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13 unusual facts about SEGA


2000 NAPA 500

Jerry Nadeau would chalk up his only win in this racing event; despite being one of the playable characters in the arcade game NASCAR Arcade - released in 2000 by Sega.

Douglass C. Perry

He also worked behind the scenes with publishers and developers analyzing and critiquing games in progress including Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Sega, Take-Two Interactive, LucasArts, Ubisoft, Criterion Games, Volition, Inc., and Eidos Interactive.

El Rescate Del Talismán

El Rescate Del Talismán was a Spanish gameshow for children that ran for 78 episodes from 1991-1994 on TVE, notably sponsored by Sega.

Electrical connector

A few examples are monitors (MGA, CGA, EGA), the Commodore 64, MSX, Apple II, Amiga, and Atari joysticks and mice, and game consoles such as Atari and Sega.

Mike Pattenden

He is also the author of Last Orders at the Liars' Bar, the official biography of The Beautiful South, and Stay Sonic, a book giving background history for the Sega character Sonic the Hedgehog.

Oh My Goddess!

A Dreamcast quiz game titled Quiz: Ah! My Goddess - Stay With Fighting Wings was released in August 1998 for the Sega Dreamcast.

Omake

The term Omake has use also in video games; the Sega game Shenmue II for the Dreamcast had a hidden folder on the game disc labelled "Omake", found by placing the disc into a computer, containing exclusive wallpapers and conception art.

Sega Driving Simulator

Sega Driving Simulator is a driving simulator created by Sega in 2002.

Straight Between the Eyes

Videos were shot for the songs "Stone Cold" and "Death Alley Driver", which featured Sega's video game Turbo.

Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

In recent years however, Mitsuyushi has focused less on writing his own materiel, and more on being a vocalist in other Sega games.

He has composed music for various games produced by Sega, including Virtua Fighter 2 and Shenmue.

The Japan Project: Made in Japan

The Japan Project: Made in Japan is a 52 minute documentary film by Terry Sanders that covers the story of the entry of Sony, Honda, Benihana, and Sega into the American market.

Your and My Secret

A live action film based on the manga was released direct to DVD on April 21, 2006 by Sega.


Andy's Gang

Buckner & Garcia paid tribute to Smilin' Ed McConnell and Froggy the Gremlin on a 1982 novelty song "Froggy's Lament" about the Sega arcade game Frogger from their album Pac-Man Fever with its lyrics "Hiya kids" and "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!".

Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf

It is one of the early Sega sports games where a celebrity athlete's name was added to the title when it was localized from Japan (the other two games being Tommy Lasorda Baseball and Pat Riley Basketball).

Aspect Co.

Aspect has also worked with the following companies; Sega, Takara Tomy, D3 Publisher, Square, Tec Toy, Banpresto, Takara, Disney Interactive Studios, and even Samsung.

Beach Spikers

In World Tour mode, you take a user-created team through a tournament, earning points as you go that allow you to increase the stats of your players and also unlock special teams and players, including one based on the character Ulala from Sega's Space Channel 5 series.

Border Down

Border Down was G.rev's second independent game (though they did subcontracted work on other titles, most notably Ikaruga and Gradius V), released after Sega's official discontinuation of the Dreamcast console.

Compilations in the Sonic series

This compilation was officially announced on December 2, 2009 by Sega of America and was released March 2, 2010, although news of this compilation first broke when it was classified by the Australian Government's OFLC.

Congo Bongo

An emulated version of the original arcade release is featured as an unlockable in the PlayStation Portable version of the Sega Genesis Collection (Sega Mega Drive Collection in PAL regions).

Dark Seed II

Designed and written by future James Bond novelist Raymond Benson, the game was released for Microsoft Windows 3.x, Sega Saturn, and Sony PlayStation.

F1 Challenge

This format has been followed by Sega games in the past, with such titles as Virtua Racing, Daytona USA, and Sega Touring Car Championship.

Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit

(several other examples on the Sega CD were developed by Core Design and Clockwork Games such as Soulstar or The Adventures of Batman & Robin)

Fun 'n Games

The Whack a Clown game is a variant of Whac-A-Mole, and is exclusive to the Sega Genesis version of the game.

GamersGate

GamersGate sells games for over 250 publishers and developers, including Electronic Arts, Atari, Bethesda Softworks, 2K Games, Ubisoft, SEGA, Capcom, Paradox Interactive and Epic Games but also smaller independent video game development developers such as 2D Boy, Jonathan Blow and Amanita Design.

