If you couldn't guess, I'm new to the forums.
Was reading through a bunch of the recent introductions, popping into the chat to say hello a few times and thought why not introduce myself too!
Been reading so much on here both recent and from the past these past few days. Every time I hit my bed (takes me a bit to fall asleep) I would spend some reading time till I fall asleep. So much good stuff. Great vibe too!
So, the Dreamcast...
First time I saw the Dreamcast was going to my bestfriends house. I hadn't seen her in like 3 days and she wouldn't pick up the phone, so naturally I decided to go pounding on the door to get some information out of her parents haha. She was there, and had the Dreamcast.
I'll never forget the setup (coolest setup ever to me). Down in the basement, windows covered in curtans, pitch black down there. On one side of the basement partitioned off by a massive wall of spare blankets was a couch, a TV stand and the Dreamcast next to it. Bunch of games stacked up with VMU's laying around. I was just like nooo way. She was playing Phantasty Star Online and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Had the fishing reel controller too. That setup was so ill...
The system had been out for a while, PS2 was out at the time which is what I had. So we ended up being on the DC for days on end. I really loved the thing but never got one because she had that, I had the PS2 and we were pretty much set. But ever since I've always wanted one.
Flash forward to today, a friend and I were talking about Neo Geo stuff (Wanted an AES for like 20 years now) and in the conversation he says, "You know what, I know how much this means to you, I know the price on these and I know you aren't about to go throwing money around like that.. Tell you what. It's yours. It's just sitting in a box."
Rather then just take it I would rather make a trade so I asked what he wanted. During that he mentions having a DC (Cause I was talking about a Hello Kitty DC...) and a boat load of games boxed up in the house, couple controllers, padded carrying case, VMU and fishing reel controller. Pretty much said "it's yours".
He lives pretty far from me, so it's all being shipped. Bit of a heavy shipment for both systems and all the stuff coming with them, so I don't have them yet. I've been rocking NullDC for quite a while now, but it'll be cool to have a DC here in person.
I have some pretty fond memories of the thing, and how much fun we had with the thing. Hence just having to share all that back story