References to Sega/Film and television

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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 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. 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

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
Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy 1997-03-26
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
Josie and the Pussycats 2001-04-11
Haker 2002-09-27 In the arcade hall, there are several machines from Sega such as Daytona USA and Crazy Taxi.
Ralph Breaks the Internet 2018-11-05
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

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