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Boxtrick: Ep 101 - Sega Dreamcast Classics with Age_of_Retro

·1 hr 6 min·2 clips

There are still animations in NFL 2K on the Dreamcast that are better than what's in Madden today.

1. Boxtrick Ep 101, "Sega Dreamcast Classics with Age_of_Retro," pairs Switch 2 pre-order stories with a game-by-game look at Dreamcast favorites, each host bringing three picks. 2. Matt Brady, who goes by SuperGamesBros, hosts alongside Kyle, known as Age of Retro, in what they call their third episode together. 3. The core premise is that the Dreamcast's 128-bit hardware felt like a bigger leap than 2D-to-3D, with Hydro Thunder and Madden cited as night-and-day comparisons against N64 and PS1 versions. 4. In the Switch 2 opening, Kyle describes queuing at Walmart just before midnight, waiting about 15 minutes, and then having 10 minutes to check out, while Matt got a Best Buy bundle after a Reddit tip and a text-message verification step. 5. Kyle picks NFL 2K, recalling Randall Cunningham to Randy Moss "all streaks," playing it on the Redream emulator upscaled to 4K, and a create-a-player trick for building 99-rated wide receivers. 6. Matt picks Sonic Adventure, calling Emerald Coast the best Sonic level, noting that online consensus favors the Dreamcast version over the GameCube port, and recalling that some launch copies failed to load because of a printing error. 7. Kyle picks Seaman, which he describes as "one of the most awkward games I've ever played," including the two-visits-a-day tank upkeep he worked around by changing the system clock. 8. Seaman's microphone conversations stand out: Kyle says the fish remembers details like his birthday, but also kept assuming he had a boyfriend after one misunderstanding. 9. Matt then takes Power Stone 1 and 2, preferring the second for its four-player play, and says the Capcom Fighting Collection includes only the arcade versions, so the Dreamcast release with its item shop remains definitive. 10. Retro gaming fans and Dreamcast owners will enjoy this one.

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