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525: 9/9/99: What Really Happened on Dreamcast Launch Day - The Retro Hour EP525

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) · April 3, 2026

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looks really fun from the footage um i'm not familiar enough with the game to know if the soundtrack that's being played in there is the original soundtrack from the game but it's a very punk rock pop punk uh soundtrack very similar to crazy taxi which would make sense because of it was a sega game um so i'm not too sure i'm going to look into that or somebody can say in the comments um but it looks really fun and i'm hoping that they release this for people to go play um as you know this usually happens and hopefully sega don't do anything about it they just let people go play it online i think this would have been a big deal if it had come out i mean obviously it was right at the end of the dreamcast live maybe it would have give it a bit of a kind of injection you know in the arm to yeah kind of keep it coming the fact that you've got a i mean that was a wrong memory wasn't the and the dreamcast was the first system that came with online connectivity built in wasn't out the box because it all came with a modem so yeah um i think graphically as well like in the frame rate and everything on it i think it looks really good

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... everything intended for the game uh so i don't know how any of this works if any of this is related or you have to make your own servers i'm sure you probably have to but yeah somebody's got it all looks really fun from the footage um i'm not familiar enough with the game to know if the soundtrack that's being played in there is the original soundtrack from the game but it's a very punk rock pop punk uh soundtrack very similar to crazy taxi which would make sense because of it was a sega game um so i'm not too sure i'm going to look into that or somebody can say in the comments um but it looks really fun and i'm hoping that they release this for people to go play um as you know this usually happens and hopefully sega don't do anything about it they just let people go play it online i think this would have been a big deal if it had come out i mean obviously it was right at the end of the dreamcast live maybe it would have give it a bit of a kind of injection you know in the arm to yeah kind of keep it coming the fact that you've got a i mean that was a wrong memory wasn't the and the dreamcast was the first system that came with online connectivity built in wasn't out the box because it all came with a modem so yeah um i think graphically as well like in the frame rate and everything on it i think it looks really good you know as sega said there was kind of like no connection to 9/11 in this game it was just they felt it inappropriate interestingly when your plane gets destroyed it's very clear that ...

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soundtrack that's being played in there is the original soundtrack from the game but it's a very punk rock pop punk uh soundtrack very similar to crazy taxi which would make sense because of it was a sega game um so i'm not too sure i'm going to look into that or somebody can say in the comments um but it looks really fun and i'm hoping that they release this for people to go play um as you know this usually happens and hopefully sega don't do anything about it they just let people go play it online i think this…

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um one payment unlimited devices so we can cover all your families uh you know your consoles your tv's uh laptops smartphones all you do is you open it click you know i want to be in chicago now then you unlock all the content that's only available to people in america you know if you get bored of that library hop over to uh melbourne australia see what kind of stuff you can check out there so uh so much extra content that basically you're paying for you know with our friends at surf shark you uh take them up on…

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all still like gray and stuff um but yeah what a find um i think how does that even end up on a car boot sale i know my mind can't even connect how that happens i i can't imagine somebody from rockstar sold this i'm assuming they've thrown it out or they've left it how it got out the building you think this stuff would be under lock and key wouldn't you would have fought like hopefully somebody comes forward you know maybe i mean if they still work with rockstar they're probably like absolutely not going for it…

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know all cars look similar nowadays and this is kind of fitting into that mold i'm not an Evercade user um but i assume this is more powerful and you could play all your old games on it which is cool and um i hope it's a technical advancement you know and a lot of people might like that the look of it that's just a personal taste thing with me i think uh so obviously it's it's the nexus and there's also the nexus 64 edition so there's two editions um so i think i think you're right there rather in terms of the…

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and paul trainer who will join us over the last couple of weeks hugely appreciate your support and if you'd like to join all the details are at the retro hour.com all right thank you for checking out the news this week let you know if you recorded this on uh april the first which is of course april fool's day hoping we didn't get caught out if we did you know obviously uh having that next week so uh yeah thank you so much for checking it out we'll have more news stories for you next friday and next going inside…

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