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The Dreamcast History Project
Yesterday I stumbled across this archive on Sega's Japanese website that lists every single game released for the Dreamcast in Japan by release date with box art, so being the obsessive compulsive I am, I decided to save every single one of the 500 and something front covers. Then this morning I decided to hunt down this online program I saw used for something about the history of animation called Dipity, which lets you create a full interactive timeline with images, info, video etc. It's really simple to use and all of today I've been working on a timeline of the Dreamcast's many game releases, starting with for now all the Japanese ones which I have these cover images and release dates for.
Consider this my late present for the Dreamcast's 10th birthday. It's a work in progress but there is already quite a few entries there (all of 1998, most of 1999, some of 2000 and most of the latter years), mainly just showing the box art and on some a wikipedia link, but I plan to take the descriptions from the long dead Dreamcast Junkyard wiki and add them to the games info too. This may take quite a while so i might need some help with it, especially for hunting down the English language names for a lot of the games (most are on segagagadomain, at least). I'll see how I do.
So try it out, I've embedded it above. The further you zoom (I find the 1 month setting is the best), the more you'll see. There's also a flipbook which lets you look at the covers much bigger, and a list, it's all very clever how it works. It really does show just how quickly all our favorite DC games were crammed onto the market, with many weeks featuring about 3 great games at a time.
You're mad, which makes you awesome, actually.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with that titanesque task !
That's amazing, interesting and ridiculous. I'm amazed you managed to get this far, so good luck to you.
ReplyDeleteI work my arse on this and only get two comments? You ungrateful swines!
ReplyDeleteOnly joking, I've already done most of the Japanese releases that people give a toss about, I will probably start working on the American and European exclusives next, no way am I putting every game from all three regions!
Sorry Gagaman(n) I've been having major PC problems recently, so haven't been around for a while. Good work fella!
ReplyDeleteFantastic work! Could you help us out by sharing your backup ?
ReplyDeleteI've been looking to do this for quite a while, and recently even asked at DCS for help:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2760
Thanks in advance and keep up the good work!
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