Dreamcast & Vita Video Game Checklists

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Sega Dreamcast and PlayStation Vita:
10/29/2015 - All Checklists and the Directory have moved. Please update your bookmarks at this time as the old addresses are no longer valid.:
http://www.tweeg.psoarchive.com/collect


Many moons ago, in the year 199X, a concept of a checklist, of sorts, for collecting was introduced to me via a friend in the form Scrye, a monthly magazine publication dedicated to CCG (Collectible Card Game) and TCG (Trading Card Game) enthusiasts. Each issue had a price guide naming off every card in a specific CCG/TCG run and it was really interesting to see. Wizards of the Coast would later introduce actual printable checklists for Pokemon TCG cards starting with the Gym Heroes expansion, the creation of which may have been infuenced by the popularity among collector's of Scrye's price guide section.

Also in the year 199X, there was a video game company by the name of Working Designs. And said company added a rather amazing section on their website dedicated to the Sega CD. While in this era we might consider this unremarkable, as said company had published a handful of games for said system. Truth be told they had gone above and beyond and done something quite remarkkable which caused quite a stir among video game collector's internet wide. Working Designs had actually catalogged every Sega CD game released in the U.S.A. and even had a thumbnail image of the cover art for most titles. This was simply something that was unprecidented in that age. Video game releases were still in that day very poorly documented, and rarely did the publishers set street dates for releases. Suddenly, Sega CD collector's found themsleves given the exacting knowledge of not just how many games existed for the system, but what their titles were as well.

Fast Forward to the year 2001, Sega of America (SoA) became the first game system producer to ever relase an official checklist of all games officially released on a system with their "The Dreamcast Checklist". Sadly SoA's rapid dumping of the DC left the list abandonned. While the final official version did name every game, there were errors on present on the list. An actual reply from a Sega representitive in mid-2002 confirmed that the list would not be updated again as the Dreamcast section of their website was set to be taken offline soon.

For the next couple of years after that I would stare at and mull over a printed copy of that checklist knowing it was in error. And that was when it ocurred to me, I had the ability to fix it, well not the original file which was an actual Sega product. But, I could make the checklist anew. Gentlemen, we can rebuild it, better, simpler, more accurate. Believe it debuted in 2005, but as I did not keep very good records back then I could be off by a year. Regardless, the last update was made to it in 2007. And going beyond, with help from a few European collector's, I even made an EU checklist. And in 2012 a US checklist appendium.

And now in present time, the task of catalogging all of the Region 1 (U.S.A. & Canada) PS Vita physical releases has been accepted, met, and gone beyond. For R1 PS Vita release there is both a checklist and a directory, enjoy!