New Releases - 04/23

[Kiwi]

Gregorick submits 64 Game Busters Volume 01 Issue 02.

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Dreamcast Magazine (JPN) issue 49 is now available.

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Dreamcast Magazine (JPN) issue 91 is now available.

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Dreamcast Magazine (JPN) issue 114 is now available. This was the last issue to be produced of this title.

Sega doomed their later consoles to rather ignominious ends when you look at the Saturn and Dreamcast. Unlike Nintendo they never seemed to produce unique enough hardware to capture the imagination of the general public so their appeal was limited to those of us who wanted perfect ports of their arcade games.

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Arcade ports were never on my mind with Sega. That is...an interesting take. 

[Kiwi]

I have bought five Dreamcasts over the years because the arcade ports of Crazy Taxi and Powerstone were fabulous. House of the Dead 2 ranks right up there when paired with the consoles light gun and I saw nothing on the PS2 that came close to the visual fidelity of the Dreamcast. The VGA adapter capability of the Dreamcast at the time was amazing.

The subsequent PS2 conversion of Crazy Taxi after Sega went software only was an abomination with missing music and awful visuals.

Nintendo proved you can make a console work with eclectic hardware if you have the games to support it.

People flocked to the PS2 simply because Sony went with a DVD drive , making it by far the cheapest option to play movies at the time when the prices of standalone DVD players were ridiculously high. I went with the PS2 because of that very reason but if Sega had provided DVD playback support on the Dreamcast I would've stayed with that console. I can't begin to describe how disappointed I was with the PS2.

[Pulstar]

I have bought five Dreamcasts over the years because the arcade ports of Crazy Taxi and Powerstone were fabulous. House of the Dead 2 ranks right up there when paired with the consoles light gun and I saw nothing on the PS2 that came close to the visual fidelity of the Dreamcast. The VGA adapter capability of the Dreamcast at the time was amazing.

The subsequent PS2 conversion of Crazy Taxi after Sega went software only was an abomination with missing music and awful visuals.

Nintendo proved you can make a console work with eclectic hardware if you have the games to support it.

People flocked to the PS2 simply because Sony went with a DVD drive , making it by far the cheapest option to play movies at the time when the prices of standalone DVD players were ridiculously high. I went with the PS2 because of that very reason but if Sega had provided DVD playback support on the Dreamcast I would've stayed with that console. I can't begin to describe how disappointed I was with the PS2.

Of course all of us who were supportive of Sega were heartbroken with the decision to end hardware support. People are just willing to forgive Nintendo their mishaps but not Sega's. That said the PS2 was a polygonal monster at the time even though its output was blurry and mostly unclean to look at.

[Kiwi]

Dreamcast Magazine (JPN) issue 113 is now available.

[Kiwi]

Dreamcast Magazine (JPN) issue 52 is now available.

[Kiwi]

Gregorick provides us with the preview issue of X-360.

[Kiwi]

Next up from Gregorick is PowerStation (UK) issue 42

[Kiwi]

Amstrad Computer User issue 29 is now available.

[Kiwi]

Dreamcast Magazine (JPN) issue 52 is now available.

[Kiwi]

Dreamcast Magazine (JPN) issue 76 is now available.

[Kiwi]

Gregorick submits XBM issue 15.