Now that the 3DS is flying off shelves in Japan, where it recently became the fastest console to reach five million sales, it looks like we're going to see some stranger ideas making their way to the machine.
Top of that list? Sega's bizarre and frankly disturbing 1999 Dreamcast virtual pet game, Seaman. In the original, players used a microphone to raise, nurture and befriend a fish with a grumpy (and nightmare-inducing) human face. Seaman started as an egg and could be evolved into a frog. Just to make it even more surreal, the game was narrated by Leonard Nimoy, best known as Spock in Star Trek, when it was released in the west.
It's unclear whether the new version will be a straight remake, or an all-new game based on the same pant-wetting concept. With the addition of a touchscreen, the possibilities are both endless and horrifying.
Japanese news source Nikkei reports that the move is part of an initiative by Nintendo to identify and revive popular old games from other publishers that would work well on the 3DS.
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