*sniffle*

Please don't burn me, I am not a witch
I just didn't play it. I got some homemade bundle off eBay well after Sega had given up on the machine. I tried to accumulate games, but I never played the thing. You can only escape from the city so many times and as much as I enjoy Soul Calibur, the choice between Soul Calibur and Soul Calibur 2 always went to 2.

It just couldn't compete with the PS2
In my living room, there just wasn't a contest. With barely a trickle of Japan-only games coming to Sega's old machine, and my established collection of PS2 software, it was just a matter of probability. I have 60 some PS2 games, and had maybe 12 titles for the DC. Even if I liked every game equally and just picked at random, I was going to play the PS2 four times as much.

When I moved, I unpacked stuff as I needed or wanted to use it. A year and a half later three things hadn't been unpacked: my Dreamcast, my Gamecube, and my old PS1 controllers. I decided it needed to go to a home where it was actually going to see some use.

It's not so bad!
A friend of mine has it now. They wanted one, mine was in great condition, and unlike my NES and SNES that got sold off when I was too young to see the value in my old systems (only having the likes of Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong Country didn't help those two stick around though), my Dreamcast got sent somewhere that someone will enjoy it.

Do I regret it?
Not really. Every once and a while I wonder what a horrible mark this has put on my gamer cred, but then reason jumps back in to remind me that anyone that keeps an old system they've completely lost interest in and never play just to be hardcore is probably too worried about appearances to enjoy the games anyway.