Do you remember the Sega Saturn game Bug!? Wait, do you even remember the Sega Saturn?
Gamers that dropped $400 on Sega's black beast surely came to know the three-dimensional platformer called Bug!for many of the same reasons they came to know Clockwork Knight -- there was almost nothing else to play at the time. For the uninformed, imagine an early, chunky 3D Sonic-looking game with a stupid movie/Hollywood theme and cringe-worthy voice overs, and you'll have the right idea.
Speaking of cringe-worthy, GameVideos sent us this 1995 "proposal" video for the sequel to Bug!, titled Bug Too!. Apparently, this video was pulled together for a meeting during the first day of the 1995 E3 (remember E3?) to pitch the sequel.
It seriously looks thrown together. It looks like they took clips from TV's Entertainment Tonight, added some shoddy voice overs, worked in the only usuable press quote they had, showed some old game footage, and (for some unknown reason) showed a clip of what looks to be a primitive Sonic game. It hits a definite low when ET's host "interviews" Bug via phone.
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Man, the only Saturn games I had were the 3 that came with it and a copy of Christmas Nights that I got in a magazine, and I only ever played the regular Nights beyond that because a friend had it and there was no place to rent Saturn games.
Actually, That "Primative sonic clip" I believe was a japanese only promo for sonic the hedgehog. I know because that video is on sonic JAM (Which I had for the saturn aswell as like, every other game ever released, GUADIAN HEROES FTW)
But yeah, if anyone still has a copy go to Sonic world and go to the moive theatre. They had like Japanese commercials in there too.
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5:35 PM on 09.04.2007
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"We be looking forward to BUG 2" Right...
Man, the only Saturn games I had were the 3 that came with it and a copy of Christmas Nights that I got in a magazine, and I only ever played the regular Nights beyond that because a friend had it and there was no place to rent Saturn games.
You're right though, at the time it was the only game for the system along with Clockwork Knight.
But yeah, if anyone still has a copy go to Sonic world and go to the moive theatre. They had like Japanese commercials in there too.
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