Lets Remember...9/9/99!

[Brisco Bold]

I bought mine a year after it came out. Eerily, my co-workers I bought it from tried to dissuade me from the purchase. They were all "No! Don't buy this! It's gonna be defunct!"

I point this out because the very same thing happened to me when I bought my TG-16.

Weirdness.

Jet Grind Radio and Shenmue made that the best X-mas ever!@!

[Regus]

...Then came the overnight sessions. And that following weekend, the World Rankings.

Ohhhhh yes. The World Rankings.

I have Emerald Coast's music and lay out forever etched into my memory.

*sniff*

Good times.

[Green]

I was so excited about DC and Sonic after reading about them in Gamefan (all 100's I think). A friend and I were at the mall some weeks before the launch, and there it was. Sonic in full 3D glory running around at insane speeds. I stopped right there with my jaw dropped. I didn't even notice my friend going up to play it before me. The day it came out I checked out of school (was in the 10th grade). A "friend" whom I told that I was going to buy a DC announced it to the class while I was leaving. One of the rednecks in the class looked at me as I was leaving and said, "You're so full of shit" (and it wasn't about him not believing I was getting one, it was more about me still playing videogames, whatever). The DC was my favorite launch, I got Sonic, Soul Calibur, and Power Stone. I love all three of those games, and I don't think I've spent more time on any single game than I have on Soul Calibur.

[PaperWork]

I got mine on 9999 with Powerstone, Sonic, Ready to Rumble and Blue Stinger. I remember staring into the hole in the box at the serial number while I waited to check out.

I played alot of Sonic in an import shop so I knew what I was getting into. Powerstone blew my mind. I got that black Dreamcast shirt too. Where is it now?

I have had about 5 DC's come and go through trades, but always kept the original. I just bought a new one so I can dedicate a cab to Ikaruga.

[Videodrone]

...the last great system launch...

[Tain]

I have Emerald Coast's music and lay out forever etched into my memory.

*sniff*

Good times.

Indeed. Emerald Coast was the best of 'em. All the time spent finding shortcuts, only to be absolutely amazed at that Japanese player's time of 1:06...

[Lordmrw]

I'm one of the oddballs who didn't get it at launch. But that's because I didn't have the money because I had just started working. But where was I on 9/9/99? At my friend Gerald's house playing Sonic Adventure, of course.

[Error]

Yeah I got mine shortly after midnight from an EB. Waste of cash. Oh well, water under the bridge.

[Celeryface]

I remember 9/9/99 like it was just yesterday -- it was my first week of College. My friend and I pre-ordered our systems at EB (both got issue #0 of ODCM) a few months before. With my Dreamcast I purchased Sonic Adventure (took it back twice because of disc problems) and a VMU. Later that night, I picked up an extra controller.

The next week, I bought Soul Calibur and Ready 2 Rumble, but returned it twice because of disc problems and ended up getting NBA Showtime instead.

The Dreamcast launch was one of the most fun-filled launches that I've ever been part of.

[Joe Fongul]

I didn't buy a US system on launch since I already bought a Japanese DC a few months earlier, but it didn't stop me from waiting in line with 7 friends at Software Etc for the midnight bell to drop...

We actually spent two hours at Bennigan's across the street drinking beer and eating like bastards. Bennigan's closed at 11 so we trolled across the street to get in line for the system launch. Two of us wound up ejected for bad behavior (just general hijinxs...my friend Jonathan let loose a bunch of DC balloons in the mall, which proceeded to float to the ceiling which cannot be reached, but that's in his nature)

I wound up buying a VMU (yes, finally a memory card in English!), an extra controller and a copy of Final Fantasy VIII for my roommate (which I had to badger the manager to sell me as they were just selling DC products only) We then proceeded to my friend Scott's work where there were plenty of couches and one TV. Played Soul Caliber and Mortal Kombat Gold until dawn, drinking enough beer in between to make it even more worthwhile... Good times, good times!