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Revision as of 04:51, 8 May 2022

To do

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  • Ensure all files are hosted at their appropriate websites; Sega/Sonic/CDN.
  • Ensure all Reference article entries that feature both a Sonic and a non-Sonic reference have all refs listed on both their Sega and Sonic Retro entries.
  • Reformat multiple-ref entries as nested ones like the Sonic Retro page
  • Mark all product placements

To add

Film

  • SONICRETRO: Someone mentioned that one of the people playing Game Gears in the movie Airheads is playing "Sonic the Hedgehog", but I wasn't able to find it. Perhaps there's another minor scene I missed?
  • Josie and the Pussycats[1][2]
  • The Other Me (Disney Channel) - Andy Lawrence's character can be seen playing a Dreamcast. The logos are removed and taped over, though.
  • Training Day - The protagonist's son plays an off-screen video game with a Dreamcast controller, but the sound effects use 8-bit sounds.
  • Ah! My Goddess! - Dreamcast[3]
  • Richard Jewell - A Saturn appears in the background.
  • Ghost in the Shell- Directors Kazuchika Kise and Mamoru Ishii played a great deal of Virtua Fighter 2 during the movie's production. Per Oshii, “When people ask about Ghost, I actually think of VF2”. This led to Motoko Kusanagi using Lau’s Renkan Tenshinkyaku (PPPK) in the Water Fight scene. (The reference here also includes an excellent pre-production sketch showing the inspiration more.)[4]
  • The Forbidden Kingdom - Aside from featuring a Dreamcast, Jason mentions that the move Buddha Palm was used in the game Virtua Fighter 2 (despite the move being from Virtua Fighter 5.)[4][5]
  • 2002 Definitive Jux Hip-Hop label documentary - A dreamcast in the background at different times. You can see it at 13:40, the dreamcast and controller on a desk, in fact I think they are using it to play a music CD that has hiphop beats on it while they rap. You can also see it around 14:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p06Ms35bkQ[5]
  • Cheaters - The main characters play a Dreamcast.
  • See Spot Run - Dreamcast
  • Swingers - NHLPA '93
  • Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996; TW) - A girl plays Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle.

