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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
Condition & GradingBuying a Game Gear or Lynx? Check These Failure Points FirstPop the battery covers off a Sega Game Gear and sniff. That faint fishy smell is leaked electrolyte from failing capacitors – an amine odour every Game Gear tech knows – and it means the console in your hands is running on borrowed time, if it runs at all. Cartridge collecting is mostly about cosmetics. Classic handheld collecting is about the hardware itself, because on a Game Gear, an Atari Lynx or an early PSP, the shell can be showroom-clean while the inside is quietly dying. Here's how to