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Blue Sango (Japanese PC Game, 1997) Mar 3, 2023 1:55:57 GMT lammyvox, serpentnight, and 2 more like this

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Post by jeremias on Mar 3, 2023 1:55:57 GMT

I've known about this game for quite some time now, but decided to look into it more now. Blue Sango is a PC Adventure game that released in 1997, the story sounds cool, and has a pretty nice art style too. The story is basically about being stranded on an island of anthropomorphic animals and having to uncover the mystery of the island. It released for Windows and Mac with a Pippin Atmark version having been canceled. I've seen this game mentioned in collector's circles from time to time and seen some individuals claim to do some searching, but I've noticed that there currently isn't a single concentrated search effort, so I decided why not make this thread to try and get something going. From my understanding there hasn't been any new developments in regards to this in years, so I'm thinking that getting a group focused on searching for this and also giving it a little more recognition could help make some progress.

Anyways here are some links for you guys if you need any catching up on what this is all about:
Article I just wrote.
Archived website
Only known gameplay footage.

Also, a few years ago this guy actually posted that he had the game and asked if anyone knew anything about it, then sold it for $3 on Mercari. No copies have resurfaced since.

In terms of leads, the archived site does have a few names of people who worked on it but I tried searching and haven't been able to find any of them online.
Gyro Ltd. still exists but I had heard that someone tried contacting them and they said they don't have anything.
In 2018, someone on twitter said that Blue Sango is a childhood game of his, so recently I replied asking if he still has it and he said that it might be at his parent's house but in poor condition. So this might be a possible lead if he gets back to me and the disc works.

Last Edit: Mar 3, 2023 2:00:49 GMT by jeremias

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Blue Sango (Japanese PC Game, 1997) Mar 29, 2023 23:28:45 GMT lammyvox likes this

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Post by MediaMonster on Mar 29, 2023 23:28:45 GMT

The game recently showed up for sale, but it went for an absurd amount of money. I'm talking over a few thousand dollars:

page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/t1085454047

I think this is the first time it's shown up for sale since the Mercari listing. I messaged someone who was interested in archiving the game when the auction was still live, but I currently have no idea if they won it. When I messaged them, the starting bid was around $500.

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Blue Sango (Japanese PC Game, 1997) Mar 29, 2023 23:38:29 GMT via mobile lammyvox likes this

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Post by jeremias on Mar 29, 2023 23:38:29 GMT

Mar 29, 2023 23:28:45 GMT MediaMonster said:

The game recently showed up for sale, but it went for an absurd amount of money. I'm talking over a few thousand dollars:

page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/t1085454047

I think this is the first time it's shown up for sale since the Mercari listing. I messaged someone who was interested in archiving the game when the auction was still live, but I currently have no idea if they won it. When I messaged them, the starting bid was around $500.

Yes, I’m aware. I was speaking to someone who was bidding for it and he unfortunately lost because Buyee limits bids over 300,000 yen and they need to be approved after 24 hours, so he wasn’t able to keep bidding. Now we can only hope that whoever won it isn’t a private collector.

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Blue Sango (Japanese PC Game, 1997) Apr 1, 2023 20:37:53 GMT lammyvox and MediaMonster like this

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Post by saint on Apr 1, 2023 20:37:53 GMT

archive.org/details/bluesango_win

Blue Sango uploaded. Sorry about the bidding war but me and a friend have had this on a list waiting for it for 3 years now. The game starting at 50k yen leads me to believe the seller saw my bounty video, which is great, and because it sold for such a high price they'll be even more inclined to seek out the other 2 games (バナバナ1号 and Noah's Ark). I actually had a nefarious idea a while back of having someone in Japan make a fake listing of a game, and then 2 people who are in on it have a fake bidding war, so that way when it's over people will see "oh shit this isn't just a basically nonexistent game and is actually worth money". Hopefully this kind of has the same effect, but idk.

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Blue Sango (Japanese PC Game, 1997) Apr 1, 2023 23:22:14 GMT

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Post by MediaMonster on Apr 1, 2023 23:22:14 GMT

Apr 1, 2023 20:37:53 GMT saint said:

archive.org/details/bluesango_win

Blue Sango uploaded. Sorry about the bidding war but me and a friend have had this on a list waiting for it for 3 years now. The game starting at 50k yen leads me to believe the seller saw my bounty video, which is great, and because it sold for such a high price they'll be even more inclined to seek out the other 2 games (バナバナ1号 and Noah's Ark). I actually had a nefarious idea a while back of having someone in Japan make a fake listing of a game, and then 2 people who are in on it have a fake bidding war, so that way when it's over people will see "oh shit this isn't just a basically nonexistent game and is actually worth money". Hopefully this kind of has the same effect, but idk.

