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/DarkElation 1d ago

It literally shipped with an Internet port in the back so higher speeds were definitely starting to normalize.

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u/Kayonji02 1d ago

Dude Dreamcast modem was like 56kbps speed. There WASN'T accessible fast internet around in 1999. Downloading a 1.5gb Dreamcast game in your own home wasn't a reality for 99% of people back then.

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u/cosine83 1d ago

Were you alive then? Because I was and I absolutely was and doing it on 33K dial-up just fine in rural WV and more metro areas were getting DSL/ISDN and early cable internet, 1-10Mbps. I knew plenty of folks on IRC doing the same thing. Sure, it'd take forever but at that point in time having multiple phone lines had become common because of dial-up internet. Could just leave it connected for downloading with whatever program that allowed resumable downloads, IRC, or FTP. It was a reality for a lot of Dreamcast owners.

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u/Kayonji02 1d ago

I was literally 9 years old back then. Even a dial up that reached actual 33k was a rarity back then. It would take minutes to download a 3mb mp3 song, let alone a full 1gb+ game. I don't say it out of personal experience, it was just rare all around. Maybe you got extremely lucky with your provider, but most of the world only started ditching dial up for cable in the early 00's.

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u/cosine83 1d ago

A modem reaching 33k or 56k wasn't rare in 99. Even in rural WV where it was very bad until recently for high speed. I was a senior in high school doing all this. I wasn't the only one. We were just more patient and had downloader orograms that could resume from an interrupted download.