Sony's weird PS3 safari game

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• "Encyclopædia Britanni...
• Microsoft Encarta 1998...
• PS 3 Commercials: Cre...
• Afrika PlayStation 3 T...
• E3 2009: Afrika Demo
• Microsoft Flight Simul...
• Euro Truck Simulator 2...
• Sony E3 2006 Press Con...
- Lots of research done through the Afrika IGN preview coverage and GameFAQs boards for the game
0:00 The announcement at Sony's awful E3 show
2:22 This is a photography game? Why it was greenlit?
5:22 Gameplay loop
7:10 The focus on realism
11:27 The high moments
14:27 Comparisons to modern releases
15:35 The low moments and missed opportunities
20:11 Why I'm still glad I played this
23:06 Thank you/Patrons

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@Mikeoneus 10 ай бұрын

I have to assume Kaz Hirai still occasionally wakes up in a cold sweat after dreaming he's back on that stage, trying to drum up enthusiasm for RIIIDGE RAAACER all over again.

@HueyTheDoctor 10 ай бұрын

"Remember that one? Guys? Hello?"

@inspectortequilayuen1245 10 ай бұрын

"It's powered by Namco!"

@bloodkip9462 10 ай бұрын

I feel so bad thinking it was dumb back then. Ridge Racer is a legitimately great game.

@101Volts 10 ай бұрын

@@bloodkip9462 I'm not sure how much this has to do with it, but this being 2007 - 2008, nostalgia for previous generations of systems *really* hadn't hit the mainstream yet. That wasn't until about 2013 - 2014, when prices shot up. I used to buy older games (PS1 era and older) at yard sales for peanuts, kinda like buying $1 DVDs at yard sales now. 2003 - 2008 were amazing for an early retro gamer.

@jsr734 10 ай бұрын

You know. When you watch the whole presentation you will notice there is nothing cringy or weird about it. He was just showing the PSP backwards compatibility with Ps1 games and nobody was laughing or making fun about it. The same goes for the "Giant Enemy Crab" line. Taken out of context sounds silly or funny, but when you watch the presentation and notice it was just part of Genji 2´s gameplay presentation, it turns the most normal of things.

@acomingextinction 10 ай бұрын

In a lot of ways this feels ahead of its time. It's a "cozy" game, like a farming simulator or that powerwash game.

@bahshas 9 ай бұрын

it must have been completely crazy at the time that you couldnt shoot the animals it would obviously never going to do well specially considering this was in the wake of call of duty. people did not want to just take pictures back qthen

@jaygooese4242 9 ай бұрын

He does prove a point there

@bahshas 9 ай бұрын

@@kingkoopa64 yeah but i doubt people would complain if next by the nikkon-700D w/ 20x telescopic lens you had a Remington 700 .308 magnum option to choose

@alienraven 9 ай бұрын

My dream game would basically be this, but with Dinosaurs. That would be amazing.

@astrofive620 8 ай бұрын

Harvest moon 96-97?

@jonbourgoin182 10 ай бұрын

0:24 this Sony presentation was the polar opposite of the iconic "$299" moment from the E3 for PS1 and Saturn. You know the moment I'm talking about

@chadkingoffuckmountain970 10 ай бұрын

>Sega: $399! >Sony: $299. >Doesn't elaborate >Leaves

@JDelwynn 10 ай бұрын

Having two industry leader consoles in a row made Sony think that they can do no wrong.

@Tirgo69 10 ай бұрын

Also the opposite of the "299" of the PS3 slim price drop that helped bring the PS3 back

@Gatorade69 10 ай бұрын

@@chadkingoffuckmountain970He supposedly had a speech lined up but then he heard the price of the Saturn and decided to do his 299 thing. What a Chad.

@jammin2575 10 ай бұрын

@@JDelwynn3rd generation cockiness happened to all the companies. Sega it was the Saturn, Sony had PS3, Nintendo had the 64 and Microsoft had the Xbox One. Each one seemed to come off previous generation of success where they could do no wrong. They each decided to do something crazy thinking they can pull it off, Sega it was pricing and rushing it out ahead of the competition. Sony it was pricing and not enough IPs ready for release window. Nintendo it was sticking to cartridges in era of cds which were cheaper and bigger storage. Microsoft it was too many things to list including “always online entertainment center” and trying to sell 2nd hand games licenses. So yeah they all had the arrogance to try some stupid ideas 😅

@Bannanawaffles2 10 ай бұрын

One thing that genuinely *does* look technically impressive for the time is the absolutely insane draw distances. Views like at 16:02 with that genuine sense of the massive flatland in front of you were extremely novel at the time, and goes a bit of a way to explain why the actual graphical presentation of the game is somewhat low quality for the time period.

