The Supreme Topic of 'Other' Knowledge.

Alex_hedgefox2 posted on Twitter documents some documents between Sega and DiC.

But the thing is that it looks like what stopped the show (or at least put a pause) was DiC selling animation cels of satam without SEGA's knowledge.

 

I don't know where else to out this but I thought this was cool

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Yamaguchi posted this on his Twitter:

 

Damn that's cool as hell

 

Was that how they made those Sonic3K 3D models?

 

♪ Digitization, yeah! Zabadoo-bap-bap! ♫

 

Knuckles actually says shit in Sonic Heroes.


29:04 is where you can find it if the timestamp doesn't come through.

 

https://www.ign.com/articles/shadow...ated-recordings-of-shadow-dropping-the-f-bomb

This makes me wonder if that M rated audio version of Shadow the Hedgehog really did exist for a brief moment in time before being scrapped. I originally thought the story might have been misremembered but if they have Knuckles saying "shit" then the sky is the limit.

 

Should this go in the SatAM archive thread?

 

Forgot there was one, it might be a good to post there if you want to do it.

 

I’ve always wondered what I like about the old Knuckles voice… and I now understand. Damn, I really miss these guys. As much as I like Jason as Sonic, Ryan will always be Sonic The Hedgehog.

 

Chris Hernandez, the associate lore manager for the Sonic series, shared one of the props he got from the set of Sonic 3, a can of Chaos Cola. And showed the nutrition facts on it on Twitter.

It's basically vitamin water, rather than an actual cola. How healthy.

 

I accidentally found yet another undocumented Sonic the Hedgehog game:


"Sonic Shooter", where it looks like you get to throw basketballs at Tails. Unfortunately this man wearing a binbag is in the way.

I almost missed it
https://archive.org/details/sega-magazine-jp-issue-05-199703/page/24/mode/2up

 

Like a deer who catches a whiff of the smelly smells that smells smelly, this reminded me of something.
While we don't have it listed on the wiki (yet), Sonic Sports Basketball did get released in Japan.
I know this because a highly-irradiated version was found in the ruins of Sega World Tomioka; the one Sega World that got abandoned and then torn down because Fukushima's reactors imploded 14 years ago.

 

^ The thing about this is that there can be two definitions of "released in Japan" - a wide, proper release to all locations, or only pushed to Sega's own in a limited capacity. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Arcade, for example, was exclusively installed at Tokyo Joypolis during the 2010s over there.

Outside of it too being at Joypolis for a while, the only other evidence of Sonic Sports Basketball in Japan that I can find is this official post, which informs us that it was also at Sega Shinjuku Kabukicho and Sega Yokohama Chuukagai - which would've similarly been tourist-heavy places.

were Sega anticipating 'dark tourists' by also placing it at the one in Fukushima?

 

Nice! Doing this made me realize... I should look at the other websites at the time and see if they added them! And duh, IGN had them!

https://web.archive.org/web/20000901041616/http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/9776.html


THIS LOGO BELONGS TO "CHU2"

THIS LOGO BELONGS TO "KAIGAI"

THIS LOGO BELONGS TO "PSO"

THIS LOGO BELONGS TO "SAMBA"

 

While we're on an IGN kick:

Sonic look-a-like competition from August 1999:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000822112305/http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/9796.html



And "NeoGeo Sonic in Action!"

https://web.archive.org/web/20001001003922/http://pocket.ign.com/news/9555.html



I did enjoy this bit. God I'm old:

 

Is it just how it was recorded, or does Sonic have a different ball animation than in the final and the prototypes we have dumped?

 

What's with the pink waterfall?