The Dreamcast is simultaneously the most underrated and overrated console of all time. It was a shame it wasn't supported as well as it should have been, and certainly didn't deserve to die the quick death that it did. But nowadays, people put on their nostalgia goggles and turn the settings up to 11 when waxing poetic about how amazing the Dreamcast supposedly was and how it was the be all, end all of "true" gaming consoles.
Hate to ruin the nostalgia trip, but the Dreamcast was essentially what the N64 would have been if it were disc-based with more VRAM. And other than a handful of cult classics and the stellar line of SEGA Sports titles, the Dreamcast's overall software library is pretty mediocre compared to the other consoles of its time. It gets mega brownie points for being the first major console to bring online gaming to the living room here in the States, but the PS2 and especially the Xbox with XBL did it so much better that everyone forgot about SEGA Net pretty much immediately after the DC was dead.
On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.
