I just got a Dreamcast as a gift and I am super excited about it.
There was also a successful Kickstarter for a modern-day tech drop-in replacement for the VMU (the memory card with a screen and buttons that some games would load minigames onto, similar to tamagotchis and Pokéwalkers).
People are still regularly releasing games for the Game Boy and the Commodore 64 and I welcome new games for the lot of them.
Lots of cool hardware tech that flopped or got dropped, and they're fun and interesting to revisit.
Cool sidenote: the Dreamcast controllers had two slots. I wonder if they had cool interactions, like the MSX, the SuFami Turbo, and the relatively more modern but more distantly related Metal Gear Solid where Psycho Mantis comments on what other games you've been playing based on the saves on your memory card.
It was deliberate. For those arriving here without context, one of the previous examples unintentionally looked like Hitler.
Notably, the Steam version is a port of the iOS version, making it a HUGE step down from the DS version, which combined the anime cutscenes from the PS1 version with an absolute wealth of new systems and features.
Justice for dirt hat
They sure didn't have Microsoft volumes of money.
Sorry. They put the whole bin out in a yard sale for five bucks (I talked them down to 2).
But the Wavebird came out after the original GameCube controller so it seems like a regression. I imagine there was some legitimate reason for it, like the battery was already dying too fast.
Extra points if you edit it so that the letters alternate between bold and not.
Edit: it's beautiful
Did the wavebird really not have rumble? Huh.
Switch modes, when I'm having trouble it's usually on X when it should be D or vice versa
The outcome was unfortunate (no more games ever I guess??) but Tim Schafer's announcement video was at least self-aware and funny.
"I always wanted to stay independent and free. But then I thought: what if I had a lot of money".
Kangaruler would have been so much better.
I had no idea the armor was supposed to be Mongolian.
Roses are red
violets are purple
sugar is sweet
and so's maple surple
-Walt Kelly
"This community has no posts" Well now it has one. What's everyone playing? I just tried out Round the Table with The Professor and I love all the multiple opponents stuff.
This flat square of plastic doesn't sound so bad! It came in the Bloom County comic collection shown in the picture (Billy and the Boingers), and contains two tracks performed by a fictional in-universe band. It's probably not technically vinyl.
My way of commemorating Day One