Tuesday 13 July 2010

NiD.com Interviews Yuji Naka: NiGHTS on the PC?!


The folks over at NiGHTSintoDreams.com have scored a pretty awesome interview with Yuji Naka. It's a cool read, with a majority of the discussion focusing on the Saturn classic rather than the Wii unclassic. I won't spoil too much, but Steven Spielberg and that rumored NiGHTS Saturn controller are brought up. Check out the interview!

During the interview, Naka brings up a PC version of NiGHTS that was released in 2003. That was news to the interviewer and it is news to me as well! Check out the Japanese site detailing the 2003 premiere.

7 comments:

Greg said...

That was a great interview. Thanks for the heads up!

Eyz said...

Nice find!

elend said...

Oh, nice find! A very nice read and... what's that... on that Game Watch page: http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20030321/sega06.htm A Sega towel? Some Sega Saturn stuff as well? I NEED! :(

Barry the Nomad said...

@elend
I saw those too! Very cool, I wonder if those are console patterned bandannas. I remember seeing some on ebay a few years back.

elend said...

Oh, I found more infos in this thread: http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25769
It's indeed a pack of Sega Towels (Sega Logo, Saturn, Mega Drive and Dreamcast Towel). Only available from Sega Direct back then. Awesome.

Retro Junkyard said...

I want to towels and a download of nights for PC! lol

Christopher Price said...

There may be some translation issues going on there...

In 2003, Sega repackaged the emulator GiriGiri as B-Club, their digital download service for classic Saturn (and prior) games.

The version released in 2003 was just an emulated version from the Saturn.

It's possible some PC work was copied over (interface elements, etc), it's hard to piece together B-Club due to the language barrier. It's even more disappointing that Sega wouldn't offer a classic games service worldwide...

So, in short, you didn't miss out on some mystical super-HD version of NiGHTS...