I remember before I was gifted a Dreamcast, I begged my mom to rent it for us from Hollywood Video a few neighborhoods away. My friends and I gathered around and played Sonic Adventure as long as we could, knowing we didn't have a VMU with which to save the game. The graphics really felt "next gen" to us in a way no other system had. Once I bought the system, I was definitely part of the problem, as I remember buying burned discs and a boot disc off some other teenager in my high school. He had a trenchcoat and got a real kick out of swinging it open to see an array of disks pinned to the inside of it in sleeves, like the Resident Evil 4 merchant going "what are you buyin!?"
@LowDefAl I won't argue with your larger point, but don't assume no one wanted to play Plumbers Don't Wear Ties! My best friend and I have a whole spreadsheet of FMV games, and related still-image visual narrative games, that we are working through. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties was a very fine addition to our joint collection and we had an AMAZING time playing it. We could not stop laughing!
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Re: Anniversary: It's Been 25 Years Since The Dreamcast's North American "9.9.99" Launch
I remember before I was gifted a Dreamcast, I begged my mom to rent it for us from Hollywood Video a few neighborhoods away. My friends and I gathered around and played Sonic Adventure as long as we could, knowing we didn't have a VMU with which to save the game. The graphics really felt "next gen" to us in a way no other system had. Once I bought the system, I was definitely part of the problem, as I remember buying burned discs and a boot disc off some other teenager in my high school. He had a trenchcoat and got a real kick out of swinging it open to see an array of disks pinned to the inside of it in sleeves, like the Resident Evil 4 merchant going "what are you buyin!?"
Re: Soapbox: The Trouble With Limited Run Games, And How To Fix It
@LowDefAl I won't argue with your larger point, but don't assume no one wanted to play Plumbers Don't Wear Ties! My best friend and I have a whole spreadsheet of FMV games, and related still-image visual narrative games, that we are working through. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties was a very fine addition to our joint collection and we had an AMAZING time playing it. We could not stop laughing!