Soul Calibur

📢 JET GRIND RADIOOOOOOOOO 🎶🎹🔊

Also both Sonic Adventures, Virtual On Oratorio Tangram, Crazy Taxi and I think I remember Sega GT being pretty good too?

I almost failed out of college thanks to Soul Calibur.

Power stone, Ikaruga, Rez

I like the fact that there are games that are still best played on the Dreamcast, or only played on the Dreamcast, since there was no follow-up console after it, or because the ports were not great. Today there's always a remaster, backwards compatibility with the next console, or at the very least a sequel, so games just move along with the hardware. But the Dreamcast had some games that just lived and died on that system.

Weirdly, most of these turned out to be fighting games. Probably because Capcom liked the Dreamcast.

My favorites that are still best (or only) played on that system:

• Crazy Taxi (the ports don't have the original soundtrack, an absolute sin)
• Power Stone and Power Stone 2
• Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (literally one of the best fighting games ever, and it can't be purchased on any systems today)
• Cannon Spike
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• Project Justice

San Francisco Rush 2049 for me. Looked so much better than on the other consoles, too.

Also Crazy Taxi. So much Crazy Taxi.

Phantasy Star Online, lost hundreds of hours there.

Shenmue! :D

Phantasy Star Online for sure, Sonic Adventure 1, and Grandia 2

oh and Gauntlet Legends was also on Dreamcast!

The controller

Skies of Arcadia

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

Wetrix

Mine was Skies of Arcadia - I know it also came out on GameCube, but I first played it on the Dreamcast. It was also (somehow) my first experience with a jrpg.

I know is not a Dreamcast exclusive but I love Tony Hawks pro skater 2 and played it a lot in my DC! Also, Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi.

Marvel vs Capcom 2 Crazy taxi 2 Basically every game for this system was boss

Crazy Taxi was fantastic.

Metropolis Street Racer was utterly brilliant and I remember being annoyed when I heard the sequel was going to that new Microsoft console called XBox. That was of course Project Gotham Racing.

And Rez which I love so much I bought it remastered on Xbox360, again on PS4 and one final time on Quest 2.

Was anybody else young enough to get endless entertainment out of those demo disks that held a dozen demos on them?

Sonic Adventure 2

Crazy Taxi

Hydro Thunder

Jet Set Radiooooooo. I picked up this game on release day randomly while I was in Japan. Such an awesome soundtrack

MDK2 - Found it randomly and it was a ton of fun.

DOA2 - Some... Fond... Memories. Put the disc in a PC for extra fun.

Army Men: Sarges Heroes - Just good classic fun

Evolution 1 & 2 - My first randomly generated dungeon crawlers.

Chu Chu Rocket!

Jet Grind Radio

Resident Evil: Code Veronica

Sonic Adventure and Shenmue are the ones I remember the best.

Mars Matrix

Gunbird 2

GigaWing

Twinkle Star Sprites

Typing of the Dead

Project Justice

Chu Chu Rocket

Street Fighter 3: Third Strike

Cosmic Smash

Ikaruga

No mention of Record of Lodoss War yet? Still one of the most underrated Diablo-clones.

Sonic adventure 1 & 2. Put a ton of time into both of those games.

Also enjoyed wacky races with friends.

No one mentioned Guilty Gear X yet.

So that.

Nester DC. My first introduction to a Dream Cast and wow, what a ride. It was amazing being able to replay all the games from the NES that I thought had vanished into the past.

This was 2001-02ish, so well before streaming and online emulators were really well known.

Definitely Phantasy Star Online - even today I still play and work on it because it's just the perfect type of game for myself.

Resident Evil Code Veronica, House of The Dead 2, and Sonic Adventure were my jam.

Ikaruga

Power Stone 1 and 2, so much fun in college. Space Channel 5, just loved the retrofuture ascetic and rhythm games. Same for Rez, a rhythmic shooter. Oh, can't forget Jet Set Radio, loved that so much.

I love me some Rez and Ikaruga.

Wacky Races (2000)

Gotta give some sports game love too.

NFL 2K, enjoyed playing it with friends a lot more than madden at the time.

Fire Pro Wrestling D - absolutely one of the greatest wrestling games of that generation IMHO. I remember my friends and I trying to figure out WTH we were doing for awhile before getting the hang of it.

I didn't know own a Dreamcast myself but had always wanted to.

The games that sounded most interesting were my friend talking about Sonic Adventures. There was also a magazine I owned with a feature on Phantasy Star Online, and man, it made me so jealous. It sounded so cool! I couldn't believe we had the technology for an MMO on a console at the time lol.

Dreamcast had the best original THPS² release

Spawn: In the Demon's Hand was so much fun, haven't seen it mentioned yet!

So many to choose from, but I'll add a couple I didn't see mentioned yet.

Capcom vs SNK 1&2

Spawn: in the demon's hand

Edit: Still think both Capcom vs SNK games have some the best Fighting game soundtracks.