Sonic in Mario world?
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Japanese Magazine Weekly Famitsu Goes SEGA Crazy
Weekly Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu is giving SEGA an awesome cover spread and 88 pages of coverage! Check out all the characters crammed on that cover! I see Ryo, Beat, Ristar, Waldo...
The issue is said to be chock full of interviews and new bits of info regarding future releases. Tsuyoshi Sawada, the man behind the Shining Force games, hints at a new title that is said to contain elements from the originals. The new Platinum Games title, Binary Domain, is also going to get a good deal of coverage. The issue will also contain a Yakuza series retrospective, featuring interviews with the development team. Of course, all of this will be in Japanese, so the best non-Japanese speakers/readers can hope for is a lot of pretty pictures.
UPDATE: The magazine was available to by at Play-Asia, but it appears to be sold out because I bought the last copy. Sorry!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Sonic 1994 Panini Sticker Album
A friend of mine had got much further along with only a select few (about 16) left to go. He had the shiny sticker poster pull out on his wall for some time so it got a bit torn in places, but after a while he didn't want the album anymore so gave it to me. Then just recently for a few quid a bought a third album from ebay which is in the best condition of the three but also had the least stickers, about half complete, maybe more.
Now I was determined to finish at least one of these albums off, so I got looking for the stickers themselves, which are obviously not as easy to get a hold of now. See how I did after the jump..
First off I picked up a bundle of about 30 random stickers for a few quid but then soon after I found a buy it now or best offer for 20 unopened packets. I put in an offer and got them, but then the seller e-mailed me saying they had another 79 packets for sale. In the end i made an offer for the lot. Each packet has six stickers so in the end I had around 600 stickers to rummage through. Eep.
They all came in one of the original boxes they'd have in shops, though the box is rather beaten up which is understandable considering it's age I guess.
The back of the box says 100 packets, so one packet must of gone missing or was taken out at some point.
Yet another photo of mass sticker packets just before I worked on ripping them all open.
...and its done.
So after ripping open every single one of these packets, putting them in order and seeing excatly what i ended up with, did I manage to complete any of my three albums?
Nope!
One of the albums (the one my friend gave me) is now only missing ONE sticker. My own childhood one is now missing just six and the other album I bought recently needs 17.
See that missing Tails? That one is missing from all three albums! Bah!
The reason I didn't end up completing any of the albums is because a very small few of the stickers numbers did not show up once, while most showed up three times and others showed up four or five times. The collection has three types of stickers..
The regular ones: Mostly consist of Sonic 3 screenshots, some scenes from an episode of AOSTH, a few Sonic CD screenshots, and a couple random cartoon ones at the end. These are all naturally the common ones that show up a lot.
The shiny ones: These ones all feature random promo art on shiny sliver patterns. Most of them go in the very middle of the book in a fold out poster though some others go in random places in the book. there are only 24 of these and as you might of gussed, they rarely show up in packets at all.
Finally, the vinyl 'complete the scene' ones: This lot also consisting of 24 are shaped and go on the four pages somewhere near the middle of the book. Most of these are of badniks from Sonic 1 and 2, with a couple of tails and Robotnik too. These show even less often than the shiny ones.
Shiny: 106, 109 (X2), 112, 113, 118, 120, 121, 125
Vinyl: 90 (X3), 92, 93, 130 (X2), 131, 133 (X2), 136, 138, 140As for what I have to trade, I have a select few shiny and vinyl ones but mostly common ones. If i have any here you need but don't have any I need just send me some you don't need if you have them in exchange. At the moment I'm not willing to sell any until I get the ones I'm after, because even if I did take money for them the chance of even finding more to buy is pretty silm.
So here's what I have. Highlighted in blue are Shiny ones and red are Vinyl. This is gonna take a while..
