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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[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I always wanted a Saturn, but never got one. When the Dreamcast came out, I was damn near first in line. What a fucking system. Goddamn. I know it got a lot of hate at the time, but it was a behemoth in a field of other behemoths. What a tremendous loss to the culture today.

[-] Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

I'm right there with you! My older brother got one right before they announced it would be discontinued and they were going for around $150 IIRC. He got the Sports edition black one, I have so many memories of Crazy Taxi, Armada, Hydro Thunder, Soul Calibur, and the Sonic Adventure games.

[-] miseducator@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Got one at KB Toys on 9/9/99. Gosh darn, I loved that dang thing. Was able to secretly surf the net on it to do late night research as a budding teen. Good times!

[-] 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.