I played it at a friend's place. But when I had the chance, I bought 2 Dreamcast at $99 each and sold them for $178 each. Back then, had to save the money for PS2 preorder.

thats cool to know alot of people had the dreamcast and didnt feel pissed off...at the fact sega withdrew the console...i was just trying to figure out how everyone felt thats all....thanx....but does anyone own a n-gage???

 here is a pic of it!!!

it came out in europe and the U.S...seeing how nobody knows anything about it...it probably was a bad handheld!!! O_O 

Yea i still own a saturn and dreamcast but the dreamcast is the one that doesn't work anymore. Both those systems had so many good games that most people never got to play.

I had a dreamcast, and was a little disappointed that sega killed it, but they gave a fair amount of warning and games were still coming out for over a year. In fact, some new games even came out for it last year! I guess they were loosing too much per unit that they couldn't afford it being the number one console. (Not number one, means not as many games...)

I actually purchased two more used off of ebay over the years because my original broke (joystick ports stopped working). After the third broke (luckily I saved my broken ones), I repaired all three (fairly easy fix, and none rebroke).

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I remember well iam in a game store, all the kids are playing on the Dreamcast, but then there is this little add "PS2"

I owned a Dreamcast and was very sorry to see it go. I had the most fun on that system then I have ever had with videogames. It easily was the "winner" to me in the last console gen.

I never got mad a SEGA for having to withdrawal the Dreamcast, my initial worry was that they wouldn't be the same. I was right, although many others held out hope for SEGA to become a real juggernaut in publishing. Sadly they have yet to reach even close to their prime since Sammy took over.

I think this generation we are seeing more of a comeback from them than many expected, I only hope they really do reinvent themselves. And it would be really nice if they would use some of the fantastic older franchises once more! I hope NiGHTS does so well that SEGA brings back more!

I knew one guy in the army who had an N-Gage. He kept showing people pictures with it, but apparently didn't even own any games.

That's all I've ever seen of the device, and I live in Nokia-land.

Actually, I'd argue that the main reason Sega failed was a lack of 3rd party support. During the Sega Genesis years, there was a decent bit of support from 3rd parties, whereas the Saturn did not, due to insanely difficult properties of the Saturn's archatecture (sound familiar).

The Saturn only had maybe 2-3 games hit 1m units sold worldwide, and left Sega with a much worse base to sell from for the better-selling Dreamcast. Look at VGC's numbers: DC was FAR more popular in Japan, and sold alot better than Saturn and even SMS combined. But without the strong western games from EA, it kind of fell apart.

People always complain that the N64 lost the most marketshare from a console to another console. It did not. The Genesis>Saturn takes that title by a mile. The SNES>N64 lost about 15m units, or around 30%. The Genesis>Saturn lost 15-20m units.

A good synopsis of Segas failure in the creation of the Saturn can be seen here, with LOTS of great info as to why Playstation became so popular, so quickly and dominately. And why Sony's totally changed their theory path:

http://www.eidolons-inn.net/tiki-index.php?page=SegaBase+Saturn

That page is must-read for anyone wanting to know about 5th gen systems.

bah, double post