Dream Information

Dream Information (ドリームインフォメーション) was a monthly promotional mini-magazine/flyer produced by Sega for the Japanese market during the time of the Dreamcast. Each issue of Dream Information typically contains advertising for upcoming games, as well as lists of whatever games were being published that month. Some issues additionally feature information on Dreamcast hardware or have small interviews in them. The Dream Information guide also acted as a way to advertise Sega's other services during the time, such as WebTV for Dreamcast, Dream Point Bank, and Dreameye video chat. Around Volume 20 (August 2000), the publication switched from an A4 size to an 8x8" square. This size would continue to be used at the start of the Sega Press switchover in December 2001.

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Volume 0, November 1998: Published shortly the launch of the Dreamcast in Japan, Volume 0 advertises Godzilla Generations, July, Virtua Fighter 3tb, Pen Pen TriIcelon, and has similarly-sized upcoming features on Sonic Adventure, Sega Rally 2, Blue Stinger and Geist Force. Incoming, Evolution, Seventh Cross, Tetris 4D and Monaco Grand Prix are also briefly mentioned with a couple of screenshots as games coming out either at the end of 1998 or early 1999. There are brief descriptions of the console's launch peripherals as well as a two-page spread explaining the Dreamcast's online functionality. The last two pages are dedicated to an announcement of the console's release on November 27 and and advertisement for Dream Point Bank.