Dan 'The Mega' Driver
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Husband, Father of 3, analyst, gamer🎮 Half of The @SegaGuys podcast. Aspiring writer, Spurs fan Delivering #SegaGamesEveryDay2024
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@SEGAGuys
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An expensive mid-gen upgradethat gives you the same games as before with minor improvements! Sound familiar?
I take a look at Sega Arcade Classics Collection on the Sega Mega CD and as if it was worthy of the new hardware.
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Dreamcast was online ready out of the box. Not a year after either, day one.
Dreamcast was available online in numerous markets, including Australia.
Dreamcast and even Saturn had friends lists.
Sega pioneered online gaming, not Xbox.
@dark1x
That may be true John, I didn’t say first though.
Xbox fully integrated online into their platform both with hardware and supporting software in box.
Xbox gave worldwide, important note, not just the USA or UK but worldwide unfettered access to online play.
Many of the staples
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How is PS5 Pro even a thing when:
•The PS5 is still £400+
•Console sales aren't growing
•The current gen library is comparatively small
•The library taking advantage of the Pro will be even smaller
•Sony have no marquee games planned this year
Who's buying this?
Sony’s PS5 Pro is up to three times faster, may arrive holiday 2024. Leaked specs suggest it's a 33.5 teraflop machine thanks to a much more powerful GPU. Full details below 👇
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These slides from Sega's presentation are pure 🔥
Golden Axe especially looks astounding!
Be still my beating heart...
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Where is GTA 6? With the update for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S let's see how we're getting on.
Two 8 year periods of GTA games:
2001 2013
To To
2009↙️ ↘️2021
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Without Virtua Fighter:
•3D gaming would not have become popular when it did
•The PS1 would not exist as we know it
•Games such as Tomb Raider, Quake, Ico and more would not exist
•Gaming would not be the same today.
30 years on, show this king some damn respect.
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The Sega Saturn aesthetic 💙
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Looks like lost 90s game art
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"Dan do you even like Xbox?"
"Of course I do! I love my Series X!"
"But you basically treat it like a Sega console!"
"What do you mean?..."
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Modern gaming sucks!
•Games sold incomplete
•Multiple retail versions with specific bonuses
•£70 games
•Selling us the same games over and over.
You'd never see that 20 to 30 years ago, when these classics were around.
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The evolution of the species.
Which Sega controller was your first?
Which Sega controller was your favourite?
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Lets face it, in the 90s when you saw this logo, heard that jingle, you knew you had a quality game on your hands
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With respect, THIS was HD in 1997
Virtua Fighter 2 resolution: 708x480 (60 fps)
Super Mario 64 resolution: 320x240 (30 fps)
And it was the PAL version 😂
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If you're an old school Sega fan, is there a better feeling than passing a checkpoint?
Probably not, so here's around 90 seconds of dopamine...
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"The Western Sega Saturn library has no good games"
A small sample of the Western Sega Saturn library...
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Happy 23rd Birthday Sega Dreamcast you beautiful machine, you
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Yeah, the PS5 and Xbox Series X are a bit more powerful, but which next gen system can fit in a shoebox for easy travel?
Check mate.
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The Game Boy is 33 years old today, so here's a pic of the greatest handheld of all time!
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Dear Bethesda
Your removal of the 360 ports of Doom from the Xbox store have reaffirmed my belief that Digital is robbery.
I shall be buying Doom 3 BFG edition second hand to ensure I'm never ensnared again and you will never get another penny from me, you shithouse.
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The reason why there's so much discussion around the N64, PS1 and Saturn is because they are all so different and each offer something the others don't, which makes talk of "the best" very subjective.
They're all great.
Don't sleep on any, especially the Sega Saturn.
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Got my Christmas present from my amazing wife early because she didn't realise how big it was 😅
Not gaming related but 100% retro and I absolutely love these Hi-Fi separates.
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This is how it feels to be raised by
@Sega
.
If you have ever loved one of these machines, then you truly experienced something special 💙
#RaisedBySega
#ShareYourGames
#GamersUnite
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Did anyone else wonder who lived or worked in the towering cityscapes of the original Sonic the Hedgehog games?
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Consoles owned?
✅Master System
✅ Game Gear
✅ Mega Drive
✅ NES
✅Super NES
✅Sega Saturn
✅Dreamcast
✅PS1
✅N64
✅PS2
✅ Xbox
✅Gameboy/Color
✅GBA
✅DS
✅3DS
✅PSP
❌PSVita
✅Gamecube
✅ Xbox 360
✅ Wii
✅ Wii U
✅ PS3
✅ Xbox One
✅PS4
✅Switch
✅PC
✅ Series X
❌ PS5
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Rewriting any history is dangerous, especially when companies do it for their own self-promotion.
It may seem trivial, but erasing the Sega Saturn debut of Tomb Raider from the public consciousness in favour of Playstation just isn't right and sets a worrying precedent.
