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How did you get into snatcher
Hey everyone, I'm just curious about how you all got into snatcher, esspecially ma main man Artemio
And how did it inspire you guys, and did it touch you guys in any way like me, like no other game has so far?


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Hehehe Ever since I read the story of Snatcher2047 I've wanted to write mine.. But have not found the time and I always felt it was not as good, neither that I could put it in better words....
But I was simply reading EGM at college, my first semester and it was a calculus class. I had just finished Lunar The Silver Star for my Sega CD, and was looking forward to new releases for my machine. Everyone of my friends owned a SNES, and they were looking forward to MKII (and so was I for my trusty Genesis). Then, I simply came across the review of the game and I was completely blown away.
Days went by, and I watched Blade Runner with one of my friends that december. Unfortunately, it was a bad time for the country, and there was a huge devaluation. Prices went up, specially imports and it was precisely at the time Snatcher was released. I went and asked the price for the game, and it was 4 times the price in pesos that I used to pay for my games... completely impossible to buy for a student.
Months went by, and april came. A dear friend of mine was able to get the game and told me it was great. For the recoird, he is now the editor of the local video game Magazine and TV program about videogames, the one I went to interview Kojima with). I was doing a small coding job as a freelancer, and happened to have some money. I went to a local mall that sells a lot of imported stuff, and happended to find a used copy of the game that was in good shape and I could afford.
I bought it.
Anotehr friend of mine was with me at the time, and we went by subway home.. I couldn't wait. Upon arrival, I took my parent's TV set and the living room's stereo upstairs, to my room. I set everything up, inserted the game and let the intro run at full volume.
It is obvious that I was completely blown away by the quality of the game.. the cinema-like intro, the music... then the characters and story. It had everything I always wished for (and the kind of details I always put in my "games" for the programmable calculators I owned). Simply amazing.
Since then I have been a devoted fan of the game and the impression it made on me... for all the detail and quality put into it.
That is the game that is scanned at Junker HQ to date.. have never departed with it.
But I was simply reading EGM at college, my first semester and it was a calculus class. I had just finished Lunar The Silver Star for my Sega CD, and was looking forward to new releases for my machine. Everyone of my friends owned a SNES, and they were looking forward to MKII (and so was I for my trusty Genesis). Then, I simply came across the review of the game and I was completely blown away.
Days went by, and I watched Blade Runner with one of my friends that december. Unfortunately, it was a bad time for the country, and there was a huge devaluation. Prices went up, specially imports and it was precisely at the time Snatcher was released. I went and asked the price for the game, and it was 4 times the price in pesos that I used to pay for my games... completely impossible to buy for a student.
Months went by, and april came. A dear friend of mine was able to get the game and told me it was great. For the recoird, he is now the editor of the local video game Magazine and TV program about videogames, the one I went to interview Kojima with). I was doing a small coding job as a freelancer, and happened to have some money. I went to a local mall that sells a lot of imported stuff, and happended to find a used copy of the game that was in good shape and I could afford.
I bought it.
Anotehr friend of mine was with me at the time, and we went by subway home.. I couldn't wait. Upon arrival, I took my parent's TV set and the living room's stereo upstairs, to my room. I set everything up, inserted the game and let the intro run at full volume.
It is obvious that I was completely blown away by the quality of the game.. the cinema-like intro, the music... then the characters and story. It had everything I always wished for (and the kind of details I always put in my "games" for the programmable calculators I owned). Simply amazing.
Since then I have been a devoted fan of the game and the impression it made on me... for all the detail and quality put into it.
That is the game that is scanned at Junker HQ to date.. have never departed with it.
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I used to have a thing on my site that covered this. Here's the text. I think I wrote this in either 1998 or 1999. I also kind of dramatized it a little, but hey... I think it helps.
SNATCHER. What a game. There really has never been a game that has entranced me as much as this game has. Sure, I'm a big SONIC The Hedgehog fan, and I almost died the first time I played SONIC Adventure from pure amazement; but somehow, SNATCHER has always been in my subconscious as #1, and I don't think that will EVER change.
ACT 1:
FIRST
I woke up one Saturday morning. It was a Saturday like any other day. I was happy to have a day off from a long week of high school, and I was looking forward to the old tradition of watching Saturday morning cartoons(hey, old habits die hard).
Before I settled down, I decided to check on my older brother for some reason I can't fully remember. When I got to his room, I noticed something different. On the floor, near his TV, was a SEGA Genesis with a SEGA CD attachment. He didn't have this last I checked. That's not what really got me, though. What got me was that I already had a SEGA Genesis/CD. I found out later that a friend had sold the systems to my brother, dirt cheap.
