Hydro Thunder
In this game, you get to choose from up to 13 high-powered racing boats and race on 14 vividly rendered tracks. The action is intense, the graphics are awesome, and it's a perfect port of the coin-operated arcade game. The game uses Newtonian physics, so it emulates the actual feel of driving a real racing boat. No cars on water here!

Mortal Kombat Gold
I was really looking forward to this one a lot because I played the original to death on the Super Nintendo and in the arcades. It's definitely true to the original (there's plenty of blood and meaningless death), but when compared with Tekken 3 on the less-than-capable Playstation, let alone Soul Calibur, it's not even in the same league. It's much better when you play it against a friend or your spouse, though. You can't LEGALLY behead or impale someone you love in real life, so I guess the game has definite value.

Conclusion
All in all, I'd have to say that the Dreamcast is definitely the best video game system to date and has a lot of potential to showcase Windows CE as the definitive OS used in interactive information appliances. The first crop of games, for the most part, does not disappoint. There are still a lot more of them to come during this holiday season. I can definitely picture myself putting a few hundred dollars worth of dents in my credit cards to acquire them. All I have to do is figure out a way to keep my wife Rachel from finding the receipts!

Dan Huber is a high school junior at Palmerton Area High School. He operates CEZone, a small and expanding Web site that covers all aspects of Windows CE, at http://members.xoom.com/CEZone, and he can be reached via email at wince@bigfoot.com.