Comments on: A Tribute To The Sega Dreamcast – Best. Console. Ever.

By: Becoming-the-Archetype

Becoming-the-Archetype — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:17:53 +0000

…and stepping away from the unrelated argument of sexual preference, and back to the fishing controller. -Many people are unaware of another way SEGA was so ahead of everybody: that their fishing controller was a motion controller, long before the crap Nintendo Wii. That you were able to swing it around to games like Virtua Tennis, or Soul Calibur and many others. So maybe these SEGA stoners were enlightened to something so great and advanced in SEGA’s future, but with short foresight of (the Man) Sony’s evil underhanded tactics of applying its deep pockets in buying out big programmers exclusivity rights. What may be seen as SEGA’s loss, is only their loss. Competition advances better product. And the standard SEGA set, was stratopheric.

By: Biff

Biff — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:30:43 +0000

Homophobic… hmm… Does that mean afraid of gay people, or simply looking down one’s nose at the act of two people of the same sex defying millions of years of biology and mixing up the reproductive and digestive systems?

Why is it that an activity which causes (at minimum) major hemmorhoids and (very commonly) AIDS is somehow sacrosanct? Why does the government feel free to inform me that smoking kills, and if even a private citizen uses the word “gay” in a negative context, he’s somehow a throwback?

We need to be able to have an honest dialogue about these issues, logically and absent the emotional biases we all carry around. Sadly, you can’t be logical about the health and propriety of such activity in the twenty-first century; ad-hominem is about the highest level of discourse anyone wishes to engage in.

By: SmellyGeekBoy

SmellyGeekBoy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:02:27 +0000

I was actually thinking of the mental image of two guys sitting in a darkened bedroom together waggling their joysticks. I didn’t really intend that list as some kind of ‘heirarchy’, just an off-the-cuff lighthearted kinda comment.

Actually, if you want to be pedantic, there’s no “stepping up” involved. They just go from being one thing to being another. Still, at least if you stopped reading there you didn’t get to the point where I insulted stoners and Japanese people.

Like my old pa always said, “I’m not homophobic / racist / sexist. I pick on everyone equally.”

By: matija

matija — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:58:04 +0000

sorry, when I got to this part of the post:

“Thanks to Sega, gamers went from being sad, lonely, troll-like creatures (original arcade cabs – single player), or maybe even a bit gay (two player games), to being social animals. I mean, you could have up to three friends!”

..implying that being gay is a step up from trolls, and a step down from being social; I stopped reading.

You are a homophobic person.

By: Deftman

Deftman — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:19:09 +0000

Very good tribute, I agree the Dreamcast is the best console ever.

By: OwningXylophone

OwningXylophone — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:47:57 +0000

The UK one does indeed have an orange handle, but it was not an official Sega product, it was 3rd party.

By: SmellyGeekBoy

SmellyGeekBoy — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:41:48 +0000

Indeed, I seemed to remember the UK one having an orange handle but assumed that maybe I was just going mad.

By: OwningXylophone

OwningXylophone — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:19:37 +0000

And how that fishing controller rocks… I still have mine! Not the one you pictured though, as that’s the ‘Sega Marine Fishing’ rod that only came out in the US.