Me being the curious person I am, I browsed through some of the games he had gained with the systems. John Madden Football, always a favorite between my brother and I; Bart's Nightmare, I've seen better, but it's still fun... And then, my eyes fixed on the SEGA CD game entitled SNATCHER. The name didn't ring a bell, but the images on the back reminded me of a videogame magazine ad that I had seen. Eventually, I was able to borrow a few of the games for a while. After trying out a few, I finally popped SNATCHER into the CD tray and hit POWER. The basic SEGA CD logo and SEGA with SONIC to the left. Nothing new. The now classic Konami Logo sequence went by. I had forgot to check who made it before, and I thought "Konami makes it? It ought to be half-decent then." When the title screen popped up, I almost jumped from the sound effect played with it. Calmed down, I hit start and went through all the basic options stuff, and started the game. That's when I got hooked...
Immediately, the opening sequence grabbed me with the instantly intense music. Then the deep voice hit. "June 6, 1996..." As I followed the story unfolding, I was hanging on every word. This was some intense stuff! And the graphics were incredible(for SEGA CD at the time). As I continued on with the actual game, I was intrigued by the use of actual voice actors to further enhance the storyline. Then came the first assignment.
When Gillian is called to the old warehouse to check on fellow JUNKER/RUNNER Jean-Jack Gibson, I could tell something bad was going to happen with how the atmosphere was. I did the basic use all the options possible for about two minutes; when IT happened. The scream that would give me many a sleepless night. I swear, I must have jumped two feet out of my chair when I heard it! And when I saw what had happened to poor Gibson, I knew this game wasn't messing around.
And that basically sums up my first experience with SNATCHER. As days and weeks went by, I couldn't deny that SNATCHER had had an effect on me, whether I liked it or not. I'll admit, SNATCHER really freaked me out for a while after I played it; and strangely enough, that made me like it even more! My time for the first time I beat SNATCHER was around 13:30(13 hours, 30 minutes), which is pretty bad considering I can beat it under 6 hours now(but then again, I know everything to do now).
ACT 2:
CATOSTROPHE
I had just returned home with my best friend(who was visiting). I was telling him about SNATCHER for a while now, and he really wanted to try it. Unfortunately, he would have to wait for a long time. I went up into my room and was getting ready to pop in the SNATCHER disc. But there was one problem. The SNATCHER case and disc were gone!!!! I didn't panic, because I figured my brother must have taken it back for a while. But when I asked him about it, my worst fears came true. He had sold the game along with his SEGA systems in order to have enough money to buy a computer(which died a few months later, by the way). I was so furious. What made it worse was that I couldn't find the game ANYWHERE whatsoever(and this was before the internet was really mainstream, so I couldn't order it online).
Even two years after that occured, I wasn't really able to shake the effect that SNATCHER had on me and how I viewed videogames from there on out. I had to get it again... somehow.
ACT 3:
CURE
I was on one of my SNATCHER kicks(as I like to call them) and I was looking up all the websites I could find(Sanctuary, Experience, etc.), hoping to find a place I could order it from. But no luck. Then, as if like a bullet, an old memory popped into my head. There was a audio/video store called AUDIO/VIDEO JUNCTION not far from where I lived which sold videogames. And I had remembered seeing a copy of SNATCHER there once! How could I not remember this?!?! But this was nearly three years ago, what were the chances of it being there?
I didn't chance it, and I headed over as soon as I could. When I went through the door of the store, I immediately headed towards the videogame section. Without looking at anything else, my eyes went right for the SEGA CD section. Some boxing game, Batman Returns, a college football game... SNATCHER!!!!! I couldn't believe it! It was still here after all this time! I checked the price of SEGA CD games(all the games were used by the way) and I saw that SEGA CD games were $5.00 (that's not a typo, I actually got a good copy of SNATCHER for five dollars). The game actually had it's original price tag still on it. It read $49.99. What a bargain, huh? After buying the game, all that kept popping into my head was how incredibly lucky I was.
The first chance I got, I played the game, and my catastrophe was finally over. The game still played like a book you couldn't put down. And all the characters and music were as loveable and intriguing as ever. Dare I say, yet again... What a game.
SNATCHER. What a game. There really has never been a game that has entranced me as much as this game has. Sure, I'm a big SONIC The Hedgehog fan, and I almost died the first time I played SONIC Adventure from pure amazement; but somehow, SNATCHER has always been in my subconscious as #1, and I don't think that will EVER change.
ACT 1:
FIRST
I woke up one Saturday morning. It was a Saturday like any other day. I was happy to have a day off from a long week of high school, and I was looking forward to the old tradition of watching Saturday morning cartoons(hey, old habits die hard).
Before I settled down, I decided to check on my older brother for some reason I can't fully remember. When I got to his room, I noticed something different. On the floor, near his TV, was a SEGA Genesis with a SEGA CD attachment. He didn't have this last I checked. That's not what really got me, though. What got me was that I already had a SEGA Genesis/CD. I found out later that a friend had sold the systems to my brother, dirt cheap.
