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Daydream Believer: Sega’s Dreamcast and the Charm of Almost Winning

2023-04-20
By: John Bowe
On: April 20, 2023
In: Features

The Sega Dreamcast was destined to be a game-changer – just not in the way people expected… Sega, that company which operated within the rarefied commercial airspace of the brilliant, the bonkers and the bust. On a shelf, they would happily sit next to Lancia. They invented new genres butRead More →

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