Lets Remember...9/9/99!

[Yamcha]

I almost got an import, but decided to hold off because of the whole online gaming thing. I guess it was a good decision.

As I recall, I had a reserve at Toys R Us and got there about 30 minutes before opening time and there were already like 20 people there. When the doors opened, everyone of course ran in, hell the games weren't even out yet so we started tearing open the boxes to get at them. The employees got pissed, but hell what did you expect. Picked up my system, Sonic, SC, an extra controller, and 2 VMUs. Of course SC blew me away, SA was cool too I guess. I didn't get HotD2 later until the guns came out.

[Regus]

I always forget that I have that black Dreamcast shirt. It's still inside the original packaging. I don't think I'll ever wear it.

[Wilykat]

I had a preorder on 9/9/99. That morning, my brother and I were driving to school because we both had a class together. Once we got there, we both stood around for a few minutes wondering WTF we were doing there, and got back in the car to head to Software Etc. Got there about 10:00 AM and there was NOBODY there. Strange. Though when I went back there at about 3:00 PM to pick up Sonic, the place was packed.

[Josh]

Originally posted by Regus
I always forget that I have that black Dreamcast shirt. It's still inside the original packaging. I don't think I'll ever wear it.

You should sell it to me. Mine is getting haggard.

[sleeve]

I didn't buy my DC until after Bangai-O came out. I had held off until then, but by the time it released I realized the DC had far too many fantastic, exclusive games for me to pass on it.

I traded an unboxed copy of Chrono Trigger (SNES) and some other stuff for a used Dreamcast and haven't looked back since.

[Punky Skunk]

Memories of 9/9/99? I was likely playing Final Fantasy 8.

I never buy systems at launch, but the DC was the closest I have bought a system after its launch. I got mine in June 2000 with Sonic Adventure, Bust A Move 4 and Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram. Good times!

[Dyne]

althought my fellow employees at the time thought i was crazy i had the lil sucker pre-ordered with a generic SKU at the SE i worked at almost a year before it came out. this summer it was sold....with everything else

[StriderKyo]

I picked mine up in the afternoon that day. I would have gotten it in the morning, but the friend I was going with's satanically possessive girlfriend picked that day to have an argument with her parents and have "no choice" but to move in with him (while he was still living with his parents, no less). After a couple of hours of moving Imelda's gigantic shoe collection, I finally got him to ditch her - hell, we had a football game to buy! [/maxim]

Picked up NFL 2K, Soul Calibur, 2 vmus (vmu playcalling was the best) and an extra controller. (I went back and got Sonic the next day). Went home, popped in NFL and wow, look at those graphics! Okay, first play, Mike Alstott up the gut...crunch! One yard and done. After playing for an hour and realizing the running game totally sucked, it was on to Soul Calibur. Now here was a game! My mind couldn't even take the detail in, I was so used to the playstation.

Several hours of SC later, it was on to the demo disc. Power Stone was cool, but the biggest suprise was Fishing - the voices were hilarious, especially when you snagged one. The multicoloured word FISH! sprung onto the screen, a guy yelled out FISH!, and rock music started blaring like it was the raddest thing since the invention of radness. We might have had the most fun with that game, and none of us even fish.

Anyway, I can't believe it's only been three years since than. It's even harder to believe the thing only lasted 16 months at north american retail before debt-addled Sega pulled the plug. Along the way it offered a ton of genre breaking games, and is still the reigning king of 2D fighting.

[Dey]

Heh, yep, I got mine that weekend, the EB guy at Sun Valley Mall in Concord CA said I'd better get it or my pre-order'd be cancelled. So I plunked down the money and got Powerstone and, egads, Expendable. I guess I'm the only here who got roped in by the flashy graphics of that game, I played it a little and promptly returned it when the returning was still good. Powerstone on the other hand keep me going for days.

[Rumpy]

It took forever to get my system. They had a horrible way to get people in to the store (cops would only let in 6 people at a time). There were at least 50 people in line. I bought SA (which was a bum copy) and Soul Calibur with a vmu and another controller. I missed my morning class to play it. Love SC to death and still have that original system running (though it doesn't like playing Jet Grind now).

I bought so many games that first year, to this day I have no idea how I paid for it all.