Me being the curious person I am, I browsed through some of the games he had gained with the systems. John Madden Football, always a favorite between my brother and I; Bart's Nightmare, I've seen better, but it's still fun... And then, my eyes fixed on the SEGA CD game entitled SNATCHER. The name didn't ring a bell, but the images on the back reminded me of a videogame magazine ad that I had seen. Eventually, I was able to borrow a few of the games for a while. After trying out a few, I finally popped SNATCHER into the CD tray and hit POWER. The basic SEGA CD logo and SEGA with SONIC to the left. Nothing new. The now classic Konami Logo sequence went by. I had forgot to check who made it before, and I thought "Konami makes it? It ought to be half-decent then." When the title screen popped up, I almost jumped from the sound effect played with it. Calmed down, I hit start and went through all the basic options stuff, and started the game. That's when I got hooked...
Immediately, the opening sequence grabbed me with the instantly intense music. Then the deep voice hit. "June 6, 1996..." As I followed the story unfolding, I was hanging on every word. This was some intense stuff! And the graphics were incredible(for SEGA CD at the time). As I continued on with the actual game, I was intrigued by the use of actual voice actors to further enhance the storyline. Then came the first assignment.
When Gillian is called to the old warehouse to check on fellow JUNKER/RUNNER Jean-Jack Gibson, I could tell something bad was going to happen with how the atmosphere was. I did the basic use all the options possible for about two minutes; when IT happened. The scream that would give me many a sleepless night. I swear, I must have jumped two feet out of my chair when I heard it! And when I saw what had happened to poor Gibson, I knew this game wasn't messing around.
And that basically sums up my first experience with SNATCHER. As days and weeks went by, I couldn't deny that SNATCHER had had an effect on me, whether I liked it or not. I'll admit, SNATCHER really freaked me out for a while after I played it; and strangely enough, that made me like it even more! My time for the first time I beat SNATCHER was around 13:30(13 hours, 30 minutes), which is pretty bad considering I can beat it under 6 hours now(but then again, I know everything to do now).
ACT 2:
CATOSTROPHE
I had just returned home with my best friend(who was visiting). I was telling him about SNATCHER for a while now, and he really wanted to try it. Unfortunately, he would have to wait for a long time. I went up into my room and was getting ready to pop in the SNATCHER disc. But there was one problem. The SNATCHER case and disc were gone!!!! I didn't panic, because I figured my brother must have taken it back for a while. But when I asked him about it, my worst fears came true. He had sold the game along with his SEGA systems in order to have enough money to buy a computer(which died a few months later, by the way). I was so furious. What made it worse was that I couldn't find the game ANYWHERE whatsoever(and this was before the internet was really mainstream, so I couldn't order it online).
Even two years after that occured, I wasn't really able to shake the effect that SNATCHER had on me and how I viewed videogames from there on out. I had to get it again... somehow.
ACT 3:
CURE
I was on one of my SNATCHER kicks(as I like to call them) and I was looking up all the websites I could find(Sanctuary, Experience, etc.), hoping to find a place I could order it from. But no luck. Then, as if like a bullet, an old memory popped into my head. There was a audio/video store called AUDIO/VIDEO JUNCTION not far from where I lived which sold videogames. And I had remembered seeing a copy of SNATCHER there once! How could I not remember this?!?! But this was nearly three years ago, what were the chances of it being there?
I didn't chance it, and I headed over as soon as I could. When I went through the door of the store, I immediately headed towards the videogame section. Without looking at anything else, my eyes went right for the SEGA CD section. Some boxing game, Batman Returns, a college football game... SNATCHER!!!!! I couldn't believe it! It was still here after all this time! I checked the price of SEGA CD games(all the games were used by the way) and I saw that SEGA CD games were $5.00 (that's not a typo, I actually got a good copy of SNATCHER for five dollars). The game actually had it's original price tag still on it. It read $49.99. What a bargain, huh? After buying the game, all that kept popping into my head was how incredibly lucky I was.
The first chance I got, I played the game, and my catastrophe was finally over. The game still played like a book you couldn't put down. And all the characters and music were as loveable and intriguing as ever. Dare I say, yet again... What a game.
