290: Thanks For all the Fish

[Brendan Main]

Thanks For all the Fish

Sega's bizarre Dreamcast game Seaman simulated what it would be like to have a pet that kind of hated you.

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[Vault101]

Watched a video about this on Screwattack/gametrailers some time ago

weirdest game EVER, I have no idea what they were thinking....interesting though

 

[CactiComplex]

I think... I want one of those fish thingies?

That game is so utterly bizarre I can't even begin to comprehend the thought behind it. Does that make it genius or just plain weird?

 

[ike42]

Sounds creepy, the coelocanth comment brought me back to Vertebrate Zoology screaming though.

 

[Hiphophippo]

i bought this game for me and a friend when it was sorta new. brilliant experience too. it only wanted to talk about an hour a day before it tell you it was done with you and to leave it alone.

not a game, per se, but a fascinating experience and one i'm glad to have had. it really stuck with me.

 

[IAmTheVoid]

I advise watching the 'Messing With Seaman' series on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MqvIHxkQo

It's quite hilarious.

 

[Terramax]

...eventually they'll be ready to mate...One swims overtop another, and the bobbing flagella that protrude from their heads schlup together to form a continuous hose.

Wait, so that thing on its forehead... it would actually be correct to call Seaman a 'dickhead'!

 

[Brendan Main]

How the hell they got to publish this as a buyable product baffles me.... We have so many great games that gets flushed down the drain, but this bizarre thing gets through? Baffled, I tell you! Baffled!

It's actually inadvisable to flush seamen down the drain. They end up in the sewers, you see, and they keep on growing. And growing.

I hear they feed on the alligators down there.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

I remember reading about this in a magazine in an airport once. I wanted to get a dreamcast specifically for this game.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Oh man, it's been a while since I've seen anyone talk about that game (if you can really call it a game). While I've always know about the whole double entendre/creepy man-fish abomination that you 'converse' with angles, I wasn't aware that the game lampshades the sexual innuendo in the title, or that they reproduced like that (shudder).

So yay learning? Only not really, because now I just have additional nightmare fuel, darn it all.

 

[DenSomKastade]

Love the Hitchhiker's Guide references (also the rest of the article)!

 

[Hithlain]

I advise watching the 'Messing With Seaman' series on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MqvIHxkQo

It's quite hilarious.

"Put this tongue in that mouth? I don't think so"

What a messed up game!

 

[Roamin11]

*snicker* Geez this is utterly hilarious! Thank you this was enjoyable to read, if not totally outlandish

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I only read this article because the strange fish/man creatures on the main page were really creeping me out... now I've watched these things on Youtube and I doubt I'll ever be the same again... thanks Escapist, thanks a bunch!

I kid, I kid! But seriously, who thinks this sort of stuff up?

 

[MasterChief892039]

Thanks to this article I've been watching fish men swim around and ask disturbing questions for about forty-five minutes on youtube.

 

[Omar Malik]

i think this was one of segas "High" points.
Pun intended

 

[x434343]

http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/games.php?id=29

Fun times.

 

[Hulyen]

No mention of Leonard Nimoy? He seemed to add an air of credibility to it...until you met your fishman.

 

[CopperBoom]

I *LOVED* this game.
It was so weird but so fun.
I love the Dougie headline of this piece as well, thank you.

I am glad this article exists as I love keeping up awareness of this title because I want a sequel. This game and Shenmue 1&2 are the only Dreamcast titles I kept!

http://www.destructoid.com/new-seaman-2-video-man-faced-fish-birds-and-cell-phone-using-cavemen-aplenty-46176.phtml
This is some article about Seaman 2, but for what?!?
I think it should be for 3DS...
http://www.destructoid.com/some-games-that-deserve-a-3ds-revival-191568.phtml