In Stock Now - Sega Dreamcast Console System - Sealed - $99.99

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Release Date: 9/9/1999
UPC: 010086500004
Genre: Console
Company: Sega
Version: NTSC - US Version

Stock Status: In Stock

The Dreamcast was the last video game console made by Sega, and is the successor to the Sega Saturn. The Dreamcast is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles and was released in late 1998, before its contemporaries—the PlayStation 2, the Nintendo GameCube and the Xbox.

Sega discontinued the Dreamcast in North America in November 2001 and withdrew entirely from the console hardware business. However, support of the system continued in Europe and Oceania until 2002, as well as in Japan, where consoles were still sold until 2006 and new licensed games continued to be released.

Features

• Units sold: 10.6 million
• Media: CD, 1.2 GB GD-ROM
• CPU: 200 MHz Hitachi SH4 RISC
• Storage capacity: VMU, Nexus Memory Card, Zip Drive (unreleased)
• Graphics: 100 MHz PowerVR2 CLX2
• Online services: SegaNet, Dreamarena
• Best-selling game: Sonic Adventure, 2.5 million (as of June 2006)
• The system's processor is a 200 MHz SH-4 with an on-die 128-bit vector graphics engine, 360 MIPS and 1.4 GFLOPS (single precision), using the vector graphics engine.
• The graphics hardware is a PowerVR2 CLX2 chipset, capable of 7.0 million polygons/second peak performance and trilinear filtering. Graphics hardware effects include gouraud shading, z-buffering, anti-aliasing, per-pixel translucency sorting and bump mapping.
• The system supports approximately 16.78 million colors (24-bit) color output and displays interlaced or progressive scan video at 640x480 video resolution.
• For sound, the system features a Yamaha AICA Sound Processor with a 22.5 MHz 32-Bit ARM7 RISC CPU operating at 45 MHz, 64 channel PCM/ADPCM sampler (4:1 compression), XG MIDI support and 128 step DSP.
• The Dreamcast has 16 MB 64 Bit 100 MHz of main RAM, 8 MB 4x16-bit 100 MHz video RAM and 2 MB 16-bit 66 MHz sound RAM. The hardware supports VQ Texture Compression at either asymptotically 2bpp or even 1bpp