1 (X4), 2, 3 (X4), 4 (X3), 5 (X2), 6, 7 (X2), 8 (X4), 9 (X3), 10 (X4)
12, 13 (X3), 14 (X2), 15, 16 (X3), 17 (X2), 18 (X2), 19 (X3), 20, 21 (X2)
22 (X3) 23, 24 (X3), 25 (X2), 26 (X4), 27 (X2), 28, 29 (X2) 31 (X2) 32 (X3)
33 (X2), 34 (X4), 35, 36, 37 (X2), 38 (X4), 39 (X3), 40, 41 (X3), 42 (X2)
43 (X3), 44 (X2), 45 (X2), 46 (X3), 47 (X3), 49 (X2), 50, 51 (X4), 52, 53 (X4)
54, 55 (X3), 56 (X2), 57 (X4), 59 (X3), 60, 61, 62, 63 (X3), 64, 65 (X3), 66 (X3)
67 (X2), 68 (X2), 69 (X3), 70, 71, 72 (X3), 73, 74 (X2), 76 (X5), 77 (X3)
78, 79 (X3), 80, 81 (X3), 82 (X4), 83 (X2), 84 (X2), 86 (X2), 88 (X2) 92
97 (X3), 98, 99 (X2), 100, 101 (X2) 102 (X3), 103, 107 (X2), 110 (X2), 119 (X2)
122 (X2), 123, 124 (X3), 126 (X2), 127, 128 (X2), 132, 137, 142 (X2), 143
144 (X3), 145 (X3), 146 (X2), 147 (X4), 148 (X2), 149 (X3), 151, 152 (X3), 153 (X3), 154 (X4)
155 (X2), 156, 157 (X3), 158 (X3), 159 (X2), 160 (X2), 161 (X4), 163 (X3), 164 (X3), 165 (X2)
166 (X2), 167 (X3), 168 (X2), 169 (X2), 170, 171 (X2), 172 (X3), 173 (X3), 174 (X2), 175 (X3)
176 (X3), 177 (X3), 178 (X3), 179 (X4), 180 (X2), 181 (X2), 182 (X2), 183 (X5), 184 (X3), 185
186 (X2), 187 (X2), 188 (X3), 189 (X2), 190 (X3), 191 (X3), 192 (X4), 193 (X3), 194 (X3), 195 (X4)
197 (X2), 198 (X3), 199, 200 (X2), 202 (X4), 203 (X2), 205 (X2), 206, 207 (X2), 208 (X3)
209 (X2), 210, 211, 212 (X2), 213 (X2), 214 (X2), 215 (X4), 216, 217 (X2), 218 (x2)
219 (X2), 220, 221 (X3), 222 (X4), 223 (X2), 224 (X2), 225, 226 (X4), 227 (X3), 228 (X3)
Phew! So yeah, if anyone can help out let me know in the comments! Otherwise that was a lot of time spent typing all that up for nothing...heh heh.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Sonic Generations gameplay and fan art
I know this blog isn't really all about the new games as such but this new Sonic trailer is just too good to not post here. Compared to how Nintendo celebrated Mario's 25th Anniversary (by er..re-releasing a SNES ROM on a Wii disc) this sure does get me excited and looks like it may even make up for the horrific 15th anniversary that consisted of the two worst releases in the franchises history. After the teaser revealed to us that classic Sonic will be running side by side with the current Sonic design, now we have gameplay of both running through a beautifully rendered Green hill.
Why they even made Sonic 4 the way they did at this point I don't know as unlike that game this has really nailed the look, and it looks mega fun to play too, much closer to the originals, plus as a compromise to the newer fans you get Colours style gameplay too (which I also enjoyed). Really looking forward to this, and so are many others as ever since the first trailer I have been flooded with fan art relating to the game, here are just a few of them..
Why they even made Sonic 4 the way they did at this point I don't know as unlike that game this has really nailed the look, and it looks mega fun to play too, much closer to the originals, plus as a compromise to the newer fans you get Colours style gameplay too (which I also enjoyed). Really looking forward to this, and so are many others as ever since the first trailer I have been flooded with fan art relating to the game, here are just a few of them..
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Ebay Hunt: Sonic & Knuckles Camera
I obviously now don't own it now due to it being a disposable camera and being a kid at the time but I do recall hoping to get my hands on a second one when mine ran out only for them to have already vanished from shops. i think it came from somewhere like Boots and was released in 1994 or 95, when Sonic & Knuckles was being plugged.
Got a longer and more interesting article on the way!
Explore the World of Jet Set Radio Future!
Here at SEGA Memories we're all about anything outside the games (as detailed way back in the very first post), but sometimes there is something game related that is just too cool not to share. In my regular internet browsing, I came across a blog entitled JSRF Inside. The blog is dedicated to ripping models, textures and environments from the XBOX classic Jet Set Radio Future. What is so insanely cool about the blog is that the owner and model ripper provides a number of amazing images and files detailing every character, NPC, animal and piece of graffiti that litters the world of Tokyo-to.
One might consider it a "digital collection", as one can download every character icon (perfect for avatars), high res logos and listen to a number of sounds. Really awesome stuff! If you're a JSRF fan, make sure to add this to your favorites and download as many bits as you want.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Kotaku: Meet The Four Americans Who Built Sega
Check out Kotaku's article here and in the comments section, feel free to share your thoughts on SEGA's founding. I'll kick it off with a topic for discussion: SEGA or STGA? SEGA pros: more readable, it's the one we're used to. STGA pros: reminds me of a stegosaurus, dinosaurs are cool.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
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