@colbyboucher6391 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's competition was Oblivion's pea soup mountains

@Pearl-Slug 10 ай бұрын

While watching this video, I was struck by this game's color palette in comparison to other games of that time frame. Y'know, when so many games had that almost monochromatic brown palette (or green if your name was Fallout 3)?

@shira_yone 10 ай бұрын

Still seems pretty brown to me, it's just way more subtle than it's contemporaries

@HipixOFFICIAL 10 ай бұрын

You talking about the piss filter era?

@VValkyr 10 ай бұрын

@@HipixOFFICIAL My favorite

@chikato7106 10 ай бұрын

That was Xbox this is a PS3 game.

@apaceofchange94 10 ай бұрын

@@chikato7106you tried

@snaphappy7530 10 ай бұрын

Honestly, as a Aussie professional photographer, i want this haha. You never see this level of attention to photography. I feel the sheer amount of driving (with loading) may get jarring though.

@digtalfear1177 10 ай бұрын

I really want to see how taking pictures is in the game, a have an old Sony a350, wonder how similar it will feel lol

@alext3811 10 ай бұрын

Especially those long loading screens. I feel they were a few generations ahead of the graphics, with current gen, this concept could be done much more realistically.

@HOTD108_ 10 ай бұрын

Why would you want to play a video game that's just stuff you already do in real life?

@shira_yone 10 ай бұрын

@@HOTD108_ to do them without the stressful and tiresome consequences of real life, it's called simulation for a reason

@snaphappy7530 10 ай бұрын

@@HOTD108_ Same as truckers playing Euro Truck simulator i guess ha. Plus my work doesn't usually have Zebras and Hippos. The sandwiches of my corporate events i shoot pose less excitement than that (though the curry egg does have a spicy kick to it)

@Plague_Architect 10 ай бұрын

this... actually looks cool. I'd love to see something like this today but modernized and updated.

@kieotyee8355 9 ай бұрын

Look at photography simulator by madnetic games. Not quite out yet but looks pretty promising

@muddtheboss415 8 ай бұрын

Check out Alba: A wildlife Adventure. The graphics aren't realistic tho and the game is very short.

@ryballs4569 10 ай бұрын

I bought this game at release in Australia via PlayAsia. Was so relaxing, open, beautiful and taught me so much about photography. Yes it took ages to go anywhere but I didn't mind as I often saw something cool along the way. A nice change from the violent games. Wish they did a remake.

@aaronball4700 10 ай бұрын

They could make two separate versions, Save Africa and Destroy Africa, one where you make conservations and ensure a healthy ecology in the region while documenting wildlife, and the other where you can poach and raid conservations for animals to sell on the black market. Of course they will have network capabilities.

@huzi990 10 ай бұрын

Be honest with us, you tried to run over the wildlife at least once right?

@minimme 10 ай бұрын

hahaha you got me. the game just immediately stops you in your tracks and you get told to watch out

@user-ow1bc4sx2r 10 ай бұрын

@@minimmesmh the nanny state strikes again

@ExtraThiccc 10 ай бұрын

@@minimmekinda figured it was that or the animal clips around you like most racing games. I'd be VERY shocked if you could run over an animal in a game that national geographic sponsors

@BmxGuyFromNZ 10 ай бұрын

Can you just get a picture of the Suzuki jimny for the cover of national geographic?

@Gatorade69 10 ай бұрын

@@ExtraThicccYou run over an animal and you get a warning, you do it again and the wardens start hunting you and the game turns into Far Cry 2.

@KevinCow 10 ай бұрын

This era was so interesting in retrospect. I remember people immediately losing interest in this when we learned it was a photography game. Games like Prince of Persia '08 and Kirby's Epic Yarn experimented the idea of games where you can't die, and many rejected this as dumbing them down. The term "walking simulator" was coined to deride games where you just experienced a story with no physical conflict. And of course there was the rise of casual games with the Wii, web games, and mobile games. A common discourse during this era was, "What actually counts as a real game?" And for many, the only acceptable answer was, "Hardcore games for hardcore gamers such as myself." Guns, violence, high-octane action, difficulty, that was a true video game! That mindset hasn't completely gone away, but these days it's pretty much dismissed as a bunch of angry teenagers, whereas back then it was actually seen as a serious perspective worth considering. Like you said, players would be far more open to a concept like this today.

