taxi, shenmue, house of the dead 2, skies of arcadia, power stone, resident evil 2,3 code veronica the list goes on.

[blind2d]

My first magazine purchase featured.... er... features on both Jet Grind Radio and Seaman for the Dreamcast. Everybody was like, "these games are the future!" Too bad they were wrong...

[darth los]

My first magazine purchase featured.... er... features on both Jet Grind Radio and Seaman for the Dreamcast. Everybody was like, "these games are the future!" Too bad they were wrong... Yeah they were but i think that elements from those games were incorporated into others so the prediction was partly right. I think the frustration comes from the fact that no one seems to be able to effectively explain why that console failed. I mean it had everything going for it coupled with the fact that it's competition was the N64 and PS1 for christ's sake!! Dreamcast was way superior to those two. They might have ben wrong about the games but they were dead on about the features of the dreamcast itself being the future.

[Danny]

My first magazine purchase featured.... er... features on both Jet Grind Radio and Seaman for the Dreamcast. Everybody was like, "these games are the future!" Too bad they were wrong... how where they wrong?, look at stuff like no more heros and milo on project natal, we wouldn't have that kind of stuff if earlier games in the same vein where popular on earlier consoles.

[darth los]

^^^ To add to that. Everything is an evolution. Gaming is no different. People didn't wake up one morning and make gears of war of left 4 dead. These are game that took elements from many previous games and polished them nice and shiny like. If you look at most games today you can trace their origins back to a handful of games.