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Quality spritework from Sonic Team.

From the same issue - a Sonic 3 suppliment with all sorts of prototype goodies. Some of these shots may be new.

Just a heads up - Sega Retro now has a big community "to do" page, also known as a list of jobs which we need help with.

We're amassing a pretty hefty collection of things we don't understand, so if you can relate to anything on this list (or the many subpages), or have even a fleeting interest in the subject, please come and help us. Make some pages, add some stuff, correct us where we're wrong, etc.

At the moment we're talking about obscure arcade machines, Japanese PC ports, books, videos, demo discs, digital albums, the nightmare that is Sega Toys and the hundreds of Sega-branded arcades across Japan, among subjects that haven't yet been posted and whatever else you can think of.


Obviously you're not restricted to these topics - we need help everywhere, but these are areas which are proving difficult to manage. Mostly because I don't personally give a damn about Sakura Taisen. Perhaps you do??


Thanks people.

So if you've ever been to a British pub you'll probably find "fruit machines" - big gambling things with plastic buttons and flashing lights. Nobody thought to document them until fairly recently - IIRC there was a fight to get these ROMs into MAME because there is a horrible set of people out there who only think "important" games should be emulated, not the stuff that genuinely needs preserving, because "guh nobody plays these".

Turns out Sega made some. And we're not talking about old, mechanical-style slot machines (also known as fruit machines... and one-armed bandits) - these things. While it's still difficult to find people who care about those (a.k.a. help us document them), historical significance and age ensures people take reasonable care of them these days.

This stuff - not so much:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201339087831

Sega apparently bought a UK firm, "JPM International" which specialises in these things, before outsourcing all the manufacturing (to Japan?), selling it in 2004, and playing its role in the decline of British manufacturing over the last two decades.


I think this means every JPM fruit machine produced in the early 2000s is within the scope of Sega Retro. But I can't find much information on these things because... nobody cares.

I've only found a couple:

- Club Firecracker
- Ker-ching!

There will probably be more. Thoughts?

Roulette maybe? Or something entirely different with Sonic stickers? I can't tell - can you?

I think there are capsules in the top part which can be won.

These types of Japanese arcade games from the 80s and early 90s aren't well documented. Most are no longer in service and Sega doesn't keep public records.

Retro, please explain

http://produto.merca...ga-seminovo-_JM
http://produto.merca...rete-gratis-_JM

Once upon a time (~2000) Tectoy sold a VCD player/karaoke machine in Brazil, called the "VideoKaraoke". There are probably multiple variants.



why are they using Sega logos?