Art Alive!

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Art Alive!

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Western Technologies, FarSight Technologies

Genre: Educational (JP box), Table (Sega of Japan master list — though it may turn out Sega combined the two, TODO)

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1992-03-27	¥3,800	G-4069
US	1991	$39.95^[1]	1703
UK	1992-03^[3]	£29.99^[2]^[3]	1703
FR	1992-03^[3]	?F	1703
DE	1992-03^[3]	DM ?	1703
ES	1992-03^[3]	?Ptas	1703
PT	1991	?PTE$	MDJ-1703-50
AU	199x	$?	?
BR	1992-05^[4]	R$?	?

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Art Alive! (アートアライブ) is a Sega Mega Drive game released in 1991. It can be seen as a Sega alternative to Nintendo's Mario Paint on the Super NES, though Art Alive! debuted before Nintendo's game.

Gameplay

With the start of the game, you are given a blank canvas, so to speak, and it's your job to fill it in. There are various tools you can use to do the job with. There's a pencil for drawing single lines and there's even a button for drawing a circle. It's similar to MS Paint in that you just press the button where you want the circle to start, then move the cursor over to where you want the circle to end. Now just press the button again to confirm this circle. The button cancels the circle, and deletes it from the screen.

In addition, several stamps (like those seen in Wacky Worlds) of various Sega characters like Sonic the Hedgehog can be placed and animated throughout the picture.

With the help of emulators or a VCR, images created in Art Alive! can be saved for later viewing.

Production credits

Although Art Alive! doesn't have an ending, production credits can be shown by holding ++ when the Sega logo appears.

Programming: Jay Obernolte, Chris Ziomkowski
Adult Supervision: Jeff Fort, Scott Berfield
Art and Music: Eric Iwasaki
Program Design: Rand Siegfried, Jeff Fort, Jay Smith
Developed by: Western Technologies

Source: In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Art Alive!/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

Print advert in Ação Games (BR) #14: "Junho 1992" (1992-06-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication	Score	Source
Beep! MegaDrive (JP)	55	№1992-04, p35^[5]
Beep! MegaDrive (readers) (JP)	63	№, p85^[6]
Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide (UK)	35	№1, p22^[7]
Games-X (UK)	60	№45
Game Zone (UK)	51	№7, p40-41
Joypad (FR)	50	№7, p76-77^[8]
Joystick (FR)	75	№26, p124^[9]
Mega (UK)	19	№9, p19
Player One (FR)	68	№20, p104^[10]
Sega Force (UK)	70	№4, p72-73^[11]
Sega Power (UK)	46	№30, p58-59
Sega Pro (UK)	79	№6, p62^[12]
Sega Pro (UK)	39	№18, p64
Supergame (BR)	88	№10, p31^[4]

	57
Based on 14 reviews

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, AU

Mega Drive, BR
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	f1b72cdd
MD5	a53f365fb6997a537dff807344995c51
SHA-1	2c57e38592a206a1847e9e202341595832798587

128kB

1991-08

Cartridge

References

[:File:GamePro_US_030.pdf_p74-1] File:GamePro US 030.pdf, page 74

[:File:MegaTech_UK_04.pdf_p52-2] File:MegaTech UK 04.pdf, page 52

[:File:SegaPro_UK_05.pdf_p7-3] 3.0 ^3.1 File:SegaPro UK 05.pdf, page 7

[:File:Supergame_BR_10.pdf_p31-4] 4.0 ^4.1 File:Supergame BR 10.pdf, page 31

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1992-04.pdf_p37-5] File:BeepMD_JP_1992-04.pdf, page 37

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p87-6] File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf, page 87

[:File:MeanMachinesEssentialSegaGuide_Book_UK.pdf_p22-7] File:MeanMachinesEssentialSegaGuide Book UK.pdf, page 22

[:File:Joypad_FR_007.pdf_p76-8] File:Joypad FR 007.pdf, page 76

[:File:Joystick_FR_026.pdf_p124-9] File:Joystick FR 026.pdf, page 124

[:File:PlayerOne_FR_020.pdf_p104-10] File:PlayerOne FR 020.pdf, page 104

[:File:SegaForce_UK_04.pdf_p72-11] File:SegaForce UK 04.pdf, page 72

[:File:SegaPro_UK_06.pdf_p62-12] File:SegaPro UK 06.pdf, page 62

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