So deep does Sega's Dreamcast slumber that, when you rouse the game system from its reverie, it will often inquire as to the current date. The answers you may offer range from midnight on January 1, 1950 to 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 2085. That is a span of about 49,674 days, or 136 years.
Unfortunately, perhaps owing to its legendary laziness, Rosen Enterprises / Service Games / Sega didn't actually manufacture and release the Dreamcast until November 27, 1998, by which time 17,863 days of the system's potential lifespan--some 48 years--had already slipped away. This left the Dreamcast a maximum possible lifetime of just 31,812 days, or 87 years, one month, and five days. Fine for a human, but a little on the short side for a thinking, 128-bit computer of the Dreamcast's stature.
It is now 2022, and nearly 24 years have passed since the Dreamcast became a going concern. During that span countless chaos have been molded into champions, frantic chicken-lovers taxied to KFC, and HUnewearls cruelly transformed into helpless NOLs. Sega's final, tragic wunderkind facilitated and bore witness to triumph, expedited chicken, and tragedy alike.
As of this writing, there remain a mere 23,052 days--63 years, 1 month, 11 days--until the Dreamcast...ends. What will this ending entail? Will it end quietly, with a whimper? Or spiral out into one final, spectacular, fiery swirl? 63 years is well within reach for many people now living, and hopefully not Elon Musk.
