Quote:I don't remember how I ended up getting a copy of Ecco the Dolphin. I preferred to play stuff that involved lots of punching and kicking, and a game about a lost cetacean searching for his family would have come as a an affront to my then bloodthirsty childhood brain.
However, it became one of my favorite Sega games, representing a welcome change from the instant button-bashing gratification of fucking up punks and bikers in Streets Of Rage 2. The central character is a dolphin, obviously, called Ecco, again, who is estranged from his pod after a mysterious tornado sucks them out of the ocean. It transpires that they've been abducted by a group of aliens known as the Vortex, who come to Earth to harvest its natural resources, including sucking up a smorgasbord of sea life. Ecco's quest takes him to Atlantis, before he travels back in time through a complex combination of wormholes to confront the Vortex at its hive, the Machine. Read the full article
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 That was pretty awesome dreamoar lol im glad I stopped to read this thread  "we are not human being's having spiritual experiences, we are spiritual being's having human experience's." (Teilhard de Chardin (1975?)
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I used to play that game with my cousin on his Sega, we loved it. Never knew this, thanks for the fun read! It brought back some nice memories. "It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson
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Ecco was an awesome game, I remember it distinctly.. such a peaceful feeling playing it
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I sold my NES and all my games to get a Sega Genesis. I planned on buying Mortal Kombat so that I could rip all my friends heads off and spray blood everywhere. On a whim, I chose Ecco instead. I absolutely loved that game. I finished it at least three or four times. Now I must go play it on an emulator Great article!
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