Television

Sonic Retro
Sega Retro
  • Dead Pixels - OutRun (ep1), Total War (ep2)[6]
  • In episode 5 of Mission Hill, Kevin and his friends are seen playing a Dreamcast.[7]
  • In the television show London's Burning, the firefighters were occasionally seen browsing the internet on a Dreamcast during their free time.[7]
  • In the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the characters of Nick Stokes and Warrick Brown were hinted to be playing Dreamcast sports games, and Stokes was shown playing a Football game with a Dreamcast controller early in the first season.[7]
  • In an episode of Rick and Morty, Jerry asks if Rick's clay people have a Sega Dreamcast.[7]
  • In the English television show Dream Team, members of the Harchester United F.C. were often seen playing the Dreamcast.[7]
  • A Dreamcast is seen on The Drew Carey Show in Season 6 (previous seasons feature a Sega Saturn).[7]
  • Sega was a sponsor of the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. During the program, Ulala (of Space Channel 5 fame) announced the nominees for the Viewers' Choice category.[7]
  • A Dreamcast is visible in the episode Back of British sit-com Spaced.[7][5]
  • Outrun is mentioned in the first episode of the UK comedy Dead Pixels. Total War is mentioned in the second episode.
  • I recently remembered an episode of Casualty where a boy with a Game Gear is electrocuted (not by the Game Gear). The Game Gear is later smashed by the child's irate mother. It was probably episode 7x19, which aired 23 January 1993.
  • In a more recent Adventure Time episode, Finn and Jake are playing a pretty obvious Phantasy Star Parody. It even makes fun of the game's notorious grind.
  • Season 2 Episode 9 of the anime Silver Spoon has a Puyo reference pretty early into the episode.
  • Sega Dreamcast namedropped in Rick & Morty Season 4 Episode 9.
  • Sega was also name dropped in the 1st episode of Solar Opposites, Justin Roiland's other show on Hulu. And I think someone was playing something that looked like a Sega Saturn.
  • .hack//Quantum (Sega Saturn)[8]
  • What's the reference here?[9]
  • Season 2 of Norm. One episode has Norm's boss finding out that he bought a handheld game with money from the office-- the handheld game is shown and it is a VMU.
  • In Futurama's "Spanish Fry" episode, Prof. Farnsworth exclaims, "What in the SEGA Genesis happened to you?" to Fry.
  • Can Can Bunny ep 4. - some reference
  • In the anime series "Genshiken", some characters are playing Puyo Puyo Fever on a PS2. They even talk about it, Its kinda important for the plot of that episode. (IS THIS: "I don't remember what anime it was but it was about an anime club and they played alot of Guilty Gear on a Dreamcast."?)
  • "Maliki animation, I recall them using a Megadrive."
  • CSI (Las Vegas) s1 ep1 - two main characters talk about NFL 2K[3] and I remember seeing a Dreamcast in one of the first episodes of CSI: Las Vegas, i don't remember which one, but they were playing NFL i think, and bragging about the graphics :p If i find it ill post pics[5] ORR "In the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the characters of Nick Stokes and Warrick Brown were hinted to be playing Dreamcast sports games, and Stokes was shown playing a Football game with a Dreamcast controller early in the first season."
  • Well I did some small digging and it seems that the DC appears more than once on this popular spanish sitcom. I found this vid of an episode ive never seen where the same dude is playing videos games with a millenium 2000 pink DC controller. If you fast fotward to 9:04, im sure you'll get kick out of it ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2qzA3r3Les
  • Dreamcast on Good Morning America[5]
  • Will & Grace s3 ep10 - Dreamcast in toy store[3]
  • 2 Guys, A Girl, And A Pizza Place - Dreamcast in character's apartment[3]
  • Your Name (anime) - Dreamcast controller[10]
  • MTV Cribs (Redman) - Dreamcast[10]
  • Malcolm in the Middle - Another episode features them playing Dreamcast[10][5]
  • Malcolm in the Middle - A Dreamcast box is seen in a background shot.[5]
  • Ben-To apparently has four total episodes dedicated to VF2/The Saturn (eps. 3, 4, 8, and 9)[4]
  • X-Files had a scene on Season 3 Episode 3 where Mulder and Scully investigate a series of lightning-related deaths in a small town. Mulder finds the murder suspect’s high scores as DPO on the VF2 arcade machine.[4] (I think this is the same one with the GHZ arcade music...)
  • I swear there is another episode of MTV Cribs where some football or basketball player had a Dreamcast because Sega Sports gave him one. He was apparently a featured player in one of those games (I don't remember exactly). Or maybe I just made that up and it was the Redman one that I saw lol.
  • "mouretsu space pirates"?[5]
  • More unmarked refs[5]
  • Just spotted a Dreamcast in Storage Wars: Texas! It's in season 3 episode 27: For the Benefit of Mr. Charles.[5]
  • Better Drew Carey Show pics+info here[5]
  • DREW CAREY SHOW SEGA HISTORY HERE[5]
  • Dreamcast sighting on Netflix's original series, Midnight Diner. This is from Season 1 Episode 7.[5]
  • MTV Cribs - Wu Tang Clan playing some DoA game
  • Bits series 4 episode 2 ^_^ time stamped accordingly. https://youtu.be/6RdIw6XoN8U?t=17m20s[5]
  • Subway commercial
  • A reference From episode 6 of a series called Honto ni Anna! Reibai Sensei.[11]
  • Gantz has two VF references: one that is awesome, and one that is disturbing. Kaze does one of Akira’s moves to kill a demon, which is awesome. Takeshi getting killed by an abusive boyfriend, only to play VF4 is disturbing.[4]
  • Air Master (ep 1, 17, 18) - Refs[4]
  • Heres one: In a Strong Bad E-mail [google if you haven'tseen the webtoon before], Homestar takes Strongbad's place, and answers an e-mail asking if he has ever "made anything out of anything" [err... something like that anyways] - Homestar cheerfully states hat he made coasters out of olf "SEGA tapes" [cuts to a shot of SEGA cartridge-like things on a table, with drinks on top of them]
  • There was an episode of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius where the title card parodied the sega logo.
  • Squid Girl:, episode 4. It's clearly Columns. Ep 10: Streets of Rage, EPxx: Bonanza Bros
  • World God Only Knows, episode 12. SAGA SATURN and Cream cast. Later on in the episode there's a Mega Five. It's hard to think of a console not mentioned/spoofed in this episode.
  • Bob's Burgers Season 5 Episode 9 "Speakeasy Rider" reference
  • Gintama: there have been a couple of times where it references SEGA from what I've watched. First one is this from an arc where the cast tries to win a Bentendo OwEe: Second reference was this, in which Gintoki and Zura are turned into old men: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ukgb_gintama-parodies-megadrive-owners_fun Which becomes a running joke with old Gintoki saying "In the end, you played the Mega Drive too" throughout the episode.[12]
  • "Latest season of" Orange is the New Black [12]

