Talk:References to Sega/Film and television

To do

• References to Sonic in sports that aren't sponsorships (including wrestling)
• Commercials and 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 (if possible.)
• So the reason Wreck-It Ralph's section doesn't mention the Hang-On inspired full-body taikan stuff is because that's such a popular shape for that type of hardware that it needs mentioning elsewhere. Which brings me to: This article needs brief summaries on "generic references" to very popular Sega things... i.e. the Hang-On style of sit-down motorcycle cabinet was so popular and widespread that pretty much anytime you see a fictional arcade with "sit-down motorcycle games", they're almost always a Hang-On "reference" (at least through inspiration.) The Music references article will need the same thing. So short of listing every piece of media featuring Hang-On-like sit-down motorcycle cabs, we can keep it to a brief section with a few examples and maybe an inline image.
• For both this article and its Sonic Retro equivalent, make a brief section on Sonic's appearances in general video game history books (because we're not including them otherwise.)
• Mark which references are product placements.

Links

https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/page-4 (Pg. 4)

• https://www.neogaf.com/threads/sega-genesis-megadrive-appreciation-thread-alien-storm-golden-axe.509554/page-131
• https://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4261
• https://productplacementblog.com
• https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast

CartridgeCulture (talk) 22:50, 30 April 2022 (EDT)

To add

• 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 s1 ep1 - two main characters talk about NFL 2K
• 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.
• 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.