Hideki Sato, father of the Sega Dreamcast, Saturn, Genesis, and more, has died (www.pcgamer.com)

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As reported by VGC and Japanese gaming outlet Beep21, Sega console designer Hideki Sato has died. The engineer and former Sega president was 77. Sato's career with Sega began in the 1970s⁠—SegaRetro.org lists his earliest projects as the arcade games MonacoGP, Turbo, and Star Jacker.

Sato's most notable contribution to gaming history, however, would be leading the engineering teams behind every Sega home console from 1983 to the company's exit from the hardware business in 2001.

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I didn't get a dreamcast until 2004. Just past it's lifespan.

I never saw it as getting hate. I just saw that the PS2 existed.

Combine that with the fact that 70% of dreamcasts can play any pirated dreamcast game burned onto a cd-r, and it was pretty impossible for dreamcast to win in that generation.

But it was always cool.