You would think that it would be hard for the Dreamcast to follow in the 2D footsteps of its sibling, the Sega Saturn and its massive collection of 2D shoot-em-ups. However, the Dreamcast is the perfect complement to the Saturn and is a essentially a requirement in and shmup fanatic's collection.
While it only started out with a few shooters from Psikyo and Capcom (most of which looked like nice 2D Saturn games), it gathered quite a library by the end of its life. In fact, MOST of the 2D shooters for the console were released well after the Dreamcast was "dead" in the United States.
So yes, if you wish to play most of these, you will need to learn how to play Dreamcast imports. But if you are a shooter fan, you will not regret investing in some of these Dreamcast gems.
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EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
A major reason why the Dreamcast is such an amazing console is the strength of its shmup library. Even today shmups are still being made and released on the Dreamcast, with the brilliant Triggerheart Excelica being a recent addition.
Games such as Gigawing, Ikaruga, Castle of Shikigami 2, Bangai-O and Zero Gunner are amongst my favourites on the system.
While the Saturn has a shmup library of greater depth (plus the fact that playing shmups with the Saturn pad is gaming heaven) the strenght of the Dreamcast's shmup library should not be ignored or underestimated.
Guess current developers would feel that if its not pushing the current technology to the limit then its not worth making.
Its a shame as there is something to learn from these games, and if they were fun to play then, they'll be fun to play now.
I have played ikaruga over and over...
Hands down, one of the best shmups ever.
I always liked Shootemups but they never seem to sell well in North America. But they seem to be having a kind of come back with Xbox Live and PSN. So I would like to see more games like these make there way over seas.
As for the Dreamcast it was a marvel in its own right with Shmups. It had a great group of different ones and its sad not many people ever gave the Dreamcast a chance to live.