Retro Gamer

DREAMCAST MEMORIES

Sega’s last console is now 25 years old and still appears to be in rude health. Tim, Nick and Darran look back at Sega’s last roll of the dice and what it meant to them.

DARRAN

So what’s your earliest Dreamcast memory?

TIM

Playing Crazy Taxi on a demo pod at HMV in Belfast, then realising I’d never be able to buy a Dreamcast as I was a starving student at the time.

NICK

I’d been whipped into a frenzy of hype by ’s enthusiastic coverage, so when I first saw a demo

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