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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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Date created
11-Jan-2007, 11:43 AM
Originally posted by: Number20
Originally posted by: sean wookie
Did you know they are starting to make DC games again in Japan? Also Earthbound was one of my favorite childhood games.


Are these basically homebrews or fan-releases of nearly finished games that didn't get released before the system died, or corporate releases? You can go on sites like www.atariage.com or www.songbird-productions.com and find homebrewed games for various Atari systems, unfinished games, and finished/nearly finished games that didn't get released back when their systems were active. So I wouldn't be suprised to find that the Dreamcast has something similar. The Dreamcast seemed to always have a dedicated following.


These are totally original games, by third party developers. Sega itself only stoped publishing games for the DC in Japan in 2004. There is still a huge market for japanese DC owners, specially for 2d space shooters like Ikaruga. While on the US the DC completely died in 2002, it had a small following in Japan, up to this day.