This website was started as a project for the CS50 program and serves as a celebration of the Sega Dreamcast, an amazing console with an unfortunately short-lived life. However in those roughly 3 or so years from 1998 to 2001, the console managed to get a tremendous amount of games, accessories and variants of all types! The purpose of this website is to cover these topics in some detail, providing a quick and easy place to find information about plenty of Dreamcast-related hardware and software. Admittedly, this website will have a Western bias as the language barrier and divide between the West (North America & Europe) and East (Japan) makes it such that information is scarser and harder to research. As well as a slight bias towards Europe over North America out of the fact that being based in Europe, I am more familiar with the quirks of the console here.
This website will have many topics that one can learn about. Firstly, discussing the history of Sega before the Dreamcast launched and how Sega managed to lose its prominent position with the Genesis/Mega Drive in the early 1990s with the release of unpopular and disasterous add-ons like the mildly successful Sega CD and the catastrophe known as the Sega 32X. Then finally with the Sega Saturn and the numerous blunders Sega notably made in the West which led to Sega being a distant 3rd in that console generation. Then we will cover the development and launch of the Sega Dreamcast in each of the major regions, showing the original ideas for the console. The launch line-ups and the various advertisements used to sell the Dreamcast as well as images. A smaller section will be about the console's specifications as back then, everything was about "bits".
Next will be sections about the various crazy accessories the Dreamcast managed to receive during its short stint in the console market, albeit as mentioned before with a Western focus in mind but Japanese stuff will still be included. This will be everything from keyboards and microphones to fishing rods! And while on the topic of accessories, the Dreamcast had plenty of variants of said-accessories like different colors of controllers and consoles, minor subtle differences between PAL and NTSC and a major packaging change in North America in the Summer of 2000.
And last but certainly not least, the Dreamcast is best known for the crazy, innovative, fun, addictive games that called the system home! Everything from Sonic's first adventure in 3D to Shenmue's immense worlds to wacky arcade games like Crazy Taxi! This section will talk also about release dates, include guides, VMU minigames (only for the Western games) and regional exclusives! Also included will be mentions of the new, indie releases for the Dreamcast that have kept the Dreamcast community alive after all these years!