“Exclusive” in that no one else would want them. Or even bother downloading the 8.32MB ZIP file. Or would actively solicit material like this in the first place. Let’s just say there wasn’t a fierce bidding war with Kotaku over the rights to upload these with a 24 hour exclusivity agreement in place.

In fact, our main interest in these photographs is the way they accurately document the computer desks and set-ups of men in the year 2009.

Look, the camera has accidentally focused on the Samsung monitor instead of the small child’s toy! This update is coincidentally also being produced on a Samsung monitor. A SyncMaster 206BW if you want to look it up and feel a little bit closer to the UKR machine. It has a squarer bezel than Jonathan’s later model.

We hope Tails is being ironic when he pulls this expression. Otherwise, he’s just a bit of a tosser.

Anyway, that’s our stream of consciousness, first-draft opinions done with. Over to “Jonathan” for his actual commentary.

“I can’t remember if you ever did a post on these (I thought you must have since it constituted actual Sega-related news at the time, but I couldn’t find one) but in February last year some reasonably okay looking Sonic vinyl figures to be made by some people called ‘First4Figures’ were announced.”

“About a year later Forbidden Planet started actually offering them for sale on their website (only the Knuckles one is still there, for some reason, and even that’s currently on pre-order). Seeing as my birthday was coming up, they weren’t too expensive, and it wasn’t like I was ever going to get another girlfriend anyway, I decided to treat myself to them.”

“Somehow it took until today for them to actually arrive. So long that I had completely forgotten that I’d ordered them, and any of the initial excitement had long-since faded. As had any excitment for Sonic in general, in fact, as I’m pretty sure most of the internet was as nonplussed as I was by the announcement of Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing or Sonic and Mario at the Winter Olympics or whatever the hell the latest game is.”

“Actually, make that excitement for videogames as a whole. But I’m sure you don’t care about that, here are some mediocre photos of my ill-gotten winnings. They’re in a zip file with a funny name. It’s slightly too big for me to attach so here is a download link” [WE CAN CONFIRM HE DID AT THIS POINT PROVIDE A DOWNLOAD LINK TO A ZIPPED FILE OF IMAGES]

“As you can hopefully see, the figures are sort of nice, and I suppose they’re just about worth a little under a tenner each if you’re really sad, but I’m no longer sure why I allowed myself to buy them.

“The big Sonic one on the First4Figures website would’ve been nicer, but I’m not paying £100 for that. Or even $100, which will probably be about £100 anyway but tomorrow if things keep going the way they are.”

“Hopefully this isn’t too boring. If you don’t put it on your nice website I hope it at least amuses you for a couple of minutes” – Jonathan.

It was pretty boring, to be honest, Jonathan, but we’re in a mental place right now where the more boring a thing is the better entertainment value it provides as we imagine people reading it and being bored to the point of extreme anger.

We sent Jonathan a separate thank you email yesterday, so there’s no real need to say thanks again here.

His mum’s not going to be happy when she sees what he’s done to his brand new Nikes. Your dad had to sign forms in lots of council offices to get the money for these, you ungrateful monster.

Taken from here, where the maker seems to be organising some sort of vote as to which one is “best”. How on earth did people decided which one of a thing was best before the internet came along?

HOW PEOPLE WORKED OUT WHICH THINGS WERE BEST BEFORE THE INTERNET CAME ALONG:

– LIVING THINGS: Set on fire. Last to die is best.

– DEAD THINGS: Throw in sea. Thing that floats for longest is best.

Just like some elderly Japanese soldiers in the jungle still think they’re fighting World War II, and also eerily similar to how Sony won’t just bin PS3 and start again.

This is called Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles. It is, in the global scheme of things, “new” on Dreamcast.

This might be a bit “2008” but we have been made to feel guilty about neglecting the modern Dreamcast “scene” by Redspotgames. They have a shop you can buy this and ONE OTHER Dreamcast game from, providing your Dreamcast is still working and you’ve got a TV that can still take the old, weak, low-resolution signal she produces.

WHO IS MAKING THE GAMES?
“We are producing our games at a CD facility in Germany” a nice man told us in an email

Jonny was the only person to apply for the position of Official SEGA Europe Flickr Account Monitor, so he pretty much walked into the job. There wasn’t even an interview to speak of.

He said “Can I do it?” and we said “OK”. It’s like how that weird kid ended up posting stuff on here for a while last year.

JONNY’S FINDINGS #1: A GAME CALLED “LET’S CATCH”

Jonny says that “Let’s Catch allows you to throw balls and catch them”. This sort of thing is why we haven’t yet bothered unpacking any of our games consoles since the last time we moved house.

PERFORMANCE REVIEW:
Jonny’s early enthusiasm for the task is to be recommended. However, we really don’t need to be notified of every single screenshot of a Wii game. Jonny also failed to include a link to the Flickr pages in question, leaving the tired webmaster to manually seek out the material for fact-checking purposes.

A good start, but Jonny needs to work harder to maintain this promising beginning. C+