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It all started with DBZ, I was searching for some info when I came across info about "DBZ : Legend of the Super Sayign" and a rom and emulator to download, when I heartly played it for days. Upon my return to the internet, I searched for more roms for other systems, when I came across SNATCHER for the MSX2, translated into portugeuse, by who else than Daniel
. Well, I got this guy I knew to help me translate most of it, and I beat it to the part with Napoleon, but the rom was lost in the Hard Drive crash of '99. Fast Forward to 2002, (after years of emualtion and downloading tons of other roms for many systems) when I discover a site called "The Underdogs" which contains info about a Sega CD version of Snatcher, which I immediatly downloaded (on 56k, which took all night to download
but was worth every second) I sat down and played it 15 hours straight, until I finnaly beat it. Then I found Artemio's site and learned about Policenauts and etc, then purchased a copy of Policenauts and Snatcher both on the Playstation, although I had (and still must) revert to emulation to play them, since I cannot afford a japanese PS2 at the moment. And here I am now, after playing every version of Snatcher, with the help of Emulation 
It all started with DBZ, I was searching for some info when I came across info about "DBZ : Legend of the Super Sayign" and a rom and emulator to download, when I heartly played it for days. Upon my return to the internet, I searched for more roms for other systems, when I came across SNATCHER for the MSX2, translated into portugeuse, by who else than Daniel




Well being an MSX-freak in the eighties and early nineties it was quite inevitable to get in touch with Snatcher. Every Konami title for MSX was almost a must have (perhaps with the exception of Green Beret, Shalom and Gryzor). I must admit I played SD-Snatcher long before I played the original Snatcher. A japanese text/screen adventure isn't that much fun if you don't understand the language, while an action-RPG is perfectly playable without having a clue
I played tons of RPG's in Japanese back in those days, Ancient Ys Book 1+2, Xak, SD-Snatcher, Illusion City, Final Fantasy...just to name a few. SD-Snatcher really stood out coz it was the first succesfull cyberpunk RPG and the music was just astonishing. I know there are amateur English versions of SD-Snatcher available but I never played those, I guess since I know the story already it's not really that necessary anymore anyway

I played tons of RPG's in Japanese back in those days, Ancient Ys Book 1+2, Xak, SD-Snatcher, Illusion City, Final Fantasy...just to name a few. SD-Snatcher really stood out coz it was the first succesfull cyberpunk RPG and the music was just astonishing. I know there are amateur English versions of SD-Snatcher available but I never played those, I guess since I know the story already it's not really that necessary anymore anyway

Hi, my 1st post but hopefully not the last one.
As a teenager I was living in Madrid, where you could barely find any semi-decent Mega Cd material. I think the year was 1996 or 1997 when I happened to find a copy of Snatcher at a cheap second hand videogames shop, I had only read about the game about twice in the past from magazines but was not really sure it had ever been released in Spain. I played it briefly but by the time I wasnt too interested about it and that was so far my first contact with the world of Snatcher. Many years later I would realize that the copy I obtained was one of the extremely limited shipment of PAL Snatcher cds that had reached Spain.
Move forward to 2003, thanks to the internet I somehow regained my interest on the Snatcher world and on starting the game again. I did, and I was completely absorbed by every single aspect in the game, from the magnificent music to the sublime atmosphere, nonetheless inspired by the movie that had caught all my senses many years before, Blade Runner. I dont know what was different by this time, but perhaps now that I was a grown-up, I could see the story from another point of view, and I didnt mind its beautiful but static graphics at all, and finally found out what Snatcher was all about. Since then, I have come to the conclusion, as most of you indeed did, that Snatcher is not a game, but a whole experience.
Hail goes to the king, hail to Snatcher.
As a teenager I was living in Madrid, where you could barely find any semi-decent Mega Cd material. I think the year was 1996 or 1997 when I happened to find a copy of Snatcher at a cheap second hand videogames shop, I had only read about the game about twice in the past from magazines but was not really sure it had ever been released in Spain. I played it briefly but by the time I wasnt too interested about it and that was so far my first contact with the world of Snatcher. Many years later I would realize that the copy I obtained was one of the extremely limited shipment of PAL Snatcher cds that had reached Spain.
Move forward to 2003, thanks to the internet I somehow regained my interest on the Snatcher world and on starting the game again. I did, and I was completely absorbed by every single aspect in the game, from the magnificent music to the sublime atmosphere, nonetheless inspired by the movie that had caught all my senses many years before, Blade Runner. I dont know what was different by this time, but perhaps now that I was a grown-up, I could see the story from another point of view, and I didnt mind its beautiful but static graphics at all, and finally found out what Snatcher was all about. Since then, I have come to the conclusion, as most of you indeed did, that Snatcher is not a game, but a whole experience.
Hail goes to the king, hail to Snatcher.
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Welcome Mod2k2, interesting story you have. I take that you speak Spanish as well. so do I.
I hope you find the forums interesting, and that you help us in making tehm a great place that grows.
Take care and welcome.
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Take care and welcome.