@1080ike 10 ай бұрын

The thing is, they had a built-in formula for this sort of game already existing in Pokemon Snap for the Nintendo 64! Yeah, this is about real animals rather than fictional animals, but they still absolutely could have done an on-rails photography (perhaps in a safari jeep?) game with interesting events to keep players interested rather than have the free-roaming game that we ended up with that simply didn't.

@0002pA 10 ай бұрын

"Games like Prince of Persia '08 and Kirby's Epic Yarn experimented the idea of games where you can't die" - Um... what. There were plenty of games before that where you couldn't die. The 90s point and click adventures were in part a fight between ones where you could never fail and ones where you could run into a game over.

@XenonG 10 ай бұрын

@@0002pA He said "this era", I'm assuming 2006 to 2012.

@0002pA 10 ай бұрын

@@XenonG Yeah, but as I just said, that concept has been around since the 90s.

@RusticRonnie 10 ай бұрын

Walking sims at the time didn’t apply to puzzle games. Even if they didn’t have combat. Unless, they were first person

@bagelfan6 10 ай бұрын

I regularly think about this game a few times a year, whether I want to or not

@moomoocupcakes 10 ай бұрын

Peter, I admire your optimistism with these games. Even if they have problems you always talk about them in a way that gets me curious to explore it for myself. Thanks for the wonderful content as always.

@jackclark4598 10 ай бұрын

i've been on safari & for 2008 this game's an absolute masterpiece in terms of realism. the terrain, the number of animals onscreen - that's Tanzania, recognizable even through the constraints of the 7th gen. feels like somebody had a great vacation & made a game about it.

@HighwaterTrousers 10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad to see this game receive your attention! I've always had a fascination with it, but never had the chance to play it. I was lucky enough to meet the composer Wataru Hokoyama a long time ago at a Video Games Live show. And he told the story of how he signed on to do the music for Afrika and studied the different instruments and compositions of the different cultures there. But the kicker was after it released, he was contacted by Capcom because they were developing a game set in Africa. So they mentioned the title and sent him some preview stuff to take a look at. He then jokes that he took a look before bed, had a nightmare, and then called Capcom back to say "I don't know if I'm fit for Resident Evil, but I will do it", citing the nightmare as reason to sign on. I'm sure he was joking and embellishing a bit, but he was so nice and friendly about the whole thing, I like to believe it actually happened that way!

@Tomofdahook17 10 ай бұрын

Dude! WTF! I can’t believe you met the composer! I wish I could talk to him! The music is unreal I’m this game.

@Monkey_SK 10 ай бұрын

These videos often feel like an ode to what every video game thought it could be but sadly, would never get to be. Thanks for playing them and making this content.

@XeCuTioNR 10 ай бұрын

The soundtrack is fantastic. Not often talked about either. I could totally see an remaster or using the UE5 engine, flexing the engine off in 4K. Expanding the idea with more territories/countries with the Aussie outback, Rocky Mountains, or even the Artic.

@HOTD108_ 10 ай бұрын

Sounds like you want a remake, not a remaster.

@Tomofdahook17 10 ай бұрын

The soundtrack is an unbelievable masterpiece. I’m not even kidding.

@TonyGearSolid 10 ай бұрын

There is definitely a bigger audience for this kind of game nowadays and I'm kind of surprised that there hasn't been an attempt at something similar since.

@Cyklopz007 10 ай бұрын

PS3 was so ahead of it's time, it single handedly got me back into gaming. What a time to be alive lol. Awesome video mate.

@jonbourgoin182 10 ай бұрын

I honestly believe the PS3/360/Wii era was the last truly exciting time for gaming. It was diminishing returns after that. Sure we had plenty of awesome games after that but I'm referring to that feeling of anticipation and excitement for a new gen of gaming.

@HOTD108_ 10 ай бұрын

@@jonbourgoin182 Let me guess, you grew up during that era, right? If I am right, then I posit to you that the two things are not a coincidence.

