Way back in 2013, we reported on the fact that Nintendo had trademarked two rather unique names which seemed to point to a revival of Yoot Saito's Dreamcast cult classic Seaman.
The idea of Saito bringing his virtual pet simulation to a Nintendo console seemed to make sense back then; he had already contributed to the Guild01 project via the airport baggage title Aero Porter. The trademarks also seemed to corroborate previous rumours that the game was headed to the 3DS, which were followed by comments from Saito himself about possible sequels.
However, nothing came of the rumblings, and Seaman remains locked in the past -- although that situation could be on the verge of changing if Hotline Miami publisher Devolver Digital gets its way.
Devolver's chief financial officer Fork Parker has taken to Twitter to quiz Saito on the current status of the series, with the exchange going a bit like this:
The conversation ended there, but there's a chance that Saito and Devolver are continuing discussions in a more private forum. Given Devolver's background, there's no assurance that any future Seaman game would make it to the 3DS or Wii U, but we live in hope.
[source eurogamer.net]
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This was seriously one of the weirdest games I ever played. I'm happy to have shared it with Leonard Nimoy.
It MUST be brought back to make a new generation uncomfortable.
I loved interrupting Nimoy's greeting at the beginning of each game.
@MyBodyIsReggie Oh man, yeah. lol
I used to love how thoroughly unimpressed Seaman was at everything you said and did. He was the biggest troll!
I still have this game on the dreamcast. It would be nice if some of the dreamcast classics would come out on other systems to let others enjoy them. Sega seemed to eliminate some of their classics...come on sega...bring us a new Seaman, Ecco The Dolphin, Comix Zone, Altered Beast, Hydro Thunder and Omikron game! Re-release those great Dreamcast games too!!!!
@JLPick You. I like you.
I remember Yoot Saito's SimTower.
Perhaps another The Tower for the 3DS, hmm?
I'd be okay with this.
For smartphone?
Ugh.
I'm honestly surprised it's taken so long. I remember it being quite a long time ago that I started to wonder when this would surface again. The technology has caught up to the idea.
I have always wanted to play this but I could never get my hands on a working Dreamcast microphone. I gave up after getting two off ebay that were 'tested to work' and just didn't.
Fingers crossed this winds up on 3DS!
@JLPick You forgot to mention Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Shenmue. Of course, thats probably because they were obvious **grin**
at AshFoxX...sorry, I did forget to mention them too. Sega has many great games, and I wish they would consider bringing them back. I was hyped when they were making another Golden Axe (beast rider), but that turned out pretty bad and sad. They need to just make a few discs of their Dreamcast, CD, Master, Saturn and more Genesis classics to let some newer generations get back into their games.
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