Redream.io is the brainchild of New Yorker Anthony Pesch, who has worked tirelessly for several years to not only bring the Dreamcast games to life but enhance them almost beyond all recognition. Lately though, one has shot to the forefront, and that’s what we will be looking at today. A grey area as we said.ĭreamcast emulation has been around for quite some time for the PC, and there are several stable options available that will cover off playing most of the library. Once you own the game, you should feel better about the whole rom situation, although Sega is hardly getting any money from you buying Cray Taxi on eBay. Some of the rarer titles go for stupid amounts of $, but you can get many of the major ones cheaply. Now there remains that grey area around obtaining games from the internet, but you can still pick up many Dreamcast games for reasonable prices from the likes of eBay today. In short, the writing was on the wall long before the PS2 came along.Įmulation of course. Sega refused this exclusivity, and Sega Sports came along, which had IPs that were nowhere near as popular as Electronic Arts. Stories that EA Sports said they would only release their games on the Dreamcast if they were the only sports games that got released were rife. The Dreamcast almost didn’t have a chance.
The smart kid on the block was the PlayStation, and two years later, the PS2. Cozying up to Microsoft to create an operating system along the lines of Windows CE edition looked like being a bold move that ultimately, had it gone through might well have meant Sega would have had a much more active role in the later Microsoft Xbox.Ī last-minute switcheroo from Sega management though, saw them more or less ditch Microsoft and go with a system where the OS was self-contained on the game discs.Ī variety of other fabled management choices, coupled with the fact that after the Sega-CD and the Saturn, people were just a bit fed up with what Sega was doing, ultimately did for the console. Its expensive components ensuring a high-price that Sega struggled to justify. The Sega Saturn, at the time, certainly not now, had been regarded as a bit of a lame duck. It’s US and European releases wouldn’t arrive for a further 12 months, leaving Sega fans the only option of importing one if they wanted to play the latest tech. I remember playing it for the first time at the Tokyo Game Show that year.
The Sega Dreamcast first emerged in September 1998 in Japan.
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