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You like Sonic Eraser? Of course you don't. It is objectively bad. Granted, that's a class of Sonic game that has long since outnumbered every other category. But at the time it was still a novelty, and to be fair it has a good excuse to suck. You should care about it because... 🧵

Bitty interview with Naoto Ōshima (still incognito as Big Island) and Sega CS1 GM Makoto Oshitani from the Dec. 1991 issue of MD Fan. Mostly fluff, but still a fascinating peek at the exact juncture at which the first Sonic sequel split into two separate projects. Let's dig into the juicy bits 🧵

Tech Saturn (テックサターン) – September 1997 has been scanned by @detchibe.bsky.social in 600DPI. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/04/t...

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

Sonic the Hedgehog plays like Mario but looks better and is more realistic.

a popular movie ruined how multiple generations spell "santa claus" and now a video game is about to ruin "bonanza"

In light of all the AI slop, reupping this little chat I had with Ghibli's VP Atsushi Okui last week about using Princess Mononoke's original negatives to create the new 4K restoration

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

Well xXxSeymour2000xXx, I made it, despite your GameFAQ.

@devilrei.bsky.social Is this news to you? Virtua Fighter 10th Anniversary has non-VF1 stages hiding out on the disc.

16 hours on the road and an exorbitant amount of gas, but worth it to see this living fossil The cabinet's pretty scuffed up, and the CRT is faded and blinky, but this old boy is still serving up mediocre popcorn for the same 100 yen it’s charged for over 30 years – and in 2025, that’s a steal. 1/2

BREAKING: We have our first interior art from DC X Sonic's first issue! #SonicNews

When we worked in AKDX I asked about Matilda Yoko, I was answered that she can be also Kobayashi Yoko, and that she passed away time ago :(

While only one of Yoko K's illustrations has been identified, I assume that she also drew some of the illustrations for Teddy Boy Blues, Alex Kidd in Miracle World and Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (whose background was painted by another in-house artist). 2/2

Yoko K., AKA Matilda Yoko, a graphic designer who worked at Sega in the 80s, described by Rieko Kodama as her senior and known for designing the characters for Alex Kidd and Teddy Boy. vgdensetsu.net/matildayoko/ 1/2

Panzer Dragoon was a defining game for the Sega Saturn, and the next two instalments are two of the best games in the console's library.

A dream sequence in That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime features such popular game consoles as - the mega drive! The vita! The Wonderswan! The pippin atmark! All the hits are here

In an interview/meeting on 20 Nov 1995, Naoto Ohshima requested that AM2 include Espio & Fang in Sonic the Fighters. No reason is given for why he chose them, but their character designers were both working as world artists on NiGHTS into Dreams..., which was in development at the time.

In addition to being a brilliant detective, Poirot is also a skilled poker player.

I've written an article about Taku Makino, a little-known Sega artist whose face and work you may be familiar with (notably his contributions to the Golden Axe, Sonic and Shinobi series). vgdensetsu.net/takumakino/ Article aussi dispo en français vgdensetsu.net/takumakinofr/

In the network test, characters have their own stats that get added onto the vehicle stats. Each character attribute has a max stat of 25, making for a max stat of 100 when added to the vehicle. Subtract the Speedster Lightning's stats from these screenshots to get each character's stats. 🧵

With the default vehicle setups, all of the stats are divisible by 3. This is because each of the 3 vehicle parts (front, back, and wheels) have equal stats. For example, each part of the Speedster Lightning has the following stats: Speed: 25 Acceleration: 9 Handling: 14 Power: 16 Boost: 11

Vehicle stats from the Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds network test. Each attribute has a maximum stat of 75. 🧵

The Takenobu Mitsuyoshi interview is now online! A sincere thank you to Mitsuyoshi-san for agreeing to speak with me, to SamIAm for facilitating the conversation and translating the interview, to Korimaru for connecting me with SEGA, and Burntends for connecting me with Kori. youtu.be/fQoZG4DgJSM

Sonic fans continually humble me and make me smile, even when I'm not active at the moment. Thank you for liking the things I draw and write. Thank you for appreciating and reading and cherishing the work all my colleagues do, b/c we care. I appreciate y'all tremendously & I don't say that enough.

