Requiem for a Dreamcast

A couple of days ago working at the customer service counter, the parcel pickup kid brought up a filled plastic bag and said it was left in a cart outside in the parking lot. This isn't unusual, bags of groceries are forgotten by the numbnuts that bought them or people just decide to leave a plastic bag full of plastic bags in a cart and deem it the unofficial recycling bin for plastic bags. But this time, something was amiss.

Inside the bag, was a Sega Dreamcast. The cables for hooking up the device to the TV set were there. There were about 15 games as well, but most were out of their cases, the CDs horribly scratched and most likely unplayable. Games of note were Sonic Adventure, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, and Virtua Tennis. There were also about six controllers.

I don't know much about the Sega Dreamcast. I've only played it once, at Mike's. It was some game where I had to flip switches to set traps for burglars played by real-life actors in a house, or something. I also watched as my comrades played The Typing of the Dead. I think it was ignored by most, in a time of the Playstation and Nintendo 64. I do know, however, that it was Sega's last console. After that they only made games for other consoles.

So my question is this: Does the Sega Dreamcast deserve to be left in a shopping cart with unplayable games in a measly plastic bag?

Theories were drawn. The parcel pickup dude thought a kid forgot it. But why would the kid put it in a shopping cart in the first place? Another dude thought it was left as trash. But why not simply throw it in a trash can or dumpster? So I speculated it was meant to go to the Good Will trailer in the Wal-Mart parking lot down the street, but the fucker was too lazy to actually drive the eighth of a mile to do it. He would give some poor family an inoperable game system, because he's that much of a bastard.

I don't have a lot of faith in the human race. What can I say?

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