d21lewis said:
In the U.S., it was HEAVILY marketed. To this day, 9•9•99 is synonymous with "It's thinking" (for me at least). Print and TV ads were rampant, at least. At the time, the launch was reported to be the biggest single day ever In terms of entertainment revenue. Beat out any movie, sporting event, album sale, etc. up to that point. And I wasn't even a Sega fan at all. I only got a Dreamcast because the PS2 was always sold out and I got tired of coming home with nothing. |
When I went to Gamestop in the first week of September, there were two lines. One for Dreamcast, and one for Final Fantasy VIII on PS1. Dreamcast was hyped to the moon and back, but at the sometime everybody knew it was going to get steamrolled by the PS2 a year later.
