Dreamcast facts.

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Updating with some more Dreamcast stuff.

Shoichiro Irimjiri claimed that the Dreamcast's logo is supposed to symbolise the "origin of power", as the universe is "like a vortex"

The Entire Reason the PAL logo was changed from Red to Blue was because of a German Publishing Firm called "Tivola". It is usually cited as the reason Sega changed the logo.



When Sega went bust. Microsoft wanted to buy Sega to try and make their way into the Video Game Market, but as you know, the deal never went though, this was because Bill Gates didn't think Sega had the power to stop Sony, and so they tried to do it themselves, and this ongoing losing battle is what we have today.

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Ironically Sega's GD-Rom technology was created as DVD's were not available for Sega, and they wanted to create a disc that would be hard for pirates to copy and use.

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Quote:Sega intended to use the format to curb piracy common to standard compact discs and to offer increased storage capacity. It is similar to the standard CD-ROM except that the pits on the disc are packed more closely together, resulting in a higher storage capacity: around 1.2 gigabytes, which is almost double the storage capacity of a typical CD.