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@gyozaleaf#5194 That Play Sega pad is very nice. Some kinda kid-oriented Saturn promotion?
Play Sega was a flash game site Sega ran. If you paid them money, they gave you access to a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIRc_8JVUbM]Sonic level editor[/url] and one of those USB joypads. I never signed up for the service, but after it got discontinued the joypads were for sale on Ebay for pretty cheap (like 5 bucks). I bought one, it isn't that good. The d-pad feels rough and the shoulder buttons are overly clicky (the Saturn controller shoulder buttons feel like the buttons on a mouse, these feel like generic tact switches). Guess it was worth the 5 bucks, but wouldn't recommend paying much more for one.
I‘d been wanting to add these to the thread but this crossed my notice today on Twitter and it’s the best possible example.
These were Sega developer trading cards Sega of America gave out in the early 2000s -- right around when Sega was transitioning fully to third party development (the "Super Monkey Ball era," let's call it).
This is Steven Lin's personal collection of (mostly) signed cards ([source](https://twitter.com/stevenplin/status/1301619291863699457)) which is really neat. I was looking for a group picture of them awhile ago and until [this](https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/08/14/sega-developer-trading-cards) was the best I could find!
that rules!!
I guess greg thomas squeaked through on That 2K, huh.
I‘ve always thought the Wondermega was a cool thing! I only knew about the JVC/Victor model, but it turns out Sega made one too? Also, very interested to find out it was released, eventually, in the States as the X’Eye. I‘m kind of puzzled that I had never heard of the X’Eye, since I would have absolutely bought one at the time!
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I think the wondermega is one of the coolest-looking pieces of game hardware ever made! I wonder if somebody 20 years younger than me would agree.
My two UK Resistance Reports:
http://ukresistance.co.uk/2007/05/inside-segas-amazing-hi-tech-land/
http://ukresistance.co.uk/2009/11/segas-hi-tech-land-has-closed/
Like 5 years ago (so 11 years after this article) I saw that same jacket as a promotional giveaway for I think Sonic All Stars? I really should have save that image because I yelled I WORE THAT JACKET IT IS VERY SMALL.
I miss UK Resistance
CHIBA, JAPAN - JUNE 04: Visitors gather at Sega Saturn booth during the International Tokyo Toy Show at Makuharai Messe on June 4, 1994 in Chiba, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
On I-80 East towards the Bay Bridge trying to get back to the East Bay, and you look over and see this big beautiful sign.
I might be accused of being romantic, but there felt like a cultural tie between SEGA and the Bay Area ... San Francisco in particular. Even during the tech/dotcom boom/bust of the late 90s/early 00s. Before later tech companies pretty much overstepped and ran amok on the local culture.
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@Squit#5739 Haven't played the Dreamcast version in forever but I played the PSP version semi-recently and it was surprisingly okay!
@sosadillatron#5736 For me it was the end of an era when the sega letters came down and the zynga logo went up. It really marked a change for me.
@exodus#5782 Yes. I'm pretty sure I have similar feelings. I think the big picture take away for me was it symbolically marked that the industry and the local culture no longer valued the things that I did.
Like, it was obvious way earlier than that how things were going, but that Zynga sign was the plaque on the wall confirming it. But plaque isn't quite right ... like this new way of things was marking its territory. I'm probably being a little too melodramatic about this. :P
ah yeah, all the bands were leaving town, the rent was going up, and pay-for-play took over sega… I agree it kinda all felt like it was balled into on thing for folks who live around here.
699 at 8th street Townsend SF, been there at Sega cried there at Zynga while having a shrimp cocktail at a fucking Maffia wars party. This is where Rieko Kodama worked on Sonic 2. The fact that I had a shrimp cocktail there at a Maffia Wars party makes me physically ill today.
@Fishie#5802 There‘s nothing that could’ve been done by the time you were eating that shrimp cocktail. At least you appreciated where you were and what was once created there.
This rules