This week we’ll be taking a look at some strange games that we can’t seem to get out of our head. They may be bad, they may be good but they all share the same fate of being lost in time. The games that comprise this list are not the Loco Rocos or Katamari Damacys out there that shoot for wackiness, but rather the subtle, obscure games that tried to be normal but just couldn’t pull it off.
Recently we spotted a Portable Sega Genesis system, and now the ill-fated Dreamcast also has a portable system to take on-the-go. The Portable Dreamcast allows you to play any Dreamcast game, with the disk slipping right in the back of the device.
Dreamcast was one of Sega’s systems which never quite took off like they expected, but still made a nice dent in the gaming world when it was still around. If you still have Dreamcast games lying around, you probably need a new way to play them, seeing as your Dreamcast is probably shoved in storage somewhere. — Andrew Dobrow
Following rumors that Sony was working on a re-entry into the gaming console market, Sony (ahem, did we say Sony? Sega…yes, Sega of course) has publicly dashed any hopes of a Dreamcast revival, much to the defeat of Cartman and the rest of the South Park cast. Originally launched in November 1998, Dreamcast was pulled from production in 2001, at which point Sega left the console market to focus on software.
Senior Sega US spokesman Charlie Scibetta commented on the rumored comeback with a statement saying Sega “has no plans to get back into the console business” and is “very happy being a platform agnostic company”. The rumor started when Sega changed the Dreamcast trademark to what seems to be random tech terms, such as “floor pads” and “flash memory cards”. In the meantime, we have this awesome Dreamcast guitar DIY project to orgasm over. — Andrew Dobrow
