Sorry I'm late, everyone. I was too busy celebrating Dreamcast's big birthday yesterday. There was cake, soda, and of course, lots of games.
Dreamcast, for me, marks the first time I very consciously recognized that I was a gamer. I was scraping money together to buy games, anxiously awaiting releases, scrambling to read magazines. I was reading NextGen magazine, the publication that eventually put me here, writing this. Sure there were moments previous, like Metal Gear Solid just a year earlier, but with the Dreamcast I knew I was in for life.
Looking back over ten years, it's hard not to be nostalgic for a lot of games. The Dreamcast was a quirky system with a lot of truly unique games and experiments at all levels of production. It also was home to games that are still significant today and some of the best in their genre.
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