Archive for 2010:

“WORKING FOR A WORLD FREE OF PSP”

Let’s make it clear that we are IN NO WAY laughing at the degenerative brain disease Progressive Supranuclear Palsy or its sufferers, nor are we ‘taking it lightly’ at all. However, that said, it’s nice to know there are other organisations out there that are dedicated to eradicating PSP.

We have unknowingly been working toward a common goal.

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“So I’m out in the field (pub in Covent Garden) on the afternoon of the London Marathon, observing all the super-fit runners with their shiny medals while having an afternoon pint for breakfast and ordering some chips. I see some girl with her boyfriend. She has this promotional t-shirt on with the letters PSP and a slogan along the lines of ‘working for a world free of PSP’. Without thinking I go up to her and ask if I can take a picture of the back of her shirt where this slogan is. She asks why, her boyfriend looking pissy. I explain it’s an in joke thing to do with the letters PSP for a mate’s website. ‘I’d rather you didn’t’, she said, ‘it actually refers to an illness, which my father suffers from. So it’s not funny'” – Adam.

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If you want to give some money to a charity they have a range of anti-PSP t-shirts for sale all branded “Working for a world free of PSP”. They would DEFINITELY work ironically in a video games environment.

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HOLDING PAGE FOR PHOTOS OF WOMEN DRESSED AS CREAM THE RABBIT RUNNING THE LONDON MARATHON

We live in hope.

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Preferably one of her doing a wee in a layby.

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HOLDING PAGE FOR PHOTOS OF PEOPLE DRESSED AS SONIC THE HEDGEHOG RUNNING THE LONDON MARATHON

There must be a few on the way. Hurry up. We’ll take care of the resizing and cropping, you just worry about getting them off your phone. Use the USB cable if you can’t get BlueTooth working.

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Hopefully we’ll get one of a wearer with the costume’s head off while he vomits in the post-race holding area.

UPDATE: THEY’RE COMING IN AROUND FOUR HOURS OFF TARGET PACE…

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From a man’s blog about games.

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From someone’s Flickr (please don’t be a copyright nazi).

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And another one of the top bloke, from “Chris”. That seems to be it :(

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AND WHAT’S SEGA ABOUT THIS?

Lil Wayne, a man whose output we are not averse to when it comes on during Chart Show TV’s Hip Hop Download Chart, if truth be told, has a secret. To do with SEGA and ten years ago.

We have covered up the nipples and belly button, also reducing the picture width from our usual 450 pixels to a less glaring 250, so you’ll need to look hard.

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“Today – while doing my daily session of watching nude pictures of rappers on the internet – I discovered something that may (or may not) be of interest to you. Among this beautifully executed body art is a small DC logo. I attached a picture helping you to find it without having to stare at the pic as long as i did. Sincerely, your fan kraut” – Tobi.

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Wound looks fresh, so perhaps this is Dreamcast 2 related? *SIGH*

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SONIC 2 ON THE iPHONE

You can see by the way Sonic’s falling off the loop that the controls are a NIGHTMARE. Tails is in the lead, for god’s sake. You know it’s gone badly wrong when Tails is in the lead. He’s even going to get some rings. You’ll never see them again.

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The ability to be able to press right consistently is a rather important part of the Sonic formula. It’s not OK to simply get all the colours looking right. More screenshots over on the SEGA US blog.

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THE WORLD’S MOST APPROPRIATE IMAGE

The only thing that could improve this photo it if there was a stack of SEGA Saturn Magazines and some unrecognisable CD-Rs poking out of the top of the bin.

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“I saw this on the side of a bin in Shoreditch, London. Free advertising for the SEGA news shop there, or signs of a resurgence of the brand amongst the fashionable youth of today? I’d say ‘sorry for the photo quality’, but I won’t – was taken with my lovely HTC Hero phone” – Andy.

ABOUT ANDY’S HTC HERO
Sadly outdated a mere eight months after launch and lumbered with Android 1.5. You can’t pull the wool over our eyes, Andy.

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“VINTAGE” SEGA MAGAZINE ADVERTS

Not sure we agree with the vintage classification chosen by the submitter, as that would mean we’re technically also vintage. On the plus side, it might mean we finally qualify for having a woman come round on Mondays with seven frozen dinners to last us the whole week, which would enable MORE TIME ON THE INTERNET.

What’s this week’s pudding, Janet?

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“Here’s a couple/three scans I took from a stack of old comics from the 80’s and 90’s. As they are SEGA, you’ll do a better job than I at posting them in an ‘amusing’ fashion.”

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“I have nothing at all interesting to say about them. I apologise for the lack of sexual imagery or narcotic references. I apologise that they refer to the little known ‘Genesis’ Console, whatever that was” – Dr H.

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It’s reached a point where we also have nothing interesting to say about them either. We could relay the anecdote about going into WHSmith every lunch time to feel the box of Streets of Rage but never actually buying it and then being retrospectively happy about that when we played it on the Mega CD compilation several years later and realised that it wasn’t very good anyway (The End), but that’s not exactly a dinner party classic.

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QUIZ: WHAT’S SEGA ABOUT THIS?

Here’s a photo sent in by a reader. Can you spot what’s SEGA about it? CLUE: It’s not the general sense of decay, or anything as obvious as “the sky”.

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“Hello there. I was in Malta last year, and I just noticed Sonic has appeared in one of the photos. Now, he’s very small and distant, but I’m sure it’s him. I thought you might like it to play a sort of ‘Where’s Wally?’ with it. Perhaps not though, you might just want to pretend you never saw it. I’ll leave it up to you” – Chloe.

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That’s what’s SEGA about it!

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DOCTOR WHO – THE ADVENTURE GAMES

The new Doctor Who TV show is a mess. About one episode in four can hold its own against a mid-range episode of Quantum Leap, and that’s about as good as it gets.

It is no Babylon 5.

You’re not even allowed to say Doctor Who is rubbish, because then you’ll be told by a 45-year-old man that you’re somehow not getting the point. It’s infuriating. We file people who like Doctor Who in the same place we put people who like the Wii – the IDIOT CABINET.

Run around for a bit while some music and dialogue YOU MIGHT RECOGNISE OFF THE TELLY plays in the background. Charming. Good job it’s free. Video via VG247.

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SONIC 2 8-BIT ENDING WITH LYRICS

Terrible. But it’s an update.

We’ll be perfectly OK with it if this scrolls away with 0 Comments, so don’t feel like you have to force one out. In fact, 0 Comments would have an artistic beauty all of its own.

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