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The Sega Dreamcast is a video game system released in 1999 in America & Europe (1998 in Japan) by Sega. It lasted until 2001. It was killed by the PS2 is what most people are tricked to believing this made up hype, but the company's wrong market decisions and Sega of Japan not adopting Berney Stolar's comprehensive game plan for the console led to its demise. In the two years and five months on the market in the United States the Dream Cast sold 7.1 million units making it a minor success in the country when the last initial shipments were sold until mid 2002. In Japan, the console had only sold 1.93 million units in the three years on the market. In the E.U. & U.K. combined the Dream Cast sold 3.01 million units. Sega had shipped out over 13 million units most being in the United States worldwide by February 2001. The PS2 had absolutely nothing to do with the fall of the Sega Dream Cast, Sega of Japan killed their own dream out of their lust for power and control, some say non DVD support helped kill the Dream Cast and there may be some truth to that, at the time no one was even thinking about that, and we had no idea DVD's would take off the way it did.




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The system was never reviewed by the team, but they did have a fondness for it, as they would often pick games for the system rather than their PS1/N64 Counterparts. They called it the best system however.

Classic Game Room[]

Mark has reviewed three different versions, The normal white one, the Sega Sports Black model and the Japanese Yukawa Box Edition.

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