Dreamcast

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The Dreamcast was the last video game console made by Sega. It was released before its contemporary consoles (the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox), but competition with these platforms meant that it failed to generate sufficient revenue and Sega eventually withdrew from the console market altogether. It had a short life, being released in 1998 in Japan and 1999 in the West(North America, Europe and Australia) and then discontinued (in North America) in 2001 and Europe and Australia in 2002. It is unknown when it was discontinued in Japan. It is now available only on the internet, and independent small stores. Several Sonic the Hedgehog series games were released for the platform.

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European Dreamcast model

Sonic games made for the Dreamcast

• Sonic Adventure
• Sonic Shuffle
• Sonic Adventure 2
• SEGA Smash Pack

Characters Introduced

• Chao
• Big the Cat
• E-102 Gamma
• E-101 Beta
• E-100 Alpha
• E-103 Delta
• E-104 Epsilon
• E-105 Zeta
• Froggy
• Chaos
• Tikal the Echidna
• Pachacamac
• Zero
• Void
• Lumina Flowlight
• Shadow the Hedgehog
• Rouge the Bat
• Gerald Robotnik
• Maria Robotnik
• Omochao

PC-compatablities

Using a emulator and a rom, one can play certain Dreamcast games on the computer. The discs are also close to the size of a computer's disc. The disc can also be played without an emulator (it will also access new pictures).

Sonic Unleashed Easter Eggs

A Dreamcast is seen a few times in Sonic Unleashed.

• One is seen when Dr. Eggman presses the button to fire the laser in the opening movie.
• One is also seen when Sonic defeats the Egg Dragoon, to the right of Eggman.
• When Sonic loses his Werehog form, a Dreamcast is seen to the left of Eggman.

Sonic Generations Dreamcast Era

Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 were in Sonic Generations. Despite Sonic Heroes not being a Dreamcast game it was added as the third Dreamcast game to round the 3-ammount each era has, and also it was part of the Sixth Generations console Era along with the Playstation 2, Xbox and Nintendo Gamecube.

Box Art Gallery

SEGA Smash Pack

Sonic Adventure

Sonic Adventure 2

Sonic Shuffle

See also

• Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
• Sonic the Hedgehog (character)
• Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
• Sonic Generations

Trivia

• In a game magazine called Game Informer, the Dreamcast has been payed homage and confirmed that Sonic Adventure will be available in Xbox Live.
• The Dreamcast appears as an easter egg in the cutscenes of certain Sonic games and videos.
• Sonic Shuffle, Sonic Adventure, along with a playable demo of Sonic Adventure 2 were packaged with the Dreamcast in 2000.
• In Sonic Adventure 2, there was an poster in City Escape that said "Playing SA2 is habit forming! Don't turn off your Dreamcasts!"
• The Dreamcast's best games were compiled into one collection, the Dreamcast Collection.
• The swirl was orange in Japan and red in North America. The swirl had to be changed to blue in Europe and Australia because of copyright reasons as there was another company which used a red swirl and SEGA would have gotten into trouble for copyright infringement.
• In the Eggmanland hub in Sonic Unleashed you'll meet a robot named EF-DC1998 making reference to the Dreamcast and said he was a model mainstay just like the Dreamcast .
• The Dreamcast has it's own Era in Sonic Generations, (Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes) along with the "Classic Era" and "Modern Era".

External links

• Dreamcast at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia