Everyone has their favorite video game console — hell, you might even be one of those folks who prefers PC gaming — but the simple fact of the matter is that the true greatest video game console, the finest one to ever hit the market, is not a matter of opinion. No, the greatest video game console of all time is, instead, a matter of well-documented fact, and the name of that system? The Sega Dreamcast.
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ChuChu Rocket!
It might seem strange for a wacky puzzle game to have made it on the list. But while ChuChu Rocket! was a fine, albeit unremarkable multiplayer game, it was remarkably remarkable in one vitally important way: You could play it online. That's right! Way back in late 1999, you could plug your Dreamcast into your pokey dial-up connection and play ChuChu Rocket! online a full year before the first Xbox was even released.
Crazy Taxi
Looking back, it's admittedly odd, but in 1999 one of the most popular arcade games in existence was a whacked out taxi cab "simulator." Crazy Taxi blended aspects of racing games with the burgeoning open world genre and topped it all off with absurd characters and bonkers gameplay, all of which made it to the Dreamcast before any other consoles.
The wild diversity of games available for the Dreamcast is going to be a recurring theme here. Unlike now, where seemingly four out of five games are intense shooters, the Dreamcast pursued genres that didn't even really exist, like with Jet Set Radio, a game that was all about inline skating and putting up graffiti tags in a striking cel-shaded world.
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