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November 1996:
I took all my saved paper round and birthday money and bought a Sega Saturn and these three games.
26 years later, it's still my favourite console.
When did you get your first Saturn?
#SaturnDay
#SegaSaturday
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No Mega Drive
No Atari
No 80s arcade games
No Sonic
No OutRun
No Virtua Fighter
Cluttered with games from the last decade.
Gaming is forgetting its heritage...
[GQ] The Top 100 games of all time as voted by a panel of 300 devs, journalists, streamers, and more.
10. Half Life 2
9. Dark Souls
8. Portal 2
7. MGS
6. Mass Effect 2
5. The Witcher III
4. Bloodborne
3. Tetris
2. The Last of Us
1. Breath of the Wild
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Enjoying that first party exclusive Spider-man game
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Genuine question: how many gamers in 2001 had seen an Atari 2600 in real life?
Because in 2001 the VCS would have been as old as the PS2 is today, and I personally hadn't seen Atari's outrageously successful console in the flesh at that point...
Were you old enough to see one of these in real life?
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Happy 35th Birthday to the Sega Mega Drive.
Here's 35 games that shaped my love for the system, mostly PAL bit with a sprinkling of Japanese a Genesis titles.
What a legendary system.
#MegaDrive35
#ShareYourGames
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What was the Arcade game the blew your mind the first time you saw it? 🤯
What was the Arcade game the blew your mind the first time you saw it? 🤯
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It's been over 20 years, but seeing these two logo's on a game start up still feels weird...
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Deep for on Sega Saturn is such a fantastic and unique survival horror game in the Resident Evil mould.
Its a travesty so many have never experienced this title.
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"How old are you?"
Me:
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If you were a Street Fighter fan in the 90s, the Sega Saturn was essential
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Ryo Hazuki, Akira Yuki and Kazuma Kiryu were all born in the same year.
Must be a rule that if your a Sega baby from 1968 you're a badass.
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#SundayOnXbox
?
Sega on Xbox 👍
Surely the closest we got to a Dreamcast 2...
#ShareYourGames
#GamersUnite
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My original Sega Mega Drive and the eighteen games my brother, sister and I had as kids.
I had to replace a few of them, but it's so good to have them all together.
This is my early to mid-90s childhood, distilled in one image.
#MegaDriveMonday
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Only when you embrace all platforms can you truly play without limits.
Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, PC and especially Sega are all welcome here.
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Contrary to what you may have heard, the Sega Saturn can produce 3D games with stunning results.
Personally, as much as I'd have loved the consoles fortunes to have been different, I'd never want to change its capabilities when I love aesthetic so much.
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CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER!
Four of the finest fighting games of all time are on the Sega Dreamcast.
Which one are you picking?
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Remember when the Xbox 360 not only had amazing JRPG's but some even exclusive to the system?
Good times.
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Show me a game that was released during the year when you were 12 years old
Use a Gif only
Show me a game that was released during the year when you were 12 years old
Use a Gif only
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Which movie have you seen more than 7 times? Answer with a GIF
Which movie have you seen more than 7 times? Answer with a GIF
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Axel, Adam and Blaze
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Here's a challenge for retrogaming youtubers:
Make a Saturn video without saying how it was a commercial failure.
Can you do it?
It shouldn't be hard, its commercial performance 25 years ago has no bearing on topics like new hardware and the awesome titles you should play.
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Perhaps the most infamous example 😂
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Can't believe the Sega Dreamcast is 25 years old next month!
As the console nears its Silver Anniversary, what are your memories of Sega's swansong?
#ItsThinkingThursdays
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Okay, so I've been thinking:
What was the best Sonic the Hedgehog box art in 1991?
I always favoured the Master System box, but I think the Game Gear one might top it.
Which do you prefer?
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Remembering a simpler time, when peak controller design consisted of two action buttons and a d-pad.
#wedNESday
#MasterSystem
#PCEngine
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#ItsThinkingThursdays
seems the perfect time to remember the peak of the Marvel vs Capcom series and that we shouldn't need to unearth 20 year old consoles the play it!
#FREEMVC2
#ShareYourGames
#GamersUnite
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When it comes to Sega Master System and Mega Drive, are you 1 or 2?
#MegaDriveMonday
#MasterSystemMonday
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I can't stress this enough:
Most of Sonic Adventure's bad reputation is because of the absolute atrocity that is the DX releases, it's terrible on GCN, even worse on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
The original Dreamcast version is still fantastic.
still pretending the shitty pc port that fans had to fix with mods is how the dreamcast original played to keep the meme going
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Hey
@YouTube
, what are you doing about false copyright claims?!
This claimant here is NOT Yuzo Koshiro.
This isn't the first time it's happened either. You need an option to report fraudulent copyright claims.
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🆕️Mega Driver Mega Blog Post
🥇Ranking the Sega Systems🥈
In my first blog post I look at Sega's main 7 seven pieces of hardware and rank them from worst to best!
