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Sega has the new best 3DS themes ⊟
Sorry Slowpoke, sorry sleeping cats, Sega just dropped the two best 3DS home menu themes in Japan.
There’s a "Game Center High Tech Sega" theme with arcade sound effects (I wonder if it’s the background noise from M2’s Sega 3D Classics games…)
And a Mega Drive theme that is the most ’90s. So ’90s. And it makes the “Seee-gaaaa” theme play when you start a game? How can anything be better. Poor Hello Kitty. Any other week, I’d be singing the praises of her new theme.
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Sega Dreamcast
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November 27, 1998
I don’t need to beat a dead horse in telling you how important or fantastic this system is. Sega’s swan song was as a good a way as any to say sayonara to the console market. A love letter to fans of the medium worldwide, this system boasts one of the most unique line ups across any console generation. And this was done in only two and a half years. The amount of risks taken in new IP’s and off the wall idea’s are sprinkled through out this console’s short lifespan. Neither the risks taken or their inclusion of an Ethernet port were enough to save Sega from themselves unfortunately.
This is the most video-gamey - video game console of all time. I do not like the connotation of the word gamer, but if you identify yourself as a fan of video games and fun in general, you owe it to yourselves to find a way to play some of the games from the Dreamcast library. Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, The Typing or The House of the Dead, Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, Sword of the Berserk, Powerstone, and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing just to name a few. Thank you Sega, I’m still waiting for the Dreamcast 2.
Happy 15th Anniversary Dreamcast
Dear Sonic,
It’s been a wild 26 years, hasn’t it? It seems like just yesterday you were a twinkle in series creator Yuji Naka’s eye, a blue hedgehog equally inspired by Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton.
Although Sega of America made you ditch your fangs and your human girlfriend Madonna (no relation to the pop star), you still ran your way into our hearts when Sonic the Hedgehog debuted on the Sega Genesis in 1991.
And for a time, things were good — we watched you sprint your way to victory against Dr. Robotnik, accruing Chaos Emeralds and friends such as Miles “Tails” Prower, Knuckles the Echidna and Amy Rose in the process.
But 2D wasn’t meant to hold you forever, and so in 1998 you broke into the true 3D scene with Sonic Adventure on the Sega Dreamcast. It seemed so pretty at the time it didn’t even matter that Mario had made the switch two years earlier than you.
But the good times didn’t last, did they Sonic? You got a little confused there for a while. Sure, there was Sonic Adventure 2 in 2001, but then you lost your way. Shadow the Hedgehog got a spinoff where he shot a bunch of guns, and then you tried the whole “human girlfriend” thing again in Sonic ‘06. This didn’t work out so great, and Zolani Stewart called it “absolutely the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen in a video game,” but you soldiered on. After that, you tried to be a knight and a werewolf. We get it. It seemed like a good move.
So you walked it back, giving 2D another shot, perhaps most successfully with Sonic Generations. But don’t sell yourself short — people are excited for Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces too.
But just calling you a video game character would be an insult, Sonic. You’re a cultural touchstone. Don’t try to be humble — It’s not every console mascot that gets to lay claim to being America’s longest running comic book, in addition to having multiple television shows. The most recent of these is Sonic Boom, which maintains a shocking amount of good humor about your place in gaming and the fact that they changed the color of your arms.
You’ve inspired your fair share of online media as well — from KC Green’s comic “Ring” to Tyson Hesse’s parody comics which actually got him gigs working for the official Archie comics. Heck, even the Chaos Emeralds are such a touchstone that they’ve been used in one of Twitter’s best jokes about President Obama:
So Sonic, take it easy. Your legacy is more than secured. You’ve had 26 great years of pop culture personhood, so let’s raise our chili dogs and toast to 26 more. Read more (6/23/17)
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SEGA Japan chronicled a list of their home game consoles online in the early 90s but abandoned it before the Dreamcast launched.
You can still access the site through https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/