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...DREAMCAST Few expected this game machine from Sega to make a splash in the U.S. after it slumped in Japan. But it did, clocking up sales in the millions thanks to an impressive lineup of must-have, movie-quality games such as NFL2K and Soul Calibur. The amphibious Dreamcast lets you surf...
...their old-school touches (human beatbox effects and a strong effort at turntablism). Perhaps the best display of their skills was "Topics," where the duo rapped about any topic the audience threw at them, improvising some delicious rhymes seemingly from leftfield: Christmas ("seemed last year I got a Sega Genesis/Now my Ma's my nemesis") and the X-Files ("it's really complex/To analyze what's next"). Scott & Chiqui displayed impressive pop-culture name-checking ("Just last week I saw Princess Amidala/Grab Portman by the collar"), a sense of humor (somehow Roy worked in the lyrics of the dreidel song...
webRIOT (weekdays, 5 p.m. E.T./P.T.) is, frankly, a fairly unremarkable quiz show: four contestants watch videos and answer rapid-fire questions from the relentlessly mugging Ahmet Zappa, on a set that's a cross between Sprockets and a Sega video game. What is interesting about it is its viewers. In each of its daily airings (one for each coast), as many as 25,000 of them will compete simultaneously, online, to post the fastest correct answers in order to win prizes like MP3 players and plaster their names on TV on the high scorers' list...
...SEAMAN A Sega Dreamcast game and the newest in virtual pets, the Seaman has a man's head and a fish's body, with voice recognition and Furby-like learning abilities...
Fortunately for Sega, Dreamcast is the best act in town--for now. Michael Goodman, a Yankee Group analyst, says that as long as the great games keep coming, the company could up its market share to 15% or 20%. Early returns look good. A remarkable 250,000 Dreamcasts sold on launch day. If the pace keeps up and Microsoft gets into the action, then even I'll be e-mailing Santa for a console...