Ecco the Dolphin
Life was an adventure for Ecco, the young dolphin. The ocean seemed endless with rolling breakers to race through! At high speed Ecco could burst through the waves leaping through the air – almost flying!…
Ecco the Dolphin is an adventure developed by Novotrade, released 23 December 1992 on Wii, Xbox 360, Sega CD and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
What Ecco the Dolphin is
Ecco the Dolphin is an adventure game developed by Novotrade and released in 1992. It was published by Sega. It is available on Wii, Xbox 360, Sega CD, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game opens with Ecco, a bottlenose dolphin, as he and his pod are swimming in their home bay. A podmate challenges Ecco to a game to see how high he can jump into the air. When he is in the air, a giant waterspout forms and sucks up all marine life in the bay except Ecco, leaving him alone in the bay. Upon leaving the bay, Ecco swims around meeting other marine life including other dolphins who tell them they have felt the storm and the entire ocean is in chaos. An orca Ecco encounters tells him to travel to the Arctic to meet the "Big Blue," an old blue whale revered by marine life for its age and wisdom, who might be able to help him on his journey. Arriving in the Arctic after a long…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ecco the dolphin series
Ecco the Dolphin is the first of 15 entries we hold in the Ecco the dolphin series. The next entry was Ecco the Dolphin in 1993.
How it was received
Ecco the Dolphin holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1992 averaged 67, so it scored 37 points below the year average. Players rate it 52, 22 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 32MB or greater graphics card. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Ecco the Dolphin launched on 23 December 1992, within three weeks of Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting and Moto Roader MC. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Moto Roader MC.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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