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hello this is Chris again here with
watchmojo.com now today I thought it
would be important if we actually looked
back a little bit into the past
now when the Sega Dreamcast was released
in 1999 it was by far the most powerful
system on the market now this little
innovative powerhouse housed a 200 mega
her processor now it’s sort of funny
looking at the processor speeds now with
the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 but
at the time the more the most powerful
gaming system up until then was the
Nintendo 64 and that had a 97 mega her
processor so this was double the speed
but it also had a cd-rom drive for games
now
cd-rom drive is what it was referred to
as but in fact this was a GD wrong Drive
Giga disks is what the Dreamcast
actually used so the games could hold a
little bit more storage in the standard
CD but was well below the DVD storage
capacity that later came out in the
PlayStation 2 now if you look on the
back of the Dreamcast you notice that it
actually has a phone cord and this is
for the modem that was built into the
system
now this kilted modem let you play games
online via dial-up now I know most
people think that dial-up isn’t
something you want to play online games
with the truth be told it isn’t but the
games were so well coded and Sega’s
network was so solid and consistent that
it actually wasn’t too bad at all now
the Dreamcast was also the first gaming
system to allow PC players to play
console players in a game seconded that
way back in 2000 when they released
quake 3 arena for the Sega Dreamcast now
another feature that the Sega Dreamcast
had that put it sort of ahead of its
time was the fact that you could web
browser now the web browsing could be
done with the mouse and keyboard
peripherals trying to duplicate the PC
experience and it used a variation of
the Netscape type browser now one of the
incredible things about the Sega
Dreamcast controller was the inclusion
of a memory unit that went right into
the controller but this wasn’t just any
memory unit this memory unit actually
did more than just save games it also
itself was a standalone gaming system
this was referred to as the vmu the
virtual memory unit as you can see here
it has its own control pad and buttons
and it would use a watch battery in
order to power the device then what you
would do is you would have games that we
download from various Dreamcast titles
and they would download minigames to the
vmu that you could play on the road so
not only does serve as a memory car but
it also served as a portable gaming
system and one of the other incredible
things about this is that it was one of
the first controllers to have an analog
stick and it was also one of the first
controllers to incorporate triggers as
the L&R buttons
[Music]
hello this is Chris again here with
watchmojo.com now today I thought it
would be important if we actually looked
back a little bit into the past
now when the Sega Dreamcast was released
in 1999 it was by far the most powerful
system on the market now this little
innovative powerhouse housed a 200 mega
her processor now it’s sort of funny
looking at the processor speeds now with
the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 but
at the time the more the most powerful
gaming system up until then was the
Nintendo 64 and that had a 97 mega her
processor so this was double the speed
but it also had a cd-rom drive for games
now
cd-rom drive is what it was referred to
as but in fact this was a GD wrong Drive
Giga disks is what the Dreamcast
actually used so the games could hold a
little bit more storage in the standard
CD but was well below the DVD storage
capacity that later came out in the
PlayStation 2 now if you look on the
back of the Dreamcast you notice that it
actually has a phone cord and this is
for the modem that was built into the
system
now this kilted modem let you play games
online via dial-up now I know most
people think that dial-up isn’t
something you want to play online games
with the truth be told it isn’t but the
games were so well coded and Sega’s
network was so solid and consistent that
it actually wasn’t too bad at all now
the Dreamcast was also the first gaming
system to allow PC players to play
console players in a game seconded that
way back in 2000 when they released
quake 3 arena for the Sega Dreamcast now
another feature that the Sega Dreamcast
had that put it sort of ahead of its
time was the fact that you could web
browser now the web browsing could be
done with the mouse and keyboard
peripherals trying to duplicate the PC
experience and it used a variation of
the Netscape type browser now one of the
incredible things about the Sega
Dreamcast controller was the inclusion
of a memory unit that went right into
the controller but this wasn’t just any
memory unit this memory unit actually
did more than just save games it also
itself was a standalone gaming system
this was referred to as the vmu the
virtual memory unit as you can see here
it has its own control pad and buttons
and it would use a watch battery in
order to power the device then what you
would do is you would have games that we
download from various Dreamcast titles
and they would download minigames to the
vmu that you could play on the road so
not only does serve as a memory car but
it also served as a portable gaming
system and one of the other incredible
things about this is that it was one of
the first controllers to have an analog
stick and it was also one of the first
controllers to incorporate triggers as
the L&R buttons
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