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Actually, I discovered Snatcher just a little bit ago (compared to some of you, who began playing it about 5 years or more ago) when I went on a sort of Metal Gear binge (aided much in part to the fact that I had purchased MGS2), I scoured the web, looking for fansites of any kind, and one of them (metalgearcollector.com, I believe), led me to JunkerHQ. After researching what type of game Snatcher was, I scoured the web for a Sega CD ROM I could use--and found one. Been hooked since. Kind of a boring story, when compared to you guys', actually. :]
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I suppose my acquisition of Snatcher started off courtesy of Electronic Gaming Monthly. I actually never heard a single thing about Snatcher save for an advertisement or two, but I (being young and easily amused) was incredibly attracted to videogames and the like, much like badgers are attracted to shiny objects. I had a Genesis that my parents bought for me, and to my young eyes the Sega CD represented sort of an Ultimate Shiny Object. I mean, look at all the larger-than-life games on it! Dragons Lair! Space Ace! Mad Dog McCree! All mine for a paltry $350.
As you may have guessed, I never got a Sega CD.
Cut to two years ago. Life is different now, I'm in college. At my college, I have a job, one of the side effects of which is that I also have money. So I head down to my local game store, and what do I see, but a Model 1 Sega CD unit , just ASKING to be plugged into my Model 1 Genesis. And it's $30, US. Yoink.
So I take my shiny new (actually, old and used, but I don't care) system home, and realize that that store didn't actually have any games for sale other than Lethal Enforcers, so I have a system without ammo. To the internet! A bit of searching told me that the Sega CD could play CDR backups without modification, so that wasn't any trouble, so I asked a friend (henceforth referred to as 'The Canadian') what was good on the Sega CD. His answer? "Snatcher's probably the best thing on there."
Back to the internet. More research. Cyberpunk RPG, blah blah, oh look...supports the light gun I like gun games. Back to the game store a week later, bought Lethal Enforcers with the Konami gun. Awww yeah.
So I get Snatcher of some poor soul hosting Sega CD images on IRC since the game has since become impossible to find for less than $100, and I'm off and running. The rest is much as you all have described it... despite being pretty campy in places, especially voice overs, Snatcher had a certain panache to it that kept me enthralled in the game world. And oh, the light gun.
Let's talk about the light gun.
I don't think any game since Snatcher has used a periphiral to quite the same effect. They give you gun scenes up front, like in the Junker training room, so I go in assuming that I'll be spending lots of time blasting stuff. Sure enough, lots of insectors in the second scene, and boy, that scream made me jump... wasn't expecting that. But then, I don't use the gun again for another TWO HOURS... and by the time I need to shoot someone, I look down, and I have the gun lying on the ground, about two feet from my chair. Anyone who's played through the game can probably figure out which part I'm talking about, involving a door opening to reveal gun-toting youth. Realizing my predicament, I DIVE OUT OF MY FREAKING CHAIR, grab the gun, pop the safety, and start shooting frantically at the screen while still trying to get up from diving. No game before or since has gotten me to do that. I have immense respect for whoever decided to make Snatcher comaptible with a gun. Snatcher's a pretty fine adventure game with just a control pad, but this was the icing on the cake that made me fall in love with this game.
And that's pretty much where I come from with this game. I'm really glad to have found a community that enjoys it as much as I do!
As you may have guessed, I never got a Sega CD.
Cut to two years ago. Life is different now, I'm in college. At my college, I have a job, one of the side effects of which is that I also have money. So I head down to my local game store, and what do I see, but a Model 1 Sega CD unit , just ASKING to be plugged into my Model 1 Genesis. And it's $30, US. Yoink.
So I take my shiny new (actually, old and used, but I don't care) system home, and realize that that store didn't actually have any games for sale other than Lethal Enforcers, so I have a system without ammo. To the internet! A bit of searching told me that the Sega CD could play CDR backups without modification, so that wasn't any trouble, so I asked a friend (henceforth referred to as 'The Canadian') what was good on the Sega CD. His answer? "Snatcher's probably the best thing on there."
Back to the internet. More research. Cyberpunk RPG, blah blah, oh look...supports the light gun I like gun games. Back to the game store a week later, bought Lethal Enforcers with the Konami gun. Awww yeah.
So I get Snatcher of some poor soul hosting Sega CD images on IRC since the game has since become impossible to find for less than $100, and I'm off and running. The rest is much as you all have described it... despite being pretty campy in places, especially voice overs, Snatcher had a certain panache to it that kept me enthralled in the game world. And oh, the light gun.
Let's talk about the light gun.
