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September 25, 2026 session recording is now up. It was fun discussing various aspects of history of computing!

This was sourced from the original blog record by one of the developers tasked with making a Game Gear port of Ecco.
Balázs Pápai is indeed credited in the GG port, I am not sure who 'Piglet' is in the startup screen though.

Once again, I cannot thank Benily enough for finding this treasure in the ...

Someone asked me for a video of the SEGA intro screen from Tides of Time. Since the SEGA logo is on the foreground layer and bubbles are drawn as sprites that didn't seem like too much of a problem.

Since the whole sequence is quite short -- only six seconds long, this got me thinking if I could ...

A Youtube video for those who would like it in this form:

September 11 2026 session recording is now up. Now that's what I call a proper dive down the memory vents!

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When it comes to obscure Ecco media you probably can't go much more than the version that was made for the Sega PICO console meant for very little children. The system was positioned as an edutainment computer and would help teach them ...

Having read the article again I can now see I got confused, sorry about that! Regardless, this is excellent material and something definitely not seen before so thanks again for sharing it! I've linked Bo's article on our Twitter page, hopefully that will help spread the word!

Ecco is full of cryptic stuff like that! We have asked Ed about this and he did confirm the intention was for players to find out on their own as that's much more rewarding that way. Not only his Ecco games have stuff like that...

The only possible hint we do have is experiment with songs, they can ...

Oh wow, thank you very much for sharing this! This is definitely a new find and I'm sure people who are only picking up the game are going to be happy this exists!

Ecco PC in general is considered a poor port of the great game that they also rushed so it's not receiving the amount of attention than ...

Hello there and welcome to our message board. Love your reverse engineering projects!

There are three powerups that the game gives you in general. The way the third one is NOT explained anywhere in the manual does lead me to believe it was one of those last minute additions as Tides of Time already ...

Ecco Jr. is the only Ecco game of the series that uses stock unmodified GEMS sound driver, whereas previous two 16-bit games had it modified by Novotrade to better suit their needs. The overall topic of GEMS is quite deep and I have learned a lot about it whilst working on this little project ...

September 4 2026 session has been added.
Ed took interest in my small project of fixing the glitching Ecco Jr. soundtrack and invited me to talk about it during the session. This ended up in a small lecture on videogame music history, including talking about GEMS and why it was special, before ...

August 28 2026 session recording is now available.

This week's special guest is Dean Sitton : Ed's good friend and colleague at Sega of America! He is best known for his involvement in the conceptual and localization phases of the original Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Mega Drive. He was ...

An meme. Those are my real systems...

August 21 2026 session recording has been added.
There is a lot to digest from this and this is the first time we've actually been shown some very early prototype footage!

You may remember the article in the Famitsu magazine about Ecco that would ultimately spawn even more questions on what to make of the screenshots that were posted there. Especially given the stark contrast with what would be published later.

It's now all been made clear, thanks to Sherman of the ...

From an old tweet some 2 years ago.
This is what Vortex Queen looks like according to Dall E.

This was posted on ArtStation quite a while ago and already went missing at some point before being reuploaded again, so I am saving this here just in case.
It has been confirmed during one of the Dev Q&A that Ecco team is actually in contact with Jonathan to possibly license his work for marketing ...

August 14 2026 session recording has been added.
I'm trying a bit of a new format in this one where I display some of the content being discussed in the video.

I most certainly agree! We seem to have fast-tracked to this era where companies would just rehash the same stuff over and over again with only occasional gems here and there. There was Aquaria but that was a long time ago, so now there is a chance for Ecco to make a splash again: there was nothing ...