Thomas Edison famously said he never failed, only that he found “10,000 ways that don’t work.” Edison may have been wrong about other things, like electrocuting elephants or committing patent theft through thuggery, but he was right about failure. It’s about learning what isn’t working, about finding a way to go for that 10,001st try. And when it comes to gaming, nothing is more famously failed than the ill-fated Sega Dreamcast. Released 25 years ago on 9/9/99, Sega’s most powerful and innovative console was also its last.
