Party like its 1999 with Limited Run Games’ Dreamcast gear

It’s been 25 long years since the release of the Dreamcast (in North America), Sega’s short-lived but beloved little console. That’s about the time that society began to slide downhill. To celebrate this (the console, not the slide), Limited Run Games has some great swag to take you back to the before times.

The big push they’re doing is mostly behind the trading cards, which they say are the “coolest trading cards to grace your eyeballs and touch your fingertips.” Wow, it sounds like I wrote that. Although, I probably would have said “touch your eyeballs” or to give it even more of a vaguely creepy sound. There are 200 cards featuring Dreamcast art that you can smear across your retina. You can buy a hobby box with 20 cards for $24.99 or a booster box with 120 cards for $124.99.

I don’t collect cards and never have. Is that normal pricing for trading cards? The booster packs look like VMUs and there are some cool card storage options. Hold on, I can’t get over the price. And then you can pay for sleeves and a box?

The other gear seems a lot more reasonable to me. There’s a skateboard deck for $74.99, a pin, a coin, and a keychain. There’s a hat for $31.99 and a hoodie for $54.99, which seem like fair prices. Everything seems priced right, but the cards give me pause. But, like I said, I know nothing about trading cards. They should have made it a CCG so we could pit Crazy Taxi against Space Channel 5.

Pre-orders are open now, with the shipping date for the items predicted for March 2025. That production time sounds very Limited Run Games. I’m not throwing shade. I like LRG for the most part, but you grow to expect long lead times.