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I got this game about 6 months ago (for $2, no less) but I just started playing it last night.

For those of you not in the know, Seaman is a weird little title for the DC which could only have come from the land of the Rising Sun. Basically, over the span of several weeks, the player raises the Seamen (I suppose that would be the plural), with the ultimate goal of having one evolve and be released back into the wild. The package also comes with a microphone adapter so that you can talk to the Seamen. Eventually, the Seamen start conversing with you and ask you questions and such. Oh, and Leonard Nimoy narrates the entire game.

My Seamen just evolved into "Gillmen" this morning, and right now all they do is speak baby talk, but I suppose in a few days I'll be able to have conversation with them.

Has anyone here played Seaman?

Has anyone here played Seaman?

Has anyone here not played Seaman? Wasn't there a sequel released on the PS2?

Green Gibbon! wrote: Wasn't there a sequel released on the PS2?

Yes. It was only released in Japan, however. I think you could even end up with a lizard or something.

Also, apparently a "Christmas Seaman" was released in Japan for DC. Whether it was a whole game or just an elaborate demo disc like Christmas Nights I don't know. But here is a picture of the case, anyway.

http://www.sega.co.jp/dc/db/package/991034_l.jpg

It wasn't a sequel, but a deluxe version.

There WAS a true sequel in the works that was going to use creepy bird people instead of fish people, but that never got past the concept stage.

Plus, "Skyman" doesn't sound as hilarious.

Green Gibbon! wrote:

Has anyone here played Seaman?

Has anyone here not played Seaman? Wasn't there a sequel released on the PS2?

I haven't.

I never did play Seaman. It is one of those games I always planned on playing, but never got around too. Like Ikaruga and Rez. I need to find Rez before it disappears forever.

Actually, my first webpage was entirely based on Seaman for a highschool computer class.

I made it strictly to annoy the teacher, who gave me detention for saying the word "Butt".

Thats' right. Not ass. "Butt".

I was kind of hoping that showing her 40 pages of seaman information would kill her. Crazy old bitch.

For saying 'butt'? Geeze, I said all sorts of nasty things in my classes and no one ever batted an eye. Then again, I was a teacher's pet, so by my senior year I was getting away with pretty much everything.

I have not played Seaman. Nor "Hey you, Pikachu!"

I did try the PC Technology demo for Konami's "Lifeline" game, though. Which, needless to say, was awkward. (The "demo" makes you say certain phrases to the girl. To "beat" the demo you must say them all. Certain phrases unlock others for you to say... I don't think I ever got them all. I tell you, Konami needs to work on it's voice reckognition though.)

BlazeHedgehog wrote:I have not played Seaman. Nor "Hey you, Pikachu!"

I did try the PC Technology demo for Konami's "Lifeline" game, though. Which, needless to say, was awkward. (The "demo" makes you say certain phrases to the girl. To "beat" the demo you must say them all. Certain phrases unlock others for you to say... I don't think I ever got them all. I tell you, Konami needs to work on it's voice reckognition though.)

The recognition actually works fairly well... you do need to yell at the microphone a bit, though.

My friend Sam:
Seaman: "So, what do you dooooo for a living?"
Sam: "I work at a pet food place."
Seaman: "Ah, so you're in the sex business."

Delphine wrote:For saying 'butt'? Geeze, I said all sorts of nasty things in my classes and no one ever batted an eye. Then again, I was a teacher's pet, so by my senior year I was getting away with pretty much everything.

Heh, at my school you could give the teachers the finger if they pissed you off. Well not all the teachers, just the cool laid back ones. I imagine it was against the rules, but if the teachers didn't care then neither did the students.

That's pretty funny. I can't til my Seamen start talking.

Zeta wrote:Actually, my first webpage was entirely based on Seaman for a highschool computer class.

I made it strictly to annoy the teacher, who gave me detention for saying the word "Butt".

Thats' right. Not ass. "Butt".