I don't think any game since Snatcher has used a periphiral to quite the same effect. They give you gun scenes up front, like in the Junker training room, so I go in assuming that I'll be spending lots of time blasting stuff. Sure enough, lots of insectors in the second scene, and boy, that scream made me jump... wasn't expecting that. But then, I don't use the gun again for another TWO HOURS... and by the time I need to shoot someone, I look down, and I have the gun lying on the ground, about two feet from my chair. Anyone who's played through the game can probably figure out which part I'm talking about, involving a door opening to reveal gun-toting youth. Realizing my predicament, I DIVE OUT OF MY FREAKING CHAIR, grab the gun, pop the safety, and start shooting frantically at the screen while still trying to get up from diving. No game before or since has gotten me to do that. I have immense respect for whoever decided to make Snatcher comaptible with a gun. Snatcher's a pretty fine adventure game with just a control pad, but this was the icing on the cake that made me fall in love with this game.
And that's pretty much where I come from with this game. I'm really glad to have found a community that enjoys it as much as I do!
I discovered Snatcher when a friend borrowed it from another friend of ours (it was previously gathering dust in his closet!). I was over at his house when he was playing it (I lent him my Sega CD), and the rest is history. I subsequently borrowed it from him, holding on to it as long as I could. I was hoping our friend would forget that I had it, but alas no. So a few years later, I ended up paying 100 bucks for it on ebay. Grrr...
Then in 1999, I got Policenauts off ebay. I enjoyed it even more, even though my Japanese language ability was quite limited back then.
Then in 1999, I got Policenauts off ebay. I enjoyed it even more, even though my Japanese language ability was quite limited back then.
My snatcher experiance started years ago. My brother for some odd reason wanted a Sega-CD when we were in middle school (about 9 years ago) and lucky for us, our uncle Jeff runs some pawn shops. We got one for a good price and I loved it. I came across a copy of Lunar at a game shop here in Wilmington, and after a while the owner wanted to get rid of his Sega-CD stuff, and marked all the games down to 5 bucks. I picked up some true gems at that price too, Vay, Popful Mail, Rise of the Dragon, and most importantly, Snatcher. I fell in love with the game, and it has remained my all time favorite.
From the begining now..
Let's see..I remember it was a cold afternoon when I picked up a rather thick copy of a game magazine (Gamefan?) and I saw these amazing photos of a game called "Snatcher". Browsing through I started that day to find this amazing mysterious game someway somehow. Traveling from each side of town that happened to carry games I franticly asked "Do you have Snatcher?" and the response that I gotten was they thought I was on something or forgot my medication that day.
Then about a month after I've almost given up hope of finding it, by some miracle I tracked down the game. One copy left..I needed transportation and I needed it quick! At that age I couldnt drive, so I pleaded my old friend's mother to drive me..to an airport! Yes the only copy of Snatcher was found in a airport in Pittsburgh. My friend and I managed to survive the grueling hour drive to this place. Alright so and hour seemed like eternity back then..but we made it through some major rain that was coming down upon a massive station-wagon. I didnt stop for a second as soon as that door was open. Running and looking about like a wild-child for this game. And then my money went out of my hand, a hard earned 40 dollars. It was finally mine! We got back home safely and I spared no time popping it in, from the begining it came on the screen and the music sent shivers down my back. This was the equal to finding the Holy Grail in my eyes. And the rest as they say, is history.
Then about a month after I've almost given up hope of finding it, by some miracle I tracked down the game. One copy left..I needed transportation and I needed it quick! At that age I couldnt drive, so I pleaded my old friend's mother to drive me..to an airport! Yes the only copy of Snatcher was found in a airport in Pittsburgh. My friend and I managed to survive the grueling hour drive to this place. Alright so and hour seemed like eternity back then..but we made it through some major rain that was coming down upon a massive station-wagon. I didnt stop for a second as soon as that door was open. Running and looking about like a wild-child for this game. And then my money went out of my hand, a hard earned 40 dollars. It was finally mine! We got back home safely and I spared no time popping it in, from the begining it came on the screen and the music sent shivers down my back. This was the equal to finding the Holy Grail in my eyes. And the rest as they say, is history.

Let's see... I guess it was at least five years ago when I first read of Snatcher somewhere on the net. I'm not quite sure where. Possibly through some Metal Gear site. Anyway, following that I spent many hours reading about the game, hoping I could play it. I especially fondly remember Snatcher Sanctuary (RIP) with the wonderful red coloured theme, particularly the one picture that had Gillian pointing his gun forward and several memorable lines from Snatcher superimposed on that.
Anyway, around three years ago I got a new computer and the emulation had advanced sufficiently. Now I just had to get the game. I downloaded it through a 56kbps modem from Elportal. Happened to be that was the infamous version where the game froze at the turbocycle ride back from the factory due to grossly incorrect track lengths. I found help via SegaXtreme (and as a side note, I had plenty of fun chatting at their DirectConnect hub while downloading several other Sega CD games), downloaded some mp3 editing software to correct the tracks and finally got the game running. I haven't removed it from my hard drive since.
