/vr/ - Retro Games

I always figured it was meant to be like a device that 'broadcasts dreams.'

A little sappy, but still a far better name than fucking 'Wii.'

>>2359645
"dream" and "broadcast"

It actually doesn't have any meaning. It was a random arrangement of American letters that they thought sounded cool.

I always thought it was like fishing; you're casting our for dreams, but I think the dream broadcast is the best explanation

>>2359921
Makes me think of "Cellar door"

>>2359645
They had a contest to name the console and Dreamcast won. You'd have to ask the guy who came up with the name.

>>2359921
>American letters

>>2359951
>alphabet invented by America
>not American letters

>>2359645
>it's thinking

I also heard the dream+broadcast thing. The cool thing is that what a Dreamcast is is very open to interpretation. To me it always sounded as if you were casting dreams the way you cast spells. I remember one day this was bein discussed either here or in /v/ and I read about four more interpretations apart from mine. What is a Dreamcast to you, anon?

In the original design specs it was supposed to link to your brain via wifi and allow you to play games using a "lucid dream" style interface.

>>2359970
You must be 18 years old to post on 4chan. gb2/neopets/

>>2360014
I am upset that this isn't a thing by now.

I mean we pretty much live in a cyberpunk dystopia already, just without the neon or neato augmentations.

>>2360014
Yes, my mother worked for Sega at the time and she saw the designs.

>>2360014
There was no such thing as wifi then, the idea was to make it wired.
Don't exactly know what happened (it's pretty much a mistery) but they couldn't do it. Anyway they got close even if they settled with almost traditional controllers, playing it felt like a dream.

>>2360061
Maybe this guy mom's know (since you named her in a context with sega, dreamcast, dreaming and lucid dreaming interface i can't help to imagine your mom as a very attractive woman)

From what I remember Dreamcast was intended to be similar to a "dream team" type of definition. Like a dream-cast of games/systems/whatever.

>>2359645
They originally planned Bass Fishing to be their flagship game.

>>2359948
This. There was a large contest and Dreamcast won.

>>2361458
This. I remember reading in a magazine interview at the time (possibly EDGE) that it was because of the group of people involved with it's creation - they were a 'dream team'. Another word for team is cast, so 'dreamcast'.

According to Katsutoshi Eguchi, Kenji Eno claims to have anonymously submitted the Dreamcast name and spiral logo to that naming contest and won.

(story told in this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Untold-History-Japanese-Game-Developers/dp/0992926009
)

http://www.1up.com/features/kenji-eno-breaks-silence

>>2360046
Neopets launched in 1999, anon.

>>2360059
A video game system that records your dreams, in which you can experience them again whenever you want.

WHEN.
But, to the original topic,
Whatever sounds good, I think. Like naming cars. Whatever grabs the attention of the viewer. Associating dreams with games is a nice way to sell their idea. But I dont think their codenames have much to do wit hthe final name.7

>>2359645
I dunno the difference between a cast and an injection mould but:

http://www.1up.com/news/atari-jaguar-revived-dental-camera

>>2359645
Where does Mark III and Mega Drive's name come from?

>>2363374
bump

bump

>>2359645
I have no citation for this but around early 1998 there was a reader poll in one of the major Japanese magazines and the majority of people thought Sega's then-unnamed 128-bit system should be called the Turbo Guppy. Not making this shit up.

>>2359921
>I have no idea what I'm talking about

The president of Sega explained what it meant. I don't have the quote but it was specifically a machine that broadcast your dreams onto the TV. As if that wasn't obvious.

>>2362748
16 years ago. 16 is less than 18. Check your autism before posting.

>>2365592
i'm pretty sure nobody played neopets the year they were born, anon.

Devs using the console to cast their dreams at users.
Like casting in SEGA Bass Fishing.

>>2365441

>Genesis
>Saturn
>Neptune
>Pluto
Curious how they used esotheric names and logos for their products

In this system, they were casting their dream out.

The consumers killed their dream.

I always thought it was neat how PAL and NTSC had different logo colors (red and blue). Blue masterrace.

>>2365793
>>Genesis
MEGA DRIVE

A dreamcaster is the opposite of a dreamcatcher, in the same way a playstation is the opposite of a workstation.

>>2366321
>playstation is the opposite of a workstation
... I never noticed that

>>2365793
Sega Uranus

>>2365793
>Curious how they used esotheric names and logos for their products
Sega was founded by a Jew. All Jews are kooky occultists.

>>2366321
deep

>>2359970
It was invented by Roma.

>>2359970
you what m8?
Read a book nigger.

>>2359648
Hey, Wii is a great name:
>Wii is based on the word We because its meant to be played with other people
>the ii part is two people playing it

>>2366321
Mind. Blown.

>>2366321
Sort of like how you cast a net to set fish free because cast is the opposite of catch.

>>2360014
it was also supposed to be made out of mutants flesh.

>>2367853
>cast a net
>to free fish
No, that's not how it works.

>>2359970

>>2369712
Are you retarded or something? Casting is the opposite of catching. See >>2366321

>>2369870
Yes, because the expression "cast a wide net" means that you want to release a ton of shit. See, there's this thing called "context" which can change when you combine certain words in the same statement.

Ever hear of fishermen? You know, the guys who CATCH fish with nets? Guess what the act of throwing their nets out is called? I guess you better tell them that they're actually "releasing" those fish.

>>2369885
I think fishermen already know what cast means. That's why they don't catch nets to cast fish.

Regardless of how exactly they came up with the name for the thing, that splash screen was one of my favorites, right next to the original Playstation.