Ecco the Dolphin ... wtf

[PBAC]

does anyone know this fever dream of a game? I vaguely remember it just being played in the background as if no one knew what it was. The opening was probably the saddest thing then you float around chatting up fish.
The final boss was apparently an Alien in a spaceship? Like .... I didn't even know that. What was it? Why did it exist and why was it so omnipresent?



I don't want this is in the gaming section. It is a concerning social problem.

 

[Patrick Jane]

I have played it and i find it boring and awful. I have no idea why they keep putting this garbitch on collections.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

This game very much confused me as a child and I recall it getting very hard and I never finished it even in the days when I saved my pocket money up for games and that was the only game I would be able to play for a couple of months.

Think I just went back to the nice comforting world of sonic

 

[Meatspin]

Yeah I got it for free in a game pack, it sucked

 

[Yoel Bromero]

Got the Sega Genesis and was rocking sonic for a couple days, found out the neighbor got a Genesis and it came with Ecco. I was so jealous that his system came with 2 games amd felt like I got totally gipped until I played that piece of shit.

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

i guess I'm the only one who loved this game as a kid. This and the Tides of Time sequel. Game was pretty depressing and messed up. But exploring the ocean was a blast. And being a dolphin learning from other things in the ocean as you explored the vast ocean trying to find what happened to your pod so save them, learning that the aliens had been doing that since ancient times was interesting at least.

 

[RichardHarrow]

Got the Sega Genesis and was rocking sonic for a couple days, found out the neighbor got a Genesis and it came with Ecco. I was so jealous that his system came with 2 games amd felt like I got totally gipped until I played that piece of shit.

Damn tell me how you really feel ….

 

[Your Account]

looks idiotic and a waste of developers time and knowledge

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

looks idiotic and a waste of developers time and knowledge

It was in interesting concept. With a better developer it could have been a really good game. I liked it, but it obviously had it's issues.

 

[Natural Order]

They tried to make Ecco another marquee mascot alongside Sonic but game just didn't have it.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

Tried it when I was a kid, but never really got it.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

it was too hard for me, I never got far in the game

 

[Ohio_Rizz]

I used to get "mean machines" monthly magazine and this game was hyped to death for years in production. It was garbage when I played it on a mates Sega. Really repetitive and boring.

 

[Bacco]

Damn got PTSD from be stuck for days in this or that cave in Genesis days lmao

Still got also the Dreamcast version though

 

[Nathan LaMontagne]

I have played it and i find it boring and awful. I have no idea why they keep putting this garbitch on collections.

The graphics for the time were bonkers.

Also incredibly unique and ambitious

Also, hard is hell, fucking cryptic as all get out and yeah, boring after the novelty wears off.

 

[Mike]

Yeah I had it on the Genesis approximately 15 million years ago IIRC.

You solved puzzles and booped sharks and fought aliens and you could jump out of the water really high. 11 year old Mike gave it

 

[Long Dark Blues]

I had it for the Sega Game Gear, never for Sega Genesis.

It was boring as fuck, never even cared to beat it.

 

[chill doggie]

 

[Tone C]

Might have been a better game if ECCO included baby killing and sexual assault...

 

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