REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #19: OUR DREAMCAST IS STILL OUT!
WEBMASTER COMMENTARY: “Even at the beginning of 2005 we were still writing things about Dreamcast! How sweet. We didn’t use this at the time because it seemed a bit like re-treading old ground, but still. It makes a good point.
This is the last rejected idea. We’ve got loads more rubbish ones we never used, but the line has to be drawn somewhere. A Dreamcast update seems a good way to end it all (we mean the series of updates, not our lives).”
OUR DREAMCAST IS STILL OUT!
Look, it’s there, right next to the PC so we can use it with the VGA Box. Scroll down to look, then scroll back up again, it’s important to read this in order.All our other games machines had a fair run. A few years at the top, then a happy ending when they were spent and out-classed — EXCEPT DREAMCAST! It should still be on sale today. It should be, like, 89.99 with a copy of Metropolis Street Racer 2 and 79.99 for a standalone system. It just ISN’T FAIR!
COMMODORE 64, 1984-1992
A sensational eight years “out” for the C64, and it only got put away because it broke and we were 19 and starting to think that the reason girls hadn’t had sex with us yet was because of the computer games obsession thing. It wasn’t, but that’s a whole other update.MEGA DRIVE, 1992-1997
Five years “out” for Sega’s hardware masterpiece. It got put away for the next Sega console, and because it was starting to take up too much room because of all the add-ons. That’s how it’s SUPPOSED TO WORK :(SEGA SATURN, 1995-1999
The old Saturn was a failure, but still home to at least eight of the best video games of all-time. When it died we put it away for three reasons; (1) Because it died a brave death fighting Sony (it KNEW it would die yet STILL fought on) and deserved a proper burial. (2) We’d just spent £340 on an imported Dreamcast that was going to make Sega great again, and (3) Ian, who we were sharing a flat with at the time, only had one SCART socket on his TV.DREAMCAST, 1999-20??
It’s STILL OUT! Where’s the CLOSURE? It had better games than PS2. We can say that now looking back in cold-hearted hindsight. Jesus, it STILL DOES. The mighty Ikaruga came out when PS2 could only offer us Need for Speed Underground.
It’s like an old, sick dog that can only lie on the floor and poo and wee on itself, but we JUST CAN’T PUT ROVER TO SLEEP. Is your Dreamcast also still out? If so, send us a photograph of it. We can probably be friends.
filed in Uncategorized on Dec.31, 2005
January 1st, 2006 on 5:04 pm
Do you still play it? The console I had out the longest was N64, from 1998-2002. (I had Dreamcast out from 2001-mid 2003 when I got my GC.)
January 1st, 2006 on 7:08 pm
Well, you guys just have no stamina. My MegaDrive is STILL out! And boy, do I love the X-Men platformer… That gets more play than my PS1 ever did…
If only my Dreamcast hadn’t caught fire (and, for future reference, never try and fix broken consoles yourself. Ito nly ends in tears and melting.)
January 2nd, 2006 on 1:13 pm
All my consoles got thieved by burgulars a couple of years back.
The bastards.
How much did they think they’d get for a Mastersystem or an Atari Jag anyways?!?
January 3rd, 2006 on 12:23 am
Dreamcast’s still out, have got a spare one under the bed. I’d take a picture but i’m really not lying so i don’t think i have to. Saturns still out, Megadrive too along with the 120+ games taking up one corner of my lounge. Some other more “popular” consoles lying around too, along with 3 amigas hiding in a box in the corner :P
January 3rd, 2006 on 9:38 am
My dreamcast was not out for a long while, But I dusted it off and hooked it up two days ago, for a few rounds of Bangai-O.
Now I wonder how I survived so long without it. Bangai-O and Jet Grind Radio have been taking up time that Would usually be used by newer systems.
January 3rd, 2006 on 8:19 pm
My PAL Dreamcast and Dreamcast R7 are still sat under the telly set up, while the PS2 is beside the TV not even wired up and collecting dust.
Daytona USA 2001 > Need for cunting Speed.
January 3rd, 2006 on 8:29 pm
Of course my DC is still hooked up! Sitting right next to inferior consoles like the Xbox and 360. I can’t abandon so many great games when, for the most part, an equivalent hasn’t seen the light of day since… Where’s ChuChu Rockets 2k6? or PowerStone 3?
January 4th, 2006 on 12:25 am
Mine’s still out! Look here: http://the-dreamcast-junkyard.blogspot.com Like a fine wine, it’ll get better with time…
January 4th, 2006 on 2:12 am
RE: tomleecee’s link to UKR entitled “If Sega Power was a web site”
http://the-dreamcast-junkyard.blogspot.com
I think you should amend that to say “If Sega Saturn Magazine was a web site”.
January 4th, 2006 on 8:38 pm
Look! Mine’s still out, it’s got a controller plugged in and everything! We can probably be friends. Do you like PVC?
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8502/dreamcaststillout1wb.jpg
That picture is living proof of mobile phone cameras always being shite, no matter how ridiculously large the amount of megapixels.
January 5th, 2006 on 2:31 pm
Mine’s still out, and still used regularly… (Please disregard the Rizlas and assorted crap strewn about my desk. :D)
http://dashslot.co.uk/DC.jpg
I just know one day it will rise from the ashes and take its rightful place as the King of Consoles!
January 5th, 2006 on 9:51 pm
Chewie – nice strategically positioned Shenmue 2 box there…
June 4th, 2006 on 9:22 pm
my DC is out and I have a see through green one and a treamcast and a reserve one and a broke one for spares (like if we go all appoalyptic like in waterworld or mad max or noah’s castle. Check out ‘DC JUNKYARD’DC for ever!!