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Dreaming of the Dreamcast: 10 Dreamcast games I want to see make the gen jump.

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I love the Dreamcast. In fact, as consoles go the Dreamcast will always have a very special place in my heart, not as my first console, because it wasn’t, but rather as the console that irreversibly changed how I thought about games. It was on this system that I first experienced the MMO environment with a little game called Phantasy Star Online. Suddenly games became this amazingly social experience where my friends and I could gather, make incredibly obscene ascii art, and just generally have a blast.

It is with this in mind that you can understand the unbridled excitement with which I read the news that Sega had finally decided to grant my wish and would begin to bring Dreamcast games to current generation platforms. The announcement came along with two titles: Sonic Adventures and Crazy Taxi. Now these are two great games that are a perfectly logical starting point for Sega. But as a Dreamcast fanboy, it is hard to not immediately begin construction of your own list of games you want to see ported. So without further stalling for time, I present to you my dreamy dreamcast port list.

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Zeboyd Announces ‘Cthulhu Saves the World”

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And just what do we have here? Do my eyes deceive me? Is it another game from the folks of Zeboyd Games? It sure as hell is, and in typical Zeboyd fashion the plot is redonk and the characters just absurd enough to be perfect. The game will play very similar to Breath of Death as it shares the same throwback JRPG niche genre and it appears to run on the same engine that has since received some sexification.  I’m also very pleased to see the game priced at 240 Microsoft Points, BoD VII was simply an absurd value at the 80 MSP price point. In any case, the full press release along with a couple screen shots is below. Cthulhu Saves the World is scheduled to hit an Xbox near you this upcoming August.

Press Release:

Zeboyd Games (Breath of Death VII: The Beginning) is proud to announce their upcoming RPG, Cthulhu Saves the World for the XBox 360.

Cthulhu was all set to plunge the world into insanity and destruction when a band of heroes cursed him and sealed away his powers. The only way for him to break the curse is to become a true hero. Save the world to destroy it!

Features:

An epic journey of redemption and insanity!

Classic 8/16-bit style combined with the best of modern gameplay design.

720p! Parallax scrolling! Backgrounds!

Use magic and skills to inflict insanity upon your opponents! Insane enemies are more dangerous but also more vulnerable!

More accessible than ever before! Collect Save Notebooks to save wherever you like! Collect 1Ups to retry failed battles!

7 playable characters – Umi the beautiful heroine with an unhealthy obsession with the ocean, Sharpe the sentient floating sword, October the cute necromancer, Paws the alien cat, Dacre a senile old man, Ember the dark dragon, and of course, Cthulhu from the classic horror of H.P. Lovecraft!

A 6-10 hour main quest with multiple difficulties and post-game modes like Score Attack and Highlander to increase replayability!

All of the great features players know and love from Breath of Death VII: The Beginning have returned – fast-paced gameplay, combo system, random encounter limits, unite techniques, branching LV-Ups, and more!

Cthulhu Saves the World is currently scheduled for an August 2010 release on Xbox Live Indie Games. It will cost 240 MS points ($3 USD).

For samples of the game music head on over to Zeboyd.com

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