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Writing in a blog post titled “9/9/99 – Ten Years After”, now EA Sport boss Peter Moore has said he feels we owe a lot to SEGA’s ill-fated Dreamcast – which launched ten years ago today in the US.
“It certainly doesn’t feel like a decade has gone by since this innovative console ushered in the era of online gaming, albeit through a 56K modem, and thus changed the face of interactive entertainment forever,” said Moore, who was the boss of SEGA US back at the time of the Dreamcast.
“I don’t think it is an overstatement to say that the Dreamcast and it’s online network laid the ground for what we all take for granted today – online game play, linking innumerable gamers from around the world to play, compete and collaborate, as well as enabling new content to be delivered in addition to that which was delivered on the disc,” added Moore. “As rudimentary as those first dial-up game play experiences were, we proved that it could be done, and that gamers were clamouring for competition that extended past whomever was sat next to you on the couch at the time.”
Moore concluded by remembering the late Isao Okawa, the Chairman of Sega Enterprises and the driving force behind the Dreamcast.
“He had a vision that a game console, combined with the power of the internet, could bring people together in ways that were previously unimaginable,” said Moore. “He didn’t live to see that vision come to fruition, and his beloved Dreamcast couldn’t survive to play a role in the powerful world of connected gaming we all enjoy today, but it certainly lit the spark, and that we should never forget… “
Look out for an article featuring our Dreamcast memories later today.
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