• 🍉 Albert 🍉
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    21 month ago

    At the time, the Dreamcast seemed a generation ahead of the competition, I’m still in disbelief that it failed

    • @BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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      41 month ago

      If it had two sticks and a DVD drive, it would have been really great. But they stuck with the kinda dumb Saturn layout, despite the Dual Shock being out for a couple years at that point. The keyboard and mouse support was an awesome addition, but a dual analog controller would have been awesome.

    • @ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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      11 month ago

      It was mainly the fact that the games could easily be copied by anybody with a decent CD burner.

      Shortly after a game dropped, a guy would come around my work selling shady copies on cdr in jewel cases with bubble jet printed covers for $20.

      Can’t sell a system if nobody is buying games.

      Also, had a buddy that used a bootloader on it to watch downloaded anime back when only the must mainstream stuff was available in the West.