The Best Early Christmas Present I've Ever Received.

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Awesome man, the Dreamcast is one of the few systems I'm interested in that I still don't own. When I get some more disposable income, I'll pick one up. That being said, enjoy your new baby, and I'll see you on the battlefield that is CS:S.

very awesome! enjoy your dreamcast! i love mine!

What a great start to this Xmas! I've never really gotten into collecting for the Dreamcast though, mostly because I just burn all the games I want to play, only about 15 games are legit in my collection, which I had when I was a wee little boy.

Thanks you guys! I really appreciate it. By the way, I need to tell you all about my VMU with all the previous owners data. Apparently I got shafted and the guy who sold this to my mom kept all the awesome games. ;)

There are saves from King of Fighters 1999, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Shuffle, Crazy Taxi, and a few others. They date back from 1/16/2006 to 9/4/2009.

This is a bit off topic but....Is that a microwave in your room?
Sweet haul by the way. My parents would never let me even guess what my presents were until Christmas. If I even said "I bet I got a ____" You better believe they would scold me in Russian. I don't think they got the whole idea that Christmas time was supposed to be happy. I did get good presents though :D

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Originally Posted by Karakasa-Obake

This is a bit off topic but....Is that a microwave in your room?

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Call me crazy, but that's a wine cooler. I keep apples, water bottles, Coke/Pepsi, and I cool off my Cadbury Chocolate in there. Wasn't my purchase, Mom thought it was a good idea.

EDIT : Fun Fact - my wine cooler is behind my head in my avatar. Same angle was used to take my avatar picture as the picture of me holding a dreamcast.

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Originally Posted by Karakasa-Obake

Sweet haul by the way. My parents would never let me even guess what my presents were until Christmas. If I even said "I bet I got a ____" You better believe they would scold me in Russian. I don't think they got the whole idea that Christmas time was supposed to be happy. I did get good presents though :D

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Thanks. I've had a few friends with parents like that in the past. Good to hear it always turned out well though. :D

Cool, I miss chuchu rocket.

The best advice I can give you for grabbing games:

When picking up used games locally from any mom & pop store, always inspect the discs for scratches, if the game disc was 'polished' it's very likely the bottom will have a weird pattern to the reflection, like something spilled on it, only to make a shiny pattern. (hard to describe)

It will be 'scratch free' of course but with a weird pattern in the reflection; Usually totally unplayable and unable to boot.
I've had this happen to me a few times when finding a decent game worth picking up & it's a fucking SIN that used game stores destroy them so easily over what could amount to a few light scratches.

Dreamcast game discs are very sensitive to scratches compared to every other console, take care of them.

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Originally Posted by Knuckle Duster

Cool, I miss chuchu rocket.

The best advice I can give you for grabbing games:

When picking up used games locally from any mom & pop store, always inspect the discs for scratches, if the game disc was 'polished' it's very likely the bottom will have a weird pattern to the reflection, like something spilled on it, only to make a shiny pattern. (hard to describe)

It will be 'scratch free' of course but with a weird pattern in the reflection; Usually totally unplayable and unable to boot.
I've had this happen to me a few times when finding a decent game worth picking up & it's a fucking SIN that used game stores destroy them so easily over what could amount to a few light scratches.

Dreamcast game discs are very sensitive to scratches compared to every other console, take care of them.

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I've read about Dreamcast discs being fragile but I didn't know it was as severe as you described. Thanks for the heads up; I appreciate it very much. Also, you have nothing to worry about, I take exceptionally good care of all of my possesions. Most of the games/consoles that I've been the sole owner of, still are in store-bought shape.

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Originally Posted by sega fan

Call me crazy, but that's a wine cooler. I keep apples, water bottles, Coke/Pepsi, and I cool off my Cadbury Chocolate in there. Wasn't my purchase, Mom thought it was a good idea.

EDIT : Fun Fact - my wine cooler is behind my head in my avatar. Same angle was used to take my avatar picture as the picture of me holding a dreamcast.



Thanks. I've had a few friends with parents like that in the past. Good to hear it always turned out well though. :D

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That is a pretty sweet idea :D I have a mini fridge in my closet that I got as a gift too. I'm scared to open this one little drawer inside it though. Mostly because I put some leftover sandwich in there back in.......August, maybe? Oh well. I just use it for Sodas and other things I don't want my buddies or Girlfriend getting into. Seriously, you would think my main fridge is a treasure chest by how frequently it's raided.
Also, you gotta get Blue Stinger and Evolution for the DC. Blue Stinger is straight up goofy.

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Originally Posted by Karakasa-Obake

That is a pretty sweet idea :D I have a mini fridge in my closet that I got as a gift too. I'm scared to open this one little drawer inside it though. Mostly because I put some leftover sandwich in there back in.......August, maybe? Oh well. I just use it for Sodas and other things I don't want my buddies or Girlfriend getting into. Seriously, you would think my main fridge is a treasure chest by how frequently it's raided.

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That's awesome.

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Originally Posted by Karakasa-Obake

Blue Stinger is straight up goofy.

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I've heard some good things about Blue Stinger, mainly due to the goofiness, so I'll give it a whirl. It's on my list of games to check out anyway so I'll just shift Blue Stinger higher on my list.

I always though Blue Stinger was rather weird. Is it suppose to have horror undertones to it?

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Originally Posted by Guntz

I always though Blue Stinger was rather weird. Is it suppose to have horror undertones to it?

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It's supposed to, It's in the survival horror genre.

You sure like that hat.

BTW, DC + VGA = !!!

I liked Blue Stinger. It was cheesy fun.

Great score with the DC, man. Now please buy all my remaining DC games. :D