References to Sega/Film and television
From Sega Retro
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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?
Television
- YuGiOh - Enemy Controller
- Dead Pixels - OutRun (ep1), Total War (ep2)[1]
- Mission Hill - Ep 5, Kevin and his friends are seen playing a Dreamcast.[2]
- London's Burning - , the firefighters were occasionally seen browsing the internet on a Dreamcast during their free time.[2]
- 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. (IS THIS: 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[4] 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."[2]?)
- Rick and Morty - 4 Episode 9., Jerry asks if Rick's clay people have a Sega Dreamcast.[2]
- Dream Team - members of the Harchester United F.C. were often seen playing the Dreamcast.[2]
- The Drew Carey Show - Dreamcast in Season 6 (previous seasons feature a Sega Saturn).[2]
- 1999 MTV Video Music Awards - Sega was a sponsor. During the program, Ulala (of Space Channel 5 fame) announced the nominees for the Viewers' Choice category.[2]
- Spaced - Dreamcast in the background[2][4]
- Casualty - 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.
- Adventure Time - Finn and Jake are playing a pretty obvious Phantasy Star Parody. It even makes fun of the game's notorious grind.
- Silver Spoon - Season 2 Episode 9 has a Puyo reference pretty early into the episode.
- Solar Opposites - Dreamcast mention in first episode. Also, something playing something similar to a Saturn.
- Norm - Season 2, 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.
- Futurama - "Spanish Fry" episode, Prof. Farnsworth exclaims, "What in the SEGA Genesis happened to you?" to Fry.
- 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.
- Good Morning America - Dreamcast[4]
- 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 - Dreamcast controller[5]
- MTV Cribs (Redman) - Dreamcast[5]
- Malcolm in the Middle - Another episode features them playing Dreamcast[5][4]
- Malcolm in the Middle - A Dreamcast box is seen in a background shot.[4]
- Ben-To - apparently has four total episodes dedicated to VF2/The Saturn (eps. 3, 4, 8, and 9)[6]
- X-Files - 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.[6] (I think this is the same one with the GHZ arcade music...)
- MTV Cribs - another episode 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"?[4]
- More unmarked refs[4]
- Just spotted a Dreamcast in Storage Wars: Texas! It's in season 3 episode 27: For the Benefit of Mr. Charles.[4]
- Better Drew Carey Show pics+info here[4]
- DREW CAREY SHOW SEGA HISTORY HERE[4]
- Dreamcast sighting on Netflix's original series, Midnight Diner. This is from Season 1 Episode 7.[4]
- MTV Cribs - Wu Tang Clan playing some DoA game
- Bits series 4 episode 2 ^_^ time stamped accordingly. https://youtu.be/6RdIw6XoN8U?t=17m20s[4]
- Subway commercial
- A reference From episode 6 of a series called Honto ni Anna! Reibai Sensei.[7]
- 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.[6]
- Air Master (ep 1, 17, 18) - Refs[6]
- 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.[8]
- "Latest season of" Orange is the New Black [8]
- What's the reference here?[9]
- Can Can Bunny ep 4. - some reference
- "Maliki animation, I recall them using a Megadrive."
- "popular spanish sitcom" - Dreamcast, 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
Music
- https://sunshine-t-m.bandcamp.com/music
- matusa - プレザント株式会社。has a Sega name ref in a song. For eventual "Names" section.
- SONICRETRO: Not samples, but MJ's Blood on the Dance Floor and Stranger in Moscow?
- CGI Gold samples
- nano - █▓▒▒F U N S T A T I O N▒▒▓█ samples
- jp - SHOPPINGTIMES (from MARKET WORLD) samples that one song from Shenmue.
- VAPERROR - Sega Dreamland (Dreamcast startup sound, right? <- never owned a DC)
- What is sitting on top of the TV in Golden Living Room's Plug In, Drop Out? It almost looks like a Saturn but the angle is funny.
- Kendrick Lamar - Nosetalgia (feat. Pusha T.) - referred to owning the SEGA Genesis
- Lupe Fiasco - I Gotcha
- Project Pat freestyle[4]
- Justice (music video)[10]
- Music references obfuscated by old forum code.[11][10]
References
- ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-10#post-999564
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast#In_popular_culture
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://www.reddit.com/r/dreamcast/comments/ft5whd/the_dreamcast_in_pop_culture/
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 [ ]
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 https://www.reddit.com/r/dreamcast/comments/9xpmxu/dreamcast_in_the_meida/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 https://www.destructoid.com/--534711.phtml
- ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-6
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-7
- ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-9#post-969610
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-5
- ↑ https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-4