Vampire Chronicle for Matching Service
Publisher: Capcom
Developer: Capcom
Genre: 2-D Fighter
Release Date: 08/10/2000
I remember that this was a college graduation gift to myself via the Dreamcast Direct mail order site. After all, Darkstalkers was my favourite fighting game series and now for the first time EVER, you could play a fighting game over the Internet. Sure [...]

Well, hello ladies and gents. Been a whole month since I was able to direct your attention to t-shirts, but hey, the life of an artist is bitter and fraught with defeats. So long as there are ultimately successes to balance that out, life is grand… or something. Anyway, let’s move on.

ILLBLEED
Genre: Horror
Developer: Crazy Games
Publisher: SEGA
Release Date: 04/16/2001
As part of our feature that looks back at the games that where on the Dreamcast, it would be almost criminal to ignore one of the worst games that was almost one of the best games available for the system.
Illbleed is a survival horror game, and it’s considered a [...]

Time Stalkers
Developer: Climax Entertainment
Publisher: Sega
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 09/30/99

While we here at Diehard GameFAN still fondly look at SEGA Dreamcast titles that still release on the system even to this day, a lot of players into the Naomi arcade board scene have been long disappointed that Milestone Inc.’s Illvelo never released on the system when many of its other shooters such as Chaos [...]

Psychic Force 2012
Genre: Fighting
Developer: Taito
Publisher: Acclaim
Release Date: 10/31/99

Talk to any person familiar with football games about the PS2 era, they will most likely get a wistful look on their face as they recall the days they spent playing the several iterations of Pro Evolution Soccer released on Sony’s seminal system. Swift passes, outrageous dribbles, powerful long range shots and best of all: [...]

Confidential Mission
Genre: Rail Shooter
Developer: Hitmaker
Publisher: SEGA
Release Date: 05/14/2001

Arguably seen as the last console to give light guns a chance, the Dreamcast had its share of rail shooting titles that made use of the various console pistols that were available for it. A lot of these favors were due to the fact SEGA [...]

Seaman
Genre: Life Simulation
Developer: Vivarium
Publisher: Sega
Release Date: 08/09/00

Maken X
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Developer: Atlus
Publisher: Sega
Release Date: 10/31/99

Dance Dance Revolution Club Version Dreamcast
Genre: Rhythm
Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
Pubilsher: Konami
Release Date: 04/27/2000

Even with the popularity of Dance Dance Revolution in the U.S. (which, admittedly, has been on an alarming nose dive since the birth of Guitar Hero), it’s guaranteed we will never see a domestic version of the Club Version series. The [...]

Giga Wing 2
Developer: Takumi
Publisher: Capcom
Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up
Release Date: 05/06/01
Sequels can either be good or bad for the series in question. A good sequel contains all the aspects that made the first game enjoyable and improve on them. It also contains some new features so that the second game will not feel like a [...]

Zombie Revenge
Genre: Beat ‘Em Up
Developer: SEGA
Publisher: SEGA
Release Date: 12/31/1999

At one time, The House of the Dead was a hot franchise for SEGA. One could argue another spark has been ignited with moderate success of The House of the Dead: Overkill, but at one time, arcade entries of The House of the Dead were critical [...]

NFL2K1
System: Dreamcast
Developer: Visual Concepts
Publisher: Sega
Released: 09/07/2000
Sega’s NFL franchise is the sad tale of a plucky youngster, full of hope and optimism, having victory snatched from it’s grasp by the
wizened veterans over at EA. As they say, age and treachery beats youth and enthusiasm every time. But I’m not here to rehash what has [...]

All right. Tuesday we covered the Johto Gym leaders and yesterday we looked at the Elite Four. Today we’re going to look at the Kanto Gym Leaders. After beating the Elite Four for the first time, your character will be able to go from Johto to Kanto and collect all eight badges there as well. [...]

Skies of Arcadia
Developer: Overworks
Publisher: Sega
Genre: Turn Based RPG
Release Date: 11/13/2000
I’ve already talked about Grandia II earlier in the month. I have past experience with Grandia, and it’s hard to believe that it didn’t come out more than nine years ago with as wistfully as I talked about it. “Wow, I remember playing Grandia II, way [...]

I had the opportunity to speak to Cholera, a hilarious english language StarCraft commentator, about the state of international competition, the upcoming release of StarCraft 2 and what it will mean to the sport, and what makes a pro player.
Additionally, he provided a list of his favorite StarCraft matches:

Bisu v Pokju
Savior v Nal_ra (game 1 [...]

Yesterday we covered the eight Johto Gym Leaders and the differences between their original Pokemon Gold & Silver appearances and those in the recently released Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver. Today we’re going to look at the Elite Four (and the Pokemon Champion) and show you the differences in their Pokemon and their respective [...]

Stupid Invaders
Genre: Adventure
Developer: Xilam
Publisher: Ubisoft
Release Date: 06/28/01
Thinking back to 2001, I recall the two final brand new Dreamcast titles I bought from retail were Confidential Mission, and this downright bizarre point-and-click adventure game from Xilam. It wasn’t by chance, really, as if you were a child of the late ‘90s, you may per chance [...]

Spike has been producing a little-known series entitled Way of the Samurai in Japan and, luckily, these under-the-radar console gems have all been able to land on our shores thanks to a handful of different publishers. Bam Interactive pitched U.S. gamers the original Playstation 2 title back in 2002 and just two years later, [...]