Post Script

ith the benefit of hindsight, Dreamcast was always the most fitting birthplace for the series. Sega’s final attempt to conquer the console market was an optimistic endeavour in many ways, but perhaps most of all in its desire to bring people together through play. Long before social media was being weaponised to divide communities, ’s connection screen was warning people “you’ll be playing with people you don’t know so remember to be polite.” Such a warning seems quaint now, in the same way that ’s vision of mid-’80s Yokosuka seemed quaint then. Hazuki’s familiarity with everyone from