![]() ![]() But it wasn't that unrealistic - at that time, Gamestation actually sold imported Japanese DC games on their shelves! Later, quite a few school friends got PAL machines - how long they stuck with the console was more variable. On the Japanese launch date, I remember one friend at school spending a good five minutes winding me up that he was going to import a DC with Sega Rally 2. What other game has been previewed in magazines using screenshots of TV aerials? I remember Shenmue starting off as "Project Berkeley", a Virtua Fighter RPG which was supposed to have a world as big as the real world. Later, Swirlvision and Sega Dojo were the other sites I remember following. At the time, C&VG and Sega Saturn Magazine's sister website was, and .uk was their DC-specific site. And there was an article about some company called Bizarre Creations who were planning to make a racing game set in a real-life city, with animals and pedestrians.īack then, I kept up with the news about the console on .uk, on the PCs in the school's computer rooms. Another game that got a big preview feature was a Tron disc-type game called Dronez. But I did get to read some great previews of games like Sonic Adventure - to think that back then, the four years since Sonic & Knuckles seemed like a long wait for a good Sonic game! There were also things like D2, Pen-Pen Tri-Icelon, Godzilla and July, which got coverage purely by virtue of being launch games. Unfortunately the two issues I bought happened to be the last two issues of a magazine I wish I'd started getting earlier. As I was planning on getting a Saturn that Christmas (1998), I eventually started buying the mag. I started browsing through Sega Saturn magazine, following the name changes from Saturn 2, Black Belt, Dural, Katana, to finally Dreamcast. He responded that if Sega didn't succeed with this new console, that would be it for them. ![]() I remember going into Electronics Boutique and, while browsing through Saturn games, mentioning to one of the staff that I'd heard that Sega were working on a 128-bit console. The first time I heard about the Dreamcast was probably the announcement that Sega would be working with Microsoft on their next console, which would be an incredible 128-bit!!! From that, my first assumption was that it'd be like a PC - it would do things like word processing as well as playing games, and rather than running games from the disc, you'd install them, and run them from desktop icons. ![]()
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