I was kind of hoping that showing her 40 pages of seaman information would kill her. Crazy old bitch.

So, what was the outcome?

I remember saying "I have to poop" to someone in the room while playing Seaman, and the little sonuva bitch shot shit at me.

Good times.

Possible name for Seaman sequel #1:

Seaman 2: The Second Coming.

Seaman was funny. Then school started again and I didn't have time to play it every day. I imagine if I booted it back up now, Leonard Nimoy would be pretty pissed at me.

The recognition actually works fairly well... you do need to yell at the microphone a bit, though.

I found I had to say everything in a very default, monotone and soft voice. Kind of like a flight attendant. Unless you're talking about Seaman, of course. :P

So, what was the outcome?

She literally tried to not look at the webpage while she was grading it and I got an "A" and a reccomendation to attend college level computer courses.

Fufufufufufu . . .

Everyone needs to play Seaman. It's one of the most genuinely unsettlingly weird games ever made. Plus it's fun, funny, and there may never again be such a quirky, off-beat title released in the US.

I don't think I got very far with mine. I had two Seamen in the tank for a long time, then one day I turned the game on and one of the Seamen had a strange umbical appendage secured onto the other Seaman's gut. The victimized Seaman was swimming belly-up with a look of agony and terror, while the attacking Seaman was smiling a fuck creepy orgasmic grin. It was late at night, so, half terrorized, I turned the system off, and when I turned it on again the next day (in broad daylight), they were both dead and Leonard Nimoy talked as though it was my fault.

Yeah, Seaman was one of the hippest things to happen on one of the hippest systems ever. And of course it failed because the whole world is broken.


I really wanted to try out Lifeline. Has anyone played it extensively?

My two remaining Seamen have finally gone through their adolescent stages and now have adult voices. When I turned on the game this morning there were four, but they were quickly done off by the brutal process of Natural Selection.

Basically I have left the game on since the first time I turned it on, and ocassionally pulled myself away from the computer to fix the heat & air and talk to my Seamen. One has proven to be quite personable, and he asked me how old I was. When I told him I was 18, he replied, "18, eh? Old enough to vote? I'm thinking of running for President. It's high time there was someone in the White House with gills." And then he hummed his own little patriotic fanfare. Strange, but really cool.

EDIT: I just told him to ask me a question, and so he asked me which month my birthday was in. I told him it was in May, and he siad, "May, hmm? Maybe I'll remember that. Then again, maybe I'll not. I love puns!"

I bought Seaman because it was just that weird and, besides, it was only about $10 new. I made a game and, not wanting to play it a little every day, I took the reset/change date/restart method. I thought the game was kind of interesting, except my Seamen were rude little pricks and their constant whining only made me more content with not feeding them. Anyway, I got bored with it, they died, and I never had too many conversations with them that went beyond:

Seaman: Feed me!
Me: Sorry about that. Here you go.
Seaman: You should be.
Me: You know, if you were real, I'd throw a hair dryer in your tank right about now.

Dammit. I only ever managed to import sucktacular games like Godzilla Generations. Well, I say I...by that I mean my brother, who owned the Dreamcast and made it his mission in life to buy the best games available and then balance them out with shitty ones. I don't think Seaman ever tickled his fancy (it wasn't an RPG) but now that I stole all his belonging when he got married I might just invest in a copy. Anyone have any importing/importion/importatery advice for me?

Why would you need to import Seaman? I don't know who narrates the Japanese game, but Leonard Nimoy does the U.S. game. Leonard Nimoy is awesome. It's a pretty fun game, but once the seaman start talking they turn into bastards. All mine did was accuse me of being gay and eat the other seaman. The way they did the credits was pretty cool, I liked the music. I think I liked it, I can't really remember it. Try putting the game in and then going to the cd player on your dreamcast.

Trog13 wrote:All mine did was accuse me of being gay and eat the other seaman.

Umm... seriously?

How was PenPen Triathalon, anways?