![]() An arcade port to the Dreamcast, Sega Bass Fishing sees you assume the role of an angler and you have to catch a set weight of fish before the timer runs out. Indeed, without this game there probably wouldn't even be a fishing rod controller.but I digress. Sega Bass fishing - or Get Bass if you want to get technical - was released in 1999 and was the first game to use the fishing rod controller. The one that kicked it all off for Dreamcast-owning fishing nuts. Year: 1999 Developer: SIMS Publisher: Sega Region: PAL/NTSC-U/NTSC-J Here's the full run down of Dreamcast fishing games, listed in chronological order. Even the light gun got more compatible software over here in the UK than the fishing controller, but we shan't dwell on such trivialities. There are a total of six fishing titles on the Dreamcast, and only one of them came to UK shores officially.which is a bit rubbish when you think about it. I have about as much knowledge of fishing as I do quantum physics.but I own (almost) all of the fishing games on the Dreamcast so that makes me loosely qualified to spout crap about how enjoyable these titles are when swinging your arms around and making yourself look like a tit. To be honest, the closest I ever get to the sport is when I go for a run around my local nature reserve and I scoff at (and occasionally throw bricks at) the bearded old men sat in their little tents around the lake, their rods resting on miniature stands and boxes of squirming maggots sitting by their wellington-clad feet. You may have guessed from my choice of language thus far that I'm not much of a fisherman. There aren't many bells and whistles, but then what would you expect from a fishing rod controller? The fact that it is officially branded means that the build quality is second to none and the thing just works. It contains motion sensors, feedback/rumble functionality and is the go-to peripheral when it comes to Dreamcast fishing games. ![]() ![]() The only officially branded fishing controller ever released for any console, the Dreamcast Fishing Controller (also known as つりコントロr-ラ if Japanese is your mother tongue) was manufactured by Ascii and has the code HKT-8700. The third option is called the Rumble Rod and comes from Mad Catz, but I've never seen one in the wild. I own both of these, so let's take a look at how they differ in quality and features. These are the Fission from Interact, and the official Sega rod.from Sega and Ascii. There are three fishing rod controllers available for the Dreamcast, but there are two which represent around 90% of all the rods in circulation (probably - I just made that fact up).
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