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Personal Top 5 – Fighting Games
Round 1: FIGHT! It’s been a great couple of years for fighting game fans like me. I’ve been able to gorge myself on quite a few titles. Some have been pretty awesome (Tekken 7 and Injustice 2); one has been absolute balls (Street Fighter V). On the horizon, I have Dragonball FighterZ and Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition (i.e. what the original game should have been out of the gate…no, I’m not bitt...[Read More]
Retro Review: Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast)
Release Date: September 9, 1999 Developer: Sonic Team Publisher: SEGA “Froggy! You swallowed my lucky charm!” – Big the Cat Many times, nostalgia plays cruel tricks on me. Case in point: my ex-wife and I gave my son a SEGA Dreamcast for Christmas 1999. Included with the console were some extras we picked out. They included an extra controller and two games: Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure. ...[Read More]
Retro Review: Chu Chu Rocket (DC)
Release Date: November 11, 1999 Developer: Sonic Team Publisher: SEGA I keep coming back to the SEGA Dreamcast. With all the awesome old-school games I can pick through, it’s the Dreamcast I want to go back to. For this Retro Review, my pick has more meaning to usual. A little over a week ago, I wrote an article espousing my love for the console and my amazement at its longevity. That led to a dis...[Read More]
The SEGA Dreamcast Refuses to Die
Long Live the Dreamcast! Back in September 2000, then-SEGA of America CEO Peter Moore and Vice-President Charles Bellfield announced that SEGA would exit the video game hardware business and become a third-party developer. With that announcement, one of the titans of video gaming in the 90s bowed out. The only company to give Nintendo a bloody nose when Nintendo was EVERYTHING in home video games ...[Read More]
Retro Review: Space Channel 5 (DC)
Release Date: December 16, 1999 Developer: SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Publisher: SEGA Enterprises Ltd. For all the negatives you can heap on SEGA of Japan – and I can spout out about 20 negatives off the top of my head – playing it safe with their games is not one of them. As followers know, the SEGA Dreamcast is one of my favorite consoles of all-time. SEGA’s snake bitten 128-bit box was the home of s...[Read More]
Retro Review: SoulCalibur (DC)
Release Date: September 9, 1999 Developer: Project Soul Publisher: Namco There sure have been a lot of notable anniversaries in the last couple of months that conspire to make me feel even older. The most recent anniversary to add to the gray in my beard is the 20th Anniversary of Bandai Namco’s Soulcalibur series. The series pioneered true 8-way 3D, weapons-based combat and has been a staple of t...[Read More]
Retro Review: Phantasy Star Online (DC)
Release Date: December 21, 2000 Developer: Sonic Team Publisher: SEGA Corporation The SEGA Dreamcast was a snake-bitten console. It was their most technologically-advanced console, but it was released at a time when gamers were openly hostile with the company. Stateside, all of the goodwill SEGA of America garnered for the 16-bit Genesis was washed away with SEGA of Japan’s meddling, forcing such ...[Read More]
Lamenting the Death of the Dreamcast
Note: this article originally appeared on the site on May 25th and is being re-posted to commemorate the Dreamcast’s 17th Anniversary today. Talking about the Sega Dreamcast gets me mad. Even the most ardent fan of Sega has to admit that the way the company handled their consoles was nearly criminal. Their third generation console, the Master System, was more powerful than its main competito...[Read More]