--- In DreamcastBrowsers@yahoogroups.com, NadineK <rkpellagirl@...> wrote:
>
> Woah.....
>
> Dreamcast players have been able to play PSO still all this time?!
> Lucky..... I miss being able to play Bomberman Online. I think I was only
> able to play it twice before they took the servers down >.<

Well, the European DC PSO servers are still up. The USA ones closed in 2005?

I was fortunate enough to play Bomberman Online (after I got it from the USA)
for a couple of months before it closed. Despite the 1 second lag (servers in
USA and me here in UK) it was great fun.


>
> I wonder if there is some sort of way for fans to create their own servers
> for the games to connect to? I heard of this being done for Jazz Jackrabbit
> 2 on the PC after it was abandoned long ago by the company. People can still
> play it!
>

Yes, there are (were?) private Gamecube PSO servers which have been running
since 2004/5.

> This is always what happens to me, I'm not much of an online gamer, but by
> the time I try to really get into playing online, people aren't in servers
> anymore and they take it down. I guess freakin World of Warcraft fans never
> have to worry about that as long as new people get brainwashed into it. But
> as for Dreamcast, they took down their game servers in 2002 I think, so PSO
> fans, consider yourselves very lucky!
>
> -Nadine
>

Yeah, most of the game servers went in 2002.

Ferrari 355: Passione Rossa went earlier this year (Feb 2006).


Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk@...