{"id":14,"date":"2009-02-03T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technidad.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/02\/rip-dreamcast\/"},"modified":"2009-02-03T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T13:00:58","slug":"rip-dreamcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/03\/rip-dreamcast\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P.: Dreamcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear:both;\">The SEGA Dreamcast is one of my all time favorite consoles. It was the first console of the last generation that I purchased. It&#8217;s kid of hard to believe that it has been ten years since it was launched. Eurogamer is running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/dreamcast-a-forensic-retrospective-article?page=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retrospective<\/a> on the little console that could (but didn&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\">I liked the Dreamcast for a couple of reasons:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"clear:both;\">\n<li>Shenmue (I and II) &#8211; I played Shenmue I and II on the Dreamcast, and I even went through the added steps to continue my saved game from Shenmue I with the import copy of Shenmue II.<\/li>\n<li>Piracy &#8211; The Dreamcast started to teach me about the downside of piracy. I spent a log of time grabbing games from usenet, burning them, and then verifying that they would boot, but I didn&#8217;t spend a lot of time playing them. The lesson was that my time was better spent paying for and playing the games that I really wanted than downloading and burning games that didn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In many ways I consider the Xbox and Xbox 360 to be decedents of the Dreamcast. To me the Xbox is more like a Dreamcast 1.5 (imagine a Dreamcast with DVD, and ethernet, and you&#8217;ll have an idea of what I&#8217;m getting at.) It doesn&#8217;t hurt that my number two Dreamcast game was only released on the Xbox for the US market.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SEGA Dreamcast is one of my all time favorite consoles. It was the first console of the last generation that I purchased. It&#8217;s kid of hard to believe that it has been ten years since it was launched. Eurogamer is running a retrospective on the little console that could (but didn&#8217;t.) I liked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[13,16,30,32,33,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}