Your Dreamcast has a reputation - not your Dreamcast specifically, but the Dreamcast
in general.
'Them exclusive title-games!' the giga-fan exclaims, 'were so much better than anything
else ever!'
Problem is, a lot of talk about Dreamcast exclusives isn't talk about things that
remained exclusive, if you know what I mean.
If you don't know what I mean, what I mean is: touted Dreamcast exclusives quite often
appeared previously in the arcade or later on other consoles, handhelds, or the PC.
Thus making them not exclusive.
With that nugget of doom in mind, I decided to put together this definitive list of Dreamcast
exclusives that are, as I always like to say, really great like.
These are games that only appeared on the Dreamcast and never on any other format, including
the arcade… at least at the time of making this video.
Oh, and so you know, Seaman isn't on this list because it had a sort-of remake-slash-re-release
on PS2 in Japan.
Facts!
Metropolis Street Racer Metropolis Street Racer has so many touches,
from the (almost) region-specific radio stations and the tweakable time limits for each race
letting you set your own level, through to the time of day being accurate to your current
time and where the race takes place in the world.
As long as your internal battery hasn't run out, that is.
MSR is the game that's always brought up when talking about Dreamcast exclusives, and
with good cause: it's still a very good game.
I'm not being medically foolish: I do maintain the Project Gotham series - what Metropolis
Street Racer morphed into - is the better set of games.
But there's a huge place in my heart for the original MSR, thanks to the fact that
it's both great fun to play and that it's got adverts for Tango in it.
What more do you need?
AeroWings/AeroWings 2: Airstrike Two games, one entry.
Deal with it.
These two flight sims both belong here, and both feature a different approach that keeps
each fresh.
The first AeroWings is more about learning the ropes and figuring out how to do show-style
flying, through rings, in formation and so on.
The sequel brings in combat while still keeping it on the side of teaching you the ropes - it's
no grand story of world domination, just a bunch of lessons and challenges to play through,
this time around with guns.
I'm genuinely surprised how much fun I've had with both the AeroWings, with each offering
a solid flight simulation model - for a console, at least - and more than enough challenge
to keep me trying.
When that instructor told me my landing was 'so-so' I almost cried.
There's some emotional impact for you.
E.G.G: Elemental Gimmick Gear If you've ever played a game in the Legend
of Zelda series and thought 'this could use more egg-shaped robots with the ability
to spin wildly into anything around them', then here you go.
It's not even remotely accidental - the game is called EGG, egg, egg, egg.
You're a dude who's been asleep for ages, there's egg robots, exploration, puzzles,
it has a lovely art style… outside of the boss fights, at least.
Yeah, I'd go with this one being a bit of an overlooked gem, to be honest.
It never released in Europe, just Japan and the States, so it can be a bit pricey to bring
it over to this part of the world.
But hey, it is Dreamcast-only and good, and that's the... criteria of... this video.
I don't know how to end this entry.
Cool Cool Toon Naturally I hadn't even heard of this SNK
Japanese-only release, because I'm not as cool as those of you in the comments who will
tell me you knew all about it for ages.
But what a pleasant surprise - absolutely Japanese, so I've no idea what's happening,
but it's basically Gitaroo Man on Dreamcast, with dancing instead of strumming.
And what's not to like there?
This one went from 'thing I knew nothing about' to happily sitting alongside Gitaroo
Man, Bust a Move, Um Jammer Lammy and Parappa the Rapper as one of those things I'll dream
wistfully of, will want to play often, and will never get around to.
Regardless of my laziness and inability to actually just sit down with something and
play it, Cool Cool Toon is still brilliant fun.
Armada Armada is Diablo in space, almost, and for
that you should be all over it.
Up to four players can band together to hurtle through the galaxy, picking up random little
quests with random big ships, fighting off constant, ever-encroaching waves of enemies.
It's a mite overwhelming, especially when you play alone like I had to because I have
no friends - also I only have one Dreamcast pad - but there's a great mix of arcade
action and RPG depth to Armada that you might not expect.
