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I finally bit the bullet and bought a 360 (My gamertag is taitaisanchez, not that I'll be on XBL Gold after the first free month or so).  At $199 for a 20 gig refurb, it felt like a steal.  Click past the jump to get my impressions of it.

Short, sweet, and to the point.  Firefox ate the original blog post and I have to go to bed soon. 

This is what I remember about the dreamcast.  I had written a longer blog post concerning fighting games, ports, the Dreamcast itself.  Yes, this was sold by Agetec in the US, but it was built by Sega themselves.

But this is what I really remember about the Dreamcast.  The arcade stick.  Games like Capcom vs SNK 2 and Garou: Mark of the Wolves came out on other consoles, but this peripheral speaks volumes about Sega catering to the arcade gaming community.  It's got generic buttons and joystick, but it's leaps and bounds better than the crap they put into the NES Advantage.  No company before or since has put out a first party arcade peripheral THIS good in America.  In Japan?  Take it back a generation with the Saturn Virtua Stick and Virtua Stick Pro.  Not Sony, not Microsoft, and definitely not Nintendo.  Sega.