It's like you were The Dude.
BaD - Gaming Under the Influence #5
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 On 02/08/2018 at 09:44 PM by Matt Snee See More From This User » |
With the advent of the new century, so came the Sega Dreamcast, a harbinger of bullshit to come. Me and Gregg moved out of the ghetto in the late 99 and eventually found a home in the Sunset area of San Francisco, near the beach. We were both making good money and could afford to pay out the nose. For that Christmas my parents blessed me with a Dreamcast, and I returned home with it and Sonic Adventure.
I wasn't doing many drugs or drinking here, but I did start smoking pot intermittently, and mostly spent my downtime playing Tennis, Tony Hawk, and Skies of Arcadia (i Think). But one night that I remember, I smoked a big one and it was late so I plugged the headphones in and played Resident Evil: Code Veronica.
That game creeped me out enough, but that night it was super scary. It obviously hasn't aged too well, but at the time the graphics were great, and it was just plain cool. Zombies groaned from one ear phone to the other.
These were the end of the good times in San Francisco. The dot com downfall was arriving, and soon after that, 9/11.
But I did have good times with my Dreamcast for those couple years. My Chinese roommate who lived downstairs was really into Bullet Hells shooters, and would come back from Japantown with like half a dozen weird japanese games for the Dreamcast. Oh, and I also played Crazy Taxi ("Take me to the Original Levi's Store!"
Soon I would return to the east coast, but for 2000 and 2001 I chilled and smoked pot, hung out down on the windy beach, and schooled my roommate in Tony Hawk.
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