“Please find attached some photos of Sonic spotted in the wilds of Weston-super-mare, my grim home town.”

“I also took some ‘environmental shots’ to show the quality of the surrounding shops. It’s a classy area of a high-brow town – Lee.”

That’s Weston-super-mare ticked off the list.

“Here’s a photo of a poster with Ulala promoting a club night in Glasgow. Here’s a handy Google map link, in case any readers would like to visit the poster – Dave.”

“I was in Glasgow City Centre today, and I stopped in the middle of a busy street – blinded by a woman who I have loved for years in more ways than a grown man probably should admit to. I knew I had to take a picture, as either you will want to knock out the stupid DJ advertising of Ulala’s fame; or hand it over to SEGA’s legal team to be evil. Lovingly Yours, Born2beSlicker.”

Sonic’s back, in his most 2D adventure yet!

“I found this book in a drawer, from Sonic’s heyday the mid 90s – Geoff.”

Thanks, Geoff! It’s awesome! Your half-hearted email totally undersold it.

Finally. The 2D Sonic we’ve been demanding.

If you have one of these, you want to get it on eBay now. Then we can buy it off you for the exorbitant ‘Buy It Now’ price of your choosing. To put with the yearbook we bought after some hero sent in scans.

And why not charge £7.99 for postage and packing, too? We’d pay it.

Genius artwork. Love it!

Must remember to do more of the GREATEST SONIC THE HEDGEHOG DESKTOP IMAGES IN THE WORLD updates, too. Still have about 120 of those to go.

Jesus Christ, Geoff. You could’ve re-taken the blurry ones. This is a Category A historical relic we’re dealing with. It needs to be archived in a full non-blurry manner for future generations.

Can’t see him. Can’t see him.

He’s not in this one. He’s DEFINITELY not in… oh. There he is.

There he is!

He’s no way in this one. There must’ve been a printing error. He’s just not here. He’s not… oh. There he is.

This is the most fun we’ve had with Sonic since the original Sonic Rush.

If you don’t include humping Sonic plush toys. That’s more fun.

Bombs everywhere! Be careful, Sonic!

Absolutely, categorically, amazing.

The end. Must have. Anonymous benefactors SCRAMBLE.

“Seriously terrible stuff so apologies in advance.Short version, we built a Thing for our hens and covered it with old CDs for maximum psychedelic chicken freakout potential. One of those CDs turned out to be an old Dreamkey for the ever-marvelous Dreamcast.”

“In the pictures you will see the Thing itself (for context) and then some close-ups of the disk itself with some added hen action. They are clearly loving being close to it, or at least not running away in fear from it. Their little beady eyes make it quite difficult to tell, to be honest.”

“It’s no DC controller box next to a tree but they have a subtle charm all of their own – Sir Rich.”

“Just wanted to share with the cold, lonely and neglected SEGA Saturn owners out there, all over the world, the two Saturn posters that I own. Hopefully it will bring back some nostalgic cheer/heart break of the good old Saturn days to all those crushed Segafan spirits.”

“I managed to get these posters in pristine condition (I’ve never really unrolled them, hence the phones holding down the corners) on eBay many many years back, in the days when not everyone heard about it, they actually sold everything, paypal wasn’t owned by ebay and 2nd hand games weren’t massive over priced. There was also an awesome looking Virtua Cop 2 saturn poster that I wanted the most, but didn’t manage to win because some random arranged with the seller to buy it outside of ebay, and thus only managed to get the two. If the seller or buyer of the Virtual Cop 2/Sega posters is reading this, I’d just like to say: FUCK YOU >:E”

“Sorry for the crappy camera pics, I’m quite bad with the digital camera since my girlfriend is the one that takes the good photos…and I’m too embarrassed to ask her to take a picture of these posters.”

“PS: Also wanted to say I’m honoured that you guys copied and pasted my email on your webpage in 2004 – Felix.”

Thanks, Felix. And thanks for not bearing a grudge about the rather harsh treatment you received from us in 2004.

“I was on a business trip to Prague and saw our beloved logo being exploited by a glassware shop clearly ripping off tourists with over priced crap. I immediately thought of you – Gabe.”

“I smoke now… Thanks SEGA! OK, not really, not even SEGA could make me do that. Well, not Sonic, maybe Aika (From Skies of Arcadia) could. I found these bad boys in the Philippines, a country where it’s not cool to eat veggies, just meat and sweets – Rosskeld.”

“Saw this in a skip today in Sutton Coldfield. It was raining, so past being rescued. Boo hoo – Jamie.”

“I found some upcoming UK classic Sonic merchandise that you may be interested in. They’re all by the company Impact Innovations, which have already made some Sonic plushes and beanies. Included are RC Racers, track sets (why Mario had one of these before Sonic I’ll never know) WITH A LOOP, a Sonic figure with a webcam stuck in his stomach and Sonic and Tails USB flash drives. Which will clearly get you friends if you own – Sandy.”

A 2GB or 4GB Sonic USB stick! Also available in Tails variety. If you want one, wait a year then buy one of the unsold Tails ones for a tenth of the price. Who ever buys Tails merchandise? He’s second in quantity only to Big The Cat in the bargain buckets of the land.

And a terrifying Sonic webcam. We’ll go out on a limb and say there’s ZERO CHANCE of this actually being approved and made. SEGA wouldn’t put its name to any old tat with Sonic’s name on, would it?

We’d expect nothing less than innovation from Hayao Nakayama, the man who was president of SEGA during the ‘glory months’.