This is incredible!! Excellent work, thank you!!

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Blue Sango (Japanese PC Game, 1997) Apr 2, 2023 0:44:35 GMT via mobile

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Post by jeremias on Apr 2, 2023 0:44:35 GMT

Apr 1, 2023 20:37:53 GMT saint said:

archive.org/details/bluesango_win

Blue Sango uploaded. Sorry about the bidding war but me and a friend have had this on a list waiting for it for 3 years now. The game starting at 50k yen leads me to believe the seller saw my bounty video, which is great, and because it sold for such a high price they'll be even more inclined to seek out the other 2 games (バナバナ1号 and Noah's Ark). I actually had a nefarious idea a while back of having someone in Japan make a fake listing of a game, and then 2 people who are in on it have a fake bidding war, so that way when it's over people will see "oh shit this isn't just a basically nonexistent game and is actually worth money". Hopefully this kind of has the same effect, but idk.

Thanks so much! I don’t know why but I kinda had a feeling you were the other person bidding for it lol. If we knew it was you then we would’ve probably backed off but we couldn’t take our chances in case it was a private collector. Sorry for driving the price up so much but it doesn’t really seem like you mind that much anyways. Also he definitely did see your bounty because in the description of the listing, he linked my video about the game, which I mention your bounty in. Anyways, thanks again!

Here’s some gameplay I uploaded: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBcvYrxOpus

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Blue Sango (Japanese PC Game, 1997) Apr 2, 2023 4:22:22 GMT

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Post by saint on Apr 2, 2023 4:22:22 GMT

Apr 2, 2023 0:48:31 GMT TenaciousNyx said:

Apr 1, 2023 20:37:53 GMT saint said:

archive.org/details/bluesango_win

Blue Sango uploaded. Sorry about the bidding war but me and a friend have had this on a list waiting for it for 3 years now. The game starting at 50k yen leads me to believe the seller saw my bounty video, which is great, and because it sold for such a high price they'll be even more inclined to seek out the other 2 games (バナバナ1号 and Noah's Ark). I actually had a nefarious idea a while back of having someone in Japan make a fake listing of a game, and then 2 people who are in on it have a fake bidding war, so that way when it's over people will see "oh shit this isn't just a basically nonexistent game and is actually worth money". Hopefully this kind of has the same effect, but idk.

Saint, you should've let us know over on the Discord server! I let Jeremias know like 4 hours after it was initially posted, and the day of the auction, we didn't want it to slip into the hands of a private collector, so I was the one bidding and it got so high. My max was going to be $3k, because we didn't want it to slip away again, but Buyee had a max bid of 300.000 yen before their approval. I feel bad that it was up so high, but I'm thankful it was dumped. MB send the the archive link at 3AM this morning, and I was thankful it didn't slip away. As per Noah's Ark, that's my main focus for a while now, and on the other thread, I posted a new game magazine article that shows more about the game, and I translated it (my Japanese is rusty). I have more in the magazines mail, that have more listings about the game, so I hope it helps.

Yeah sorry, I don't use Discord anymore, I'm only really in contact with beanstalk which is who bought the game. I think he'd be fine if someone else buys Noah's Ark when it shows up probably. I knew about the Noah's Ark thread on here but didn't see this one until very recently.

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Blue Sango (Japanese PC Game, 1997) Jun 6, 2023 2:24:14 GMT

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Post by nomad on Jun 6, 2023 2:24:14 GMT

Apr 2, 2023 4:22:22 GMT saint said:

Apr 2, 2023 0:48:31 GMT TenaciousNyx said:

Saint, you should've let us know over on the Discord server! I let Jeremias know like 4 hours after it was initially posted, and the day of the auction, we didn't want it to slip into the hands of a private collector, so I was the one bidding and it got so high. My max was going to be $3k, because we didn't want it to slip away again, but Buyee had a max bid of 300.000 yen before their approval. I feel bad that it was up so high, but I'm thankful it was dumped. MB send the the archive link at 3AM this morning, and I was thankful it didn't slip away. As per Noah's Ark, that's my main focus for a while now, and on the other thread, I posted a new game magazine article that shows more about the game, and I translated it (my Japanese is rusty). I have more in the magazines mail, that have more listings about the game, so I hope it helps.

Yeah sorry, I don't use Discord anymore, I'm only really in contact with beanstalk which is who bought the game. I think he'd be fine if someone else buys Noah's Ark when it shows up probably. I knew about the Noah's Ark thread on here but didn't see this one until very recently.

If you don't mind, can you ask beanstalk to submit all his dumps on Archive to Redump? Despite his Archive username and filled all his uploads with metadata Redump needs, he seems never submit anything on it, some of his uploads like this one are on the missing list and we want them to get properly datted.