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SEGA Zippo Lighters Spark Nostalgia
For $114, you can make smoking cool twice over with these SEGA-themed Zippo lighters. Recently, Zippo has been manufacturing lighters featuring other companies, like Namco, but now SEGA gets love....
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Nostalgia Trippin’
A resident member of the SFGHQ forums, my buddy Cstyler showed up on Monday with a pleasant and awesome surprise. He has created these images of the old Genesis levels with a pseudo-3D viewpoint....
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FOUND: 1993 Israeli Sonic Ads
This blog submission comes to us from Kit Fox from Israel. Kit has dug up some old magazines and found some interesting advertisements from Israeli gaming magazine, “Freak.” The page that he found...
View ArticleThe Sega Genesis LIVES
Click here to view the embedded video. Skip to the 1:50 mark to see a guy controlling a motorized Genesis with its own controller. [via Kotaku]
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Take Your Cards For A Mega Drive
It’s unofficial Mega Drive day here at TSS because I say it is. That and because both Brad and I have found amusing Mega Drive related things for your viewing pleasure. His might literally move but...
View ArticleFirst Footage Of Sonic Classic Collection
UPDATE: The same YouTube user has posted game play from Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic 2. Thanks Eggman123 and Pearl for the heads up. Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the...
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Classic Mega Drive Titles Coming To PSN, Sonic 1 Now Available
After being exclusive to PS Plus members for four weeks, Sonic the Hedgehog was made available to purchase from the PS Store for non-subscribers yesterday in Europe, and Tuesday in the U.S. The game...
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Original Mega Drive Sonic the Hedgehog Unlockable in Sonic Generations
Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka announced at SEGA France’s Paris Games Week presentation over the weekend that the original Mega Drive/Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog game will be an unlockable bonus in...
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Mash-Up Monday: Dilapidated Sky High
Nothing like kicking off the week with PUNCHING and KICKING and such! Feel like the world’s turning against you for some reason? Then RAGE! This quaint little music mash-up was put together by...
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Mega Drive Classic Sonic 1 Coming to iOS & Android, Sonic 2 Also Planned
SEGA has announced at GDC 2013 that the classic Mega Drive title that kickstarted their mascot’s career Sonic the Hedgehog will be released for iOS and Android in April. The game will cost $2.99, run...
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SEGA 3D Classics Confirmed for Western Release
It seems that Sonic the Hedgehog is finally coming to the Nintendo 3DS eShop… but this time, he’s not alone: he’s got some friends along! Through a recent Nintendo Direct Mini, Nintendo of Europe...
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Side Scroller Sanctuary: A Classic Trilogy Retrospective
Art by Veronica Vera, Not Enough Rings This is a retrospective I did of the classic trilogy of Sonic games for SEGABits, celebrating the hedgehog’s 23rd anniversary week last year. I decided to spring...
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New Sonic 1 Alpha Screenshots Uncovered
New screenshots have been unearthed from the Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) alpha thanks to a scan from the August 1990 issue of old SEGA magazine, Mega Drive Fan, uploaded to a forum for discussion. The...
View ArticleTails Can’t Handle This 3D Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Credits Sequence
One of the things we’ve loved about the Nintendo 3DS SEGA re-releases is just how much time and care has been placed into every title. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is no exception, having recently landed on...
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Sonic 3 Composers: Michael Jackson’s Music is in the Game
A new interview with credited musicians of Sonic 3 have added more weight to the age-old theory that the late pop star, Michael Jackson, was deeply involved with the Mega Drive classic’s soundtrack –...
View ArticleSonic the Hedgehog Has Been Inducted Into The Video Game Hall of Fame
Sonic the Hedgehog has now been put in the accolades of fellow major video game franchises such as Pac-Man, Super Mario and Zelda. Today, Sonic the Hedgehog has been inducted into the Video Game Hall...
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Sega Mega Drive: Collected Works Art Book Guns for Second Print Run
A reprint of a critically-acclaimed art book covering the history of the Sega Mega Drive is being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. Read Only Memory’s ‘Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works’ was...
View ArticleOriginal Sonic 3D Developer to Produce ‘Director’s Cut’ Patch
Jon Burton, the founder of Travellers’ Tales (aka TT Games) and one of the original developers of Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island, has announced that he is working on a ‘Director’s Cut’ version of the...
View ArticleThis Sonic 2 Hack Adds Forces Physics, Works As Well As You’d Expect
We can all talk about the wonkiness of ‘My Saturday Morning Apocalypse’ adventure Sonic Forces all day long – perhaps never as concisely as our expert TSS Review, of course – but seeing its physics...
View Article‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Being Used to Train AI
Researchers at the OpenAI institute are using the original Sonic the Hedgehog video game to teach AI how to think about previously unseen, complex scenarios and overcome them. Surely it’s only a matter...
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