SUBLIMINAL DREAMCAST REFERENCE SPOTTED IN “QUIRKY” ONLINE SHOP GAME “FLOCK”

Can’t look at “Flock” without having horrendous flashbacks to the fog of misery surrounding Core Design’s patchy-at-best Herdy Gerdy.

“I was watching a trailer for new Xbox Live Arcade / PSN game ‘Flock!’ by UK developer Proper Games and it looks like they’ve been following your Dreamcast logo search.”

“The latest game trailer features an alien space-ship creating the Dreamcast logo via in-game crop circles! So now the game features everyone’s two favourite things in the whole wide world. Dreamcast… and sheep! I’ve attached some screen-caps for your convenience” – Joe.

No, Joe, thank you for adhering to the three-photos-revealing-ever-more rule. And for doing the hard work with the captures. And for sending this in five months ago.

DREAMCAST-LIKE LOGO UPDATE FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL

Photos (misc) supplied by readers (assorted) of a standard (acceptable).

From another “Dan”. Dan seems to a more popular reader name that Chris these days. Must be a new wave of youth readers we’ve had come in since upping the amount of swearing and colours on the main page.

From someone who wants to be known as “DACHAZ”. It’s of a church somewhere.

From a man who wants to be called “Dreddnaught”. It’s something of his wife/girlfriend’s.

From a “Bob”. It’s one of those devices that lets you count down how many days you have to go until you’re allowed to rest peacefully for all eternity. A calendar.

From another “Dan” amazingly enough. It’s a carpet somewhere in Budapest. This is such a great photo it was very nearly spun-off into a separate update complete with East European cleaning staff friction burn sex fan fiction.

Promotional tat currently in the possession of a “Steve”.

From a “Chris” who would appear to be planning his return to the dating scene and is investigating ways to get his hair back to its former glory.

From a “Richard” who sent an extremely long and detailed explanation and several other photos. Thanks for all that, and sorry.

And finally, a return to an alternate “Chris” who will be attempting to numb whatever parts of his body are still capable of feeling pain with this tonight. Well done, everyone. It’s nice to know we have at least NINE entire readers left.

i-SPAX MODEL JACOB-52/17-col.7 – A.K.A. THE DREAMCAST SPECTACLES

Reader, t-shirt owner, news-supplier and all-round solid chap “Chris” realised – to his JOY – that his spectacles have the Dreamcast logo etched onto the bit that goes behind your ears. The ear clasp. The ear holder. The ear hook. The safety lever. The head attachment spoke. Whatever it’s called.

This is such good news it can’t wait until April’s spiral round-up and MUST be given the publicity it deserves. Especially as Chris wrote lots of words, making this look like an update we spent 20 minutes on rather than five.

You might need to turn the contrast on your screen up a bit.

“I was cleaning my glasses the other night and, even though I’ve worn them for about five months, noticed for the first time that they have little Dreamcast logos on them. This instantly makes my glasses Cool As Fuck(TM) and means I can see in Segavision.”

“I’ve taken a photo of them on top of a dictionary. It’s not my dictionary but at least it proves I have at least one friend who knows how to spell words. It also gives a fantastic sense of scale: in this case, proving that these Dreamglasses are roughly the same size as a ‘normal’ pair of human glasses.”

“I shouldn’t be sharing this secret because I want the power all to myself, but the glasses were made by i-spax, who are German, and the product code, handily written on the glasses themselves, is JACOB-52/17-col.7 so if anyone wants a pair they should thrust that information in their optician’s scab-encrusted face and demand he orders them before he gets raped in a way he couldn’t possibly have imagined when he rode to work that morning on his pathetically underpowered bicycle.”

“I have also attached an image of a Sonic toy that I got from a capsule machine at a service station, who is pictured thumbing that cunt from Little Big Planet up the arse. Cheers” – Chris.

DREAMCAST MEMORIAL SPIRAL UPDATE FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH

Silence please, for the reason we are all still here.

From “Luke”. Says it’s some curtains he saw in the window of a flat near Euston. Don’t get us involved in your sick voyeurism crimes, Luke.

From “Dan”. Says it’s the mirror in a local pub. We didn’t know we had readers cool enough to go out to pubs!

A Dreamcast-inspired set of Christmas decorations, from a nice man in Germany who’d probably prefer it if we didn’t put his name up. Could cause problems.

Gavin’s lampshade. Came with the studio flat.

DREAMCAST LAUNCH PROMOTIONAL POPCORN

Nine years past its best before date. Stale. Very apt for the SEGA of today.

“Here is a high resolution photo of some exclusive Dreamcast popcorn from the ‘Dreamcast Premiere’ event at the Empire Leicester Square, which my colleague has had in his cupboard since November 2000! SEGA’s popcorn is manufactured by Hollywood Express Ltd, of Preston. It contains hybrid popcorn, vegetable oil, salt, and colour – beta carotene. It has a best before date of 13/10/00. You may make your own joke about the best before date of the Dreamcast. We daren’t open the packets now in case it releases some kind of biotoxin” – John.

