RetroGaming

Spawn: In the Demon's Hand was so much fun, haven't seen it mentioned yet!

• Re-Volt
• NBA 2K2
• Virtua Tennis 2
• Test Drive V Rally
• Super Runabout: SF Edition
• Army Men: Sarge's Heroes
• NFL Blitz

Jet Set Radiooooooo. I picked up this game on release day randomly while I was in Japan. Such an awesome soundtrack

Out of the only 3 games I got, Chu Chu Rocket. Absolutely love it.

Napple Tale

Definitely Sonic Adventure. But I'll also name a gem no one else is going to mention:

Ikaruga

Illbleed is a pretty cool game on the Dreamcast that doesnt get mentioned a lot....I comes highly recommended from the HVGN so...yus...

So many to choose from, but I'll add a couple I didn't see mentioned yet.

Capcom vs SNK 1&2

Spawn: in the demon's hand

Edit: Still think both Capcom vs SNK games have some the best Fighting game soundtracks.

I never owned one, but my friend who did played a lot of Seaman. That was pretty fascinating

I love me some Rez and Ikaruga.

I didn't know own a Dreamcast myself but had always wanted to.

The games that sounded most interesting were my friend talking about Sonic Adventures. There was also a magazine I owned with a feature on Phantasy Star Online, and man, it made me so jealous. It sounded so cool! I couldn't believe we had the technology for an MMO on a console at the time lol.

Dreamcast had the best original THPS² release

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

Definitely Phantasy Star Online - even today I still play and work on it because it's just the perfect type of game for myself.

Well, they were mostly a bit shit. Sonic Adventure was obviously amazing.

I did like the Grandia games.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Samba de Amigo

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.