General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Butters]

I liked them because they would keep the boxes/manuals and if you liked a game you could just hit a button and they would charge you for it and then mail you the case/manual so it looked basically brand new.

 

[Butters]

the good ol days

 

[Barry Poppins]

There was also a lot of executive overreach in the development of the Dreamcast too.

 

[Samoa Looch]

the good ol days

They are dead

 

[Samoa Looch]

 

[Barry Poppins]

The dev team wanted to use the Voodoo2/Voodoo Banshee graphics units as well as the Motorola Power PC (which would have made the Dreamcast even more powerful than the PS2, unabashedly), but SEGA Japan forced the team to use an inferior Japanese processor.

 

[Barry Poppins]

So yeah.

 

[Comrade Khan]

The dev team wanted to use the Voodoo2/Voodoo Banshee graphics units as well as the Motorola Power PC CPU (which would have made the Dreamcast even more powerful than the PS2, unabashedly), but SEGA Japan forced the team to use an inferior Japanese processor.

sad. voodoo 2 banshee stuff was all the rage on the pc

 

[Comrade Khan]

i had a voodoo at some point lol. im old

 

[Barry Poppins]

The Saturn is honestly just a case of "wrong place, wrong time, and zero communication between company branches", while the Dreamcast was just a bunch of executive meddling which hindered their ability to garner 3rd party support. A stronger Dreamcast *with* 3rd party support would have saved the company imo

 

[Barry Poppins]

sad. voodoo 2 banshee stuff was all the rage on the pc

Yeah it was so bad that 3dfx sued SEGA for breach of contract because of it.

 

[Samoa Looch]

tl:dr SEGA screwed SEGA

 

[Barry Poppins]

Yeah pretty much

 

[Barry Poppins]

SEGA USA and SEGA Japan could never agree on anything

 

[Butters]

sega is the bret hart of the video game industry