Anyway, around three years ago I got a new computer and the emulation had advanced sufficiently. Now I just had to get the game. I downloaded it through a 56kbps modem from Elportal. Happened to be that was the infamous version where the game froze at the turbocycle ride back from the factory due to grossly incorrect track lengths. I found help via SegaXtreme (and as a side note, I had plenty of fun chatting at their DirectConnect hub while downloading several other Sega CD games), downloaded some mp3 editing software to correct the tracks and finally got the game running. I haven't removed it from my hard drive since.
Im on the fourms there. I dont think we have that DC hub anymore. Oh, I am one of the FTP owners there and my friend uploaded Snatcher and I started to play it on Gens and I loved it. Now I am looking for the Saturn Snatcher ISO. If you have it, PM me please. Name on the forum there is Link343.Crowley wrote:
I found help via SegaXtreme (and as a side note, I had plenty of fun chatting at their DirectConnect hub while downloading several other Sega CD games)
Not as great as some others here, I was searching for somewhere to get MGS2 kubricks, came across Shadowmoses, and from here followed the link to Junker where i read about it, and searched the web for more info. During the summer, i finally was able to play the sega cd version which was great, though hours and hours on one of the final battles in act three almost had me in tears at parts
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Here I am, bringing this topic back from the dead...
I only discovered Snatcher very recently...November of '04. During that time, nostalgia had struck me and I was on a Sega CD game kick. I found this site that had a whole bunch of SCD ISO/MP3s for download. I downloaded Popful Mail and a few others, and near the bottom of the Sega CD page there was a little game called Snatcher. It only gave a vague description: "A game created by the legendary Hideo Kojima (Creator of MGS), this
game has an outstanding storyline, graphics, gameplay, clearly, one of the BEST games EVER created! You MUST try it!" and an equally vague screenshot:

So, I was in a jolly mood, and still hungry for Sega CD games, so I downloaded it. I use a Mac, and sadly, there aren't any SCD emulators for the Mac yet. Luckily for me, I had a Genesis 2 with a Sega CD 2 (it had a 32X too, but it broke) sitting in the basement. I burn the thing to a CD-R, and go down to play it. Dear god, was I blown away. The graphics, the music, the story- I had never seen anything like it. It really got to me...I was afraid to play it at night because I would keep checking behind my back to see if a snatcher was sneaking up on me. When a game running on a near 15-year old system, with 112 onscreen colors and a processor that runs about 28mhz manages to scare you even after you've turned it off, that's the mark of something great. I played through it in 7 hours...now I've gotten it down to a quarter under 5. But with that copy I noticed that all of the audio being read off of the CD tracks (the voice clips that have CD music playing under them) were out of sync by a single second...and I couldn't stand it. So, I searched around for a better copy. Then, I played that one through...finally, I thought, a flawless copy! And I didn't have to spend $70 on eBay! After that, I was curious to play the PC-Engine version from which the SCD port was derived. I snagged it for $10 on eBay, including shipping, including stickers. I wasn't as blown away, not because I don't know any Japanese, but because it seemed a little less polished than the SCD version...everything wasn't quite up to par. It was still great though, and Snatcher remains firmly at the top spot in my favorite games list.
I only discovered Snatcher very recently...November of '04. During that time, nostalgia had struck me and I was on a Sega CD game kick. I found this site that had a whole bunch of SCD ISO/MP3s for download. I downloaded Popful Mail and a few others, and near the bottom of the Sega CD page there was a little game called Snatcher. It only gave a vague description: "A game created by the legendary Hideo Kojima (Creator of MGS), this
game has an outstanding storyline, graphics, gameplay, clearly, one of the BEST games EVER created! You MUST try it!" and an equally vague screenshot:

So, I was in a jolly mood, and still hungry for Sega CD games, so I downloaded it. I use a Mac, and sadly, there aren't any SCD emulators for the Mac yet. Luckily for me, I had a Genesis 2 with a Sega CD 2 (it had a 32X too, but it broke) sitting in the basement. I burn the thing to a CD-R, and go down to play it. Dear god, was I blown away. The graphics, the music, the story- I had never seen anything like it. It really got to me...I was afraid to play it at night because I would keep checking behind my back to see if a snatcher was sneaking up on me. When a game running on a near 15-year old system, with 112 onscreen colors and a processor that runs about 28mhz manages to scare you even after you've turned it off, that's the mark of something great. I played through it in 7 hours...now I've gotten it down to a quarter under 5. But with that copy I noticed that all of the audio being read off of the CD tracks (the voice clips that have CD music playing under them) were out of sync by a single second...and I couldn't stand it. So, I searched around for a better copy. Then, I played that one through...finally, I thought, a flawless copy! And I didn't have to spend $70 on eBay! After that, I was curious to play the PC-Engine version from which the SCD port was derived. I snagged it for $10 on eBay, including shipping, including stickers. I wasn't as blown away, not because I don't know any Japanese, but because it seemed a little less polished than the SCD version...everything wasn't quite up to par. It was still great though, and Snatcher remains firmly at the top spot in my favorite games list.
