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First, an Announcement of an Announcement: The Day Sonic Adventure Took the Stage
The face of the new era: Yuji Uekawa’s redesigned Sonic, as the world first met him in 1998. Photo: Sega / Wikimedia…
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Necromancy Jam: Retronauts Raises the Dreamcast at PAX West 2019
This post spent seven years as a single sentence. In December 2019, when Retronauts released its live PAX West panel celebrating twenty…
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It’s Still Thinking: Looking Back at the Dreamcast, 20 Years After 9/9/99
On September 9, 1999 — this post’s own publication date, twenty years on — Sega launched the Dreamcast in North America and,…
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Passport to Your Phone: How a Fan Port Brought Shenmue Passport Back to the Dreamcast Faithful
Every big reissue leaves something behind. Usually it is a manual, a soundtrack disc or a pre-order trinket nobody truly misses. When Shenmue I & II arrived…
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Official Dreamcast Book Smashes Kickstarter Goal
If you’re a fan of Sega’s last throw of the dice in the console hardware market (and if you’re anything like me,…
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Cancelled Dreamcast Game Millennium Racer Unearthed
Earlier this week, Dreamcast owners were thrilled to learn about the discovery of an unreleased and seemingly complete game for the system…
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Let There Be Lantern Light: The Mod That Gave Sonic Adventure DX Its Dreamcast Glow Back
Same bridge, same whale, different light: Emerald Coast in the Dreamcast original (top) and the DX port (bottom). Photo: Sega / Wikimedia…
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Hardware Heaven: Dreamcast
If your back’s up against the wall you need to pull off something spectacular, and in hardware terms, Sega pulled that off…
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Ghost Blade Review: The Dreamcast’s Bright, Brief Bullet Ballet
At a glance: Ghost Blade · Hucast Games · Dreamcast, 2015 · Vertical-scrolling shooter · Five stages, three ships, two players · Reviewed here in look-back…
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Colin McRae Rally 2.0 on Dreamcast: The 30% Port That Proved the Dream Was Real
The Dreamcast did not lack racing games. It had arcade racers, futuristic racers, kart racers and two different flavours of Sega Rally lineage to argue…