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(if they really loved Japan, they'd use a Japanese Mega Drive and Mega-CD that could actually run that version of the game )

 

Well, it's only for display purpose

I guess it also depends on what's available to them, or what the collector (who's lending parts of their collection to them) is willing to share...

The focus of the exhibition is not the video games, that is only a tiny fraction. It's about the whole culture.

They also had this, a PAL Dreamcast with a Sakura Taisen disk in it, a PSX...

 

Apparently, Robert Pattinson was getting ready for the role of Batman by playing ... Sonic Adventure 2.

https://twitter.com/miexriir/status/1500220717064802304

Unfortunately, I can't find anything else on the internet about it, all I know is that the news appeared in March, before April Fool's Day in some... newsletter?

 

As though Shadow's stages were the "bad ones" to begin with

 

This is fake. (Though I can see why people think it's real, Rob is an infamous troll and that's 100% something he would say to fuck with the tabloids.)

 

Well, time to watch the new Batman. xD

 

The "newsletter" you mention is actually supposed to be GQ's website if you look closer. Of course, it's all completely fake. But you can read some actual interviews with Rob at GQ if you're interested. Just don't expect any mentions of Sonic the Hedgehog.

 

I don't know, he's brought up the waifu wars of FFVII during the press tour for Batman, I could 100% see him telling us about the masterstroke that is Sonic Labyrinth and how its structure influenced the design of Gotham next.

 

What is this? #TeamAerith vs. #TeamTifa (vs. #TeamYuffie?) or something like that? First time that remake truly brings my past back.

 

The Sonic Xtreme E3 VHS tape and an unproductive movie script has just been handed into the museum of play!!!

https://twitter.com/Borman18/status/1511784862797156359?t=5OJxr3clEEmKsFYvbArYFg&s=19

 

It’s actually a U-Matic tape, not Vhs.
Edit: all of the videos released by Chris Senn were from VHS. Also not sure which version U-matic they received, hopefully it’s the master and the sp variant with 330 lines of resolution.
Here’s some more info on the format: https://obsoletemedia.org/u-matic-s-sp/

 

Surprised that this guy on Twitter posted actual development mockups of the cancelled Sonic ExtReme racing game for the GBA a while before people started looking into the subject but didn't get even 20 retweets: https://twitter.com/Gemlik_rogue/status/1127278815804297216

Even posted a gif of the waving flag that was later mentioned by Arvin Bautista in Retro's interview.

 

A documentary that apparently aired on UK Channel 4 in 1993:



The CGI scene at 49:05 is of interest. A screenshot appeared in Edge Magazine (and I believe several others) around that time, credited to Virtual Image Ltd and Autodesk (who get credited at the end of the programme). The S1 title screen is missing its background (like in TTS and the 8-bit versions) although I'm inclined to believe the creators did that themselves and it's just a weird co-incidence that it resembles those.

I wonder though, why does this even exist? Was it commissioned by the programme makers or by SEGA themselves for marketing reasons and if so, is there a longer copy out there? The only company I can find called Virtual Image that were active around that time went into liquidation in 1997 apparently.

(Here's the Edge scan):

 

I had assumed it was commissioned by Edge, but having now seen footage, I would guess it was part of a demo reel, aka "hire us we can do this". Maybe they even showed it to Sega.

It'll be a tough thing to find though.

 

I can tell you where this is appears. The scene itself was also used in an opening for 101 Turbo Tips which was a VHS released by Mean Machines. The opening also contains CGI (?) of areas inspired by ECCO (which itself has a 3D model), an area inspired by Road Rash and an industrial looking area with sprites of a Xenomorph from Alien3.

If you're just after Sonic then you should skip to about 3:15 in. Otherwise just watch the intro and let it all sink in.

 

Ha, mystery solved then! I'd never seen that video before. Guess that was the origin of it given by how the MMS graphics are intergrated into said sequence.

 

This is probably uninteresting but I was playing through Sonic R on PC and I glanced at the back of the CD Case. I haven't seen this mentioned but it seems the back of the case uses pre-release screenshots from the PC version including character icons for the map. There is also a screen grab of Metal Sonic in the tree shortcut in Resort Island with the Snow weather, however the snowflakes are not nearly as present.





Apologies for the less then stellar pictures. The back of the Jewel Case variant is not on the Wiki page and I don't have a scanner near me. Similar images appear on the other US Released PC Versions but the snow one is exclusive to the Jewel Case version.

 

No shit I wonder why they replaced the character heads on the mini map with dots? Seems lazier