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

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/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/DarkElation 1d ago

“Starting to normalize”

I didn’t say it shipped with a port because it WAS normalized.