Just A Sega Dreamcast and a caption: Too Good To Last

Most people wouldn't recognize it these days.

Isn't that good?

Mmmm, yeah, I don't have a problem with this one.

I don't see how this is any better than Demoted to Extra having that picture of the one girl it used to be named after. It's a reference almost no one will get. It's just a game console—is it discontinued? Why? Did they make a new model? Why is that bad? How many people liked it? Was it really that great?

This isn't a good image at all.

It looks like a game console. It looks modern, multiple controller ports. I don't recognize it, maybe it didn't last very long.

Pretty lame. But not awful.

Agree with helterskelter.

Not being able to recognize it doesn't really inform that it didn't last long. Not everyone can recognize a PS 3 or X Box, and those are/were wildly popular.

edited 17th Jan '12 8:45:36 PM by helterskelter

Yep, it's bad.

Yeah, this isn't the best image. Unless you know that the Dreamcast was ahead of it's time and short-lived, this image doesn't tell you much about the trope.

That and it's pretty biased to pick Dreamcast in particular as the example that provides the page image, and I say this as someone who is pretty fond of SEGA games. (Though personally I never got a chance to play Dreamcast... yet... at least as far as I recall.)

edited 18th Jan '12 5:56:39 AM by HiddenFacedMatt

Any suggestions to replace it?

I want to say something from Megas XLR, but Google is giving me trouble finding a properly demonstrative pic of how awesome it was. Not sure if we could use that, but it's a guy from Jersey who has a giant robot from the future with a car for a head. It was very awesome, but it got cancelled.

I think we may want to take a stance on certain YMMV and Audience Reaction tropes that says you can't put an image of something you thought was Too Good to Last up. Seriously, the fan myopia is just annoying.

All I care about is that it demonstrates the trope. A picture of a game console or a cartoon is not telling anyone how or why it was Too Good to Last. Now, if someone could find, say, a comic strip mentioning how said console or cartoon was this trope, that's fine.

What about adding the launch and discontinue dates on the Dreamcast picture?

I'd much prefer an In Universe example.

I know this is not great, but if we need the trope spelled out...◊

That's actually pretty neat. Support.

It's really big though. That could stand to be shrunk about a third or more.

Agreed...liking it aside from that.

Scaled down.

Dig.

Me likey.

Add me to the "I like it" column, please.