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History is history and should be not washed away. In fact i have one of these flags in my dojo. As i study the Japanese arts.

Lok at the Swastika, it is a symbol that was turned on its side. that is associated with the Shaolin Temple. it's prevalent in many old Shaw Brothers films.

what ever your view. its all history and shouldn't be forgotten.

Lest we forget applies to all.

I had independent video game shop opposite where i worked.
upon finding out about the Dreamcast i went in each month and put some money on account.

The day of launch i had accumulated £500 .

I walked out with so much gear, A Dreamcast , extra controller , two arcade sticks. RGB lead, and most of the big launch games,. The only thing i didn't get was the keyboard as they didn't get any in stock. but got one th e next day from the shops other competitor down the road.

Sega Rally 2 , Trickstyle, Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur. , i never bought VF3 day one as i had read about the pal version being poorly optimised.

I eventually got it ata discount price and also the import version .
as it wasn't long before the import swap disc came out.

yes best console ever, and the best launch ever.

it was a real exciting time in video gaming.

I read back in the day, that ,EA had a big run of games to be announced for Saturn in development and when they shuttered the Saturn so soon EA weren't happy.

I also read that EA said they would only support the new system ( Dreamcast) once Sega had sold a Million consoles in EA's home territory . But they never did get on the Sega bandwagon , especially of the rumours of te PS2 being this 10 x more powerful super console.

Also the fact that Stolar had bought 2k Sports was also a sticking point for EA as they would have had direct competition in the sports sector by SEGA themselves.

The 2k games where great on Dreamcast .

But the power of the EA brand and it's licenses like Fifa was where the big sales where , and without those brands , The Dreamcast was going to loose sales to the casual market day one.

Oh I have a few back ups on mine. The one i have installed is only about two years old and its a long life one , so i get a good amount of time between charges.

Plus a i bought a pack of four , so I am good for a while.
The original one was so poor in terms so f how long it stayed powered for.

Well I dont know about the Amiico , it looked interesting when originally unveiled , in the end Games will make or break it . If it does release with some decent software at the speculated prices of £9.99 digital and £20 Physical then it may do OK , yes it's not cheap , but then you get two controllers , all other systems you have to buy another controller for £60 -£100.
And the controller is a nifty piece of kit with the Amiico .
Plus you get 6 games with it , which even if there all at the bottom of the spectrum of £6.99 each that's still £42.00 worth of games and two controllers .
Plus you can download a app to use your mobile phone as extra controllers for more players as this is a couch co-op machine.

So for your £250.00 on day one your good to go.
For any other system your looking at another outlay of of at least £100 on the price of the system to get what you get with Amiico.

But there's also a downside , the delay means there going up against the consumer base the big three target at Christmas .
that's number 1.
Number 2 - This console is targeting a retro style of gameplay in abid to appeal to the gamers of the early 80's and 90's .
Younger gamers brought up on Playstation won't look at this at the price point.
Number 3 - The Evercade - with Evercade releasing their VS console this fall at less then £100 with a arcade game collection or £110.00 with two arcade game collections is a steal compared to Amiico , plus for another £60- 70 you can add the Evercade handheld and play all your games at home or on the move . The Evercade is really like the Retro Switch .

It's also the route I wish Nintendo would have taken , they should have released a proper home console and the portable which played the same games , then they could have released the home unit at £189 and the Switch lite at it's current offering.
For me the Evercade is looking very tempting by the minute. Especially with those arcade collections incoming. .

@carlos82 Cool thanks, i bought the battery mod for another Dreamcast ,still got to fit it .But will def be looking into getting GDemu for my didgy drive machine now.

@carlos82 Cool Does it work well? I keep thinking about a Gdeemu for Dreamcast as i have a old DC with a dodgy drive anyhow.

@carlos82 Wow you got Saturn Powerdrift. it was a Japan exclusive was it not. Would love that game on Saturn. I have the Outrun in the Pal Ages pack with Afterburner and Space Harrier

Yes would love one , but not at those import prices, Maybe Sega will release a updated Western version if this does well for them , remember the celebrations go well into 2021 for SEGA 60TH.
But what i would really wish for is a dedicated console from Sega which plays host to their Model 2 / Model 3 games / Naomi Games and Ringedge titles, so many titles that have never had a home release in any form.

@RushDawg and don't forget their big in the PC market, with Football Manager which is coming to console and they have a new PC game coming called Humankind. Plus there always doing new games in the Total War series.
Long live SEGA