Music

  • SONICRETRO: Not samples, but MJ's Blood on the Dance Floor and Stranger in Moscow?
  • Jurgen Vries - The Theme - From 1:20 it becomes a Space Harrier spoof for a bit. Looks like they ripped the score board part of the hud straight out of the game. Then again I'm convinced the run cycle animation just before the Space harrier scene is traced from a Gorillaz video.
  • Static X - All These Years (Sega font)
  • Punk Rock Factory - Bat Out Of Hell
  • Kendrick Lamar - Nosetalgia (feat. Pusha T.) - referred to owning the SEGA Genesis
  • U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing (music video features G-Loc, Rail Chase, Virtuality stuff, a 360 shot maybe filmed in an R-360)[8]
  • House of Pain - Jump Around - "Try to play me out like, as if my name was Sega"
  • Lupe Fiasco - I Gotcha
  • Limp Bizkit - Jump Around
  • Blackpink - Whistle (music video) - Dreamcast in the background[10]
  • Nineties Boy (music video) - features Dreamcast galore! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05GwbK9JCFM
  • Crazy Ex Girlfriend - Ping Pong Girl http://youtu.be/PMY0MTTv16E The lyric at 1:25 are referencing the iconic SEGA chant from the 90s. And not even subtlety - they literally just go "SEGAAAAAA!".
  • Nelly - EI (music video) - they were playing Dreamcast in the beginning
  • Flying Lotus (music video "starring Elijah Wood") - features a DC[5]
  • Dragon Force - Heart Demolition (music video)
  • Project Pat freestyle[5]
  • Justice (music video)[13]
  • The Smiths - "Big Mouth Strikes Again" - Morrissey sings "the flames rose to her roman nose and her Walkman started to melt" However in the Placebo cover, Brian Molko sings "her Megadrive started to melt"
  • Music references obfuscated by old forum code.[14][13]

Sports

Sonic Retro
  • Wrestling: Guy named CM punk wore a Sonic shirt.
  • Wrestling: Joe Hendry entered the arena to a cover of Escape From The City[15]
Sega Retro

Tabletop

  • YuGiOh - The "Enemy Controller" card features a video game controller with a vaguely Dreamcast pad-esque design, and three buttons laid out like a Mega Drive control pad.

References

  1. ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-9#post-991615
  2. ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-8#post-935831
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 https://www.reddit.com/r/dreamcast/comments/ft5whd/the_dreamcast_in_pop_culture/
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 https://www.destructoid.com/--534711.phtml
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 [ ]
  6. ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-10#post-999564
  7. ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-9
  8. ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-9#post-969610
  9. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 https://www.reddit.com/r/dreamcast/comments/9xpmxu/dreamcast_in_the_meida/
  10. ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-6
  11. ↑ 12.0 12.1 https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-7
  12. ↑ 13.0 13.1 https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-5
  13. ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-4
  14. ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-8
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