Happy 9th Birthday Dreamcast
Well here it is 9 years after the introduction of the Dreamcast, and it’s still one great system. I remember it well, it was just before my 21st birthday. I wasn’t like the usual young adult looking forward to their 21st birthday, no I was looking forward to that day two weeks before my birthday so I can run to the Steamtown mall to pick up my console and copy of Soul Calibur. This system was exciting to me, especially back then as a young geek. I kept thinking to myself that this bad boy is going to run Windows CE and play games. It’s going to be fantastic, and surprisingly it was. The only downfall of the system, was that they thought that using the special GD-ROM would stop people from being able to pirate games, since they were on 1GB discs instead of the usual 700MB. Well it didn’t take long for people to crack the setup, and remove some data from games and distribute them on CD. With the addition of the Dreamcast boot CD you could play all the games you wanted, as well as emulators of Mame, SNES, NES, Genesis, Game Boy. Oh, those were the good ole’ days. I still have a Dreamcast, but mostly for nostalgia, it doesn’t get played as often as I would like, but then again neither do most of my video game systems.
Happy Birthday Dreamcast, we still love you.
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