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"New found love"

"Nintendo are the best!"

"Nintendo kicks Sega's butt!"

"The N64 is far better than the Fony Greystation!"



These are all things I've said when sticking up for the minority of Nintendo fans on this board, the latter two I don't like admitting to. Although the N64 was far better than the Playstation, it's the way I said it around a year and a half ago that I don't like admitting to. The second comment though, I completely take back! Although I still believe that Nintendo are the best, I also think of Sega as Nintendo's equal now!

Yep, that's right! I, one of the biggest Nintendo fans of all time, who's played nearly every Nintendo console and plenty of games from each, who constantly boasts Nintendo's supremacy in videogaming, is now a self admitted Sega fan!

But this Sega side hasn't just suddenly sprung up from nowhere. I used to watch the old Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons, and I used to play on my Uncle's Megadrive II, playing games like Sonic the Hedgehog and Micro Machines. Around ten years ago I used to play Outrun, Sega's most original racing game, on the ZX Spectrum nearly all the time. Recently I've been going over my friend Mark's house to play on his Megadrive II on the Sonic series and a few other of his games, including the hilarious Earthworm Jim series and the comical Rolo the Elephant game. Even mroe recently I've been playing Sonic 3D: Flikies Island on the PC and Chu Chu Rocket on the Game Boy Advance. But that's not what has resurfaced my love of Sega's games. It's the Dreamcast!

Yep, I've now got a Dreamcast and I can't stop playing on it! My mum got me the "Nine Game Pack" from Special Reserve which contained the Dreamcast itself with it's controller, and these nine games: Army Men: Sarge's Heroes, Shadowman, Sega Bass Fishing, Sonic Adventure, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Hydro Thunder, Fighting Force 2, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing Round 2 and F1 World Grand Prix. Ok, I have to admit that Sega Bass Fishing is on my list as one of the most boring games ever, but the other eight have provided me with hours of fun already! With the addition of another controller and two Visual Memory Units, I am set for many years of gaming ahead of me.

I mean it when I say many years though! I'm not like the casual gamer who will buy a game, complete it once, then trade it for a new game in the shops. I prefer to keep my games, complete them, find all the secrets, then in a few months time when I've finished doing the same to another few games, start again on the first game again. I've done that with many Nintendo games, PC games, and I'll even do that with my brother's Playstation 2.

I've also bought myself Sonic Adventure 2 and I think that game's brilliant! I love both of the Sonic Adventure games on the Dreamcast and I believe them to be much more entertaining than Super Mario 64. However, I do know that Super Mario 64 was the first Nintendo 64 game and was released a few years before the Sonic Adventure games so, even though it revolutionised platform gaming, Super Mario 64 was made very basically when looking back at it today.

I did try to do a part exchange in a local videogames store with my Sega Bass Fishing game, but because Special Reserve didn't send it to me with instructions or a [roper case, they said they'd only give me £1 for it so I decided to keep it.

Sega's Dream-machine has changed the way I look think about games but has not taken away my love of Nintendo. I think it's funny when magazines (including multiformat ones) keep emphasizing that the Game Boy Advance's ability to be used as a screen to see character info and secrets is a whole new idea by Nintendo when it clearly isn't! The Dreamcast does that via the Visual Memory Unit's, and although it's screen isn't as big, it still does the job!

But what about the fact that the Game Boy Advance can be used to play downloaded games from the GameCube?

Well the VMU's can already do that for the Dreamcast, as well as saving game data! The Game Boy Advance can't do that can it?

Ah, but the Game Boy Advance can be used as a controller for games on the GameCube.

That's a good point, but the VMU can be used as part of a controller taking up less ports on the console allowing for more players. Infact, it would be difficult to use the Game Boy Advance as a secret screen whilst still using a Standard controller. All other players would be able to see the same secrets and thus make that idea not a good one.

