References to Sega/Film and television

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Film

Film Release date Description Screenshots
Carry On Spying 1964-07-29
Jaws[1] 1975-06-20
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991-07-01
Wayne's World 1992-02-14
Surf Ninjas 1993-08-20 Game Gear
Rumble in the Bronx 1995-01-21 Game Gear[2]
Clockers 1995-09-15 Sega VR (prop)[3], Virtua Fighter SegaVR Clockers prop.png
Mallrats 1995-10-20 NHL All-Star Hockey[4]
Black Mask 1996-11-09 Virtua Fighter, Darius Gaiden, X-Men: Children of the Atom[4]
Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy 1997-03-26
The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997-05-19 The daughter of character Ian Malcolm doesn't want to stay with his friend because she "doesn't have Sega."[5]
Home Alone 3 1997-12-12
The Replacement Killers 1998-02-06 An Altered Beast arcade cabinet can be seen, around the half-way point of the movie, during a scene where protagonists John Lee (Chow Yun-fat) and Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino) are chased down in a video arcade, by Carlos (Danny Trejo) and Ryker (Til Schweiger) two skilled out-of-town replacement killers hired by Terence Wei (Kenneth Tsang), the antagonist of the movie.
Josie and the Pussycats 2001-04-11 The movie features notable product placement for the games Space Channel 5 and the Dreamcast port of Crazy Taxi, as well as a Dreamcast Kiosk. SpaceChannel 5 JosieandthePussycats productplacement.png 100px
Baby Boy 2001-06-27 Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
The Wash 2001-11-16 NBA 2K2
Haker 2002-09-27 In the arcade hall, there are several machines from Sega such as Daytona USA and Crazy Taxi.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 2006-08-04 Around the half-way point of the movie, Will Ferrell's character Ricky Bobby plays and crashes his car in the arcade game NASCAR Arcade. He is then taunted on-screen by rival Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen), whose success at NASCAR has allowed him to feature in video games.
Wreck-It Ralph 2012-10-29
The Circle 2017-04-26 As part of her company onboarding process, protagonist Mae Holland is informally asked whether she prefers Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog.[6]
Ready Player One 2018-03-11 Sonic the Hedgehog makes multiple appearances in crowd shots, and an Akira-esque motorbike features the Sega logo.[7]
Ralph Breaks the Internet 2018-11-05

Television

Television show Episode Original air date Description Screenshots
Abunai Deka (あぶない刑事) 32 1987-05-17 At around the 8-minute mark, Shooting Master can be seen, followed by a scene in front of a branch(?) of Pasopiard.
MTV (commercial) In real life, you don't get another quarter. A commercial for MTV's "Don't Drink and Drive" campaign, using footage of a player crashing their car in OutRun. References OutRun MTV InRealLifeYouDontGetAnotherQuarter commercial.png
South Park The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000 2000-04-05
Regular Show Death Punchies 2010-09-27[8] Protagonists Mordecai and Rigby own a Sega Master System which they play regularly. Other than being mirrored horizontally, its appearance is incredibly faithful to its real-life counterpart. Series co-created J.G. Quintel was interviewed as saying that his was the only family he knew growing up who owned a Master System.[9] References RegularShow MasterSystem.png
The Goldbergs (season 1) 21 The Age of Darkness 2014-04-29 Adam F. Goldberg the protagonist of the series (played in the series by American actor and voice actor Sean Giambrone), can be seen playing Zaxxon at an arcade.
Assassination Classroom (Season 2) 1 2016-01-07 Karma Akabane threatens to expose the Summer Festival worker for ripping people off if he doesn't give him the game console, which is the biggest prize. The game console itself is a Wii-like device that has Sega Saturn aesthetics, called the GAES Jupiter. AssassinationClassroomS2E1GaesJupiter.png
You’re Under Arrest Saturn[4]
Inbetweeners Virtua Tennis 2009[2]
Weeds Madworld poster[2]
The Drew Carey Show Saturn, Dreamcast[4]
Malcolm in the Middle Saturn, Sonic R[4]
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast Space Ghost is playing Sonic & Knuckles during the commercial break.[10]
Breaking Bad Shadow the Hedgehog[11], Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)[12]
The Sopranos Sega Dreamcast, Flag to Flag[13]
The Price is Right Sega-Vision[14]
Narcos Streets of Rage[15]
The Simpsons Marge Be Not Proud A hallucination features a parody of Sonic the Hedgehog which speaks in a Sega Scream-like voice.[16]
The Simpsons That 90's Show In a 90's flashback, a billboard is seen which parodies the Sonic Says segments of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.[16]
The Simpsons The Food Wife A parody of Sonic the Hedgehog appears at a game convention named E4.[16]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51YkpI1EKyw
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://segabits.com/blog/2011/02/16/sega-in-the-media-game-gear-in-the-bronx/
  3. ↑ Sega VR
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 https://segabits.com/blog/2011/06/10/the-weekly-five-saturn-in-the-media/
  5. ↑ https://segabits.com/blog/2011/10/27/sega-in-the-media-the-lost-world-jurassic-park-doesnt-have-sega/
  6. ↑ https://segabits.com/blog/2017/04/19/sega-in-the-media-the-circle-asks-mario-or-sonic/
  7. ↑ https://segabits.com/blog/2017/07/26/sega-in-the-media-ready-player-one-slaps-a-sega-sticker-on-a-futuristic-bike/
  8. ↑ https://regularshow.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Punchies
  9. ↑ https://www.destructoid.com/oooooohh-regular-shows-j-g-quintel-and-i-talk-games/
  10. ↑ https://segabits.com/blog/2012/01/05/sega-in-the-media-space-ghost-emerald-coast-to-coast/
  11. ↑ https://segabits.com/blog/2012/01/25/sega-in-the-media-breaking-bad-plays-a-broken-bad-sonic-game/
  12. ↑ https://segabits.com/blog/2013/10/02/sega-in-the-media-breaking-bads-jesse-pinkman-has-a-sega-obsession/
  13. ↑ https://segabits.com/blog/2014/05/21/sega-in-the-media-dont-you-got-school-tomorrow-tony-soprano-wants-you-to-turn-off-the-sega-dreamcast/#more-37645
  14. ↑ https://segabits.com/blog/2014/10/09/sega-in-the-media-the-price-is-right-for-a-sega-vision-in-1977/
  15. ↑ https://segabits.com/blog/2016/09/06/sega-in-the-media-pablo-escobar-plays-streets-of-rage-on-narcos/
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 https://segabits.com/blog/2011/08/02/sega-in-the-media-sonic-and-the-simpsons/
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