So a few weeks back I picked up a Dreamcast HDMI adapter box. The one I got lets you connect the Dreamcast in either Composite or VGA mode which pretty much opens up every game in the library. I mainly only have Fighting games for it, and I have all the good ones. 3rd Strike, CvS 2, Virtua Fighter 3TB, Garou: MoTW, Soul Calibur, and MvC 2. It’s pretty cool being able to play my Sega Dreamcast on my modern monitors in 4:3 mode. It looks amazing and it’s the best $25 I’ve ever spent.
I was just playing Soul Calibur 1 for Dreamcast and I was tripping out with how good the game still looks, and what a great game it is. That game is literally a fighting game masterpiece, and they haven’t really been able to re-capture it’s magic with all the sequels that have come out for it. I remember when it first hit arcades in the 90s, and in 1999/2000 when you could play it on a Dreamcast and it was pretty much an arcade perfect port… it was incredible. I played the game with my friend Jason a bunch of times and we had a blast.
The Sega Dreamcast was really ahead of it’s time. It was the first to do online gaming. They had a Sega “Network” similar to what Xbox would do with Xbox Live. It’s too bad people weren’t ready for it at that time in 1999. It’s an amazing system and I feel blessed to have one in working condition. I look forward to the day I can play some of the games with my step-grandson and share with him the lore of how awesome the console was when it first dropped, but how it ultimately failed because it was too ahead of its time.
I’m gonna go work on some beats now, but if you ever get a chance to cop a Dreamcast, do so. It’s an important piece of electronics history, and they hold up pretty well too. L8r..