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Sorry I had to slightly edit your post to remove the reference to pirate copies. If you read the rules of the board, that is not allowed.
And just out of curiousity, what did you find not polished about the PC ENgine version? I love that version, but am not offended at all by someone not liking it, and I admit the Sega CD version has gun support and a couple more things... But I wouldn't say it is more polished than the PCE one. That's why I ask.
And just out of curiousity, what did you find not polished about the PC ENgine version? I love that version, but am not offended at all by someone not liking it, and I admit the Sega CD version has gun support and a couple more things... But I wouldn't say it is more polished than the PCE one. That's why I ask.
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Well, getting off-topic, in direct comparison to the SCD version, everything seems a notch worse. The scream outside the factory is not scary at all- it's silly and cartoonish, the game doesn't have that nifty scene in the intro, Metal's entrance is a lot less menacing, there's no lip-syncing, the ending was not made as planned, Gibson's call isn't as urgent, the music sounds like it's coming from an NES, etc...nothing huge (except for the music), but it's the little things that count, right? It's not to say that the PCE version didn't have ANY advantages over the SCD version...there's the gore, nudity, porno tape, slightly enhanced graphics, and tiny things, like when Gillian holds up the gun, it shimmers and makes a shimmering noise like it's supposed to...in the SCD version it makes a cocking sound...also, you can see Gibson's blaster on the factory floor, in the SCD version it's still there, but colored purple like the rest of the floor (this may have been due to color limitations)...whew...yeah.

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hi there.
as a kid i loved to go into arcades so my dad bought a snes for us to ply.
one day he came home with a video game mag(a german one,since i´m from austria) witch had a import test of snatcher for the sega cd inside.
it looked pretty well,it appears to had a good story and wasn´t just another kiddie game.
years passes,i grow older,and i saw the movie movie blade runner in the tv(the movie came out on my birthyear...) and i simply fall in love with that one.
know i own the limitet edition of the dvd and also got nearly an original movie roll for the cinemas...damn ebay lag....
so,i came to thing that theres a game out there that is just like the movie.......
i have searched nearly a year to find a good copy of the sega cd version...bought it...then bought the genesis with the cdrom
that was about 3 years ago...
i also bought policenauts le for the saturn that time,but havent chipped it yet so that i could play it....
sorry for the bad english....
as a kid i loved to go into arcades so my dad bought a snes for us to ply.
one day he came home with a video game mag(a german one,since i´m from austria) witch had a import test of snatcher for the sega cd inside.
it looked pretty well,it appears to had a good story and wasn´t just another kiddie game.
years passes,i grow older,and i saw the movie movie blade runner in the tv(the movie came out on my birthyear...) and i simply fall in love with that one.
know i own the limitet edition of the dvd and also got nearly an original movie roll for the cinemas...damn ebay lag....
so,i came to thing that theres a game out there that is just like the movie.......
i have searched nearly a year to find a good copy of the sega cd version...bought it...then bought the genesis with the cdrom

i also bought policenauts le for the saturn that time,but havent chipped it yet so that i could play it....
sorry for the bad english....
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I literally only discovered Snatcher like 3 weeks ago. I remember playing it when my dad and I owned a Sega CD system and Snatcher (and alot of other games - Flashback was one of them) when I was like 4... He'd do all the detective work and when a shooting sequence came on, he'd put the gun in my hand and away I went... Self-admittedly, I was a pretty good shot when I was four.
Sadly one day, dad lent it to one of his mates... and I never saw it again.
Then I was searching an emulation site (most likely the one 8bitsonic searched) and downloaded it. Only then was I pissed because, like 8bitsonic, I also use a Mac, and there are no SCD emulators currently out for the damn thing. I burnt it to a CD and then took it over to my friends place who was also curious about the game. We downloaded Gens and played it all night. 9.PM till 8.AM... We wouldn't have made it through the night had it not been for the Diet Coke cube I'd brought over...
Not an exciting story, but I have no homework currently, so here we are. :eek:
Sadly one day, dad lent it to one of his mates... and I never saw it again.





Then I was searching an emulation site (most likely the one 8bitsonic searched) and downloaded it. Only then was I pissed because, like 8bitsonic, I also use a Mac, and there are no SCD emulators currently out for the damn thing. I burnt it to a CD and then took it over to my friends place who was also curious about the game. We downloaded Gens and played it all night. 9.PM till 8.AM... We wouldn't have made it through the night had it not been for the Diet Coke cube I'd brought over...
Not an exciting story, but I have no homework currently, so here we are. :eek:
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