OFFICIALLY *NICE* PROJECT KATANA E3 1998 SHIRT
Expensive embroidered colour logo. Dreams woven into every strand, to celebrate NEC and SEGA announcing the glorious hardware partnership that would surely dominate the gaming world for years to come.
It has faded slightly, not through wear, but through being stared at adoringly.
“I was going through my closet tonight when I found this. It’s a Project Katana button-down shirt that was worn at E3 in 1998. Note the fine stitching of the logos! Someone clearly worked very hard on this. For some reason finding this made me very sad and reminded me of a day when I actually had a girlfriend, a full head of hair, and unconditional love of all things SEGA. Now if you excuse me I’m going to cry some more in the corner of my empty, dark apartment. Love, Colin” – Colin.
filed in Uncategorized on Dec.17, 2008
December 17th, 2008 on 1:46 pm
I wonder if Colin is the English version or the American phonetic mangling ‘Ko-lin’ as in Colin ‘Desert Storm’ Powell.
I infer he is American by his use of the word ‘closet’ to describe where he keeps his clothes, unlike the English version which would be ‘bedroom-floor’
December 17th, 2008 on 2:26 pm
I’m going for Canadian as he didn’t have the whiney quality of an American.
December 17th, 2008 on 2:47 pm
don’t cry Col, your not alone man!
December 17th, 2008 on 2:57 pm
What has life done to brave people like Colin?!
O tempora o mores!
December 17th, 2008 on 3:49 pm
Katana was my second-favourite Dreamcast codename. (Dural was first.)
In unrelated news, this is from the intro of the latest edition of Edge:
“It is a tired and cynically propagated myth that Playstation 3 … still has no exclusives that can confidently call themselves memorable games, a piece of propaganda … perpetuated by gurning cretins who scuttle around the grubbier recesses of the internet.”
I think they’re talking about you, Zorg!
December 17th, 2008 on 4:27 pm
What’s wrong with what Edge said? The PS3 has plenty of memorable exclusives! It’s just that they’re all memorable for being late, over-hyped and crap.
December 17th, 2008 on 4:30 pm
Not just Zorg but all of us, surely?
I object to the gurning reference.
I’m comfortable with all the rest.
And the grubbier recesses are always the most interesting.
Surely being called cretins by Edge must rank as almost hadron-collider-universe-bending-grade irony?
I mean, it’s not as if anyone reads it for anything other than the job ads in the back do they? (assuming they do still fill half the magazine with job ads like they used to, I’ve not idly flicked through a copy in Smiths in ages…)
Maybe you should start doing games-industry job ads Zorg?
Then they could concentrate on putting something of interest in their magazine.
And I agree with Steve, Dural definitely the best; if only becuase it reminds me of Durell software and Harrier Attack
December 17th, 2008 on 4:43 pm
The biggest cretins in the industry are the ones who work for magazines that take Sony’s ad money and give its games 10/10 in return.
December 17th, 2008 on 5:20 pm
I like gurning, and being a cretin.
December 17th, 2008 on 7:53 pm
I like how these people always provide a little preamble claiming they forgot about their Sonic garb and were suprised to discover it, when in reality they put it on every weekend and stare at themselves in the mirror as they perfect their impression of the ‘impatient Sonic’ foot-tapping gesture what ‘appens when you leave the controller untouched for too long and beat their meat to a sodden pulp.
December 17th, 2008 on 8:28 pm
Dural would have been a good name only for the fact it reminds me of condoms.
Then again Nintendo did get away with calling their console a variant of piss so Dural could have worked i guess
December 17th, 2008 on 8:54 pm
The only way I can express my opinion of Edge is to say: “I FUCKING HATE EDGE MAGAZINE CUNT FUCK BOLLOCKS ARGH POMPOUS ANUS ARROGANT TWAT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! FUPPLECOCKUNTSLAVESPURTITS!!”
That is about as close as I can get with words. It really needs to be an experimental dance where I am naked save for pillow case on my head swinging a sledge hammer randomly in a tiny room full of Sony memorabilia and copies of Edge. All recorded on a CCTV camera and projected live on the ceiling of the turbine hall in the Tate Modern. I am undecided on whether I should shit and piss myself at the same time.
December 17th, 2008 on 10:38 pm
I once won the DS Lite from EDGE for the ‘best letter’. Thought I’d write one completely disingenously to see if I could blag the prize. Did some horribly pretentious piece about morality in games. Can’t remember number of the edition but it had Nintendo and mock SAS ‘He Who Dares’ motif on cover. So I won’t have a word said against EDGE…and as soon as my lite breaks down I’ll be sending them another letter an’ all…
December 17th, 2008 on 10:49 pm
I came back after years in the internet wilderness as i heard you were having some sort of competition to design a logo or something. Is it over?
I’ll be back tomorrow after i catch up with my battery news.
December 17th, 2008 on 10:55 pm
No, it’s not over. I might do a round-up of current entries tomorrow, seeing as one person has mentioned it (you, just then).
December 18th, 2008 on 1:52 am
Steve, stop being so ambiguous please
December 18th, 2008 on 2:42 am
Chu Chu
December 18th, 2008 on 7:24 am
Ok… could you include a recap of what sort of thing you want for a logo when you do a round up of the current excellent entries. No doubt there will be lots of pron and possibley some dreamcast logos involved.
December 18th, 2008 on 12:24 pm
My dog has been ill. It's the first time he's wanted to go for a walk in over a week, so I took him for a stroll by the canal. We stopped by the middle basin as he decided he'd like a sniff at the rocks. So far a fairly uninteresting trip out.
What came next I will remember for the rest of my life.
Lucky had a bowel movement – a particularly arduous one judging by the yelps and moans. One of those rectal urgency numbers that only come with ill health I suppose. It smelled to high heaven.
So out came the Tesco carrier bag. I placed it over my hand & leaned over towards Lucky's offering, holding my nose with my right hand (I'm left handed). But my hand didn't have time to appropriate what would be a welcome hand-warmer for the journey home – oh no. Imagine my surprise when I looked down to see a perfectly formed SEGA DREAMCAST 2 logo before me! Sega's new genetically-enhanced flu viral advertising campain is underway.
Should I send the photies? I've got 6048×4032 shots: Aperture : f/2.2, Exposure time : 1/125 sec, ISO : 200, Focal length : 85mm, Metering : Pattern, Compensation : 0 step taken on my wife's Alpha 900 (I had it with me for wildlife photography purposes, of course).
December 18th, 2008 on 1:45 pm
Send it with the other shots too (the ‘wildlife’ ones).
December 18th, 2008 on 2:20 pm
i give that edge ‘piece’ 3 out of 10! using edge’s system that means its really good!
but alas, im not using edge’s system, im using the rule of numbers in reality. which means it is shit.