6. Aquanaut's Holiday: Memories of Summer 1996 (Artdink, Playstation, 1996)

Aquanaut's Holiday is a first person-underwater adventure game for the Playstation, and this is a Japan-only sequel. It's a very simple game where the object is basically to move around and look at fish and other structures you find underwater. It has a cool vibe for a PS1 game and the graphics are decent for the time.

There's honestly not a whole lot to this game, and it's nowhere near the kind of exploration game that I'm going to get at all invested in (unlike the superb Proteus, or the much weirder contemporary LSD Dream Emulator), though the low fidelity of the graphics and the pretty short draw distances do give the seascapes a weird air of desolate mystery.

I don't believe there is any fail state here, but there is also not a lot to keep me wanting to continue. There is a reef building feature, but it is basically just placing squares on a grid. I originally mistyped the name of this game as "Memories of Supper 1996" and now I just want to play that instead.

2/5, boring and desolate, though I am interested in other underwater exploration games i.e. Endless Ocean, Everblue, or even the PS3 Aquanaut's Holiday sequel.