This is the kind of game I could really get on board with a modern day reimagining of.
A few nips and tweaks, online play, less irritating voiceovers and you've got yourself something
to keep me company for months.
Years, even.
Space Diablo!
Get on it, Blizzard.
Toy Commander I really love the imagination at play with
Toy Commander - it's like a 3D Micro Machines… without any Micro Machines… also it isn't
just racing… look it's got toys in it and it takes place inside rooms in a house,
so it's basically Micro Machines.
You do missions like boiling eggs and hijacking convoys, you have all manner of different
vehicles and - best of all - it employs toy logic, so your car can drive on the wall if
you want because that's what toy cars do.
Toy Commander only remained a Dreamcast exclusive because its developer closed down before the
PC version could be released, but that still counts.
It still counts, alright?
At the same time it is a genuine shame this never earned a broader audience through the
PC, we could have been onto something here.
Ah well.
Fire Pro Wrestling D Hundreds of wrestlers and MMA stars, fledgling
downloadable content like movesets and created wrestlers, one of the most natural, proper
approaches to match pacing and psychology I've ever seen in a wrestling game… yeah,
Fire Pro Wrestling D is glorious.
This is what the Fire Pro series subsequently tried to be again and again over the years
until the release of Fire Pro Wrestling World last year, and it's utterly bizarre that
D only came out on Dreamcast, and only released in Japan.
It's so good it hurts.
The best thing for me about Fire Pro Wrestling D - most of the Fire Pro games, come to think
of it - is that I can actually watch matches with the computer fighting itself and enjoy
them.
Which is exactly what I did for this footage, because holy heck am I bad at Fire Pro.
4 Wheel Thunder You might have written this one off, as I
did, thanks to the fact it's an off-road racer and back in the 90s and noughties they
were… meh.
And yet, 4 Wheel Thunder is great fun; a mix of said off-road action with a sprinkling
of Burnout on top of it thanks to the careful, constant use of boosting required to be any
success at all.
I am not good at boosting, so I was not any success at all.
4 Wheel Thunder is good, but also really hard.
I did almost include Daytona 2001 on this list, but it just didn't resonate with me
the same way 4 Wheel Thunder did.
Even if I am, one more time with feeling, terrible at 4 Wheel Thunder.
Napple Tales: Arsia in Daydream I've included Napple Tales not because it's
the best of the best or that it shocks me to the core how a niche 2.5D platformer released
only in Japan is so unknown, but because it's just surprisingly good.
I wouldn't put it up there with the best platformer ever made, Rayman Legends, but
Napple Tales does a surprisingly good job of being a really great game.
Admittedly I have no idea what's going on in it, thanks to the language barrier, but
there's no translation needed for fun, bright colours and a generally joyful feeling throughout.
Though I do hope all the people and creatures who were talking to me weren't just swearing.
Any Japanese speakers out there feel free to translate for me.
Oh, and the mayor of Napple town is called Frocar.
He's half frog, half car.
Shenmue Who remembers Consolevania's Shenmue drinking
game?
Taking a sup every time main character Ryo says 'I see'?
Well yeah, don't do that because you'll end up with alcohol poisoning within the hour.
Anyway, you already know Shenmue seeing as it's the Dreamcast's most famous game.
It also, somehow, for some reason, never saw release on any other format, with the sequel
on Xbox just having a 'previously in sailors and fork lift truck racing…' video.
That actually helps make the original all the more special - a much-loved, proper exclusive
that… umm… how to politely say it… 'has begun to show its age'.
I mean, it's great and engrossing and atmospheric and absorbing - it brought QTEs to the masses,
influenced the superb Yakuza series and let you play Hang-On.
But good god that voice acting.
Shenmue: you're great, just stop saying 'I see'.
And that's a list.
Thanks for watching, please like, share, subscribe, misunderstand that this list is Dreamcast-only
games, ask where Soulcalibur is, realise your mistake, and buy a Dreamcast as penance.
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