Spring is finally here! I've got some exciting stuff coming soon (including volume 2 of the Blu-ray and a very big episode), so I hope you enjoy this fun video in the meantime. A huge thank you to LastPass for asking to sponsor this episode. I've been using their service since 2008 so I was very comfortable working with and endorsing them.
@@skipatrolslayer I remember hearing about it. So find it really interesting. It was one of those playground things to me. I thought it could be made up because it was such a crazy idea at them time. An the idea of my parents paying for such a thing! Nonsense.
@@mazor13 I know what you mean. None of my other friends or anyone at school had it. I remember several times eitherstaying up lateor waking up early to see what new games they were offering. We only had it for a few months, but man what a great few months lol. It's how I was introduced to some of my favorite games on the system.
It's true, Ayrton Senna was in fact considered one of the best drivers in the world. He was not only good at what he was doing, but he was also incredibly loved and admired by the Brazilian people. He was a very kind person, but unfortunately he died in a tragic car crash during one of his races, my mother even told me that she cried a lot on the day of his death. Thank you very much for mentioning him, it really means a lot. :)
He died during the San Marino GP in 1994. That was probably the worst weekend in F1 history. Roland Ratzenberger died during qualifying. At the start of the race, there was a start line shunt that could have killed people. Ayrton died later in the race, bringing out the red flag. The race was restarted, which was disgusting. Later in the race, mechanics were hurt in the pit lane. Every F1 driver met at the Monaco GP to discuss safety. Senna was the Monaco master no doubt about it. Nigel Mansel said in an interview that he would give anything to have Senna back. He was his teamate
I was expecting Blue Sphere. That is a secret game that is actually a Sonic game. I love all the work Norm does and this video was well made. The title is just a small thing I would change.
@@petermcnallt12pm Just search "Blue Sphere Sonic" in google. It just involves using any other cartridge on top of the sonic and knuckles cart instead of sonic 2 or 3. The original sonic unlocks all the levels, most other carts only unlock one. It is just harder and harder versions of the blue sphere collection level.
Sonic made an appearance in 1991 in the Sega arcade racing game Rad Mobile as an ornament (air freshener?) hanging from the mirror while you drive. This was actually a few months before the Genesis game launched. It received a port to Saturn (as Gale Racer) in 1994.
@@ScottWozniak This video was specifically about the Genesis/Mega Drive, though. At least, until he got to the "bonus" section that covered the Game Gear's library. He should have just included Sonic's cameos across ALL Sega hardware, that would have been a more interesting video and also wouldn't have left him feeling like he needed to scrape the bottom of the barrel just to have enough content to cross the "10 minutes of original content" threshold. I don't know the details, but relatively recently, RU-vid added an incentive for creating videos with more than 10 minutes of originally produced content, at least that's what I gleam, my channel was demonetized long before this went into place. I'm not even sure WHY they gave me a partnership many years ago, I've never had many subs and my views typically don't reach 500 lol. But yeah, this episode would have benefited from opening up the restriction to encompass ALL Sega produced hardware. Counting Sonic cameo's after the demise of the Dreamcast would make it not fit in with the rest of this series, and also veer into the dreaded "not yet retro but not modern" territory that retro gaming channels seem to avoid with the diligence of a bureaucrat crafting the text for the paperwork required to keep his rival bureaucrat busy for the next four years. He uses the same typewriter he's had since he was a young bureaulad, aged 65, fresh out of Uni and the only thing that turns him on is hearing the click of a typewriter. Ah yes, what the fuck was I talking about? I forget, but that's ok, I am in a manic episode that isn't going to lead to full on psychosis, so I will enjoy this before the depression returns and cripples my commenting to "none at all" or "four words at most, once a day at best." Cheers! Xd.
@@RumchugMusic at least you could see the graphics on a Game Boy. When I played the Game Gear the screen was overly blurry and awful. The Game Boy screen, while not backlit, was surprisingly clear.
@PXLTRON both systems were the same age and owned by the same person since they were new. It wasn't just the age. The Game Gear's screen really was bad, as some reviews from the time show.
Come on, Sonic going faster than F1 cars in Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP2 is very cool. :) Also, another Easter egg in the same game: you can play with the Hang on bike on the practice mode using a secret code.
