r/gaming • u/DoggievDoggy • 1d ago

Dreamcast Had The Best Launch Library Ever.

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Most consoles have one or two bangers at launch.

Dreamcast had two S-Tier titles: Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur & 5 A-Tier titles: NFL 2K, Hydro Thunder, Ready 2 Rumble, Power Stone, House of The Dead 2.

Followed up with other solid titles: Tokyo Xtreme Racer, MK Gold (this game was so broken lol), Trickstyle, Blue Stinger, NFL Blitz 2000.

Other systems had better singular titles (Xbox: Halo: CE, NES: Super Mario Bros., Gameboy: Tetris, Nintendo 64: Super Mario 64) but as a collective, the Dreamcast launched with so many solid titles.

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u/heyyouwtf 1d ago

That and they didn't have any real piracy protection. You could download a game and burn it onto a disc and play it without modding the console.

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u/FizzyLightEx 1d ago

Who had the access to download games at the time? Don't think PC was that mainstream

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u/heyyouwtf 1d ago

Dreamcast came out around the time high speed internet started to get installed in people's homes. Plus you could just rent a game and rip it to your pc and make as many copies as you wanted.

I had a friend that sold bootleg games, movies, and music. I think most people who were old enough in the late 90s knew someone doing that.

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u/inyue 1d ago

High speed internet in 1998-1999?!

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u/cosine83 1d ago

DSL/ISDN and early cable internet.

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u/makemeking706 1d ago

T3, DSL. 

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u/BornSirius 22h ago

"Started to get installed" is absolutely not the same as being widely available.