A Brief History of Sega Dreamcast Online

The Sega Dreamcast could go online, and I think that's pretty cool. In fact, you can still take your Sega Dreamcast online in 2021! So, today on Stuff We Play, let's go over A Brief History of Sega Dreamcast Online.

Yeah, let's talk about SegaNet!

Time Stamps:

Intro: 00:00
A Brief History of Online Gaming: 00:23
Online on the Sega Saturn (Overview): 01:15
Online on the Sega Dreamcast (Overview): 03:09
Dreamcast Online Hardware: 05:34
Dreamcast Keyboard in Action: 07:25
Phantasy Star Online: 07:55
Sega Swirl: 08:28
Sportsball: 08:58
18 Wheeler: 09:09
4x4 Evo and Daytona USA 2001: 09:23
POD Speedzone, San Francisco Rush 2049, and Speed Devils Online Racing: 09:43
Capcom vs SNK 2 and Regional Exclusives: 10:10
Maximum Pool: 10:51
Online Dreamcast Shooters: 11:06
Bomberman Online: 11:42
ChuChu Rocket!: 12:00
The Next Tetris: Online Edition: 12:23
Worms World Party and Starlancer: 12:32
The Weirdest Online Dreamcast Game: 12:44
Jet Grind Radio/Jet Set Radio: 12:58
Dreamcast DLC: 13:38
Dreamcast Online Legacy: 13:50
DreamPi: 15:40
Conclusion: 16:16

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[StuffWePlay]

Small correction: Saturn Bomberman was 10 player, though Power Bomberman was 12 player! That said, Saturn Bomberman required 3 multitaps, so technically I wouldn't be surprised if folks have tried to play it with more than 10 players! Maybe there's a video in getting as many people as possible to play a single game of Bomberman, official or unofficial, but I digress!

If you enjoyed this video, then definitely consider watching another! Check out my recent video on Mega Man Game Boy games - it's an hour long!

[joniivee]

Fans have taken their Dreamcasts online to do things like play PSO and get the Sonic Adventure DLC, unaware that Seaman will inevitably harness that connection and use of for the power of evil.

Great stuff as per usual! I really like how you can do these very informative videos while sprinkling in your brand of humor. One subtle thing I enjoyed was McDonalds basically visually representing "The United States" most times you brought it up.

[EQOAnostalgia]

I saw gaming go through all of it's changes, and the most exciting time for me from Atari to now, was the early online console era. I met my wife in one of those games, 19 years this fall... crazy. I was experiencing this time on PS2 with games like Socom, EQOA, and Resident Evil Outbreak, also had the honor of playing PSO on Xbox a few months before they pulled the plug on it.

Those were most definitely exciting times, chatting was still a new concept, at least for me, and the social aspects blew me away, seeing other people in game moving around was life changing after years of single player, literally going from a blip on the screen for "graphics" to being shot at by people 3000+ miles away as a Navy seal, playing as a dwarf in a party of 4, in a massive wide open, sprawling world where my homie is an elf named Legless, the wizard keeps pulling aggro and the tank is named Wulf something or other 9/10 times. Team work baby! Goodbye couch co-op.

Talk about changes!

It's true what they say about modern gaming, take it from this old man, innovation is dead and buried. But hey, the ceiling can only go so high right? There's always VR to blow our minds today. That's the last great leap upward that i can remember that literally wowed me. Nothing has done that since PS1 to PS2 era?

[AngryCalvin]

I was an avid PC gamer in the 90's and abandoned consoles for the most part. I saw Dreamcast and was nothing short of blown away. It was the very last console I actually thought could be worth buying. And now I regret not buying one. I do own between 20-30 Dreamcast games on Steam. I had the chance to buy a Dreamcast and a good number of games for $150. Biggest gaming mistake of my entire life? Yep!

[maximussampson]

Not sure how I missed this episode...but I always love Dreamcast stuff

[darrenfoster]

I'm in canada and back in the day, I played dream cast online. I don't remember paying for a subscription but I probably did. I also had the keyboard, mouse and adapter to connect a pc monitor. I played alot of quake online had a blast.

[DreamcastAesthetic]

Awesome video! This is my first time here

[theclovercross]

I would love to see you go through those demo discs!

[omarbakkali]

Great video, u got yourself a subscriber 😉

[t.i.m.g]

Damn, MAVIS BEACON. I USED TO BE TOP 3 IN CLASS.

[ironinquisitor]

I hope people can get UT online on Dreamcast working again. Quake III still works.

[t.i.m.g]

I USED TO PLAY THE HECK OUT OF SEGA SWIRL. Would pop that web browser 2.0 in just to play it. Some of my favorite game on SDC were FUR FIGHTERS, MDK 1 & 2, SONIC ADVENTURE 1 & 2 & QUAKE & my favorite character was PHOBOS. Used to play that game online all the time.

[MichaelF]

Great Video. I just bought a dream cast from a local game store. they had the web browser disc. I wanted to buy it but I worried that trying to today's websites on it would kill it.

My room mate's daughter has a windows 95 pc in her old bedroom. I joked with her that we should hook it up and try to load YouTube on it and she said that would kill it, so that had me worried I could potentially ruin the dream cast.

[justase]

Rush 2049 didn't have online multiplayer. You could upload your memory card ghost saves to the server and download other players' ghost saves.

[raymxslappedyall]

back in the day I've only played quake 3 arena and worms

[raymxslappedyall]

the dreamcast keyboard should've just been an adaptor for any old one ya had

[jotaoad]

About Brazilian modem, on first year of the console launch, it was sold separatelly, just to make more money ... Shame on this, just retail gain obssesion....
After first year, start to came with the console, like everywhere in the world.

[troykapix]

I highly doubt there will be a age when online gaming will be perfect. As much as we have some few decent games and forgivable desync issues aside the community alone doesn't help staying in a game and coming back to it at all. To have a great time online with selected games and selected friends takes way too much time and effort for what you really get in return. And for those games that only have online to share your scores or some crap like that. Why bother, no one cares nor should ever care. Life is way too short to be wasted on toxic waste.

[raymxslappedyall]

the dreamcast keyboard should've just been an adaptor for any old one ya had