The surface shows rippling waves, and there are familiar islands to see in the distance.
The Master System and Game Gear are not quite up for that, so we have a solid backdrop of blue water, occasionally mixed with patches of darker or lighter water.
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Sega Genesis always showed us backgrounds of parallax scrolling, including underwater seascapes fading into the murky distance. The other most obvious differences, compared to the 16-bit original title, are the fewer colors and simpler backgrounds.
Ecco the dolphin tv#
The drop to 8-bit is obvious, although I like how 8-bit graphics look on Game Gear (while 8-bit graphics on a TV can really show the blockiness of their pixels, the Game Gear’s small screen-size and low-resolution give its games a smoother look). I feel like I’ve been here a million times before, and it’s true – I have indeed been here a million times.īut Home Bay is different now. Once again, I found myself floating in Home Bay, that classic and slightly-confusing start of the series.
Ecco the dolphin series#
The 8-bit titles were the only part of the series that I had not yet explored, so just by their offer of some new content, I dived in.
Ecco the dolphin portable#
Like 8-bit Sonic, this means that the portable version is always showing slightly less screen-size, so the overall visibility of the stages is slightly less however, the visibility is still fine, and Ecco swims at any speed we’d like, so it’s very manageable and playable.įor years, I’ve been swimming through the 16-bit simulated oceans on the Genesis and the Sega CD, plus the remarkable 32-bit version of Ecco for Windows ( click here to read about Ecco PC: Fixed and Enhanced Edition ). Like most such titles, the big difference (from Master System) is that the Game Gear port is more zoomed-in, with its edges cropped – a change that generally made sense, for that jump from full-size TV to the small-screen. Ecco the Dolphin met this fate, with a port on the Master System, which became a port on the Game Gear. In the U.S., the Master System was nonexistent, so those 8-bit titles were then ported onto Game Gear (marketed as the companion to the Genesis). Some Genesis titles were downgraded into 8-bit versions, and released for Master System (in whatever countries that console was still surviving). In 1992, when Sega was releasing some of its best titles, as well as inventing new genres of video games, Ecco the Dolphin was born – a dolphin simulator, in an ocean simulator, with different ecosystems to explore. The Ecco series was ahead of its time, and I’d say that it’s still ahead of our time, even today. Genre: Action Developer: Novotrade Publisher: Sega Players: 1 Released: 1993
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