Default Prime's Charles Battersby gets around to continuing his decade-long quest to avenge his father's murder. How does a ten-year old Xbox game ported from the Dreamcast hold up in 2012?

The power button on my Dreamcast emits a glow. The warm, rosy glow of nostalgia for a time when game progress was saved on Memory Cards, a time before HD televisions, when online gaming was done with a 56k modem, and controllers still had wires. Hardcore gamers talk about the Dreamcast the way that car lovers talk about a ’57 Chevy, the way that junkies talk about that first pure high. That high was powerful, but short-lived; the Dreamcast debuted in 1999, but was already done with by 2001. The game that best represented this doomed console was Shenmue. It’s been over a decade since I finished Shenmue. I vaguely recall it was about a quest to avenge the death of my father. It ended with a cliffhanger, but a sequel was put out in 2002 that continued the story.

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