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ConsolesThe Sega Dreamcast Was Right, Just Two Years Too EarlySeptember 9, 1999. Sega ran the "It's thinking" campaign and shipped a console with a built-in 56k modem when most people were still fighting their family for the phone line. The Dreamcast launched in North America that day and moved a genuinely huge number of units in its first weekend. For about a year, it looked like Sega had pulled off the comeback. Then the PlayStation 2 was announced with a DVD player inside, and the air went out of the room. Why the hardware still feels ahead of its ti
ConsolesThe Sega Dreamcast: The Console That Died Too SoonSeptember 9, 1999. Sega spent the day chanting "9/9/99" like a marketing incantation, and for once the hype was earned. The Dreamcast landed in North America with a launch lineup that actually mattered, a 128-bit Hitachi SH-4 CPU, and a built-in 56k modem nobody else was brave enough to bundle. It was the first console of the sixth generation, and it beat the PlayStation 2 to market by more than a year. And then it was gone. Sega pulled the plug on hardware in early 2001, barely 18 months into
segaWhat Actually Fails on a Dreamcast, and How to Spot FakesThat indignant double-beep when you flip the power switch isn't a fault. It's the VMU in port A announcing that its two CR2032 batteries died years ago, and it's the perfect introduction to Sega's last console: on a Dreamcast, almost nothing fails silently. Whether you're buying your first unit, maintaining a shelf of them, or getting one ready to sell, the machine will tell you what's wrong – if you know what to look and listen for. The GD-ROM drive tells on itself – so listen The proprietar