The Game Boy Advance does beat the VMU for the most obvious reason though. It can play full colour 32-bit games. I wouldn't be too sure about the Pokémon mini beating the VMU though. No need for a link cable when multiplayer gaming with the VMU as they just clip together allowing quick transfer of data.


So are Sega well and truly dead now that the Dreamcast isn't manufactured anymore?

Of course not! Sega produce games for all major consoles now, the X-box, GameCube, Game Boy Advance and Playstation 2. This means I can still buy Sega games, but play them on the GameCube when I eventually get one, and on my brother's Playstation 2.

I still dislike the Playstation 2 and find the controller very hard to use. However, I've enjoyed beating my brother on Tekken Tag Tournament many times, which he gets frustrated about (especially cos I hardly use his Playstation 2), but I haven't played it in the long term at all because, unlike Nintendo's consoles and the Dreamcast which all seem to have something special about them, the Playstation 2 seems more to me like a hi-fi system, or a styled up DVD player. I may eventually change my view on the Playstation 2 but never as quickly as I have with the Dreamcast.

Here's to Nintendo and Sega!

Good news!

I bought Skies of Arcadia, Crazi Taxi 2, Confidential Mission plus Mad Catz light gun, my friend bought me Hidden and Dangerous, and I completed Sonic's adventure on Sonic Adventure :)

Now I've had chance to calm down after playing all my Dreamcast games a bit....I'd have to say that A Link To The Past on the SNES is still the best at the moment...

I've had a look at all my new games and have to say that SoA is probably the best on the Dreamcast, I quite like Crazy Taxi 2 too, Confidential Mission has a corny plot but it's effective use of the light gun makes a change from bad guys just entering a still screen, and Hidden & Dangerous I'm gonna have to read the manual sothat I can work out controls, but it looks great!

I think the Dreamcast controller is good, doesn't look very gamer friendly but once it's in your hands it feels almost (but not quite) perfect! I like the VMU's too.

The loading times aren't bad, especially for the first 128-bit console, and they do seem a bit faster than the PS2 (from the games my brother's got anyway).

Soon, I'll be trying to get a bit further on Tails' Adventure on the original Sonic Adventure, I'm a bit stuck as to what to do next. I've got the ability to spin more and have found some circular place with a giant emerald in the centre, but if anyone can give me any clues (without directly telling me what to do) by emailing me or on MSN ([email protected]), I'd be grateful :)

Or†ega wrote:
> I'm only gonna buy another pokemon game if they completly change it. After
> playing Blue and Yellow to death i really cant be bothered with another one. I
> must have spent about 200 hours plus on both of them.

NOOO! You're not meant to go through both Blue AND Yellow.

Gold and Silver are brand new adventures with loads of new features and everything is generally better.
(But don't get Gold AND Silver, whatever you do!!)

Grix Thraves wrote:
> Agreed. You can't be a more dedicated gamer because you have more money.

*smiles*

However, you may find it cheaper to rent them if it only takes you 5 days to complete them.

Agreed. You can't be a more dedicated gamer because you have more money.

Salevaa wrote:
So, we have a dedicated gamer here? I had a
> friend who would play a game, complete it and sell it! What is the point in
> shelling out £30+ for a game if you're going to flog it a matter of days
> or weeks later. I also like to keep playing my games - again and again.



Just because you sell old games, doesn't mean you're not dedicated.... hell, I've sold every game I've had on my PS2 within about 5 days- the time its taken to complete them.

This is not a bad thing either- I have little money to spend, and the only way for me to play the latest games is either to win them on SR, or to trade in old ones... thus making sure I can fuel my passion in games...

I certainly wouldn't say I'm not dedicated- I get through more games a year than most have on the whole life time of a console!

Sonic

Well, people who can hold one button and move left and right a bit. I would guess.

Hmmm.

Skies of Arcadia.

Ah. Sweaty fat American truckers then.

Turbonutter wrote:
> I thought it was supposed to be good.

Try before you buy needed :-)

Its.. a very.. erm...its.. erm... aimed at a minority. :-D

I thought it was supposed to be good.