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Console War, p72

May 27, 2020 by Tim


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foducool
foducool
4 years ago

holy shit, the dreamcast lost people

CRN
CRN
4 years ago

Seeing the Dreamcast like this really let me realize just how old I am.

Kasaix
Kasaix
4 years ago

I did not expect the Dreamcast remnants to appear.

Pulse
Pulse
4 years ago

the retro consoles are coming…

james
james
4 years ago

Deamcast, man i am old. Still remember buying this amazing little console on release, such a shame it was segas console downfall.

Cathfaern
Cathfaern
4 years ago
Reply to  james

It was my favorite console, right next to N64. Nothing is the same since those times (well, I don’t own a switch, maybe that have similar feeling).

raven0ak
raven0ak
4 years ago
Reply to  james

well no wonder, not only console had weak quality (broke often), game selection was really overshadowed by nintendo and sony at that time

Sol
Sol
4 years ago
Reply to  james

I really liked what the Dreamcast did and what it could do, but I just hated saga games. Every time I would play a game and I hated it, I would look at the box and see Sega on it. It got to the point where I wouldn’t even rent a game if I saw their logo. Their controls were always weird, the games were often buggy, or the gameplay just not any fun.

Merendel
Merendel
4 years ago
Reply to  Sol

I get the same feeling these days when I see the EA logo on a game.

leduk
leduk
4 years ago
Reply to  Sol

Shenmue alone carried the console. Fantasy star only was my first hns. The dreamcast was SO underrated…

will
will
4 years ago
Reply to  Sol

I feel that. I had same bitter response to the N64 and its stupid 3 handed controllers. I ended u avoiding them like the plague. to this day I am sad to admit ive never once played a Zelda game.

Douglas Taylor
Douglas Taylor
4 years ago
Reply to  james

I wonder if we will see a lynx and a Jaguar in the forests too…

Cyrad
Cyrad
4 years ago
Reply to  james

It wasn’t SEGA’s downfall. The Dreamcast failed because SEGA already spent all their goodwill on the SEGA CD, 32X, Saturn, and the unreleased Neptune. Those consoles (as well as a stupid E3 publicity stunt) soured SEGA’s reputation with consumers, retailers, and 3rd party publishers. The Dreamcast lasted as long as it did because it was a great console with some awesome exclusives, but in the face of good competition, it couldn’t overcome SEGA’s past mistakes.

Migs
Migs
4 years ago

Wonder if there will be Game Gear, Genesis and Saturn people as well. And if there’s a 32X, would it be like a parasitical attachment?

Him.
Him.
4 years ago
Reply to  Migs

Probably a dysfunctional implant.

StringPetounPing
StringPetounPing
4 years ago
Reply to  Migs

32X+CD was basically a saturn in three parts. So I guess it would look like a couple of cybernetic upgrades.

Seanathan
Seanathan
2 years ago

The genesis vs SNES was the ‘ww2’ of console wars, in tech and in brutality, so maybe it would be some kind of steam powered upgrade, Like General von Strotheim in JOJO

Last edited 2 years ago by Seanathan
Scortch
Scortch
4 years ago
Reply to  Migs

How about a Jaguar system?

Angrybob2001
Angrybob2001
4 years ago
Reply to  Scortch

send in the ancient intellivison

JW85
JW85
4 years ago

SEEEEEEEGAAAAAAA! Oh man, with the Dreamcast being my favourite retro console, I really hope these guys are awesome…

Plus, that start button in the beard made me chuckle.

John Swift
John Swift
4 years ago

A dreamcast. I figured the primative trap was refrencing a new game that was low tech/graphics. I didn’t expect this, nice.

James Rye
James Rye
4 years ago

Dreamcast looks cool as a guerilla.

Alex
Alex
4 years ago

Didn’t see that coming. Well played.

Jason Tompsett-Ince
Jason Tompsett-Ince
4 years ago

I would love a mini dreamcast in the style of the mini snes!

Sirtricky88
Sirtricky88
4 years ago

Man Dreamcast makes me feel old, would love the console to be retro released.

Nekopanzer
Nekopanzer
4 years ago

I wonder how they’re related to the Xbox faction. The first Xbox was just a modified Dreamcast after all.

RagingBpwner
RagingBpwner
4 years ago

Ah, back in my day….wait, does that mean the jungles have Atari Jaguars

StringPetounPing
StringPetounPing
4 years ago
Reply to  RagingBpwner

The retro valley is was their birthing place. https://cad-comic.com/comic/console-war-1985-p3/ They probably populated neighbouring jungle from them.

Jacob Keller
Jacob Keller
4 years ago

Are we going to see more of the beginning of the console wars like before with the Atari tribes?

Michael
Michael
4 years ago
Reply to  Jacob Keller

I’ll be shocked if we never see pixel-ated cave paintings.

