25 Years of the Sega Dreamcast

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Leisure, Video Games, Comedy

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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It's the 25th anniversary of the North American release of the Sega Dreamcast! Matt, Heather and Nick talk about the console's launch into immediate obsolescence, the games that made it great, and take a stroll down memory lane as they celebrate Sega's final video game console.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast. All right Sega. It's it's been a tough year. The PlayStation 2
0:18.6	PlayStation 2 is on the horizon and and and Sony is eating our lunch here with the dream cast I don't even want to hear about
0:26.2	Sony we've launched the dream cast and and I'm I do think that there is a corner of the market that we can we can still claim and I think
0:35.9	we're going to have to lean into experiences and I'm talking about games that might be
0:40.8	a little left of center, a little strange.
0:43.2	Things like our big hit, Sea Man, where we have a microphone in the
0:47.0	controller and you talk to a fish on screen, or Bass Fishing where it comes
0:51.7	with a virtual fishing pole
0:55.0	or even Samba de Amigo, which comes with Morocco.
0:58.6	So I want you guys to be thinking,
1:00.3	what can we snap into the controller,
1:02.3	what kind of experiences can the Dreamcast offer.
1:06.0	Okay, all right, this is no, this is a good area to be thinking, you know,
1:10.0	you know, these wacky peripherals, these really distinct sort of games that you can't get on your conventional
1:16.1	Sony hardware.
1:17.1	That's right.
1:18.1	This is for real enthusiasts.
1:19.1	All right, I got one.
1:20.1	All right.
1:21.1	Brick layer. Comes with a brick and a trowel.
1:24.4	You build a brick wall.
1:28.0	So it's... It comes with one brick and a trowel?
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