I was in my last year of high school when we got our DC (my bro and I both pooled our money and split the system price and got 3 or 4 games too, still one of my largest game libraries (we'd both buy a few DC games each week, I sold a few network compatible games (Quake III, PSO, etc..) when we ditched our dial-up and got DSL, but I never killed my PSO save, if Sega still ran (runs?!) there servers I could pick up from my level 60-something game w/auxillary dial-up

) Sadly I am still utterly addicted to PSO and continued to level up offline from time to time (well, till I sold my disc that is). So many great memories attatched to my DC...I saw Soul Calibur on tv a few days after the system launched in the US, and it absolutely blew my mind, that was the smoothest animation ever for its' time

I remember before I bought it, I spent all my weekends looking at pre-launch previews, and downloading vids of DC games at my dad's work over a t1 (wich also blew my mind at the time compared to dial up. I've never been a huge sports game fan, but I remember my jaw dropped the first time I saw (and heard) NFL2k. I've never been so happy with a system since my Sega Genesis (although Playstation came close). I've played my fair share of awesome games on PS2 and XBox, but the DC was the last great gaming experience I had as a teenager in a little bit of a simpler life. I'm really happy with all the current-gen systems, but none of them brought me to the level of almost childish glee that the Dreamcast did, although, so far, I'm much more excited about the next-gen systems than I initally was about the XBOX, PS2, etc..(don't own a cube, but LOZ:TTP will change that).
Ah yes, the reigndeer: dance magical reigndeer, open hidden gateways that were once closed, no boot sector required.
RIP Dreamcast, RIP reigndeer.
EDIT: Haha, on the NPD thread it looks like a few copies of PSO are still selling :lol