What a console and what a time in my life to be one of the few to have one!
I never came closer to any sort of professional career in the wider games industry as during the DC days, working in a Dutch independent games store (Replay games in Eindhoven for those that know it) while also studying Japanese translation in the hopes of perhaps entering some kind of localisation field. Much like the Dreamcast itself, this never panned out however, the job nor my studies / career plans.
Still, my memories of this little console that could will never leave me, nor the ones of my job and the fellow Japanese game fanatics I met there (including my boss, who was the first person I knew to import game OST's back then, which he ordered for me as well). It, in short, was the first console I 100% bought with my own money without being influenced by others, and the last console I bought that really made me feel like I was a games connoisseur of sorts as not many others had one but the few that did loved it dearly.
And the games! Sega was on a roll like never before here with Skies of Arcadia, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue, Sonic Adventure, Jet Set Radio, Space Channel 5, etc etc. And all those Capcom arcade games. Or Soul Calibur! Man oh man! (Weird though, that we never saw an Outrun, Panzer Dragoon, Shinobi, Golden Axe or Streets of Rage for the machine though - just imagine the possibilites for some of those in crisp DC 3D.)
Never before or since did I feel so connected to a console as to the Dreamcast. I'd fire you up right now if only I was at my mom's place where I'm keeping you safe, but alas.
A special final salute to my dear departed dad who somehow kept passing illegal copies of awesome games on to me as handed down to him by a colleague of his at work. This is how I got introduced to many games, all three SFIII games chief amongst them, a subseries I had little to no knowledge of existing before this actually despite my immense love for SFII and Alpha. Sadly, none of these copies work anymore for some reason...which might be for the best really (as I bought most of them officially afterwards anyway, except Shenmue for some reason...).