{"id":4131,"date":"2025-08-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:11:51","slug":"the-video-game-that-made-me-fall-in-love-with-gaming-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/the-video-game-that-made-me-fall-in-love-with-gaming-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"The video game that made me fall in love with gaming \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shenmue – do you remember the day when the snow fell? (Sega)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader reveals how Shenmue on the Sega<\/a> Dreamcast completely changed his attitude towards video games<\/a>, after growing up with a Mega Drive.<\/p>\n

Gaming has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Like many kids in the \u201890s, I grew up in the middle of the great console wars. I had the SNES<\/a>, my best mate had his Mega Drive<\/a>, and we\u2019d visit each other, playing our favourite games. I truly got to experience the best of both worlds. How could it get better than this?<\/p>\n

October 1999 comes along and Sega releases the much-anticipated Dreamcast<\/a>. At this point, I have been paying attention to its release, but it wasn’t doing anything to make me look away from my Nintendo 64. Sonic Adventure<\/a> looked great (for the time), Sega Rally was always a winner, but I could play that in the arcades. So I thought there was nothing for me here, and I looked forward to the upcoming Perfect Dark.<\/p>\n

Then suddenly everything changed, something caught my eye. What is this strange game with its even stranger name? What even is a Shenmue?!<\/p>\n

A weird name, a mysterious vibe, and visuals that looked like nothing I had ever seen before. The story sounded like an old-school martial arts movie (which I loved watching, thanks to my dad) and they were introducing so many new technical advancements into the game that it was, at the time, the world\u2019s most expensive game. I just had to play it.<\/p>\n

My sister and I joined forces and we bought ourselves a second-hand Dreamcast, and soon I was gifted a copy of this mystifying game.<\/p>\n

This\u2026 this is the moment that changed everything for me.<\/p>\n

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