By Malcolm Owen | No Comments
Posted: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 1:17 pm

It brings a slight tear to my eye when I say this, but it’s been 10 years since the Sega Dreamcast was unleashed onto the shores of North America.

On the awesome date of the 9th of September, 1999 (9/9/99), the joyous white cuboid of happiness descended onto US stores, causing a stampede at the tills (500,000 consoles sold in just a fortnight, a record at the time) and filled the lives of people with great looking games and the promise of internet gaming.
Sadly, at the start of 2001, Sega had deemed it to be a failure, with sales being dwarfed by the Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation2 and the Nintendo 64, and shortly afterwards stopped production.

WIth that in mind, let’s look at some of the games that were unleashed shortly after the start of the console’s life to try and celebrate what could have been great…

Power Stone -- Fighting game on the 3D plane (as opposed to 3D rendering but still directly facing the opponent), with scenery weaponry and the ability to play with 4 people simultaneously in the sequel.

Soul Calibur -- “Tekken with Swords” as my family put it. Arena fighting in 3D, using weap…ons…

Sonic Adventure -- Sonic The Hedgehog, in 3D, marketed in Japan with quite frankly weird adverts (although this is apparently normal)

Thank you Sega. It was good while it lasted…

(Yes, I know that the DC was released in Japan the previous year and in the rest of the world after this date, but this is the one that everyone remembers it by)

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