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

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

Also enjoyed wacky races with friends.

📢 JET GRIND RADIOOOOOOOOO 🎶🎹🔊

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

Since I don’t see it in here anywhere and my friends & I spent a stupid amount of time with it:

Rival Schools

I was just singing the praises of Armada here a few days ago

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

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.

Non exclusive, but Grandia 2 was a beautiful game on dream cast.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Samba de Amigo

I had this really strange game called Seventh Cross Evolution. It wasn’t really a good game, but I loved it.

You started out as a tiny amoeba, and ate food to gain evolution points. You’d then use those points to add colors to a grid, I think you had six colors. The arrangement of those colors in the grid would unlock new body parts, like tentacle legs, or human arms, or a shark head.

It was super weird and clunky, but I loved it as a kid. I would spend hours just making pictures and seeing what I’d get. Might have to revisit that one soon, could make a fun stream game.