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To: Sigmund who wrote (8186)	10/12/1998 11:29:00 AM
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Sega Announces Dreamcast Launch Titles, Price Last week in Tokyo, Sega Enterprises, Ltd. announced first- and third-party games, price, network capabilities and peripherals for Dreamcast, its new 128-bit videogame console. The information pertains only to the Japanese launch of Dreamcast on November 27. Dreamcast will ship next fall in North America and Europe, and details surrounding those launches were not disclosed. Sega unveiled a catalog of 45 first- and third-party titles, five of which will be available at launch including "Godzilla Generations," "Virtua Fighter 3tb" and Sega Rally 2" from Sega. Third-party launch titles include "July" from 45 and "Pen Pen Triathalon" from General Entertainment. The company also confirmed that more than 300 Japanese software developers are supporting Dreamcast. At the conference, Capcom Japan announced the Dreamcast-exclusive "Bio Hazard Code Veronica" for the Japanese market, based on the Resident Evil property. Dreamcast will debut in Japan for a price of 29,800 yen and will be bundled with a 33.6 Kbps modem and the Dream Passport networking software. Games with modem support at this point include "Sega Rally 2," which will be network-enabled for online gaming. Network support for the other titles has not yet been announced. Sega is also developing email software for Dreamcast gamers called "Dream Flyer." This software will allow users to send email, design email templates from different writing paper and envelopes, and access an animation function allowing characters in a letter to come to life. Sega 's Web site is located at (http://www.sega.com).