Summary

The Dreamcast is a splendid system! Hers's how it all started,First Back when it came out 9/9/1999 I rented it. PS1 ripps the thiing off. It is the best older system you can by. so i begged my friend travis for the thing so I paid him $15.00. Better deal than PS1!

Sound

REFER TO GRAPHICS SCORE FOR ANSWER!

Gameplay

The game play is awsome.Like the best game for it, Sonic adventure 2. I probably give it a 5 out 5. on the other hand Marvel vs. Capcom 2 out of 5.about one out of 25 games for the frickin consle suck! like marvel vs. capcom. Get my point

Summary

Dreamcast is what got me into the gaming world, if it wasent for DC I wouldnt be playing games. Its probably the most fun system I have ever played. Unfortunatly I bought it late 2001. The only regret I have is not buying it at launch.

Sound

Sound is like any other you'll hear on any other system. I dont have any problems with the DC's sound.

Gameplay

Depends on the games, but mostly all games on the Dreamcast are good. Especailly Sonic and Resident Evil. Gameplay should NOT be a problem for the DC. The DC has good quality gameplay.

Summary

The Sega Dreamcast was introduced in Japan I belive around early 1999, that's around the time I placed an order to have one shipped from overseas w/five games; House of the dead 2, Virtua fighter 3, Sonic adventure, Sega rally, Tokyo Highway battle, and Power stone. Initially I was amazed at the graphical leap sega had over Playstation & N64, after using the system for a few months I realized that besides the obvious graphical and audio upgrade there wasn't much of a diffrence as far as gameplay was concerned, don't get me wrong the Sega Dreamcast was and still is a fine console with many quality titles and a pretty extensive and varied game library. The addition of online play later in its life added something new and innovative to the console market, although not widely used, and the ability to play top sega arcade titles (sometimes the best arcade games around) at home was a great advantage. At its inital launch Dreamcast did very well in terms of sales (better than sony did w/the playstation release; Sega pushed over $97 million in sales..the first day!!) and just the overall marketing push by Sega to promote the system, it launched with over 17 games, and was sold out in most chains prior to launch. Many early adopters of the system praised it for introducing the masses to the next generation in consoles but at the same time there were alot of hold outs..people still clinging on to their Playstations weary of sega's prior console history. Sega just months after the NorthAmerican release was faced w/ Sony's inevitable counter move..PS2. As soon as info about Playstation 2 leaked out into the mainstream Dreamcast sales started to dip. At this time Sega started doing what they did best release even more quality software for the Dreamcast, titles like Soul Caliber,Dead or alive 2 and sega's very own 2K sports series aswell as significant third party support helped maintain the Dreamcast afloat for sometime but many jumped from Playstation to PS2 and completely wrote of sega's 128 bit effort as inferior. A real shame, I would watch kids buy Playstations at Circuit city for $99.00 (prior to the Ps2 launch) and completely ignore all the Dreamcasts on the shelves; a real testament as to how poorly consumers seemed to be informed about how great Dreamcast really was. I'm not partial to sega in some reguards I do admit Sony's superiority w/ Ps2 in terms of computing and processing power but it just seemed to me like Dreamcast graphics where cleaner, at some point I had Dead or Alive 2 on both Dreamcast and Ps2 and did a side by side comparison of the two, both games were identical, except for one thing the Ps2 version seemed to have more jaggies and lower res textures on some of the backrounds...perplexing. All in all Dreamcast is a great value for the money (you can find one for no more than $30.00 at some places ; games are hard to come by though)even with games no longer being produced the variety of software left behind is extensive and varied and you will swear some games look as good (if not better) than Ps2.

Sound

Sound veried from game to game.

Gameplay

Gameplay I belive varies by software titles not consoles...if I was to comment on gameplay in terms of all Dreamcast software I would have to say it is varied.