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"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 Ł1 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!
"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 Ł1 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!
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Hoodwink wrote:
> Three Dreamcast words: "Jet Set Radio" - one of the most original and
> best games of all time.... Tricky at first, but once mastered, it is as sweet
> and as fizzy as a neverending sherbert lemon.
Thes are the three most original games ever in my mind (and no, I'm not being biased seeing as they're all Sega games!):
Jet Set Radio
NiGHTS!
REZ (any PS2 owner must get this!!!! January 25th launch! Oh, and the DC version is cool too, but slower :(
Sonic
> Three Dreamcast words: "Jet Set Radio" - one of the most original and
> best games of all time.... Tricky at first, but once mastered, it is as sweet
> and as fizzy as a neverending sherbert lemon.
Thes are the three most original games ever in my mind (and no, I'm not being biased seeing as they're all Sega games!):
Jet Set Radio
NiGHTS!
REZ (any PS2 owner must get this!!!! January 25th launch! Oh, and the DC version is cool too, but slower :(
Sonic
Edgy wrote:
> "Nintendo are the best!"
"Nintendo kicks Sega's
> butt!"
"The N64 is far better than the Fony
> Greystation!"
*Entire SR community hold Resevilfan away from Edgy*
> "Nintendo are the best!"
"Nintendo kicks Sega's
> butt!"
"The N64 is far better than the Fony
> Greystation!"
*Entire SR community hold Resevilfan away from Edgy*
I got a DC yesterday, it was supposed to be a stop gap whilst waiting for the Gamecube, i can see it lasting well over that.
My brother keeps on asking me to get House of the Dead and a light gun.....but I'll have to think about that one....
Three Dreamcast words: "Jet Set Radio" - one of the most original and best games of all time.... Tricky at first, but once mastered, it is as sweet and as fizzy as a neverending sherbert lemon.
Excellent, everyone should have a Dreamcast. :0)
See if you can pick Skies of Arcadia up cheap somewhere... I go on about it all the time, but really, it's an excellent game. You've really got to play it at least once.
Or you could wait for the Gamecube version... but still... :0)
See if you can pick Skies of Arcadia up cheap somewhere... I go on about it all the time, but really, it's an excellent game. You've really got to play it at least once.
Or you could wait for the Gamecube version... but still... :0)
"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 Ł1 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!
"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 Ł1 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!
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