Sega and Takao Miyoshi launch a countdown page
Posted by George. Filed under George, Japan. Tagged with Countdown, Takao Miyoshi game.
Sega just launched a count down page, similar to Prope’s page a few months back.
If you can’t tell by the picture, the game will be produced by Sega’s Takao Miyoshi (Phantasy Star Universe). Seeing the pixel mushroom and the current Sega of Japan trend, I would not be surprised if its a Nintendo DS game.
Post any information you guys happen to find on your searches, I’ll be sure to update this story when I get news. So stay tuned.
[Source Go Nintendo]
Comments on this article
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Nintendo invented pixels and mushrooms.
Kogen
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 6:20 am.
I didn’t say that at all in the post, I said pixel mushroom as in old school game and Sega of Japan trend (see 7th Dragon had a old school vibe and all the other DS games coming out.)
What do you think its going to be on? It was just a guess.
Kogen, I think deep down inside you think Nintendo invented Mushrooms and pixels.
George
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 6:28 am.
Takao Miyoshi has worked on
Sonic CD
Sonic R
Chu Chu Rocket
Sonic Adventure DX
Phantasy Star Universe
Phantasy Star Zero
Ryan
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 6:47 am.
Yeah I know, I was just bringing up the games he produced, aka Phantasy Star Universe.
Anyway here is a outdated profile (He worked on Phantasy Star Zero thats not listed) with a picture.
http://info.sonicretro.org/Takao_Miyoshi
George
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 7:30 am.
Mario-esque mushroom + Sonic’s colouring
Mario + Sonic water already tested with somewhat successful results
Yep, wouldn’t surprise me. Just make it a 2D platform game.
Leaf
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 8:33 am.
No one remembers Wonderboy and his mushrooms?
;(
Kogen
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 8:48 am.
You mean “So stay tuned”. Not stay tune; that makes no sense.
eday_2010
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 10:33 am.
What could the site URL mean? “pole.sega.jp”
Any clues in that? Pole??
James
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 11:25 am.
Another low budget Wii/Ds game?
Oh man…!!
City Hunter
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 11:46 am.
Cause high budget automatically means good?
George
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 11:55 am.
Looks a lot like a miniature version of a Space Harrier mushroom to me. It even ’scales’ a bit!
It’s a visual metaphor for how a videogame company once loved by millions of hardcore home and arcade gamers have dumbed themselves down to cater for casuals.
A new Space Harrier on any modern machine COULD be fantastic. Unfortunately Planet Harriers was slow, the PS2 Space Harrier remake was feeble, and almost every other revival that Sega attempts is turning out to be disastrous. I hope that the franchise will be left alone unless Yu Suzuki is in charge of it.
ZP..
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 12:07 pm.
Hmm. Marvelous set up a similiar page. Maybe there is a connection? http://www.mmv.co.jp/special/game/30/
Thomas
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 12:26 pm.
Originally I thought there was a connection, saw the clocks and where different times.
CyberConnect2 also has a clock:http://www.cyberconnect2.jp/new/index.html
They do the .Hack games.
George
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 12:38 pm.
Shenmue 3!
Ali
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 1:31 pm.
Comparing the Mario mushroom to this, I have to say that it’s most similar to that than in any other game. The stem of the mushroom is a little bulby, like in the Mario games. Plus, the starting location of the stem shade is in the exact same position, with almost the same pixel layout. But I do note that the cap of the mushroom is different. However, knowing that, it’s way too similar to the Mario mushroom.
Chow
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 2:14 pm.
It’s for Mushroom Manager 2009. Buy your equipment, control the quality of your product, hunt for wild mushrooms (side mission, totally optional but the money is verrry good, just don’t mix edible and poisonous mushrooms, they can look quite similar sometimes)… Mushroom Manager 2008 was a big succes last year in North Japan…
Jethro
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 2:39 pm.
I agree with Zip, it does look kinda similar to the Space Harrier Mushrooms.
Kori-Maru
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 3:47 pm.
Leaf: good thought. I might like to see that.
George: You’re the man.
Gamerschoice: You make me a little horny.
Gamerschoice
Posted January 13th, 2009 at 4:48 pm.
The “u” in “produce” links to this now, for some reason:
http://u-can.sega.jp/
Angelo
Posted January 14th, 2009 at 3:41 am.
Thats not all Angelo,
T links to Lets Tap (on ‘Talao’)
C links to Lets Catch (on ‘Coming’)
However I am quite sure that Miyoshi san was not part of the development for any of these games.
I cannot see any links other then all are on Nintendo consoles.
Ryan
Posted January 14th, 2009 at 5:29 am.
Takao*
Ryan
Posted January 14th, 2009 at 5:31 am.
Yeah, those weren’t clickable before: it looks like more letters “unlock” as time goes on. Maybe it’s indirectly revealing more staff members who are involved? Tap/Catch are Prope games, aren’t they?
Angelo
Posted January 15th, 2009 at 4:04 am.
The U now goes to http://u-can.sega.jp/ (in produce).
As of this post, The P in produce seems to be a locked button (the cursor changes on mouseover). This also seems true of the Sega logo.
Puzzler
Posted January 16th, 2009 at 5:29 am.
Hmm, I seem to have missed the fact that the U was already noticed. My mistake there.
Puzzler
Posted January 16th, 2009 at 5:31 am.
Can anyone else make out what the jingles date back to?
OMG
Posted January 18th, 2009 at 10:24 pm.