References to Sega/Film and television

To do

• https://productplacementblog.com
• References to Sonic in sports (non-sponsorships)
• 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 which references are product placements.

To add

• In episode 5 of Mission Hill, Kevin and his friends are seen playing a Dreamcast.
• In the television show London's Burning, the firefighters were occasionally seen browsing the internet on a Dreamcast during their free time.
• 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.
• In an episode of Rick and Morty, Jerry asks if Rick's clay people have a Sega Dreamcast.
• In the sitcom My Wife and Kids, a Dreamcast can be seen played by Michael and Junior in various episodes. The console was replaced with a PlayStation 2 in later episodes.
• In the English television show Dream Team, members of the Harchester United F.C. were often seen playing the Dreamcast.
• A Dreamcast is seen on The Drew Carey Show in Season 6 (previous seasons feature a Sega Saturn).
• 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.
• A Dreamcast is visible in the episode Back of British sit-com Spaced.
• Squid Girl - MD, MCD, 32X, Virtua Fighter, others
• 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)
• Outrun is mentioned in the first episode of the UK comedy Dead Pixels. Total War is mentioned in the second episode.
• There was a Scottish advert for a particular brand of bread in the mid-90s which ended with a kid playing his Game Gear, with Sonic and Knuckles heard coming from it!
• 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.
• Also, a Mega Drive and Sonic 1 appeared in an episode of Neighbours. There's no way anyone's finding which one though. It was on 5 days per week.
• 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.
• Kendrick Lamar referred to owning the SEGA Genesis in his iconic Nosetalgia feature with Pusha T.
• Season 2 Episode 9 of the anime Silver Spoon has a Puyo reference pretty early into the episode.
• WOAAHH Okay so there's a frickin Sega VR promotion in a Power Rangers episode whaaatt: "I, Eye Guy" from season 1 of Power Rangers. Child creates virtual reality... thing for a science fair.
• More Josie/Pussycats
• Deltarune Chapter 2 has a bunch of Chu Chu Rocket puzzles strewn about it. Also the final boss looks like Mecha Sonic to me.
• Punk Rock Factory - Bat Out Of Hell
• 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.
• Static X - All These Years (Sega font)
• .hack//Quantum (Sega Saturn)
• This could be a bit of a stretch, but there's a reference to an RPG game in the manga Komi Can't Communicate called "PGO" (at least that's what it's called in the bootleg translation I'm reading) I got the impression that PGO could stand for "Phantasy Galaxy Online"
• What's the reference here?
• 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.
• How does no one remember The Tomorrow People!? This episode alone was shocking enough with Sonic, but then the killer Mosquitos? I have a fear of bees thanks to this show!
• 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.
• House of Pain's "Jump Around" with the lyrics: "Try to play me out like, as if my name was Sega" at 2:19
• In Futurama's "Spanish Fry" episode, Prof. Farnsworth exclaims, "What in the SEGA Genesis happened to you?" to Fry.
• Mutant (trash metal band) - song called "Scrap Brain Zone"
• In a Disney Channel Original Movie, "The Other Me", Andy Lawrence's character can be seen playing a Dreamcast. The logos are removed and taped over, though.
• Can Can Bunny ep 4. - some reference
• Braceface - GHZ reference?
• In an episode of Rosanne, DJ wants a Super Nintendo for christmas and both his parents and grandmother gets him one. So Dan hooks the one that they bought him up in their garage, and Mark says "Oh is this like that new game that just came out, the one with the hedgehog in it?"
• 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."?)
• "Dr.Zitbag's Transylvanian Petshop" - There was an episode where Dr.Zitbag was playing a game called Chronic the Warthog
• In the movie Airheads, the security guard is playing a Sega Game Gear with Sonic the Hedgehog on it.
• "Maliki animation, I recall them using a Megadrive."
