Even after all these years, there's still tons of weird stories out there. The box art for (Western) Alien Storm was drawn by a man called Lee MacLeod. Nothing super unusual here - video game publishers (particularly in the US) rarely drew their covers in-house. But this is a new one to me - Mr. MacLeod made so much art that they were turned into trading cards. There were 60 of these, some of which were shiny-uh... "Tekchrome" cards.
The Sheffield UK band did a collab song with Babymetal. About 0:30-0:40 in, he mentions graphics are on N64 level but "it could get as bad as Sega Saturn".
Oh Canada https://archive.org/details/Canadia...agazine April May 1990/page/8/mode/2up?q=sega I don't know what this "Sega video game tournament" is - it might want a page, but this article is really vague.
After beating 2017's Cuphead I had a read of the (extensive) development history behind the game. We have the game listed on the wiki, but we're only scratching the surface - the brothers behind it grew up with a Sega Master System, and there's tons of Sega-inspired content in the final product. There's a (probably short-lived) watermarked mirror of The Art of Cuphead that details some of it.
archive.org does its magic once more: https://archive.org/details/cd_like...-pictu_amerie-b2k-fabolous-fundisha-jagged-ed Film I've never heard of has NBA 2K2 music in its soundtrack. I assume the game turns up in the movie, otherwise this would be even weirder.
I was watching Karl Jobst's video on Elon Musk's Quake achievements the other day - the shocking realisation that just because an event isn't listed online, doesn't mean it didn't happen. https://archive.org/details/cd_mini...n-ferris-jason-midro-4-clubbers-azzi/mode/1up There is precisely one guy on the internet that can remember this happening.
Something slightly different Sega Retro's TODO page has a list of "Sega articles in non-Sega magazines", but this January 2020 issue of "Modern Classics" is a gaming edition. And that means Sega Rally and OutRun. Apparently Jeremy Clarkson can beat Tiff Needell at Sega Rally. So there's a fact for you.
So. Uh. Sonic and DC comics are crossing over. Sonic racing Flash, Metal Sonic fighting batman, etc. This is... weird.
Hey Death, looks like these image links died. Can you reupload them here, or just upload them to the wiki directly? I have a lot of my plate right now and it would help a lot. thanks!
Alright so in 2012 when I first noticed this my family friend Christopher called me fucking insane because no one would notice something this small (I was on the hunt for one of them), but in the film Killjoy, when the guys book the fuck out of there into the ice cream truck Killjoy yells SHIT SHIT SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT, but right behind him is a Sonic ice cream bar. But not just any bar; the original one with the black eyes. At the time there were absolutely no Sonic bars with black eyes, so I was surprised that was even a thing until I found out about the Sonic X-Treme promotion well over a decade later.
I was watching footage of recently built amusement parks in North Korea and they showed some smuggled footage of an arcade game at the park at Runga Island... and would you look at that: Samsung Gamboy eat your heart out. Maybe in 2030 North Korea will get Daytona USA. EDIT: Wait, that's not actually virtua racing. That's wild, the video called it out as a Sega game specifically, but that looks like some sort of bootleg ripoff.
That's pretty funny, Sega catching stray namco credits via north korea. They also had another game shown which they said was hang-on but checking back it's clearly not hang-on either.
Doubly bizarre as it's not like they're completely starved of (relatively) newer arcade games - this bizarre Fox News report of North Korean kids playing Ghost Squad with the claim that it is anti-American propaganda circulated last year. There's also what looks like a Let's Go Jungle bootleg in the background (?).
The video I was watching was going into a recent shift in North Korean ultra-elites park design, namely how they're moving away from soviet-era flat amusement parks towards actual real theme parks (as in, parks with a theme). This one with the "sega" games was an example of one of the parks they built that was like a transitional deal, it was built in 2012, and was the start of them building their new big theme park in pyongyang. They had a few amuesment parks before, but they were built prior to the great famine in circa 1995. So perhaps this is an instance of them repurposing an old cabinet for their new park. An aside, the theme for their theme park is "north korea" lol. Like literally, it's a tiny version of north korea, with miniature north korean monuments. North Korea's theme park is north korean themed.