@browngaymethodistjesuschri1361 10 ай бұрын

@@jonbourgoin182shareplay though

@jamesconlin5099 10 ай бұрын

@@jonbourgoin182 Well your just wrong

@emaheiwa8174 10 ай бұрын

@@HOTD108_the console wars ended right after so he has a point

@duncans2070 10 ай бұрын

You genuinely make the most interesting game video-essays on this platform

@MisterSniperSFM 10 ай бұрын

I remember watching my brother play this game. Man this brought back memories.

@percher4824 10 ай бұрын

Honestly, this game deserves another shot. Maybe with another team behind the wheel this time though. There's very clearly potential in a game about wildlife photography- I mean, Pokémon did it and people loved it

@diizzii 10 ай бұрын

The best subscription on my KZfaq whatsoever. Great research, fitting gameplay footage, amazingly inspiring thoughts by minimme and most importantly, the footage ran on original hardware. Keep it up my dude!!!

@hi_tech_reptiles 10 ай бұрын

As an animal lover and reptile keeper this is genuinely compelling. If they included a jungle biome and/or more macro-lense style stuff for smaller animals, id try to get my hands on a copy for sure. Taking pics of snakes and crazy lizards, eapecially from other continents, would be cool. Unfortunate how many people immediately went all sadistic lol, very weird and creepy but maybe im the weird one haha. Edit: Plus you drive a Suzuki Jimny a car I love but we dont get here in the US anymore outside old imports because Consumer Reports screwed us all lol

@electrofreak0 10 ай бұрын

From your explanation, I wonder if the dev team just couldn't handle creating any sort of AI. The animals don't interact with each other or do "special set-pieces". Sounds like they had to fix it by doing these scripted events instead.

@aliatef7203 3 ай бұрын

first thing that came to mind too, that stuff is extremely hard. there's a reason we're still playing stalker till now

@Wuggyboobeaufuf138 10 ай бұрын

I LOVE this game. It feels like the last vestiges of the PS2 era and the last of Sony's experimentation.

@shira_yone 10 ай бұрын

Demon's Souls, Motorstorm, The Last Guardian, Driveclub, and Gravity Daze/Rush are pretty experimental.

@skinlizard2251 10 ай бұрын

@@shira_yoneTo be fair, Demon's Souls and the Last Guardian don't feel as experimental as something like this because Demon's Souls feels a lot more by the books simply due to retrospect because it spawned an entire series with Dark Souls one through three, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, and even Sekiro to a degree all being expansions on the formula introduced in Demon's Souls, while the Last Guardian was made by a studio known for making games in a similar vein, as rare as the releases are, with both Ico and SotC before it sharing a lot of similarities conceptually. Not that they aren't or weren't experimental by any means, because they were, it's just that it doesn't quite feel that way because one was a hit and the other fit in with what the company is known for.

@shira_yone 10 ай бұрын

@@skinlizard2251 sounds a tad unfair to me that their experimental status gets diminished just because they're popular in hindsight or something the studio is known for making. DeS was just as experimental as this game is at the time of release (even got the budgety PS2 feel), and still is compared to it's spiritual successors; it was a hit exactly because the game reminds people of older games from the PS1-PS2 era, something that OP mentioned.

@skinlizard2251 10 ай бұрын

@@shira_yone Oh yeah, I agree, I'm just trying to elaborate on why the original commenter might feel that way ahdnf

@IkeSan 10 ай бұрын

Aftert they closed Japan Studio Sony will never go back to those days.

@abletothink 10 ай бұрын

I found an Asian copy of this game at a used game store for $30 complete. It being called Hakuna Matata threw me a bit but I recognized the font on the spine and knew what it was. Needless to say, I bought it.

@mbern4530 10 ай бұрын

That is the version I bought and it was in full English which was perfect. I also bought it early on when the online was live so I was able to take part in the photo competitions. I even won one, but not being in Asia I wasn't able to claim the prize.

@MorbidlyObeseChihuahua 10 ай бұрын

First saw this game on Sony's E3 2006 presentation, I feel like I was the only one to correctly guess what the gameplay was gonna be like. Wish I had a PS3 back then, this actually seems like a game I'd have loved.

@Clubbythaseal 10 ай бұрын

Oh wow i always wanted know about this game. Thanks for making this! I remember you talking abour possibly making a video over it during the Rome ps2 game live stream. Glad you were able to make it.

