SUPER REAL BASSFISHING GAME!
- NA release: 1st January 2003
- EU release: 18th July 2003
- JP release: N/A
- Developer: Sims
- Publisher: Xicat Interactive
- NGC Magazine: 35%
- Mods Used: Widescreen Hack


This is very much an arcade fishing game. It’s fast paced, with rocking music and comes with only a few levels and not much in the way of movement. It feels like a direct arcade conversion, however there was never a Top Angler arcade game. This is instead a Sega Bass Fishing rip-off, with a load of similarities in gameplay and level design. What’s even crazier is that Top Angler’s developer, Sims, were the developers that created the Dreamcast conversion of Sega Bass Fishing.

The levels themselves are even oddly similar. You have a lodge, cove, inlet and some ancient ruins. The only addition is a level near the park. Fishing is quite simple, yet the fish feel oddly dead before you even catch them. You don’t seem to have to entice them (you have limited movement of the lure), just reel in and hope they bite. There’s a small amount of challenges for catching certain fish, but there’s not much to it.

Poor
If nothing much happens in one location, you can sail elsewhere on the lake, complete with a bizarre animation of your boat sliding sideways to a more favourable spot. The graphics aren’t very realistic, even considering there’s only a bunch of fish and rocks to look at, and it plays like a reasonable sort of sub-game from a bigger title.
NGC Magazine #81
Remake or remaster?
Just port Sega Bass Fishing.
Official Ways to get the game
There’s no official way to buy Top Angler.
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