#SuperOldGameSaturday - Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (Sega Saturn) - Part 1
0Originally Recorded/Aired on April 20th, 2024
We haven't played a Sega Saturn game recently on #SuperOldGameSaturday and it's been some time since Nocturne has led a game on the program, so we're filling both of those voids with a 3D collect-a-thon platformer that you tend to not see played on this console and one that Nocturne is controlling for us as a blind play. It's 1997's Croc: Legend of the Gobbos from publisher Fox Interactive and developer Argonaut Software, which tells the story of an orphaned crocodile who was taken in by cute creatures known as Gobbos, but when Baron Dante and the Dantinis kidnap Croc's surrogate family, it's up to Croc to find/rescue the Gobbos and defeat the Baron and his henchmen by making them, in the words of Nocturne, "eat tail". This game tends to be known for its PlayStation release, but it DID come out on Saturn, which is how Nocturne owns it and, as a change of pace, she's going through this game for her very first time on our show and showed a natural adjustment and skill for Part 1 of this play, while myself and the best chat on Twitch joined her and went into our thoughts on the game (most of which is also new for me watching), differences between the PlayStation and Saturn versions, the intriguing history of the game's making and developers, the surprisingly deep backstory of this adventure and much more. We'll keep coming back to this one each month as always until Nocturne finishes the game (and, in the Finale, backtracks to collect everything needed for 100%), but for our first part, we all had a great time experiencing the start of this cult 3D platformer in a place that you tend to not see it played and I once again thank Nocturne for playing this game for us. She'll be back on May 18th for Part 2, but until then, we hope you enjoy the start of Nocturne's Blind Run of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos on Sega Saturn (and if you like what you see, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/captainditrag to see these streams live and join/help drive the conversations on what we play each week and also, to see the schedule for our next show, which will be this Friday, April 26th, at 7:30 PM EST)!
And finally, here's the Link List, with links to everything we referenced on this show:
A link to our play of Star Fox for Super Nintendo, the last game we played from developer Argonaut Software:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl8ldhBmrtI
A link to a June 8th, 2023 article by Mitch Wallace confirming that Croc is getting an modern HD remaster, courtesy of Forbes.com:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchwallace/2023/06/08/retro-classic-croc-legend-of-the-gobbos-has-an-hd-re-release-on-the-way/?sh=78fba69a19fc
A link to the music video of David Lee Roth's Yankee Rose, which the name of the first level of this game has a direct reference to the title card of, courtesy of GreatSongs on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgLWTrWgDTI
A link to the TV commercial for Buck Bumble, the 1998 Nintendo 64 game also developed by Argonaut Software, courtesy of The Commercial King on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW66qmawLGM
A link to the recent (and only) video game adaptation of the Nickelodeon TV show, Legends of the Hidden Temple, which is the 2023 online Flash game Legends of the Hidden Temple: Unlock the Past, playable at and courtesy of Plays.org:
https://plays.org/legends-of-the-hidden-temple-unlock-the-past/
A link to the instruction manual for Croc: Legend of the Gobbos for the Sega Saturn:
https://archive.org/details/Croc_Legend_of_the_Gobbos_1997_Fox_US/mode/2up
A link to the May 9th, 2008 walkthrough of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos by Syonyx, courtesy of GameFAQs.com:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/saturn/573944-croc-legend-of-the-gobbos/faqs/31390