@efu707 10 ай бұрын

it's such a treat seeing your editing grow and evolve. from a minimalistic text on the screen before, now it feels like a documentary in a weird way, i really enjoy it

@fewew7898 10 ай бұрын

One of your best videoes. I really liked the art analysis, your essays have grown so much.

@Danominator 10 ай бұрын

You've been killing it with the edits and video style lately mini. Great job!

@TheExperimentalFreak 10 ай бұрын

Great video man, as usual. Watching your vids never fails to chill me out

@jeffreyatkins4760 10 ай бұрын

I feel like i haven't seen one of your videos in awhile glad to see you in my feed again

@vaugna1620 10 ай бұрын

Sony has always had a bit of an artsy streak with stuff like this, I just miss when that was interesting and not chasing the prestige television audience

@zhanewithah7462 10 ай бұрын

i love this channel because its takes a game i have only heard of in passing makes me wanna go and buy it then makes me question why i wanted to play this jank in the first place by the end of the video, your videos are always a treat

@mikeberg6407 10 ай бұрын

I enjoy having captions and seeing what you adjust or cut out from your script lol

@mikeberg6407 10 ай бұрын

I cant believe we never got a sequel to Tokyo Jungle, it had such a good base and couldve been so much more :(

@ThereGoesKitty 10 ай бұрын

I kinda agree with 'cozy games' being very popular they could easily make a sequel to this, but maybe with less realism add a bit more to do outside of the photography such as finding things to help build up your base of operations or something like that (a little bit Stardew Valley meets pokemon snap with real animals) or add a secondary character who fights off poachers

@travelermarc8471 10 ай бұрын

I do travel photography as a hobby and I played this game a lot when I was younger before picking up my first camera. Must have left an impression! Thank you for your video! Great work as always.

@Snowy265 10 ай бұрын

I remember following this game quite intently back in the day. The graphics looked amazing for the time and I was quite into photography during that period. I was really looking forward to it and was so gutted it never got a PAL region release.

@WA_Stokins 10 ай бұрын

Never gonna let Minimme forget about Sims 2 DS.

@HOTD108_ 10 ай бұрын

Never gonna let you down.

@AllergyPuppy 10 ай бұрын

I think a hypothetical polished version of this would appeal specifically to my dad, who spends his free time up in our local mountains photographing the local critters and picking up interesting rocks to show my mom.

@DGR_Dave 10 ай бұрын

I love this game! It's got it's rough patches, but overall I had a blast when I played this :D

@MASTAHMELO 10 ай бұрын

Very good video. First time viewer and subbed the second the video finished, keen to see more

@TPD 10 ай бұрын

very happy to see the giant enemy crab opening this video. what a golden age

@sadmeat8937 10 ай бұрын

I cant believe they "metroid" your camera at the start.

@seven7tr 10 ай бұрын

We had these Encarta tours in my school, I never managed to find them again, thank you so much !

@Jakewake52 10 ай бұрын

Aww yeah, Giant Enemy Crab opening!

@pendantblade6361 10 ай бұрын

See this is why you're the best minime. This sort of historical archiving even for the most obscure of games, in an obscure genre (edutainment) is going to be useful one way or another.

@crisfrey2753 10 ай бұрын

It's so frustrating when games with interesting concepts like this have so many missed opportunities and bad decisions lol. I love that Suzuki though, shame it's boring to drive like you said. And I absolutely agree with your enthusiasm about games that clearly did their research to show a realistic place and/or time period from the real world. Learning about stuff we wouldn't experience in real life otherwise and knowing that what we are playing in the game is attempting to be accurate is really cool.

@Shagadelicjon 10 ай бұрын

You’ve done it again!

@WayOutGaming 9 ай бұрын

There was another game similar to this that was released for the PC and Wii called Photo Safari Africa - Wild Earth. In that game you were tasked with taking specific pictures with set pieces for a magazine. Once the mission was finished you could even read the articles, which were quite lengthy. I like these sorts of games. They're a little niche and sometimes bare bones but they have a bit of nostalgic, simplistic charm to them

@RWSCOTT 10 ай бұрын

bought it when it dropped in the US. I remember that the slowness and load times were extreme. also I remember getting up in a waterbuffalo's face to take a pic and it got mad & charged me, lol. that was the best.