• Lupe Fiasco - I Gotcha
• Lupe Fiasco - Go Go Gadget Flow
• Goodie Mob - Cell Therapy
• Asher Roth - Cannon
• Limp Bizkit - Jump Around
• Lady Sovereign - Those Were the Days
• Jay-Z - You're Only a Customer (More flavor than y'all can image havin'/ graphic like Sega Saturn :colbert:)
• CSI (Las Vegas) s1 ep1 - two main characters talk about NFL 2K 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 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
• Will & Grace s3 ep10 - Dreamcast in toy store
• Janet Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter (music video) - something in the background monitors
• Blackpink - Whistle *music video) - Dreamcast in the background?
• Training Day - The protagonist's son plays an off-screen video game with a Dreamcast controller, but the sound effects use 8-bit sounds.
• 2 Guys, A Girl, And A Pizza Place - Dreamcast in character's apartment
• Your Name (anime) - Dreamcast controller
• MTV Cribs (Redman) - Dreamcast
• No Doubt - Hella Good (music video) - Jet Set Radio Future in the background
• A Dreamcast appears in the Ah! My Goddess! film.
• Malcolm in the Middle - Another episode features them playing Dreamcast
• Malcolm in the Middle - A Dreamcast box is seen in a background shot.
• Richard Jewell (film) - A Saturn appears in the background.
• Ghost in the Shell (1995) - 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.)
• Ben-To apparently has four total episodes dedicated to VF2/The Saturn (eps. 3, 4, 8, and 9)
• Bayonetta: Bayonetta can perform VF2's Akira’s Tetsuzankou (466P+K) as her attack. She even uses his quote, “Juunen Hayaindayo!” She also performs this in all her Smash appearances.
• The Forbidden Kingdom (2008 film) - In the movie, Jason mentions one of the moves that was used in Virtua Fighter 2, which is the Buddha Palm. Here’s a fatal flaw with that reference: no one in VF2 used that move except for Lei-Fei. He didn’t make an appearance until VF4 and didn’t use Buddha’s Palm until VF5.
• 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. (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.
• Another music video here! A new one hip hop music video by "Nineties Boy" features Dreamcast galore! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05GwbK9JCFM
• "mouretsu space pirates"?
• More unmarked refs
• Flying Lotus music video starring Elijah Wood features a DC
• Just spotted a Dreamcast in Storage Wars: Texas! It's in season 3 episode 27: For the Benefit of Mr. Charles.
• Better Drew Carey Show pics+info here
• DREW CAREY SHOW SEGA HISTORY HERE
• Dreamcast sighting on Netflix's original series, Midnight Diner. This is from Season 1 Episode 7.
• This documentary of the hiphop label Definitive Jux from 2002 has 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. It was a little more apparent in a less blurry version of the video I watched years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p06Ms35bkQ
• I recall that video for the song by Nelly, EI they were playing Dreamcast in the beginning
• Dragon Force - Heart Demolition (music video)
• Project Pat freestyle?
• MTV Cribs - Wu Tang Clan playing some DoA game
• Bits series 4 episode 2 ^_^ time stamped accordingly. https://youtu.be/6RdIw6XoN8U?t=17m20s
• Subway commercial:
• There was a movie called Cheaters with Mary Tyler Moore of all people that featured the main characters playing a Dreamcast at one point.
• 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!".
• 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.
• Air Master (ep 1, 17, 18) - Refs
• Trish using Sarah’s (VF2) quote in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
• Jim Steele becoming the real-life Wolf Hawkfield in AJPW (a promotion for something)
• YuGiOh's "Enemy Controller" card is vaguely Dreamcast-esque with Mega Drive-esque buttons, but I'm not sure. Probably.
• Verify that Mega Water S thing. Still feels like a "probably not" but it's been lingering on my mind.
• 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.
• Animorphs (book series) - Numerous references
• Shinryaku! Ika Musume, episode 4. It's clearly Columns. Ep 10: Streets of Rage
• Expanding the Jurassic World entry: "She doesn't even have Sega! She's such a troglodyte." "Cruel, but good word use."
• 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.
• More song references obscured by forum code
• In the Futurama episode "A Bicyclops Built for Two", all of them are playing a game online, where Fry rolls into a ball to get through a tight passage. A reference to either Sonic or Metroid.
