Bernie Stolar took to the stage to introduce Sega's Dreamcast at GDC 1999, offering a built-in modem that fully supported online console play and a Virtual Memory Unit that allowed play-and share-anywhere capabilities.
"[E]verything you know about video gaming is about to change, thanks to Dreamcast."
In this free GDC Vault video from GDC 1999, then-president of Sega of America Bernie Stolar delivered a keynote that introduced Sega's final console prior to its US launch. Stolar extolled the virtues of its pioneering Virtual Memory Unit, game-extending online capabilities, and demos of memorable titles such as Shenmue and Capcom’s Power Stone, in the talk "Changing for the Better: Redefining Game and Hardware Development through Evolution." For more on the Dreamcast, Gamasutra has a 10-year retrospective on the console. Also of note for Dreamcast fans: the Shenmue Classic Game Postmortem will be held at GDC 2014 in March, too.
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