IT CONTINUES…
“Also in the shot is a somewhat shoddy Dreamcast bottle collar, which was given to us wrapped around a bottle of Coke. The bottle in the photo is not the original. He didn’t do a great job of keeping the ticket in mint condition, but at least it’s readable and shows the date of that memorable trip to Dirty London to meet Sonic and Ulala.

“We put a copy of today’s paper in the shot, so you know we’re not just recycling an old photo. There seems to be some purple fringing on the newspaper text, for which I can only apologise on Canon’s behalf.

“I think the collection is worth keeping for another two years before putting it on eBay during the tenth anniversary celebrations.”

MASSIVE AND THRILLING DREAMCAST-LIKE LOGO UPDATE

We are not stopping with the spiral updates. We are, however, taking your comments on board. Rather than individual spiral updates, we shall try to only do one MEGA-COMBI spiral update per month. This is fair. This is a compromise. This means everyone is happy and no one has to call anyone else a cunt in the comments.

This was sent in by “Will”. It’s from Zelda. It means something like Dreamcast 2 is coming and SEGA’s going to buy Nintendo with all the money it’s made from doing Sonic & Mario.

This is from one of our 2.7 million readers called “Chris”. It’s of a Dreamcast logo on a man’s URBAN VEST JUMPER COAT HYBRID, as featured on a web site for Sony’s ultra-poor Rolly MP3-playing robot twat. It means that SEGA is buying Sony with all the money it’s made from doing Sonic & Mario and basing Dreamcast 2 around the Cell architecture.

This is from “Joe”. It’s of a lamp. This means SEGA will be exclusively marketing and releasing Dreamcast 2 through IKEA.

This is from “Sam”. It’s something he saw in Costa Coffee. This means Sam has yet to be impacted upon by the credit crunch and still thinks spending £2.55 on a cup of coffee and a further £3.75 on a toasted ciabatta is an acceptable way to behave.

This is from “Waqas”. It’s of some bins. Waqas needs to get a new phone with a better camera VERY URGENTLY.

This is from “Tim”. He spotted it during Doctor Who. The golden era of when Billie Piper was in it.

Tim wisely supplied a close-up of Billie’s face. If you want a nice, hi-res promotional photo of Billie Piper, there’s one here – we obtained it under slightly false pretences by pretending it was for illustrating proper news.

BREAKING: UNSUBSTANTIATED REPORT OF DREAMCAST BEING PLAYED ON CSI

Reader spotted what appeared to be a Dreamcast being played during “procedural” cop drama CSI.

“I was watching CSI on Living last night at about 11:30 and I noticed that at one point the characters were playing a two-player American football game on the Dreamcast. I don’t have any pictures or evidence of this, so you’ll have to take my word for it. I only emailed you to tell you because your blog has meant that I now look for meaningless Dreamcast related items wherever I am, and I know that you probably get off on reading these sort of emails because it makes you feel really big and powerful and popular” – MM.

He didn’t say what episode of CSI. Or which CSI franchise it was. This is going to be a very time-consuming quest.

DREAMCAST, MASTER SYSTEM AND GAME GEAR SPOTTED ON SHOE LINING

There, that’s it. The worst update in history. This is the capitulation of UKR that will lead to a gradual recovery in post quality and a return to greatness seven years from now.

“I work at a shoe shop and yesterday brought me these shoes on a delivery. Pretty good. They also have Atari and a NES on but that is not important compared to the lefty Dreamcast controller and Game Gear.”

“Sorry about the poor images. My camera phone is pretty old and taking pictures of the inside of shoes is not fun. And keep Sonic as the logo. I think you have had triple the amount of Sonic posts since you killed him off” – Paul.

DREAMCAST ENDORSEMENT – FRIENDS

Here’s a very sad story about how a man spent Christmas. Being on your own with a selection of hardcore pornography is surely better than spending it with the type of people that insist on watching Friends?

“This being the festive season and all, I was watching a repeat of one of the ‘Friends’ Christmas specials on TV yesterday (under duress). Imagine my surprise when I noticed Lisa Kudrow was branded with the Dreamcast logo: an indication of how much better times were for SEGA and for her back in 1999, I’m sure. Apologies about the poor image quality, I wasn’t quick enough to take a picture of the TV, so I had to download it from an archive of Friends screen captures. What a way to spend Boxing day, eh?” – Richard.

DREAMCAST LOGO ON QUIRKY FOREIGN-LANGUAGE CUP, CUP ON MEGA DRIVE II, SONIC 2 INSERTED

The sender of this photograph wishes to remain anonymous, presumably because he’s the sort of JOHNNY COME-LATELY bandwagon-jumper that only got into gaming when SEGA released the redesigned and cheaper Mega Drive II.

“Here’s a cup I found. It has those Dreamcast swirlies that you like. Here it is sitting atop and next to several SEGA consoles. I couldn’t be arsed to come up with captions though. Enjoy the blurry photographs. Oh and it says happy birthday in case anyone wonders. Cheers. I wish to remain anonymous, sir!” – XXXX XXXXX.

OTHER PHOTOS?
They were all a bit blurry. EXIF data shows a Sanyo Xacti E7 was used to take them, which also explains the anonymity request.