Ecco the Dolphin's Creator Pitching SEGA for Franchise Revival

Ecco the Dolphin's Creator Pitching SEGA for Franchise Revival

Post by Dan @ 10:33am 24/09/12 | 13 Comments

Ed Annunziata, the designer of the original SEGA Megadrive/Genesis title Ecco the Dolphin, has been excitedly tweeting a hopeful return to the aquatic series, letting fans know that he has scheduled a meeting with SEGA with plans to pitch an Ecco revival (thanks Venturebeat).

@edannunziata Ecco fans, I need you to follow & tweethank @scottfoe, he convinced SEGA to meet with me now chances of a new Ecco the Dolphin x100!

Whether this will amount to anything depends on SEGA's reception of course, however Annunziata seems optimistic, as he has further confirmed that Ecco's original composer, Spencer Nilsen, is also on-board --or perhaps that should be overboard.

Ecco was among the most successful titles of the Megadrive era for SEGA, and although the publisher last revisited it on the Dreamcast over a decade ago, none of the original game's team were reportedly involved.

ecco the dolphin sega

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ravn0s
Posted 11:47am 24/9/12

i never played them so what were the ecco games about anyway?

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fpot
Posted 11:53am 24/9/12

They were an insanely hard yet strangely relaxing dolphin sim involving fiendish puzzles as you strove towards your ultimate goal of jellyfish genocide (and something about finding your family who were kidnapped by great winds of water)

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paveway
Posted 12:44pm 24/9/12

fuck it was a retardedly hard game

i gave it another go not that long ago when i bought the sega megadrive pack thing for ps3

still no idea wtf i'm meant to be doing

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breno
Posted 12:55pm 24/9/12

They should remake Desert Strike

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paveway
Posted 01:04pm 24/9/12

O M F G breno i was thinking about desert strike / that series just yesterday

fuck that shit was awesome

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fpot
Posted 01:05pm 24/9/12

All the Strike games were awesome. They were all fucking hard as well.

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Hogfather
Posted 01:15pm 24/9/12

O M F G breno i was thinking about desert strike / that series just yesterday

fuck that shit was awesome

I just looked that up as I was WTF are you on about pave.

Fucking nostalgia overload at http://www.google.com.au/search?q=desert+strike&hl=en&prmd=imvnsa&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=CNBfUND3BO6SiQeknIGoDg&ved=0CFAQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=1019 someone needs to kickstarter that shit

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paveway
Posted 01:17pm 24/9/12

i just found out that nuclear strike is available on the playstation store for ps3

oh snap

i remember raging so hard at nuclear strike too, soviet and nuclear strike seemed harder than the rest of the series. especially soviet strike i don't think i ever even finished the second level

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Dan
Posted 01:21pm 24/9/12

Renegade Ops by the Just Cause guys, has a fair bit of Desert Strike homage to it http://www.ausgamers.com/videos/view.php/62547

http://store.steampowered.com/app/99300/

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paveway
Posted 05:26pm 24/9/12

devo, seems it's only available on the american ps3 store

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copuis
Posted 06:57pm 24/9/12

Renegade Ops by the Just Cause guys, has a fair bit of Desert Strike homage to it http://www.ausgamers.com/videos/view.php/62547 http://store.steampowered.com/app/99300/

I got this awhile ago, and it isn't too bad

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