Jeff Hedges

In 1995, Jeff left skating and began a career in the video game industry, working as a tester at Sega for 10 years before moving on to Nokia.

Karate Kid

Kung Fu Kid (魔界列伝 Makai Retsuden), Sega Master System video game

LeapFrog Enterprises

In 2002, LeapFrog partnered with Sega Toys and Benesse Corporation to produce localized versions of their toys for the Japanese market.

Lobotomy Software

PowerSlave received enough success to help Lobotomy secure a contract to port the game over to the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation.

Love Magic Fever

# "Love Magic Fever" was used as a theme song for the SEGA game Puyo Puyo 7.

Lunar: The Silver Star

The music for Lunar: The Silver Star was composed by Noriyuki Iwadare, Hiroshi Fujioka, Isao Mizoguchi, and Yoshiaki Kubodera, who utilized the Sega CD's sound capabilities to create CD-quality CD-DA.

Mario's Tennis

The Rome News-Tribune referred to Mario's Tennis as "the only...decent stab at tennis" prior to the release of Sega's 2000 Dreamcast game Virtua Tennis.

Meyers Manx

The Meyers Manx was featured in Sega's arcade game OutRunners as "Wild Chaser".

Mike Hayes

In his tenure as COO of SEGA Europe, he was credited for restoring SEGA's dominance in Europe by setting up the now-defunct Sega Racing Studio and acquiring video game studios Creative Assembly and Sports Interactive.

NFL '95

It is the last Sega football game to feature Joe Montana, as its sequel, Prime Time NFL Football starred Deion Sanders.

Ngmoco

The "Plus+ Publishing group" is headed up by former Sega of America and LucasArts executive Simon Jeffery.

NHLPA

NHLPA Hockey '93 is a video game released by Electronic Arts in 1992 for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars is a video game released by Time Warner Interactive for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995.

Pigskin

Pigskin 621 A.D., an arcade game also released for the Sega Genesis

PVD Disc

DcVD – A non-standard MPEG-1 format for the Sega Dreamcast video game console

Quick time event

Die Hard Arcade (Sega, 1996) and most notably Shenmue (Sega, 1999) for the Dreamcast introduced QTEs in the modern form of cut scene interludes in an otherwise more interactive game.

Sega Meganet

Sega's 16-bit console, the Sega Genesis (known as Mega Drive in most areas outside of North America) was released in Japan on October 29, 1988, though the launch was overshadowed by Nintendo's release of Super Mario Bros. 3 a week earlier.

Positive coverage from magazines Famitsu and Beep! helped to establish a following, but Sega only managed to ship 400,000 units in the first year.

Sega Nomad

The Nomad is fully compatible with several Genesis peripherals, including the Sega Activator, Team Play Adaptor, Mega Mouse, and the Sega Channel and XBAND network add-ons.

Sega Smash Pack ROM Loader

The Sega Smash Pack ROM Loader is a front-end loader program released by the warez group Echelon, allowing a user to load their own ROMs into the Sega Genesis emulator built into Sega's Sega Smash Pack Volume 1 game for the Dreamcast.

Sonic R

The soundtrack for Sonic R was composed by British composer Richard Jacques of Sega Europe, who had also previously worked on the soundtrack of the Sega Saturn and PC versions of Sonic 3D Blast.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

The game's existence was first revealed on GameSpot on September 9, 2009, under the code name Project Needlemouse (the name was derived from Mr. Needlemouse, an early prototype of Sonic pitched to Sega by designer Naoto Ōshima).

Stephanie Sheh

Beyond using her voice, Stephanie was flown by plane to Japan to voice and motion capture the role of Cereza in Sega's video game Bayonetta.

Yamaha YM2151

It was also used in arcade games, starting with Atari's Marble Madness, and later being licensed for use by many other companies including Sega, Konami, Capcom, Data East Pinball and Namco, with its heaviest use in the late 1980s, as well as in the Sharp X1 and Sharp X68000 home computers.

Yoot Tower

You can place billboards for Apple Computer and Sega, while there are tenants featuring real-world stores like GameWorks, Orange Julius or Air Jamaica.

Yves Saint-Martin

Prix Saint-Alary - (6) - Solitude (1961), La Sega (1962), Tonnera (1966), Saraca (1969), Madelia (1977), Grise Mine (1984)

Zero Wing

This introductory scene was translated by Sega of Europe to English from Japanese rather poorly for the European release (a phenomenon dubbed Engrish), resulting in dialogue such as "Somebody set up us the bomb", "All your base are belong to us", and "You have no chance to survive make your time".