A bundle to celebrate the anniversary of the Dreamcast’s 9.9.99 launch in the US. Sit back and listen to the sublime Sega-inspired sounds of Christa Lee, read about the console’s most cutting-edge games, play minigames that evoke its aesthetic, and escape into a musical VR trance!
All proceeds divided equally between creators, helping cool people to keep making awesome stuff in a post-Dreamcast era.
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Games
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Frog Pets, mysterious artificial lifeforms in the same genre as Seaman. Leonard Nimoy not included.
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Ever wished you could just hang out in the ramen place in Shenmue for a while? Maybe Hanafuda Koi-Koi Ramen could sate that hunger!
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Sky Pirates, a pass-and-play multiplayer turn-based naval battler set amid sky oceans and floating islands. Think Skies of Arcadia meets Final Fantasy Tactics on a gorgeous hex grid.
VR
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VREZ, nosferathoo's VR tribute to the technodelic REZ. If you've got the necessary hardware, you don't want to miss this.
Music
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'Dragons Over Tokyo-to', a track from the Sega-inspired album Welcome to the Fantasy Zone by Christa Lee, formerly known as Vaporwave artist "ショッピングワールドjp
Writing
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Zoyander Street's Dreamcast Worlds, a book about the history and psychogeography of the Dreamcast told through three of its games.
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'Nostalgia for the Taisho Dream' -- retro game critic Vincent Kinian's essay on Sakura Taisen.
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'Choices of a Madman' -- essay on Shenmue by Taylor Hidalgo
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?? Accolades ??
Dreamcast Worlds looks at the shared legacy of a console and its games, and gives its complicated subject-matter the treatment it deserves. It looks at the Dreamcast and its era with fresh eyes, mindful of history but never reducing the Dreamcast to a bullet point or a casualty in the ongoing "console wars" narrative. I can only hope that readers of Dreamcast Worlds will apply a little bit of its generous, considered approach the next time they find themselves discussing the relative merits of our new crop of consoles.
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