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Seeing the Sega Dreamcast for the first time gave a true feeling of the "next-gen". I bought my Hong Kong launch console with Pen Pen TriIcelon, Virtua Fighter
by DataCrayon 6y ago
Seeing the Sega Dreamcast for the first time gave a true feeling of the "next-gen".
I bought my Hong Kong launch console with Pen Pen TriIcelon, Virtua Fighter 3tb, and a Godzilla VMS... great times. I remember the Windows CE logo printed on the console, but besides that, it didn't mean much as an end-user.
Here's the intro animation remade with D3.js! https://datacrayon.com/posts/visualisation/visualisation-with-d3/dreamcast-intro/ https://datacrayon.com/posts/visualisation/visualisation-wit...
- NKCSS 6y agoSame. Games like Crazy Taxi and Vanishing Point blew me away; I loved my Dreamcast and it felt years ahead of the competition.
- byproxy 6y agoThe intro animation brings me back! Actually... I still have a Dreamcast! :D In true Hackernews user fashion, I will point out that I believe the Dreamcast spiral has some "wobble" to it, rather than being a perfect spiral.
- ekianjo 6y agoAnd Shen Mue in 1999 was pretty much one of the first "open world games" before we used to call them like that. Of course, it was still very much limited by storage and performance but all the elements were there.
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoShenmue does a better job at building the feeling of a particular place than most modern open world games.