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Joystiq remembers the Sega Dreamcast
9/9/99. It was the coolest date imaginable to launch a new anything, and Sega's Dreamcast had one of the best launches in North America of any console to date. Except for the part where a bunch of the game discs didn't work. Ten years later, the console is no longer being made, and Sega is just another software publisher, but fans continue to love the little white box. The Dreamcast's lineup of arcade ports and wildly experimental games inspired lifelong allegiance among the people who actually bought that stuff. Join us after the break as a bunch of Joystiq writers share our Virtual Memories about that day (the day the snow turned to rain, and we saw a black car), and about the years of Dreamcast love that followed. In the process, we've learned that an unexpected number of us raised fish-monsters in Vivarium's Leonard Nimoy-narrated pet sim Seaman, and as a result we feel closer to one another. The Dreamcast is magical. [Image credit]
