Bleem Creator Says Sega Was “Thrilled” At PlayStation Games On Dreamcast, But Didn’t Want “A Big Legal Battle With Sony”

“They loaned us a Dreamcast hardware development system”.

Bleem! was a really unique product for its time, allowing users to run PlayStation games on non-PlayStation hardware. Originally created with Windows-based PCs in mind, Bleem! would later come to the Sega Dreamcast as Bleemcast – a move which Sega was covertly in favour of.

Randy Linden, the programmer behind Bleem!, has been speaking to Zophar (founder of Zophar’s Domain, naturally) about his career and explains that, while Sega wasn’t going to go as far as to give Bleemcast its official blessing, it was very keen to see it come to Dreamcast.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

“They loaned us a Dreamcast hardware development system”.

Bleem! was a really unique product for its time, allowing users to run PlayStation games on non-PlayStation hardware. Originally created with Windows-based PCs in mind, Bleem! would later come to the Sega Dreamcast as Bleemcast – a move which Sega was covertly in favour of.

Randy Linden, the programmer behind Bleem!, has been speaking to Zophar (founder of Zophar’s Domain, naturally) about his career and explains that, while Sega wasn’t going to go as far as to give Bleemcast its official blessing, it was very keen to see it come to Dreamcast.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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