RE: Dreamcast? (Was Re: [MLUG] Expo presentation)

["Nathan Odle" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

LOL, I was so excited about the hardware hacking part that I completely
forgot about the games :)

Ryan is absolutely correct, SEGA is the greatest game publisher of all time.
My 2 favorite systems (and I have pretty much all of them, save for Neo-Geo
and the SEGA Master System - SEGA's first console) are the Dreamcast and the
Saturn.  I catch a lot of flak about that Saturn comment, but the fact is
that some of the best gameplay of that era could be found there.  NiGHTS was
amazing in its day, and the Panzer Dragoon games were awesome too.  I'd love
to have Burning Rangers, but it's pretty expensive these days.

I don't know exactly what it is, but SEGA games seem to have a certain
spirit that others lack.  I'm not so sad about their discontinuation of the
DC as a standalone game console, software production is what they've always
been best at anyway.  And as a side benefit, we get some cheap hardware to
hack on :)

-n8



> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ryan Woodsmall
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 8:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: Dreamcast? (Was Re: [MLUG] Expo presentation)
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> Yes yes and yes, get one now...  I have a DC, a PSX, and an N64.  I'm a
> game nerd, and the DC is my favorite system by far.  The games are
> generally better than what you'd find on other systems (even if that's not
> your thing), and development of both Linux and NetBSD on the DC is quite
> active.  I'm actually planning on getting another DC (or 2 or 3 or...)
> just in case mine shoots craps.  I've been holding off on the PSX2, but I
> started actively pursuing one last night when I heard that Sega was in bed
> with Sony.  What I'm really looking forward to, though, is the GBA.  I
> haven't had a working Game Boy in a long time, and some Mario AND Sonic
> love will be had.  If you do go ahead and get the DC, get the "Smash
> Pack" for the paltry price of $119.95, and you can play some of the Sega
> classics like Golden Axe.
>
> Sega is dead.
> LONG LIVE SEGA!
>
>         Ryan Woodsmall
>             EMAIL:PROTECTED
>             http://www.mizzou.edu/~rbwa44/
>
> PS - Sorry for all the acronyms.  I'm really lazy today.  And also very
> very out of it.
>

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