Art Alive!

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Art Alive!
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Western Technologies, Sega of America
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Educational, Table
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1992-03-27 ¥3,8003,800 G-4069 US 1991 $39.9539.95 1703 EU 1992-03 1703 PT 1991 MDJ-1703-50 UK 1992-03 £29.9929.99 1703 SE (Rental) 199x AU 199x BR 1992-05

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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

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

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Beep! MegaDrive (JP) 55 Beep! MegaDrive (readers) (JP) 63 Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide (UK) 35 Games-X (UK) 60 №45 Game Zone (UK) 51 №7, p40-41 Joypad (FR) 50 Joystick (FR) 75 Mega (UK) 19 №9, p19 Player One (FR) 68 Sega Force (UK) 70 Sega Power (UK) 46 Sega Pro (UK) 79 Sega Pro (UK) 39 №18, p64 Supergame (BR) 88

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Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Cart PCB

Mega Drive, PT

Mega Drive, SE (Rental)

Mega Drive, AU
Cover

Mega Drive, AU (OziSoft)
Cart

Mega Drive, AU (Silver)
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, BR
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 f1b72cdd MD5 a53f365fb6997a537dff807344995c51 SHA-1 2c57e38592a206a1847e9e202341595832798587	128kB	1991-08	Cartridge