Melon Brains: Exploring The Mind Of The Dolphin
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System(s): Sega Mega LD | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: Pioneer Electronic Corp. | |||||||||||||||
Developer: Multimedia Creators Network | |||||||||||||||
Licensor: Studio Garage[1] | |||||||||||||||
Sound driver: RSS[2][1] | |||||||||||||||
Peripherals supported: 3D Goggle[2][1] | |||||||||||||||
Genre: Electronic Publishing[2] | |||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||
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Melon Brains: Exploring The Mind Of The Dolphin is a Sega Mega LD educational software program developed by Multimedia Creators Network and published by Pioneer Electronic Corp. First released in Japan in September 1994, it was later brought to the United States the following November.
Produced with the goal of "exploring the relationship between human and dolphins",[3] Melon Brains is a collection of dolphin-related videos, including documentary footage and interviews with dolphin experts. The name refers to the melon, a fatty mass on the front of many cetaceans' skulls which focuses sound and aids dolphins in communication.
Contents
Sides
1. Who Are the Dolphins? |
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2. Dolphin Odyssey |
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History
“ | I had come up with this idea of making a title featuring Dolphins. Somehow during the time when I was working with Yoko Ono around 1989 and 1990, to produce a series of concert event and CD, Video, and TV program to commemorate 50th birthday of John Lennon at Tokyo Dome, the event was titled “Greening of the World” (Dec.1990), I came across via Yoko, some amazing stories of Dolphin’s lifestyle and their ability to communicate with each other using this organ called “Melon”, a fatty part located in frontal area of their brain, and I became totally fascinated by them.
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— Multimedia Creators Network founder Jotaro Nonaka[4] |
Development
Alongside exclusive footage shot by filmmaker Bob Talbot, Multimedia Creators Network video producer Hiroyuki Nakano personally filmed much of the dolphin footage used in Melon Brains.
Prerelease
An early version of Melon Brains was used in a presentation on dolphin intelligence at the 4th International Dolphin & Whale Conference held in Japan in April 1994,[5] with developer Jotaro Nonaka appearing alongside renowned cephalopod researchers Dr. John C. Lilly, Jacques Mayol, and others. Nonaka's presentation focused on the theme of multimedia modeled on dolphins, and the evolution of human consciousness.[6][7]
Legacy
In September 2013, developer and executive producer Jotaro Nonaka posted Melon Brains' original dolphin footage to his YouTube channel at 720p resolution, titled PeaceBlue #01 and PeaceBlue #02.[8]
Magazine articles
Physical scans
External links
- PeaceBlue #01 video by Jotaro Nonaka at YouTube
- PeaceBlue #02 video by Jotaro Nonaka at YouTube
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 File:LaserActive UFOET JP VHS promo.mp4
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 LA Express, "Vol. 14" (JP; 1996-02), page 4
- ↑ http://eidolons-inn.net/segabase/MLD-MelonBrains.html (Wayback Machine: 2005-04-19 08:19)
- ↑ https://laseractive.wordpress.com/interviews/ (Wayback Machine: 2020-11-11 21:40)
- ↑ https://www.pacificwhale.org/research/publications/ (Wayback Machine: 2023-05-17 07:11)
- ↑ http://www.viewz.jp/ (Wayback Machine: 2021-10-27 17:22)
- ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/22/casio-announces-a-cornucopia-of-g-shocks/ (Wayback Machine: 2015-09-28 08:29)
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/c/JotaroAkeyNONAKA/about (archive.today)
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