Today's buzz-worthy video: Bug Too! pitch
by Zack Stern 
{ Sep 5th 2007 at 12:00AM }
Ever wonder how a game gets greenlighted? (Green-lit?) Stare into the black hole of this Bug Too! pitch video. GameVideos says it was thrown together in a hurry to try to sell Sega on a follow-up to the Saturn game we can't quite remember.We're not sure if this video was ever shown, given that Bug Too! was actually made. Or maybe this is just what publishers want to see: footage lifted from a TV gossip show, a sound-alike voice of the host, some game footage, and a series of pop-culture clips taken from movies.
See the video after the break, and fast-forward to the middle for the strangest parts.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeff Smith @ Sep 5th 2007 12:14AM
I'll never understand why he was overshadowed by Mario 64
*end sarcasm*
hvnlysoldr @ Sep 5th 2007 12:15AM
Ha ha! I'm in stitches. Worse than Star Fox 64 Rumble Pak promo. At least rumble became a standard.
Silent Xenocide @ Sep 5th 2007 12:26AM
So when is Mega Man Legends 3 coming out
mr nimblewick @ Sep 5th 2007 12:38AM
As usual, Steven Spielberg had it only half right.
Saturn had a lot of good things going for it (game wise). This was not one of them.
What Saturn owner could forget the day when the battery powering the internal memory died and all their save files were lost? Ah, the memories.
Virtua Fanboy @ Sep 5th 2007 9:49AM
hell yeah I remember that day! I have no idea why it's a fond memory though but it is, lol. BTW I actually played Bug 1/Too back in the day with some of my friends that weren't hardcore gamers and it was pretty fun.
AlexP @ Sep 5th 2007 10:13AM
The same could be said about any cartridge-based Nintendo console, like the Super Nintendo.
mr nimblewick @ Sep 5th 2007 10:23AM
The difference being that each catridge game would eventually lose its memory, while when the little watch battery died in the saturn, it instantly lost ALL of your saved games. And this battery didn't last ten years. I'm thinking about 2.
The first time I had gotten to the last stage in Panzer dragoon saga. Whoop, all gone.
The second time I was on the 3rd to last battle in Shining Force 3-3. I still haven't waded through the japanese dialogue again to finish it.
Virtua Fanboy @ Sep 5th 2007 11:27AM
Dude, I had a chance to buy a Sega Nomad and Panzer Dragoon Saga on clearance and til this very DAY I freakin regret not doing it!! LoL
Oh and my biggest loss w/the watch battery thing going out was I finally had all the fighters on Fighters Megamix and then poof gone, lol.
mr nimblewick @ Sep 5th 2007 11:33AM
I have a Nomad, bought it off ebay. It was a complete waste of money. I don't know why Sega thought a huge portable that ate through 6 AA batteries in 2 hours was a good idea.
Missing out on Panzer Dragoon Saga when you had a chance to get it is a tragedy, though. Hopefully it will be re-released somewhere. And that I can sell my copy for $200 before that happens.
BPM @ Sep 5th 2007 1:02AM
All I have to say about this video is the following quote:
[scales a wall]
[a potted plant smashes against the wall from the right]
DANTE: Why are we doing it like this?
[camera tilts to reveal its not a wall, but a floor]
Fernando Rocker @ Sep 5th 2007 1:22AM
I remember that game... but then Mario 64 appears... the rest is history.
Off Topic: BPM, I send 12 vouchers and you only 3 =(
BPM @ Sep 5th 2007 1:30AM
Hey, I have other friends who play Prime 3, too.
Fernando Rocker @ Sep 5th 2007 1:37AM
I dont =(
No friend of mine have a Wii... they are sony fanboys =(
Abscissa @ Sep 5th 2007 3:15AM
You win for that Animated Clerks reference. (One of the most underrated shows ever.)
BPM @ Sep 5th 2007 3:21AM
Yay, someone got it. :D
sheppy @ Sep 5th 2007 8:39AM
I... would give you vouchers or tokens or whatever... except I don't have MP3 yet. I'm 34 on the queue list at Goozez.
Also, hey, that Bug looks like a giant Bong.
BobboMJones @ Sep 5th 2007 1:18AM
NOTHING will help you sell a game faster than John Tesh. That's a scientific fact.
Luke @ Sep 5th 2007 1:21AM
How do i unwatch this?
BobboMJones @ Sep 5th 2007 1:25AM
Bleach. A half-gallon. Straight down the hatch. You'll forget the video, and then some.
Trowble @ Sep 5th 2007 2:41AM
Amen to that.
Gambit @ Sep 5th 2007 1:45AM
I like Astal better than Bug!.
Einhanderkiller @ Sep 5th 2007 1:47AM
I'd hit it.
Abscissa @ Sep 5th 2007 3:44AM
I just saw the first 10 seconds and had to stop:
What kind of idiots are working at publishing companies that they would actually care what a MOVIE maker thinks is going to sell a VIDEOGAME system?!
Hey! How about I go ask Nolan Bushnell how to be an astronaut? How about I go get John Glenn to give me football tips? Let's ask John Madden about the latest fall fashions! And get medical advice from Chris Rock! I'll even get Keith Richards to do my plumbing! Then...we'll go see what VIDEOGAME that STEVEN SPIELBURG thinks will sell our VIDEOGAME CONSOLE!!!
Idiots.
No wonder Sega's gone down the shithole.
Abscissa @ Sep 5th 2007 3:56AM
*ahem* Not that I hated Bug. It was alright. But honestly, who the ---- in their right mind would give a crap what Steven Spielberg thinks about anything non-movie?
(BTW, Does anybody else find it odd that "Spielberg" is in Firefox's spell check?)
hegemonyhog @ Sep 5th 2007 4:42AM
All I'm saying is that Michael Bay *loved* Clockwork Knight to an unhealthy degree.
sheppy @ Sep 5th 2007 8:27AM
Okay, I know I'll be busted for this, I know, but Bug and Bug Too were quite enjoyable. Of course this is taking into consideration that Saturn wasn't REALLY a 3D system. And there's no denying that Bug was a gameplay template for Crash Bandicoot.
I still go back and play Bug from time to time. And Mr. Nimblequick.... you never bought a backup memory unit? I have three of those badboys. Only time you can't use them is when the 2MB or 4MB ram expansion is in the bay.
mr nimblewick @ Sep 5th 2007 10:24AM
I did buy one, but of course, it didn't work. I must have been a HUGE Sega fanboy to put up with this stuff.
BPM @ Sep 5th 2007 11:47AM
Although I owned neither, I do recall the first Bug being enjoyable. Never played the sequel.
Maybe I should hunt them down one day.
AlexP @ Sep 5th 2007 10:10AM
what
WiNG @ Sep 5th 2007 10:27AM
Bug was horrible. I mean, given that Mario 64 and Tomb Raider and games like NiGHTS were out at the same time, there was NO place for Bug!
PLZ don't remember Saturn for this. Remember NiGHTS and Bomberman and Guardian Heroes, Panzer Dragoon, Virtua Cop2, etc...
David G @ Sep 6th 2007 11:33AM
You know, Bug wasn't too bad. Well...it wasn't real good either. But you have to remember when this was happening. I remember standing in an EB seeing the demo video for this and being amazed by the 2.5D graphics, doing things like walking "on the walls" and stuff, this was hi tech man!