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Remember the fantastical & the failures of SEGA's Dreamcast

Sega created the PS2 before the PS2 with its Dreamcast - but that wasn't enough to avoid the death of Sega's console dreams. Here is that story.

Features by Chris Arrant, Editor-in-Chief

Published on Wed May 21 2025

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Dreams don't last forever, but my memories of the Sega Dreamcast do. Launched here in the US in 1999, it was the Playstation 2 before there was a Playstation 2, and opened the door to concepts we think of now as second nature such as DLC and online play. For me, the best games were the original Crazy Taxi and Power Stone - but those who played the console will each have thier own answer.

Recently at London's MCM x EGX, three gaming experts - Caspar Field, Keith Stuart, and Dreamcast: Year One and Year Two author Andrew Dickinson - spoke at length with games journalist Christopher Dring about the platform - the successes, what it inspired, and how it ended Sega's time as a console developer.

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Chris Arrant: Chris Arrant is the Popverse's Editor-in-Chief. He has written about pop culture for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel, Newsarama, CBR, and more. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. (He/him)

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Remember the fantastical & the failures of SEGA's Dreamcast