Happy 61st cake day to Naoto Ōshima 🎂 It's hard to talk about 90s Sonic without his name popping up, but he actually had very little direct involvement in the series after Sonic 1. Here's a little primer on the life and times of Big Island 🧵

We call this one The Cliffhanger.

Surprise!! I wanted people to hopefully feel the sense of glee I get from this game. It was also a big honour working with both Nishino-san and Uekawa-san this time around! 💫 🌅 #Ristar | #SEGA | #art

Each car has a two word name which the custom cars pull from. The front of the Speedster Lightning and the back of the Mirage Blade make the Speedster Blade. The game will launch with 45 vehicles. Assuming the boards have the same customisation, the number of names will be... 2025! xfiles.midi

Ristar’s 30 now! My cousins gave it to us when they swapped their Mega Drive for a PS1 and I gravitated (lol planets) to it immediately. As an adult, I just love the sense of pure joy every part of the fame has! 💫🎂

creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ghz... With no further ado, Lee and Josh continue their fascinating odyssey into the annals (steady on) of Disney history with a casual, over-the-shoulder glance at the cartoons that made Mickey the Mouse he is today.

Hello folks, To support my charity fundraiser, I am offering Sonic sketch commissions for donations! Offering modern and classic characters. You chose who and I will execute it. Sketches on paper can be mailed out! Price tiers below… Thank you!

This small listing for the sequel, Sonic Drift 2, from the GG Wave Vol 2. pamphlet also advertises 8 characters. The game released with 7 characters.

This advertisement for Sonic Drift ("tentative title") in Sega '93 Winter Catalogue TV Game World shows an early version of the game with Flicky as a playable character. The copy boasts that the game would feature 8 playable characters! The final game features just 4: Sonic, Tails, Eggman and Amy.

The cars in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds look a tad smaller than they did in Team Sonic Racing. This was probably done to make the driver more visible and keep the cars and hover boards similar in size.

This is the endangered Okinawa rail, a flightless bird so rare it was unknown to science until 1981. Yūji Naka wanted this guy to be Sonic Team's second big star after Sonic, but Naoto Ōshima drew some ugly pictures to change his mind. 🧵

Hog the Lime-Light! The cover for 'Sonic The Comic' #74, 29th March 1996.

There's a mysterious object that sometimes falls out of the closet when you beat the Puffy boss in Nights into Dreams ... but why? And is it in Christmas Nights? Bo Bayles gets to the bottom of it in his latest Under the Microscope: www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/02/12/u... #sega #saturn #segasaturn

RINGS OF SATURN: This week we're going deep an Easter egg in *NiGHTS Into Dreams*. What's with the door that sometimes opens when you finish the Puffy boss fight? Why does an object sometimes fall out? Is this mechanism missing in Christmas NiGHTS? Answers here! 32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-...

Heard it was the big lad's birthday yesterday! 🤜🎂

Luigi and Wario are both derivatives of Mario. Amy Rose and Metal Sonic are both derivatives of Sonic. Therefore Metal Amy is the Waluigi of the Sonic series. With that in mind, logic dictates that Metal Amy will be a playable character in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

I understand that this is of interest to nobody on Earth except me, and I do not care. I have made cataloging the history of Segasonic Ball Pool my mission, and I will not back down. Here's pictures from Sega Jack magazine of the unit installed at Ichikawa Galbo in Chiba in late '95. With Santa!

Quick addendum to the Sister Sonic thread: here's a pic of the Mega-CD Popful Mail voice cast from a recording session on May 17, 1993. So Sister Sonic must've been dropped at least a few weeks before that. Mail herself is voiced by anime legend Megumi Hayashibara, who is also the voice of...