I can understand workers at GAME not knowing jack shit about the Dreamcast because they only stock the latest consoles/games ect. (They should still be filled in though about console history so they aint made to look stupid when someone makes an enquiry about one)

But gamestation continued selling 2nd hand Dreamcast games right up until around mid 2007.

The workers at the Camden town & Seven sisters gamestations in london were knowledgable the last time i was at those stores, but i do see an awful lot of new faces working behind the tills in all the GAME and CEX stores i visit these days.

Either way it's sad that there are employees at these stores who do not even know the basic history of gaming.

Shut up Peter Moore, you don't work for SEGA any more. You're a third party developer, you're supposed to hate SEGA!

Exactly, the younger generation won't get it...they just don't understand how Dreamcast changed gaming, and is the cornerstone to consoles even now. Dreamcast was the first to have a "Home" screen, where you could organize your memory card, transfer, and copy, play 128 bit(pardon me if i'm wrong) video games, have a VMU (still something i think mordern consoles should look into in some way) that doubled as a portable gaming device, and portable memory trading (simply epic! i remember trading memory files at school using VMU's, or characters, and going home to play). Don't forget you could launch the game from the Home Screen, and setup your time and date for the console, and your save files. The controller was super snug, and analog was tight, with amazing trigger buttons (xbox360 has these now), and the ability to go to the Home screen by pressing A, B, X, Y, and Start at the same time (kinda like going back to the Dashboard). Lastly...online play...cmon man...this system pushed it to the limit. All this...in 19.......90....9....Think about it...

OT: "how to push technology forward" ....using CDs instead of DVDs didnt help push technology forward lol

Yup, i remember the old A,B,X,Y and start trick........... aah, the memories.

Excellent post, you pretty much covered all the greatness and INNOVATIONS that the Dreamcast had.

And IMO its still home to the greatest game of all time................. Shenmue.

We're still here talking about it so obviously people remember.

Sega broke the record for US dreamcast launch...they demolished it acutally. Sold something like 400,000 consoles first week US alone.

Dreamcast did much worse in Europe and Japan but Peter Moore was part of US operation, so he is tlaking US only.
Launch of DC was a media event...huge 100 mil marketing campaign...big sales. It broke the star wars record for most money made in entertainment in one weekend.

So darth please stop thinking that jsut becuse you don't know something was big...it never happened.

Re-quoted for the truth!

Dreamcast is amazing..

Darth, read this over a few times.