Scene · FISHING 3 validated

FISHING 3 — Octopus steals the fish and walks off

FISHING 3 on PS1 at night: a red octopus stands on the shoreline next to Johnny's fishing line on the left side of the island, walking off with the fish.
FISHING 3 on PS1, captured during the v0.8.4-ps1 chapter-select grind. The octopus has come up on the line and is walking off the shoreline with the fish that was on the hook. This is one of the canonical caption-mismap scenes — the on-screen "He catches a crab. It snaps his nose." caption preserved below describes a different fishing gag entirely; see the FAQ Q on caption-vs-scene-title divergence.

What happens

Johnny fishes, and an octopus comes up on the line — but instead of being the catch, the octopus snatches the fish that was on the hook and walks off with it. Confirmed by direct on-PS1 playback observation while capturing the chapter-select thumbnail.

(The on-screen caption block below — preserved from the Sierra original — says “He catches a crab. It snaps his nose,” which is a different fishing gag in the game. The caption-to-scene mapping in the original audit appears to be approximate; the on-PS1 pack for FISHING.ADS scene 3 plays the octopus-steals-fish beat.)

Third scene to clear the FISHING 1 bar. The loop holds together, the tide-state variant draws the right water line, and the octopus sequence was visually and audibly signed off on PS1/DuckStation on 2026-05-01.

Validation

This scene clears the FISHING 1 bar — pixel-perfect visuals plus synced SFX across every applicable variant.

Pack identifiers

  • ADS dispatch: FISHING.ADS scene 3
  • Slug: fishing3
  • High-tide pack: FG/FISHING3.FG2
  • Low-tide pack: FG/FISH3LOW.FG2

Variants applicable

  • night — Dusk/night palette swap (BOOTMODE night 1).
  • low-tide — Tide state variant; different shoreline geometry (BOOTMODE lowtide 1).
  • holiday — Holiday overlay variants — christmas, halloween, etc. (BOOTMODE holiday N).
  • raft-stage — Cumulative raft-build state; raft sprite gains parts as the player progresses (BOOTMODE raft-stage N).

Notable runtime history

FISHING 3 is one of the four canonical caption-mapping mismatches the v0.8.4-ps1 chapter-select grind caught: the on-PS1 pack plays the octopus-steals-fish beat above, but the on-screen caption block below (“He catches a crab. It snaps his nose.”) describes a different fishing gag entirely. The chapter-select-grind retrospective walks through the named mismaps and how the on-PS1 loop surfaced them once every pack was watched on hardware.

Caption

On-screen caption text. Confidence: HIGH in the caption audit.

Johnny goes fishing.
He catches a crab.
It snaps his nose.