• On the last episode of Code Monkeys on Season 2, one character named Todd managed to get a hold of a pregnant hedgehog, which has numerous babies of all kinds of color. Also, all the hedgehogs wore red and white shoes. He bought a hedgehog for research into his latest game "Colonic the Hedgehog," which doesn't exactly have anything to do with Sonic's gameplay, since it involved digging. Also, the ribbon appears behind the name at some point.
• A reference in a Justice music video?
• In the first Cherub book The Recruit, the protaganist destroys a Dreamcast so that it doesn't get stolen.
• Enter Shikari - Hectic (1:13) "We'll convene at mine 3pm to play, Sega mega drive, goldenaxe and sonic, all day. Never played it? I'll teach you. Can't hack it? I'll beat ya""
• A reference From episode 6 of a series called Honto ni Anna! Reibai Sensei.
• Didn't see this mentioned but there was one in that really shit movie made years ago called See Spot Run about that super agent bulldog and the mailman that befriends him. Anyway, the dude has a Dreamcast. The end.
• Upbeat Music Video with tons of video game references. Surprisingly, Sonic seems to be a big part of it. http://youtu.be/7-tNUur2YoU Beginning of the video, an 8-bit version of the "SEGA" chant, however, it says "GOLDFISH" instead. 2:44, a goldfish-like original fan character(heh) rolls through loop-de-loops and springs and a bunch of other shit. He kills a guy.
• In The Smiths track "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"
• In His and Her Circumstances (aka Kare Kano), there is a sequence where Tsubasa is walking down the street and a series of poor quality monochrome photos of the streets of Japan (Tokyo?) are used. It could be co-incidence or it could be product placement, but you can just make out banners advertising the dreamcast and sonic adventure
• SEGA Dreamcast in Forbidden Kingdom, quite strange considering it came out in 2008!
• "M.I.A. wearing a Sonic shirt in her album cover."
• "Rap references" obfuscated by old forum code.
• In "the port of" No More Heroes, the N64 in Travis' apartment is replaced with a MD+MCD+32X combo.
• Bob's Burgers Season 5 Episode 9 "Speakeasy Rider" reference
• Sting's "Fields of Gold", c. 1994 (starting at about 3:22, watch the barrel): http://youtu.be/KLVq0IAzh1A
• Found this one a few weeks ago: in the Video Games sub-article, part of the Leisure article in Jon Stewart's "Earth: The Book", video games are described as "interactive, graphically rich worlds where we could act out our dreams of being professional athletes, Italian plumbers, mutant hedgehogs, and psychopaths who beat hookers to death".
• There are advantages for looking through PS2 tat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da486unSzLo The High Voltage Software logo from 2006 has a not-Dreamcast Dreamcast in it.
• 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.
• Another Gintama ref?
• In Sailor Stars (the 5th and final season of the original Sailor Moon anime), the girls go to an arcade and play a game that looks like Fighting Vipers.
• I guess this sorta counts: in The Lab, Valve's VR minigame collection for the HTC Vive, there's a game called Xorex. And while the game itself isn't much like it, the fake arcade cabinet is based on the Zaxxon cabinet
• I've just noticed Zaxxon in New Orders' Blue Monday video
• So this apparently just popped up in a recent episode of Yo Kai Watch.
• NHLPA '93 in Swingers (1993)
• "Latest season of" Orange is the New Black
• Whatever the hell this is.
• (Maybe for Sponsorships?): McLaren responded to Sega's sponsorship of the Williams F1 team by putting a picture of a hedgehog being run over on their cars.
• Inferno Cop
• WRASTLING: Guy named CM punk wore a Sonic shirt.
• WRASTLING: Joe Hendry entered the arena to a cover of Escape From The City
• "Dave's new game show 'Go 8 Bit' had a Robotnik cosplayer. They also used old fan art by Chadthecartoonnut lol." What is this?
• The 1996 Taiwan film Goodbye South, Goodbye features a girl playing Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle.
• An early (1995?) Tata Young music video (Thai) with her wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog shirt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSBu9DD5a4
• Better Space Channel 5 pics+info here.
• To expand Mallrats: Word on the street is they wanted to use a Mega Drive, but Sega insisted a Saturn was put in there instead.