SEGA Dreamcast released 15 years ago today...

[1ke]

Now I feel old

Tapatalk

[MVPete]

I never played that or any other baseball game on it. I might have to see if I can find a copy of it. I'd love to hear some other recommendations from people as to the games they liked to play.

They had most of the good players faces scanned or at least very closely resembling them, and they had about 40 of the star players at the time batting stances absolutely perfect. It was the first game ever to do McGwire's stance absolutely perfectly. The controls were really cool too as far as hitting, you would pull and hold the trigger and then let it go after moving the cursor to where you thought the pitch was going. Shit just writing that makes me want to pop it back in again.

[MVPete]

Every 2K game after that was completely different and awful though, it had it's issues. It was CPU fielding and running I believe, so you only hit and pitched. Other than that I loved that game so much. All Star baseball on N64 was the only game that I enjoyed truly after it the original 2K baseball game on dreamcast. Triple Play was solid but I was an ASB guy on 64. You can find a copy for dirt cheap I would imagine, grab it and at least mess with it for a day it's worth it.

[Guest]

I still plug in the first Ken Griffey Jr on N64 every once in a while. I believe I also still have an ASB copy as well, I believe it was the red cartridge so 2001?

[DDRGuido]

My favorite baseball game of all time is mike piazza's strikezone on n64

[dave]

RBI 4 was my favourite ... until RBI tried to resurrect itself with that crap called RBI 14. OK, still love RBI 4 ... but RBI 14 - yuck. This year's MLB The Show was awesome.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Dreamcast pound for pound was the most advanced system ever for its time.

Controller was the blueprint for the Xbox controller and was the first legit controller for FPS.
VMU memory unit was ridiculous. You could call plays on it so your buddy couldnt see wtf !
Build in modem and Broadband adapter for online play. QUAKE3 arena was my first great online experience. It felt eons ahead of the old XBand and introduced me to the horrors of bullet lag.
Its also the first time I recall a system having full KB and Mouse compatibility. Imagine my horror as the group of 4 video game store coworkers logged on per usual for a session only to find out the 4th guy ad upgraded to a killer 1.5 MB dsl connection and was the one who had taken home the BB adapter with Mouse and KB. We went from free for all to how the FUCK does this guy keep killing us...get EM!!

The 2K sports games were basically the last set of games designed by guys who just wanted to make a kick ass sports game. All of the games felt like they were made by people who watched sports and gave a fuck. (Honorable mention to the NFL fever dudes)

IIRC it was the first console to run import games with virtually no modification creating a nich genre and increased popularity for wacky games like jet set radio and that song one with the sexy hostess. But also opened a huge door for non linear RPGs like Shenmue to become popular.

It ran a windows CE based OS. Unfortunately it was its downfall. It was the easiest piece of hardware ever to pirate. One 50mb file burnt on a CD and you had a boot disc. You pop that in and play a cd rip of any damn game. Guys with broadband made a killing selling Dreamcast games for 5-10$ a pop.

[Twigg4075]

We will be reminded how old we are on Thursday.

Besides 9/11, what happens on Thursday?

Oh, and I do remember being jelly of those World Series games Pete. The ones on the Saturn too. I liked the ones on the Genesis a lot but they were soooooo easy.

[ryne candy]

Besides 9/11, what happens on Thursday?

Oh, and I do remember being jelly of those World Series games Pete. The ones on the Saturn too. I liked the ones on the Genesis a lot but they were soooooo easy.

9/11...every year "Where were you when you heard about the planes..." thread. "I was in 4th grade (or lower) and the teacher gathered us in the classroom"....that's what I meant.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

9/11...every year "Where were you when you heard about the planes..." thread. "I was in 4th grade (or lower) and the teacher gathered us in the classroom"....that's what I meant.

Ill give you 89 cents if you start the thread.

[GangstaE]

MVP baseball and word series baseball arcade were my favs. At the arcade they would have one of those metal joystick that you would flick to swing which was really cool.

Ken Griffey n64 was amazing as well.

[Guest]

I don't remember it now, but if I turned the game on I could probably figure out the Ken Griffey home run code on the first N64 game. Definitely one of my favorites. I still know how the fantasy drafts would go , so far as runs on players, when certain positions went, etc.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

I don't remember it now, but if I turned the game on I could probably figure out the Ken Griffey home run code on the first N64 game. Definitely one of my favorites. I still know how the fantasy drafts would go , so far as runs on players, when certain positions went, etc.

Fantasy drafts are the most awesome things in all sports games. They are also the most comical as you could always predict those position runs and end up with a team of Gladiators.

[Guest]

Fantasy drafts are the most awesome things in all sports games. They are also the most comical as you could always predict those position runs and end up with a team of Gladiators.

What bothers me now is that most games don't have it set random. The only difference in drafting is you. If you auto pick, it would sim straight through and I think you could get the same teams each time. I may actually test that further.

In the game referenced above it would still retain some aspect or being random, and if you drafted hitters early, the draft would skew other teams towards hitters as we'll