@pfergee 10 ай бұрын

This conceot could 100% work today with modern tech and game design

@PKMNTrainerKelly 10 ай бұрын

idk why but the crouching down and taking a candid pic of your suzuki at 14:25 reminded me a lot of MGSV.

@williamlowe8734 10 ай бұрын

Got an NTSC copy of Afrika in my display case. Found it at a local Game exchange for around $55 during the lock downs.

@fiskburk2908 10 ай бұрын

It amaze how you and @Thorhigheels talk about the same game but having 2 different approaches but trying to show us what the game was trying to do, great video man

@freydobaggins6252 10 ай бұрын

Thank you minimme for describing real-life pokemon (animals) in terms I can understand as a gamer

@Zenstudent105 10 ай бұрын

Minimme series is so chill and fun and funny. It's great stuff. I wish KZfaq would tell me when it's posted.

@GregorMaxi 10 ай бұрын

honestly, if they made something like this I would love to play it. It sounds great simulating the experience of going out and taking pictures at beautiful location. Adding in the progress in graphics they could probably simulate a couple of cameras and their lenses with all the quirks and features to give every photography fan something to love. And for everyone else it could be a great and soothing experience just watching a digital forest or mountain area or such filled with life and natures beauty.

@Yungbeck 10 ай бұрын

Another minimme banger! I remember vividly the announcement of this and kind of keeping my eye on it for a while, but ultimately never bought it. Thanks for highlighting these old titles !

@juliansantiago9107 10 ай бұрын

Another great video Minimme!!!

@deelokz4190 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful review, you are surgical with this.

@gnocchidokie 10 ай бұрын

I'm looking forward to Ha2na Matata

@snipoxkillo1099 8 ай бұрын

Underrated comment

@dumb-angel 10 ай бұрын

thank you for this hard work, you seemed a bit sad last stream then you canceled the next stream so i hope you’re in better spirits and energy! take care my brother 🙏

@huzaifarasheed615 10 ай бұрын

Your overly personal and comfy nature of explaining things is what draws us to your videos bro, keep it up❤

@CaedusRising 10 ай бұрын

I feel like your channel preserves game history for titles be otherwise forgotten

@clementineshetheyfae8312 9 ай бұрын

Would love a modern version of this game very “Hunter Call of The Wild with realism setting” but for photography and I’m all here for it

@Rob9 10 ай бұрын

I remember hearing about this when I was younger and was kinda sad that I never got to play it. Thanks a lot for covering this game and reminding me of it!

@nekochristmas 10 ай бұрын

This game is literally my favorite game I got it opening day I was like omggggg

@cruisinobscurae3274 10 ай бұрын

I can never click off one of these videos, always draws me in with the context and premise.

@biggie7019 10 ай бұрын

9:19 OMG, you just unlocked a part of my memory I've spent years trying to figure out! The Encarta thing was the program I used the most when visiting my aunt, and I remember how scary and uncanny it was, specially bcuz of just how alone I was in those worlds, and I always expected something to jump at me, but it never did.

@user-cp9id1mj8b 10 ай бұрын

Great video as always

@arkjag2991 10 ай бұрын

Great video as always mate 👍

@svenbtb 10 ай бұрын

This is genuinely a cool idea for a game, I would really love to se a more modern take on this with all of the features you described. Not necessarily live service, I'd rather new areas/animals get added in as their own stand-alone expansions. But everything else, online sharing, editing photos, and just having an open world to explore and take photos of things you find sounds really fun. I mean, my partner and I already joke that filling out the compendium is the main goal of BotW and TotK lol.

@alfsleftnut9224 10 ай бұрын

yup this game NEEDS a sequal

@Laundry_Hamper 10 ай бұрын

That Tsetse camera is a Minolta, possibly a Maxxum STsi/Dynax 404si. All the Sony cameras in the game are also Minoltas - they bought Minolta in order to get into camera manufacturing, and all the first Sony A-mount models were designs Minolta had been working on before the sale. Minolta made the first SLR with in-body autofocus, the first digital camera with sensor-shift stabilisation (all Sony SteadyShot implementations are descendants of this) and they had a good few lens-based firsts too. And Saul Bass designed their logo!

