I was playing Sega Bass Fishing on my Dreamcast the other day when I noticed it was Wednesday, comics day. I told my Dreamcast to bring up the Sega Marketplace and, with the fishing rod controller, made my way through the new releases, the announcer said “Hit!” on every one, which became annoying after a while, and selected the ones I wanted with a tug like you do when hooking a fish in the game. Then I reeled them in to my purchase screen, the announcer saying, “Fight!”. I don’t know why they make you pretend to reel in a fish when you select products to buy, but it is fun. Then an image appeared looking like a basket of fish but filled with comics and the announcer said, “This one’s huge!” A day later, they showed up at my door and here’s the pictorial evidence.
Turok Dinosaur Hunter #1: Read it today. It’s pretty good. It’s retelling Turok’s origin story, or recreating it. I’m not sure what his origin story is from previous comics. In this one, Turok lives in North America at the site of today’s New York City around 1200 AD. For some reason, there are dinosaurs, but there’s no explanation of them so far. All you know is Turok’s family was killed mysteriously and that Turok’s Native American tribe claims they committed murderer and were punished. Thus Turok is an outcast who lives in the woods, having to pay the price of his parents’ misdeeds. However, his parent’s death is shrouded in mystery, so I wouldn’t be surprised if later on it was found they were the victims of some malicious plot. I think I’ll stick with this series for another issue to see what happens next.
Trillium #6 and Harely Quinn #1 are still unread. Probably get to them tomorrow.
Dark Souls Design Works: I just started looking through it. I love the images of ancient ruins, dark and gloomy, with a lone figure at the bottom intent on traveling through it. These landscapes and creepy architectures are my favorite subjects in this book so far.
Wouldn’t it have been cool, in an alternate universe, to have witnessed the amazing success of the Dreamcast and still be playing it today?
I still need to hook up one of my cheap DreamCasts from the Salvation Army super thrift shop and see what all the buzz was about. One of these days I will get my cottage squared away and not have a pile of boxes in the center of my living space and maybe I can pull out the old CRT TV once in a whle to play my retro systems on. A girl can dream...
Retro dreams are so nice.
what's Trillium?
Jeff Lemire's (Sweet Tooth and scads of other work) scifi comic series... Holy shh. In looking this up Jose Villarrubia did the coloring. I loved his work on Conan: The Cimmerian... Anyway, there's two time periods, 1920's and 3797. A character from each meet through a Incan Temple and fall in love. Unfortuneately their meeting could possibly ruin the whole universe. It's pretty awesome. Jeff does all the art too (with coloring help from Jose as already mentioned).
Turok had a pretty weird history. Didn't one of the games feature a cybernetic Civil War soldier or something? I remember EGM named one of their year-end awards after him, which wasn't a compliment.
It was Captain Tobias Bruckner from Turok: Evolution. He was an Indian killer that Turok, after severing his arm, accidently sends him to the Lost Land, where Lord Tyrannus gives him a prosthetic arm.
I've never read a Turok comic but I certainly played the first two games on N64. Absolutely loved them.
Sega Marketplace on Dreamcast. I know that the dreamcast had a dialup modem in it but I didn't know it was good for anything.
I played those two as well as Rage Wars. I don't think I played Turok 3 though. I'd like to revisit that series on N64 sometime.
I just made up that Sega Marketplace thing. There was an online service though which according to wiki still supports some games. There was also a web browser you could get. Not sure if that works anymore though. I played Quake Team Arena split screen with a buddy of mine. I never plugged in to the internet with it.
Yep, I have the web browser, never used it. Not sure I'l have games for my DC much longer, people are buying my collection left and right.
I thought I was having some sort of breakdown when I read Sega Marketplace. Thanks for letting me know I'm not going crazy. LOL
I still have a handful of Dreamcast games like all the fishing games (there's like five of them) and the RPG Skies of Arcadia. I'd like to get the light gun games for it.
Wish I had bought a Dreamcast when they were ridiculously cheap. Interesting reads it sounds like.
Yea, just read Trillium. It's reall great. There are two stories going at once in the comic and you have to keep turning the book around because each story is printed upsidedown from the other. A creative decision not a mistake.
Oh I love the Dreamcast. It could do so much...I wish I could still find games for it in the wild.
I still want the two light gun games House of the Dead 2 and Death Crimson for Dreamcast. I'm sure there's more to play. My friend has a disc for Dreamcast with a ton of SNES roms and an emulator on it. He's gonna copy it for me. I forget where he got it. Maybe at a Con.
Oh nice, I have an NES disc with emulator and roms. I used to visit this Dreamcast site that had a bunch of emulators and homebrew games that you can download and burn to disc. There are a couple of fun homebrews like Beats of Rage and some shooters.
I still kick myself for not buying Dreamcast keyboard and gun when Warehouse Music was blowing them out for .99 cents (I didn't own a Dreamcast at the time but dang that was super cheap).
I have the fishing rod controlers. I'd like the light guns and I used to have the microphone that you used for Seaman. I don't know what I did with that.
Please, don't break my heart in saying we'd still be playing the Dreamcast sucessors to this day. =(
I know. I'm sorry for that. I knew it would hit a sore spot for some people, but I couldn't resist sharing the dream.