JanTuts
JanTuts
4 years ago

Is this going to be like that Japanese soldier that they found in the jungle somewhere, years after WW2 had ended, who didn’t know that the war was over, and refused to surrender? 😀

Nobody
Nobody
4 years ago
Reply to  JanTuts

That is exactly what I thought when I saw this too. Decades after the end of the war he was still out there because he refused to believe that they would surrender.

Galtrol
Galtrol
4 years ago

Wow… I’d like to see if the C=64 makes an appearance.

Jaksteri
Jaksteri
4 years ago
Reply to  Galtrol

Comodore? I think it is part of the PC faction, or at least a backwater country somewhere near PC’s continent. Backwater enough that 56K internet connection is magical.

Doodm4n
Doodm4n
4 years ago
Reply to  Jaksteri

Yeah, that would be part of the PC side. I was thinking about the Turbo Graphics 16 console though. My friend growing up had one with Bonk’s Adventure and some space/Gundam suit type game.

Galtrol
Galtrol
4 years ago
Reply to  Jaksteri

Yes, but the Commodore was around before the IBM PC came into the scene as a serious game machine.

Eldest Gruff
Eldest Gruff
4 years ago

EEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Anon A Mouse
Anon A Mouse
4 years ago

But I thought all the Sega forces had disbanded and just got absorbed into the bigger armies. I mean, I know the Big Blue shopped around a bit and ultimately decided to throw in with Nintendo. It still seems weird when the leaders of both armies, who used to be the WORST enemies, hold friendly sports competitions.

Kazuma Taichi
Kazuma Taichi
4 years ago
Reply to  Anon A Mouse

There’s still gamers that hold out true to the old Sega consoles. I think it was the Genesis that games still come out for in Japan. It’s been a few years since I got that info, and I’m not sure where I’d confirm that information. And it might be fan-run.

Nobody
Nobody
4 years ago
Reply to  Anon A Mouse

It is also a possible nod to the WWII Japanese soldier who fought with gorilla tactics for over 20 years after the war ended. He refused to believe they would surrender.

Nekopanzer
Nekopanzer
4 years ago
Reply to  Anon A Mouse

Well, Sega sold their console design to Microsoft to make the first Xbox. This is why the Xbox controller was so similar to the Dreamcast’s and also why many of the first games for Xbox were Dreamcast sequels like Shenmue 2. Microsoft basically used the Dreamcast design and upgraded the parts to create their console. Also, don’t forget that Dreamcasts ran Windows OS. Sega may make games for various platforms these days, but the Dreamcasts were the foundation of the Xbox faction.

FITCamaro
FITCamaro
4 years ago

In my head the music turned to “DA DA DAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

Stabbmaster
Stabbmaster
4 years ago

The Dreamcast was such an amazing console, really the only one that had me actually liking Sega. In terms of performance and capabilities it had the PS2 beat in every possible way. Too bad they mismanaged the hell out of it the same way they mismanaged Sonic.

Kenju
Kenju
4 years ago

Heh so there are some holdouts in the deep jungles eh?

raven0ak
raven0ak
4 years ago
Reply to  Kenju

well, you do know retro consoles are still traded, albeit rarely as brand new anymore

Charles Gollmar
Charles Gollmar
4 years ago

Man, i friggin LOVED my Dreamcast.

Ryan Miller
Ryan Miller
4 years ago

Ahh the Dreamcast, I remember those horrifying long load times.
This might just age me… but my first “gaming console” (I use the term loosely here) was the CD-i.

GCAlig
GCAlig
4 years ago

♫It’s log, it’s log,
It’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood.
It’s log, it’s log, it’s better than bad, it’s good.♫

John Brand
John Brand
4 years ago

As a PC gamer, may I say…I don’t get it…

Alcor
Alcor
4 years ago
Reply to  John Brand

The Dreamcast was a cult classic console that, despite having some good games back in the day, Sega mismanaged into oblivion. People still adore it today.

Vedrit
Vedrit
4 years ago

I really want to know what precipitated Sega Dreamcast entering into the current generation of console wars… Did Sega make an announcement, or something? Are retro consoles seeing a big resurgence? Is Tim just inserting his favourite console into the comic?
WHAT IS GOING ON?!

Stephen
Stephen
4 years ago

I love how many commenters share my sentiment of both being caught completely by surprise and being completely thrilled to see the Dreamcast warrior. Nicely done Tim!

Epsilon
Epsilon
4 years ago

I hope Dreamcast keeps a little amphibious critter with him, just to reference Seaman.

John
John
4 years ago

About twenty years ago, we had a local video rental place that rented out gaming consoles. I rented a Dreamcast for the sole purpose of being able to play Resident Evil: Code Veronica. At the time that was the only platform it was available on. Rented it long enough to finish the game.

will
will
4 years ago

a dreamcast. the best console released at worst time for marketing wars.

will
will
4 years ago

part of me wants to see the faulty weapons from Atari era war…. you know the ET gun’s

Gnubee
Gnubee
4 years ago

This *is our forest….