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I'm sure we all paid attention during the console wars of the mid-90's. There were three factors in this whole war : Hardware, Software, and Marketing. Or, to our tiny child minds, Nintendo/Sega, Games, and TV commercials. Everyone talks too much about the first two, imo. But I think it's time to discuss the famous (and infamous) ads of Sega's heydays. I'm talking TV ads, print ads, literally ANYTHING Sega could put their name or brand on (from magazines to race cars). So you need a starting point, eh? I got one :

Here's one

It's that one Sonic 2 ad that's an infomercial parody. I thought it was pure genius, Sega. Bravo to your marketing team.

If you guys wanna talk about some other ad that's not this one, fine by me. After all, it's not going off topic at all. So as long as it's about SEGA's ads and not, say, Sony's.

(Note : I couldn't post the video as a direct YT player for some reason. Most definitely a problem of my own than the board's software's fault)

I got a preowned copy of Zelda : Wind Waker yesterday, and I decided to play it recently. So everything's fine and dandy, I join Tetra's pirate gang to save my sister, etc. Then, I choose to save. It wont let me. To clarify :

*I click save
*It states that it must make a ZWW file on my memory card (fair enough, even though I did that when I started up the game)
*It says it has completed the task, so I hit save again
*Repeat step 2

THEN, I go to my Gamecube's memory card menu, only to discover the slot that Wind Waker was taking up was just a blank space using up 12 blocks. No picture, nothing, and apparently the disc couldn't find it either. What could be doing this? It couldn't be the memory card, because it worked fine when I tested it out with Paper Mario and F-Zero GX (Both of them saved and worked after I turned it off).

So I purchased a Retrolink NES2 controller, brand new, from a local Gamestop that sells some retro stuff. I'm not very sure if it's bad quality, a manufacturing problem, or just wrong with my controller, but the D-Pad is completely busted. If say, for example, I want to hold down up, right? Instead, I'm given a choice between holding up+left or up+right, simply by tilting the up button in that direction. The same thing happens on the down button, and the left and right buttons. It irritates me in many games, and in most top-down games like Zelda, it makes them damn near impossible. I have no idea why the D-pad would act like this. Is it a problem? Should I quickly make a refund? Can it be fixed?

Sonic 2 for the Game Gear was, like, my all time favorite game on a handheld ever. See, when I was little, and had Sonic 2 on my Genesis and Mega Man 5 on my NES, my favorite console games at the time, I had this GG, but only like 3 games with it. They were Sonic 1 (Which came with it), Sonic 2, and Battletoads. Sonic 1 got boring to me for some reason, but I kept coming back to Sonic 2, mostly because it had a level select code. It was a challenging, but fun and enjoyable game, and really shows how much the franchise has changed since then (You could even compare it to it's console counter parts). Battletoads was just too hard for my 5 year old mind though, I wasn't any good a beat-em-ups then.

So, really, how many of you have played it? And how many had played it on an actual Game Gear? (Or the Master System if you had that version). I'm just curious because it was a damn good game. Anyone agree?