By Toby Jones. Illustration by Dylan C. Lathrop

Welcome to the first shineget.net podcast, a nostalgic look back at the Dreamcast launch with me and my friend Cody Koch. It begins as an account of how our friendship was formed by our anticipation of the impending Dreamcast release and our memories of 9/9/99, then moves into discussions of each and every one of the 24 launch games (some are touched upon in more depth than others, of course). We then wrap up with our recollections of watching the beloved console perish before our eyes.

Listen to (or right click to download) the podcast here.

00:00: Memories of 9/9/99 and the beginning of our friendship
06:40: Our love affair with Sonic Adventure
09:25: The launch games
33:53-48:00: Everything else - the last game we bought, Shenmue, the Evolution series, the death of Sonic and the Dreamcast, and more.

For other great 9/9/99 retrospectives, check out this classy requiem for our departed friend by Jeremy Parish, or this informative (if cheesily edited) G4 video on the subject posted at 4 color rebellion.

The incomprehensible 9/9/99 ad we mention in the podcast.

Here are all of the launch games in the order that we discussed them:

Aerowings
Air Force Delta
Armada
Blue Stinger
CART Racing
House of the Dead 2
Hydro Thunder
The King of Fighters: Dream Match 1999
Marvel vs. Capcom
Monaco Grand Prix
Mortal Kombat Gold
NFL Blitz 2000
NFL 2K
Power Stone
Rainbow Six
Ready 2 Rumble
Slave Zero
Sonic Adventure
Soul Calibur
Soul Fighter
Speed Devils
TNN Motorsports HardCore Heat
Tokyo Xtreme Racer
TrickStyle

This list doesn't include games that I think were also released at launch, like Pen Pen Trilcelon and Expendable, because we just followed the EGM list slavishly.

Also, we use sound from these two Dreamcast commercials.





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