Itoi’s Bass Fishing Games

I have the Super Famicom one. I found it in Japan two years ago for 300 yen!

Any particular reason he was drawn to bass fishing games?

Sorry for the double post, but the super famicon cart looks like it has a slot for a game boy cart, kinda like a super game boy?

He was always an avid bass fisher and was famous for it. So it was like a natural thing for him to create.

I never did understand what that slot is for, maybe someone else can explain.

It was supposed to be add on pedestal for your tissue box because it’s the first fishing game designed to make you cry.

This commercial?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jVFFxpgQnM

@Mato I think its a slot for Nintendo Power cartridges.

No not the magazine, but a distribution service only in Japan where you can buy and download cheap versions of Super Famicom games (or perhaps content for SF games) from kiosks at a Japanese 7-eleven or Larson convenience store, onto a small little NP cartridge. You of course needed the cartridge adapter to play these certain cartridges.

Maybe Itoi Bass Fishing had that slot so you can upload content from an NP cart and get stuff in for the game. Just hazarding a guess here.

Wait a second, I just realized something.

Has anyone else thought that maybe Shigesato Itoi’s Bass Fishing 64 could have any sort of graphic assets or anything from the N64 version of MOTHER 3? I’d love to find out sometime.

So Itoi’s fishing games didn’t make it to the US? The bass fishing boom made it here, but I never understood it. I don’t think anyone else understood it either, lol

wow those are some great SNES graphics.
Do the games have a good story?

Fish, fish! FIIIIISH!!!

Please translate!

“but Nintendo printed way too many copies of the N64 game, so it wound up in bargain bins quickly”

True, I bought a mint complete copy of it for… 1 yen! The thing was on auction on Yahoo!Japan and nobody bidded, so I just paid 1 yen + fees, shipping, etc. 1 yen is less than a cent…

Man, I wish 1 yen WAS less than a cent. The exchange rate’s gone bonkers these past few years 🙁

yeah, currently 1 yen is ~1.3 U.S. cents

Funny the guy named himself “BOO” in the first game, there’s actually an enemy from Super Mario World called, “Fishin’ Boo” !
Anywho, I think that the N64 version looks really fun and I would like to play it some time.
And maybe Itoi-san could make another Bass Fishing game with MOTHER stuff in it for like the Wii or Wii U or something. That would be nice!

METC: No, not 100 yen… 1 yen! I bought Itoi’s bass fishing game for N64 for 1 yen!

Mato: yeah I guess 1 yen is now a little above 1 cent, but back then it was like a quarter of a cent.

METC: sorry, I ready your message wrong. Correct, it’s now about 1.3 US cents.

I’m not exactly a huge bass fishing game fan, but I suppose it would be pretty cool to see these games translated, see if they have some of that witty humor Itoi is know for :p

Here is some more gameplay for the 64 one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1em0y0aHbF4

Here is some more gameplay for the 64 one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1em0y0aHbF4

@OKeijiDragon I just want to correct you, but the Nintendo Power cartridges were normal cart shaped. This seems to have something to do with the satellaview, maybe for saving and showing what kind of fish you got to other players, but I haven’t a clue.

From what I heard the slot was indeed to do with the stellaveiw and was used to host custom tournaments.

I have a CIB copy of the N64 version, so if there are any particular assets of the game people are interested in, I can upload them. I don’t have a capture card though, so I can’t take good video of it.