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It was all about Jet Grind Radio and Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast. Super underrated system. Super underrated games.

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My jam was Jet Set Radio, Toy Commander, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (What I got), and Sega GT.

But lets not forget Quake III Arena, which is "considered one of the best PC-to-console ports of its time thanks to its smooth frame rate and online play".

Dreamcast keyboard and mouse helped. You could actually host your own PC Q3 server on same version as DC and play against PC players if on same Q3 version.

I LOVED Jet Grind Radio (Jet Set Radio here in the UK). That combo gameplay of doing cool tricks while completing the course was seriously addictive. Trickstyle did a vaguely similar thing - still doing cool tricks, but replace graffiti with racing.

There’s an upcoming game called Bomb Rush Cyberfunk that seems to be faithfully replicating the whole JSRF gimmick.

Wow, it's practically identical! Just add skateboards and bmxs.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1353230/Bomb_Rush_Cyberfu...

Skies of Arcadia was solid. The sound and music design still jumps around my brain.

I've always regretted not getting skies. Now prices are crazy.

You can still use https://redream.io/ to play it. It's one of my favorite RPG. The emulator supposedly has superior graphics if you get the paid version for $6.

But you won’t get the physical screech of the machine as it begins to … (do something?) before throwing you into a random battle.

Anyone know what was happening under the hood? Why did the machine screech? I assume it was async loading a transition to the battle map, but why the screech?

Shenmue was ahead of its time. Great memories playing that.

I'm still only halfway through the third one, I'm happy to get a continuation of the story but the controls and feel of the game feel so clunky compared to the first two. The first two had their own share of clunkiness but at least it had it's charm, and overall the games still had an unmatched (at the time) cinematic feel.

Toy Commander owned. Don't forget Crazy Taxi while we're getting nostalgic.

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