My favorite hidden Sonic cameo is in Bug! For Sega Saturn where you have to race him in a bonus round or in Christmas Nights where he can be unlocked as a playable character!
Click bait titles for a quality channel such as this doesn't bother me so much. If it gets him a few more views and subs, so be it, he deserves it. Click bait titles for RU-vid trash on the other hand...
I miss my Sega Channel! I had it in 1996-1997 and it was AMAZING! I remember waking up so happy when my brother said last night that there'd be new games on the Sega Channel tomorrow. It was like BlockBuster in our own home! I was 6, but I still remember being at Nana's house in Waco, Texas and my brother told me about a new Sega Channel game that has a new Sonic character who was red and named "Knuckles". I couldn't wait to get back home to play our new Sega Channel games! (Funny bonus fact: I asked him if I could play it on the computer at Nana's house). Nowadays, that's a reality. :)
Another great video! "Trash talk" from console rivals could make an interesting secrets video. For instance, Sega or Nintendo subtly throwing some shade at the other's mascot.
Gotta do that Sega Channel video. I vividly remember playing that thing at my friend's house...was finicky as hell, but even as a Nintendo fanboy, I thought it was an awesome idea.
Great video as usual! You missed one - In Sega Bass Fishing for the Sega Dreamcast, if you do flawlessly in the tournament mode, the Sonic Lure is the final lure you earn in the game; It is literally a (very nice) 3d model of sonic scaled down to crankbait size with a treble hook and a crank bait lip on it. Also catches fish easier.
Fun video must say did noticed some of these sonic figures in other video games in the passed. Only did not know there where so many Sonic figures in other games.
I had Sega Channel as a kid, I'd be totally down for a video on it. It was an interesting service, played plenty of games I never even would have heard of otherwise.
God, _Sports Talk Baseball,_ one of my favourites as a kid. The stilted commentary brings me back still, such a fun time. *Infield back! Infield in! Infield normal!*
@@juandeereftw7197 everyone will hate you because of it, assuming they're a fan, at least, and he has a lot of fans, so they will attack you and put you to your knees, it's like attacking Beta64, everyone will hate you because of it, this is the internet, not to be serious, but you cannot control me, and you shouldn't try, you do not have the power to do that after all, if you still hate this channel, everyone might report you, just saying, i'm merely talking about the consequences that could happen, i'm not trying to warn you, after all.
Definitely do an episode on Sega Channel! That just seems like a crazy concept to me and I've been wanting to know more about it since I first heard of it.
Fun Fact/Coincidence: Sega sponsored a Formula One race in 1993 (European GP), at Donnington Park, England. That race had Ayrton Senna as the winner. And it's very remembered as the best first lap ever.
If you’re here, just go to 1:02... Unless you really think the norm for RU-vid videos should be superimposing an Advertisement BEFORE a video. And if you’re not on RU-vid Red or Adblocker (use the browser if you’re on iOS/Android), then you might be stuck watching an Advertisement before the Advertisement before the video. Who would’ve thought when we first saw sponsors pop up for a few seconds at the end of a video that they’d start putting ads before ads? Great job content creators, way to avoid unnecessary redundancy...
Sonic's first appearance anywhere was a cameo - it was in the 1990 arcade game Rad Mobile. Also, while OutRunners was the 3rd arcade installment, there were other games before OutRunners on the Master System (Out Run Europa & Battle Out Run, and if you want to count it, Out Run 3D).
He and a few ghosts appear in Mortal Kombat 1 as signs on a wall, not that crazy when you remember that Midway used to license out all sorts of arcade cabinets back in the day. (top right) i.imgur.com/YRGtDDN.jpg
If you do a future video about Sega Channel, don't sleep on the game Pulseman! It was a Sega Channel exclusive in the US, made by Game Freak, and it's one of the best games on the Genesis.
Didn't realize I wasn't subbed before, but the music from "Panic!" at 6:24 sealed the deal. that's one of those games I played as a kid that nobody I knew, had heard of. GH you da man!
