I bought a Dreamcast at a garage sale yesterday for $10. I also bought Space Channel 5 and Skies of Arcadia for $1 each.

A couple of factors went into this purchase. First of all, it was freaking cheap. A system and two games for $12 bucks? Secondly, I’ve been wanting to go back and do some “retro” gaming, and what better system to get started with other than the one that, to this day, has quite the following on the Internetz. I also would like to think that since September 9th has passed recently, there were a lot of links on the Internet commemorating the 10th anniversary of the launch date of the Dreamcast (9.9.99), and that probably made me think about all the great content I missed out on.

I guess there’s a fairly vibrant pirating community out there also, seeing as how ridiculously easy it was to perform those shenanigans on the Dreamcast. This wasn’t really one of the reasons that motivated me into purchasing it, but I’m sure I’ll tinker with it at a certain point. I’m actually thinking about buying a couple of more games as a collectible more than anything. Ikaruga comes to my mind…

Here’s a great episode of Icons on the Dreamcast, back when G4TV was actually not all that bad.

The DVD. PS2 could play it, Dreamcast could not. We say that software moves hardware, but I never thought about DVDs actually being a part of the software. The funny thing is that Blu-Ray, even after it won the high definition optical media fight versus HD-DVD, didn’t push PS3 to dizzying heights. I have my thoughts on this, but let’s wait until… I buy a PS3. Ahem.

I went ahead and bought a Dreamcast VGA Cable over at racketboy.com. Funny thing is that… it actually cost me more to get this than the system itself. I do have a random LCD screen lying around, and so I’m going to make a nice corner of my desk for the Dreamcast funs.

When the heck am I going to have time for this? I have no clue. But I’m very happy with owning this piece of gaming history.