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Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

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Re: Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

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Post by toast0 »

monocasa wrote: post #18
daodedickinson wrote: post #15

You'd think somebody could print money with a Dreamcast Classic instead of all the cheap looking Genesis things out there. I think the fact that the Dreamcast had too many arcade-like games would make it better than that Playstation Classic which had a lot of slow games that you can't easily jump in and out of.

The IP might be in question; PowerVR made the GPU, and the patents wouldn't have expired yet for instance.

The patents should be pretty close to expiration. We're coming up on the 20th anniversary of US launch, although I think that may have been the end of the era of submarine patents.

Re: Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

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Post by ekianjo »

lostgame wrote: post #12
w_s_l wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

oh man I remember the hype around this game in magazines back then! It's AI would "adapt" to your inputs and that was a 'wow' in my mind back then. all in all Dreamcast, imho, was the perfect console. You could emulate PSX games at higher, smoother res and sharper textures, there are emulators for various games now. I wonder how much it costs to pick one up now...

The Dreamcast had an incredible array of quality software, and ran at a beautiful full 640x480 while other consoles were for the most part stuck at 320.

Yeah but SEGA had already lost way too much money by then to be able to recover its hardware branch. The Saturn utter failure hit them very very hard.

Re: Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

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Post by rfrancois »

phren0logy wrote: post #2

If you like that, then you need to check out SeaMan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaman_(video_game) "The narration is voiced by Toshiyuki Hosokawa in the original Japanese-language version and by Leonard Nimoy in the English-language version. ... The 'Seaman' is a form of freshwater fish (the color and shape of the fins suggest that it is a Carp) with a very lifelike human face. It possesses human mannerisms and b…

Actually, the technology for voice recognition used on the Fish Life is very similar to the one for Seaman.

Re: Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

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Post by unicornporn »

vanadium wrote: post #7
beefsack wrote: post #6

It's scary to think about all the games we're going to lose because so many games are implemented as SAAS nowadays. As someone interested in gaming history and the preservation of games it's actually quite saddening.

The gaming console space up to a couple of generations ago, prior to digital distribution, is pretty well covered (and I've contributed ~75 titles and variations of console-based prototypes myself to the public), but most modern gaming is going to have a much more pronounced preservation issue. Consider also the download-only releases of console games, usually by indies but not always, nowadays on the big 3 platforms…

> most modern gaming is going to have a much more pronounced preservation issue.

That's putting it mildly. Gameplay videos is all that's going to be left for plenty of games.

Re: Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

bredren wrote: post #16

I realize this may be an unpopular opinion, but this is just not an interesting find to me. A slightly mutated game computer used to display a virtual aquarium? Knock me over with a feather. I get the obsession w game hardware and that it was Japanese. But this article makes it sound like this was a lost DaVinci sketch book, and these comments liken game design dust to the same.

It strikes me as odd that you'd spend the time to read an article on something you don't find interesting, and then go on to write a comment about how uninterested you are. When I come across uninteresting things online I tend to just skip them and carry on with my day.

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Post by StavrosK »

fuzz4lyfe wrote: post #3
phren0logy wrote: post #2

If you like that, then you need to check out SeaMan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaman_(video_game) "The narration is voiced by Toshiyuki Hosokawa in the original Japanese-language version and by Leonard Nimoy in the English-language version. ... The 'Seaman' is a form of freshwater fish (the color and shape of the fins suggest that it is a Carp) with a very lifelike human face. It possesses human mannerisms and b…

If you want to see seaman in action with some humorous commentary: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-IV8hCvsXy0

Thank you, that game looks extremely weird and interesting. I really dislike his "shouting" shtick, though, I think it makes for really cheap humor.

Re: Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

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Post by ahrjay »

phren0logy wrote: post #2

If you like that, then you need to check out SeaMan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaman_(video_game) "The narration is voiced by Toshiyuki Hosokawa in the original Japanese-language version and by Leonard Nimoy in the English-language version. ... The 'Seaman' is a form of freshwater fish (the color and shape of the fins suggest that it is a Carp) with a very lifelike human face. It possesses human mannerisms and b…

I have an original copy of this game in my garage! Including the vmu microphone.

Re: Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

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Post by mounds »

rfrancois wrote: post #19
ncmncm wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The interest mystifies me too. OK, it's rare. Everything that flopped is rare. But there are millions of flops. I get that SEGA has a following. But even when SEGA was selling like hotcakes, SEGA fans were not interested in this. Why the interest now? Genuinely curious.

I think the interest comes from the fact that it is the last "home" console by SEGA before going software only. It's also due to the fact that Sega gave its approval to release disc images that allows emulation. A big Japanese company approving this kind of work is kind of unprecedented.

Exactly this. I think too there's some homage to those who were die-hard Sega fans, and who continue to be, that find this piece of hardware an extraordinary find.

There's a few dedicated communities to hacking on old Sega hardware and walking through the architecture from the time. Pretty cool stuff all things considered, in a community always watching out for the next shiny thing.

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