In the summer of 1999 I was in 4th grade summer school in the suburban city of Charleston SC. Expansion in the South was just starting and all of us degenerates were talking about Starwars, Pokémon, WWF now known as WWE and the Dreamcast and PS2. We didn’t know about DVDs yet and the Pokémon thing was still a little too new to us but we could play Pokémon Snap at blockbuster and so most of us knew about it. But as far the Dreamcast was concerned most of us saw it as a stop gap console for when we could finally get a PS2 one day, probably in HS or something… At the time WWF was really impressive with the Rock and Stone Cold being the toughest and coolest athletes around but BmX and skateboarding were starting to show up on TV more and more. The Dreamcast was really being hyped up as a mature console to play the best multiplayer and arcade games, similar to golden eye and stuff like that. Probably around May of 99 or around my first few weeks of summer school Starwars Episode1 had just come out and blockbuster had the pod racing game for that along with Pokemon snap running on their N64s and so we knew the Dreamcast would be getting that game or some kind of Starwars game along with some really cool multiplayer and sports games. Honestly It was something we wanted but most of us knew were only going to get the gaming magazine talking about the Dreamcast vs the real thing... You gotta understand that in 1999 people went outside more and games were something you had to save forever for unless you were a fat kid or rich. Spending money on sodas and BS like baggy jeans and trips to the water parks ,fishing and the beach were what most of us did and usually when it came to games it wasn’t really about the latest and greatest but rather what they had on shelves at KB toys, etc. Crazy Taxi did look cool though and I do remember thinking that’s not going to be the real game because it looked incomplete or like a unique demo.