@Koidoo 10 ай бұрын

Great vid dude keep it up❤

@joestevens5608 10 ай бұрын

has to be the most eloquent creator on KZfaq, 10/10 content yet again sir

@Rayyy_a 10 ай бұрын

Please keeep going with these videos. Your niche is crazy

@bertvanbeterbed9702 9 ай бұрын

This reminds me of a game I played way back, which I had to look up and am glad I found pretty quickly. "National Geographic Sea Monsters" where it had you play as some prehistoric sea creatures. This game was as goofy as they get and very flawed on so many levels, but I still remember having a blast playing it because you got to play as all these unique creatures and actually learn about them somewhat. It even had you unlock new creatures with defferent "abilities", like one was very fast and could jump across the water and the last one you unlocked could even walk on land for a bit. I loved when games where just weird like that.

@samgreenway2905 10 ай бұрын

Remember always wanting to play this, thanks for the video to see it

@killer1one1 10 ай бұрын

You're doing the Lord's work! Thanks for all your work over the years

@coopersavva2689 10 ай бұрын

Would love for you to tackle the Man vs Wild game! This reminds me of the level design and being a weird Nat Geo game - it will be your toughest challenge yet!

@scottkelley7356 10 ай бұрын

Miss minimme probably loves the art theory talk. Got my heart pumping

@hemangchauhan2864 10 ай бұрын

Seeing Encarta footage felt like my soul left my body and travelled to early 2000s. The feel, UI, all that was so unique to this day. Wikipedia could never.

@squirtle88 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video, I had no idea this game existed, and now I wish there were a modern sequel!

@felixworks 8 ай бұрын

I remember wanting to play this game even after learning it was about photography, but I lost track of it before it released and never did. But it's kind of astonishing to learn how similar the game theHunter: Call of the Wild is to Africa. The plodding pace. The devotion to realism that causes game mechanics to be opaque and/or clunky. But also the unique and rewarding progression of understanding new techniques and unlocking new gear that genuinely expands your horizon. What's funny is that the hunting game has a camera feature too. So if you really wanted to, you could probably ignore missions in favor of just taking photos of animals, basically recreating Africa in another game.

@ageoflove1980 9 ай бұрын

This actually sounds kind of fun? A nice wholesome experience to shoot with your camera instead of a hunting rifle. And nice touches to be able to upgrade your camera and those National Geographic covers with your pics is a fun detail. Not really the sort of game to pull an intense all-nighter with, but more something to enjoy with the kids for an hour or 2? Plus it looks pretty good for that time.

@SidGolan 10 ай бұрын

If released today as a safari simulator with latest graphics this would bang. Having been to the Masai Mara on a safari I would play this game 100%

@iLikeTheUDK 10 ай бұрын

That E3 presentation sounds like a meme goldmine from the bits of footage you showed alone

@TPD 10 ай бұрын

this game looks like something i'd really enjoy on a night where i cant sleep (if it was being read from SSD)

@OGTalon 10 ай бұрын

It's funny, I had the dynamic theme on my PS3 but never thought about the game past that initial presser back in the day. I would have totally been into this type of game, but glad to see I didn't really miss out on much!

@odegarage 10 ай бұрын

Cool! Very infomative and interesting video.

@kawii9793 10 ай бұрын

I feel like the mid to late 2000s offered this perfect balance of development cost, uncertainty and risk tolerance. Games were cheap enough to produce but brought money enough to be a serious topic everyone wants a piece of and also unknown enough to take a risk (which wasn't too expensive) This Game is a great representation of that and I enjoyed hearing about it!

@Electroporcupine 10 ай бұрын

I remember hearing about this and just assumed it never came out

@jordanyanes 10 ай бұрын

Ohh I was waiting for this one!

@dawnlumiere8085 8 ай бұрын

I'm curious of what you'll think about games like Endless Ocean or Beyond Blue. Loved the video!

@diix000 10 ай бұрын

Amazing, feel like this is the ultimate dad game

@nickabbott319 10 ай бұрын

Like Microsoft Flight Simulator

@diix000 10 ай бұрын

@@nickabbott319 exactly

@MrHAZZA821 10 ай бұрын

Oh man I remember getting on the school computers during the 2000s to explore random historical locations on the encyclopedia

@budaroddy 10 ай бұрын

There is a game that reminds me this, Everblue, I believe I suggested you the one on Wii back in your streams, those are great RPG, the one for Dreamcast and PS2 and great for unwind on a night , trust me