This was pretty cool to see how many games had sonic in them as cameos. Speaking of cameos I highly recommend watching this video Sonics first Unknown home appearance by RU-vidr Larry Bundy Jr. It states that Sonics first "official" home appearance wasn't actually the US release of Sonic 1 but an Amiga game
I think it would be really interesting to see a video on the progression of arcades in the 80s in the US. Like when games started to pop up in gas stations and what not and led to profitable businesses
Idk, personally there's something about handing over literally all my usernames and passwords to some company that just doesn't sit right with me...think I'll pass on Last Pass, no offense to them!
Wow, Shining Force 2 is one of my all-time favourite games (not that I've played it for decades) and I had absolutely no idea about the shape of that map.
One little curiosity/story about Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II. The game have this title and all of the Senna stuff because of Sega's Brazilian distributor Tec Toy. When Tec Toy learn about Super Monaco GP II, they pitched to Sega about making an Ayrton Senna game, and Sega accepted, mainly because Senna is a god in Japan, they love him much as we brazilians do, so was an easy pitch. Then, the game was suposed to feature Senna's voice acting giving the player tips about every F1 track of the season and his personal tracks (which was included on the game), and Senna actually recorded those lines, which leads us to another Senna episode: The game included every track of 1991's F1 season, included the NEW Circuit of Catalunya. Sega asked to Senna to record generic tips, with the circuit layout given, but Senna adamantly refused, stating that he would sound insincere and fake, so he goes to the weekend, qualified and raced, finishing in 5th place. Then, tired, but knowing about the circuit, he recored his lines, like a pro. Unfortunally, due to cartridge limitations, those lines with Senna's tips about the races were cut from the final game, but the story kinda shows, the kind of professional Senna was.
I think a Tetris Secret Games episode would be a good idea. I found one in the Ghostbusters games, If you look at the computer screen after selecting your character you can see the Tetris game.
I have played Ayrton Senna's Monaco GP to the point I won races and the championship with the Moon outfit skipping races, I haven't played it for over 15 years and still know the tracks by heart, and I had never seen that Sonic. Awesome.
Same here. I remember it started out with 50 games selection a month, then it switched to 50 games ever two weeks. I had more games on SNES then my Genesis, but I played more of the Genesis due to Sega Channel.
I had the Sega Channel as a teenager and I remember loving it for the first month we had it. That was what introduced me to at the time was a pretty amazing Vectorman game and the terrible Time Killers. However I felt like they didn't rotate enough different games every month just a couple of games per month would change.
The honesty is refreshing when he admits the cameos are disappointing. Most presenters would try and hype it up like it was a privilege to see Sonic on a billboard in a sports game.
Finally, a new Gaming Historian video I've been waiting for so long!!! I hope you can create contents on weekly basis. I love this channel very much because it reminds me of my wonderful childhood. Thank you Gaming Historian.
Capcom is notorious for putting cameo's of their characters in game they don't belong, like Chuni-li in Final Fight 2. Chronicling all the Capcom cameos would d be cool
Not strictly according to the rules, but in the true ending in DKC2 (SNES), can be seen the sonic shoes; and in Uniracers (SNES), you can't use the name Sonic for your character. Great video btw
For people who are into this kind of thing, you should check out a game called Rise & Shine. It's basically video game references the video game. Sonic is even in the title screen art :)
Can't say I was one of the people clamoring for this subject matter but any time @thegaminghistorian posts a video I'm here and also found these little appearances by Sonic rather interesting in the end. Another great video good Sir. As always thanks.
So apparently this year is Minecraft's ten year anniversary. I don't know about anyone else, but I'd love to see a video about the history of Minecraft in time for that.
It's sort of interesting as it's never gone on sale price to my knowledge either, you would think they would have hit a market saturation point and reduced to price.
In a development screen of Rave Racer 2 (a Ridge Racer game that got tossed out before development got very far), the in-car view of the Sega Car has Sonic in the windshield hanging from the rear view mirror. As far as I know, it is a showing of an attempt on Namco's behalf to team up with Sega. I would of loved to of seen the full game, even if like the first Rave Racer, it was strictly an arcade release. Actually, I'd love to see you cover the Ridge Racer games at some point, if you haven't already. It's actually a really good series with plenty of lore and mystery, not to mention history. Also, I fucking love Outrun, but I love it more as an arcade machine game with a sit-down console (sit in a chair like you're behind the wheel of the car itself).