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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Himu on March 08, 2008, 01:45:06 PM

Title: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Himu on March 08, 2008, 01:45:06 PM: Register your Dreamcasts duders

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“Do you still own a Dreamcast?” - That is what Sega Japan is asking the world.

“Why?” is just what you might be asking. To be honest, we are not entirely sure. But Sega Japan appears to have updated its Dreamcast website and has opened up a new sub-site where Dreamcast owners can register, using their Dreamcast’s serial numbers, allowing them access to their own “@user.dreamcast.com” account.

At first I thought it could be some sort of fan/hoax site, but now I’m not sure, as the site content does appear to be fairly legit.

Could it be that Sega is planning some sort of Dreamcast re-release? Are they planning to celebrate the DC’s 10th Birthday? (Though I’m not sure if the dates tally for that). Maybe they are planning on releasing old Dreamcast games? Or perhaps starting up the old Dreamcast servers for online play? Or are they just curious little puppies?

The main point of this is that if Dreamcast fans ever wanted to show their true support for the system, now is the time! By registering your console at the site, we can show Sega Japan just how many Dreamcast owners are still out there!

Hopefully we will get some answers soon enough.

http://www.seganerds.com/2008/03/08/sega-japan-still-showing-dreamcast-support-in-2008/#more-3816
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Trent Dole on March 08, 2008, 02:16:02 PM: Quote from: ParticleReality on March 08, 2008, 01:49:52 PM
They better not make a Dreamcast 2. I refuse to let GAF be right about it!
But it'd be hilarious. Four console future, believe. :lol
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 08, 2008, 02:27:31 PM: 2008 = Year of PS3
2009 = Dreamcast returns
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Mupepe on March 08, 2008, 02:31:37 PM: Himuro: You mean my dreamcast? the one I gave you???
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: demi on March 08, 2008, 02:35:59 PM: No
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Mr. Gundam on March 08, 2008, 03:46:50 PM: My 09/09/99 launch unit is still working, I'll have to register it.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Rman on March 08, 2008, 03:47:19 PM: Dreamcast is the system will never die in the hearts of Sega fans.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I miss you, Dreamcast :'(
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Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: demi on March 08, 2008, 03:59:43 PM: Dreamcast will live in the heart of pirates everywhere

Thank you Sega for blowing it
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: tiesto on March 08, 2008, 04:01:02 PM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on March 08, 2008, 02:27:31 PM
2008 = Year of PS3
2009 = Dreamcast returns

Dreamcast has a better chance of returning in '09 than PS3 has being the system of '08... =P
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 08, 2008, 04:01:30 PM: Dreamcast 2009 Relaunch w/Waggle, believe!
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 08, 2008, 04:51:57 PM: Holy shit!
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: bluemax on March 08, 2008, 05:45:26 PM: I wish my Dreamcast worked better I might actually play it.

I think I'll hook it up at my new place just for the hell of it. Are those VGA boxes hard to come by?
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 08, 2008, 05:49:40 PM: Quote from: bluemax on March 08, 2008, 05:45:26 PM
I wish my Dreamcast worked better I might actually play it.

I think I'll hook it up at my new place just for the hell of it. Are those VGA boxes hard to come by?

If you don't mind buying the El Cheapo brand VGA adapter.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: CurseoftheGods on March 08, 2008, 06:09:50 PM: I would register my imported (JP) launch DC if I was back home. :hyper

Sega: :heartbeat :heartbeat :heartbeat
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: MCD on March 08, 2008, 06:11:57 PM: sega :violin
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: The Sceneman on March 08, 2008, 06:26:04 PM: Quote from: tiesto on March 08, 2008, 04:01:02 PM
Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on March 08, 2008, 02:27:31 PM
2008 = Year of PS3
2009 = Dreamcast returns

Dreamcast has a better chance of returning in '09 than PS3 has being the system of '08... =P

a bold claim indeed!
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Himu on March 08, 2008, 07:48:33 PM: Quote from: Mupepe on March 08, 2008, 02:31:37 PM
Himuro: You mean my dreamcast? the one I gave you???

:heartbeat
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: pilonv1 on March 08, 2008, 09:30:14 PM: This is the biggest cocktease ever.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: muckson on March 09, 2008, 12:04:36 AM: Quote from: pilonv1 on March 08, 2008, 09:30:14 PM
This is the biggest cocktease ever.
yea it is.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: muckson on March 09, 2008, 02:50:22 PM: check the link again. it turns out it was a hoax.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 09, 2008, 02:57:51 PM: given that the dreamcast hardware sucks in this day and age, what would be the point, even if it wasn't a hoax?
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: pilonv1 on March 09, 2008, 07:45:03 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on March 09, 2008, 02:57:51 PM
given that the dreamcast hardware sucks in this day and age, what would be the point, even if it wasn't a hoax?

It's still better than Wii hardware
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 09, 2008, 08:59:14 PM: this is true
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Ichirou on March 09, 2008, 09:37:00 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on March 09, 2008, 02:57:51 PM
given that the dreamcast hardware sucks in this day and age, what would be the point, even if it wasn't a hoax?

Get people's e-mail addresses so they could spam their inboxes with announcements for Sega products?
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: MCD on March 09, 2008, 09:44:28 PM: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10131631&postcount=275

pathetic.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 09, 2008, 10:52:40 PM: Sega fans pwned again. :lol It just doesn't stop, does it?
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: CurseoftheGods on March 09, 2008, 11:23:39 PM: spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sega > Nintendo.
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Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: CurseoftheGods on March 09, 2008, 11:41:21 PM: :'(
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: The Sceneman on March 10, 2008, 12:02:56 AM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on March 09, 2008, 11:45:49 PM
Hey guys I hear Shenmue 3 is on its way.

omg link plz, if it uses the same engine as Yakuza 3 omg...
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: pilonv1 on March 10, 2008, 12:03:42 AM: Quote from: Joe Molotov on March 09, 2008, 10:52:40 PM
Sega fans pwned again. :lol It just doesn't stop, does it?

No :bawl :bawl :bawl
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: muckson on March 10, 2008, 12:26:42 AM: the dreamcast was the college student's perfect system. cheap, easy to use, had tons of games across several genres, and was fun. but dammit if the pirates didn't ruin it for everyone on that.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 12:44:51 AM: Piracy was not the deciding factor in the DC's demise, but I'm sure it played a part. That said, Sega's numerous, well-documented screw-ups prior to the DC's launch (its long line of abandoned consoles and add-ons, mostly) and the looming PS2 launch were probably more significant.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: MCD on March 10, 2008, 04:18:19 PM: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10140495&postcount=287

further proof.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 11, 2008, 04:19:00 PM: hahahaha

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/10/dreamcast-com-converted-into-phishing-scam-sega-warns/

SERVED
SERVED
SERVED
SERVED
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Ichirou on March 11, 2008, 10:17:46 PM: Stupid Sega.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 11, 2008, 11:16:13 PM: This could only happen to Sega. The first to usher in a new age of online consoles, the first to let their old domain names lapse and get bought out by phishers.
Title: Re: register your dreamcasts
Post by: Mr. Gundam on March 11, 2008, 11:17:30 PM: Hahaha.

Good thing I was so lazy that I never bothered to register.