Crosspost from the Sega Harmony findings megathread: It appears Pecky got his own arcade game! Found in the "Carnival Zone" section of Ichikawa Galbo (1994), it's one of probably several Sega-built arcade games that hasn't been documented. The photo Sega used in this leaflet is a bit too small to make out the name - I'm assuming "Curling Holiday" because... there's curling, but you tell me. Did Sonic's other animal friends get arcade games? Are any of these units still in service? (I'm guessing no since there no photos online).
Interesting, I didn’t know there was any kind of game/attraction that solely featured one of animal friends. I did a cursory search for “カーリングホリデー” and 市川ガルボ but couldn’t find anything. Is there a scan of the full page? Maybe there’s some info written about it there.
I'm pretty sure someone had already brought this up from another source. @Pengi do you remember what that was?
Yep... "Curling Holiday" : https://www2.sls-net.co.jp/cms/sls/pdf/news/16_12_SEGA_Parts.pdf (see page 3)
https://fyeahsonicthehedgehog.tumblr.com/post/671766059279417344 This picture has been around for a little while, but I don't know where it came from. The Pecky slide stone (?) could be won as a prize, it seems. There's a bit in Sega Jack #2 about it (thanks to @ScottyDX for the pic): Run through Google Translate:
Yeah I at first could've sworn I had seen it or something similar before but managed to convince myself I hadn't (to be fair, you'd never get far by only using "pecky carnival game" as a search term for reference) This is from a Sega feature in Última Generación #7 (it's on Retro too, but doesn't want to load for me right now) The fact that it's a smaller, individual machine, unlike the larger Sonic Canball, makes me suspect that Sega sold a few these to other venues in Japan - or at least supplied many to their own, and not just the Joypolis/Galbo theme parks. These types of carnival games (i.e. ticket redemption without the tickets, it's not really a thing over there) were often a part of what made the hundreds of standard Sega World amusement centres family-friendly. I hadn't considered the Pecky prize was related to it before though, nice connecting the dots there.
