Sega Dreamcast Iomega Zip Drive On eBay

Sega’s Dreamcast was undoubtedly my favorite console ever, and it’s really too bad that they decided to pull the plug so early. It could easily keep up to the PS2 in terms of graphics and audio, so I will still never understand why they gave up so as if it were no big deal. I am certainly not alone in thinking that it was a great console, as the huge fanbase can confirm. One cool factor about the DC is that it had a lot of great peripherals, but sadly, many never saw the light of day.

Such as this Iomega Zip drive, for example. This drive was similar to those offered for PCs (and still are today) that would allow you to use an external Zip disk capable of storing 100MB of data to save your games and other files you download off of the internet. Pretty impressive given this was the year 2000 and internet based consoles only really started taking off in 2005 with Microsoft’s Xbox 360. If you are a DC fan and have $10,000 lying around, you know what to do.

The drive was made to fit under the DC and would connect to the expansion port with the modem, then being plugged into the Zip drive. This was to help promote the DC from a console to a home entertainment/information system with the release of other accessories (which were also never released). This Zip drive was not going to be compatible with the PC Zip drives, but it was suggested that software for the PC would eventually be released to make it compatible with the DC Zip drive.

Source: DC Emu