Lets Remember...9/9/99!

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Originally posted by Despair

And Finding out that store worker DIDNT count Blue Stinger when scanning the games, and getting it for FREE.

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you got ripped off. :jest:

I never get systems at launch. I wait until there's 10 games that I conside A+ material to gget the system. Really didn't take long at all with DC. I think Crazy Taxi put me over.

Happy Third Birthday, Dreamcast !!!!!

At 12midnight, the mall doors were opened up to a group of about fifty of us. The short trek towards EB began as a calm powerwalk, but all of a sudden some kid took off running. Half a millisecond later I was in full sprint. At the 90-degree left turn to the EB hallway I grabbed the metal grate that covered up a store front and used it to propel myself forward, cutting off the two guys in front of me. The finish line was now in sight.

I got to EB fifth in line, and quickly purchased a Dreamcast system, VMU, extra controller, Sonic Adventure, and Soul Calibur (Powerstone had not come in yet, sadly). I got back to my college dorm and played Soul Calibur until about 2am. If it wasn't my first semester at college, I probably would have skipped class all the next day, but instead I was forced to make it through hours of class with my new Dreamcast on the brain.

The Dreamcast 9/9/99 launch was one of my favorite gaming moments. The GBA and GameCube launches I was at didn't even come close to the excitement of the Dreamcast launch.

Ikaruga comes in today, exactly three years after the US Dreamcast launch date. What a way to say Happy Birthday to my Dreamcast !!

- Kabuki

I got my DC on 9/9/99, and it was only the second time I had bought a system on launch day. All I got with the system was Sonic Adventure, but that was enough for me. The funny part was, I was at school in the morning of 9/9/99, so at lunch time I bought my DC, quickly ran home and played the demo disc, shit myself at the sight of such amazing graphics, and then I went back to school for the rest of the afternoon. :lol:

I was there, 9am on 9/9/99 got my cool 9.9.99 Black Dreamcast t-shirt with my Dreamcast and a nice Dreamcast bag to put everything in to boot :D

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Originally posted by Golgo13
First run DCs were all glitched up along with their software.

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Software yes, hardware, no. I've never heard any reliable reports of any DCs being defective. Many of the discs were, but that issue was quickly resolved. That situation really pissed me off though because it got so blown out of proportion, yet the notoriously awful and shoddy PSX which breaks if you just breath on it barely gets any flack :mad:

Anyway, I got my DC on 9/9/99. Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur. Sonic Adventure was a bum disc so I traded it in for NFL2K (the only thing they had). That's how badly I wanted to experience the DC because I friggin hate football games :)

Today that same Dreamcast chugs along with Ikaruga plopped down inside. Chu Chu Rocket, Mars Matrix, MvC2, CvS, SF3:2i and Ikaruga managed to make the DC one of my most played systems, I've logged countless hours on the thing.

Neither of my 2 DC's qualify to celebrate 9/9/99 B-day...
As one is from Japanese launch and the other, the American unit, is dated 2K. :D

Bought mine on launch day, along with Sonic Adventure. Took it up to a friend's place on campus, as it was the nearest place I could go to immediately fire it up. Got there, put in the disc, power on, and... nothing. Not even a flicker of life. It seems I was unfortunately enough to get one that was missing several vital internal components, like the processor and some other minor things. :( By the time I got back to the store with it, they were sold out. :(

that sucks :(

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Originally posted by dorikyasu
Neither of my 2 DC's qualify to celebrate 9/9/99 B-day...
As one is from Japanese launch and the other, the American unit, is dated 2K. :D

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Same here. One if from the Japanese launch, and the domestic was purchased in (I think) late Sept. or early Oct. 1999. Oh well, happy U.S. birthdday, DC!

Of course it's interesting that virtually all of the currnet DC talk pertains to the import scence and ... what's the name of that game again? I think there's a thread or two about it on these boards....