#SegaSaturday
#SaturnDay
#GamersUnite
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Xbox bringing a handful of its exclusives to a rival platform is a disaster.
It's been proven that no company recovers after.
You'd never catch PlayStation doing it.
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Feel old yet?
Here's a tweaked list of video game anniversaries for significant hardware and software releases.
Outrun being left off the original list was tantamount to a war crime!
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As a kid, I convinced myself that the Sega Saturn was better than the PS1 and N64.
Now I'm an adult and own all three, I can sensibly and objectively look back and say:
Yeah, I was right, the Saturn was the best, no contest 😁
Which side were you on during this console war ? It was the talk of the cafeteria during the 90s about who was better and who had better games. But were you Nintendo 64 or Playstation or Both ?
Me personally I loved both.
#retrogaming
#retrogames
#NINTENDO64
#PlayStation
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Happy 22nd Birthday to the original Xbox.
In the post Sega console hellscape of 2001, at times you felt like the next best thing to a Dreamcast successor!
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Might be a hot take, but I just find Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast a much more fun, exciting and enjoyable experience than Super Mario 64.
Surely I can't be the only one?
#ItsThinkingThursdays
#NinThursday64
#ShareYourGames
#GamersUnite
P.S. Its okay to have different opinions
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In April 1999, deciding I couldn't wait 6 more months for the PAL release, I bought this beautiful import
@SEGA
Dreamcast, 2 controllers, VMU, gun and these two games.
So happy 20th birthday to my Japanese Dreamcast, 20 years and still going strong.
#ItsThinkingThursdays
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🎮Gamer Question🕹
It's 1995, the first year of the Sega Saturn.
Sonic Mania is a Christmas release for the console.
How does it fair critically and commercially?
Another smash hit? Or ripped apart for not being next gen enough?
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Without a doubt one of the greatest games of all time in my mind.
I don't understand why it doesn't get the respect it's due.
No matter how many times I play through NiGHTS Into Dreams on the Saturn, as I have done for over 25 years, the game is just as delightful, heartwarming, and fun to play every time.
What an incredible game ❤️
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Keep your 4K, Ray Tracing, Dot3 Bump mapping and all those other graphical accoutrements!
Just give me flat shaded polygons, preferably on a CRT TV 😍
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Only On Sega Saturn...
Just 15 of the hundreds of classic games you can only play on Sega's Saturn console, having never had a port or remaster to date.
#SegaSaturn
#RaisedBySega
#ShareYourGames
#GamersUnite
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Like RPG's?
Here's half a dozen of them for the Saturn, some are among my favourite games of all time!
#SegaSaturday
#SaturnDay
#ShareYourGames
#GamersUnite
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Four videogames I would give the "Masterpiece" title to:
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"Singlehandedly laid the foundations for 3D gaming"
It's this sort of comment, sensationalising Mario 64 while diminishing the games that contributed as much, if not more, to the medium, that validates exactly what
@St1ka
was talking about here.
Jesus...
You don't get to justify being a knee-jerk edgelord on the back of something that single-handedly laid the foundations of 3D gaming.
I was there. In the industry. Mario 64 was beyond a synergy. It was a true creative vision.
The flaws only highlight its genius.
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Today marks 31 years since Sonic 2sday and the worldwide launch of my favourite game of all time, Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
I remember the launch, the hype and the excitement as I unwrapped my copy on Christmas day 1992.
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Surely we can all agree that black boxes with white gridlines was peak media case design and should never have been abandoned?
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96 games developed and/or published by Sega for the Dreamcast during its short lifespan.
And that's not even all of them...
Unparalleled first party support.
#ItsThinkingThursdays
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Street Fighter 2 had a profound impact on me as a gamer and remains a title I still play in its various forms today.
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I'm hyped for these games too my dude.
But "greatest year for fighting games"?
You must be too young to remember 1996...
we really getting mortal kombat 1, street fighter 6 and tekken 8 all in the same year, 2023 is shaping up to be the greatest year for fighting games ever
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Its sucks for us older retro heads, as we feel ancient, but PS3 and 360 is retro:
•360 is older now than when the SNES was on the 360 launch
•Both are older than the BBC Micro was on Bad Influence when Andy Crane dusted it off
•Both are older than Sonic was on RetroGamer iss.1
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My four most played consoles of 2020:
1. Sega Saturn
2. Xbox One
3. Mega Drive
4. Playstation 4
What are yours?
#GamersUnite
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It's
#Sega60thanniversary
.
They will forever be my favourite console manufacturer, the sheer amount of memories they've given me could never be topped.
Let's spread the
@Sega
love and share our favourite memories of their games and systems.
#GamersUnite
#SEGA60th
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On this day 28 years ago, the Sega Saturn launched in PAL regions with these four games.
Happy Birthday to my favourite console of all time!
#SegaSaturday
#SaturnDay
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