9/9/99. 20 years ago today, the Dreamcast landed in America. And even though it was ultimately an absolute failure, it changed the face of console gaming forever. It brought the power of Sega's arcade ...
With the anniversary of its mysterious demise, many questions still linger in the air like dust particles in an NES cartridge that no one can seem to blow out. Like so many forgotten classics, the ...
Dreamcast fans, brace yourselves: if you’ve tried to fire up some late-night Google searches on your classic Sega console in ...
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Welcome to 2000s Week! We're exploring the pop culture that shaped us at the turn of the millennium, and examining what the films, shows, and games from the era say about us then and now. It's a ...
If you’re ordering pizza these days, you’re probably using a smartphone app or perhaps still making a regular old phone call. If you’re creative and a little bit tricky, though, ...
We originally ran this piece five years ago, on a day when the 15th birthday of Sega’s Dreamcast coincided with a major Apple keynote event. In honor of the Dreamcast’s 20th birthday today, we thought ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Ever since the release of the Sega Genesis Mini and the Game Gear Micro, fans have been clamoring ...
At 100MHz, the Dreamcast’s graphics architecture used 10 million transistors on a 25 micron (25,000nm) process like the Saturn’s SH4, which could generate 7 million polygons per second, and could ...
It’s hard to forget when the Dreamcast hit stores: Sept. 9, 1999. But Sega’s failure to light the industry on fire with its ambitious console is the narrative that most remember best. Less than two ...
The Sega Dreamcast was one of the shortest-lived consoles in video game history. Despite a lifespan only lasting from 1998 to 2001, there were a host of fascinating games that provided value to gamers ...
Engadget started up in 2004, so we missed the rise (and fall) of the Sega Dreamcast by a few years. We've still covered the company's ups and downs over the past decade and a half (and can't wait for ...