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PandaMonium@pandamonium· 20d

New footage of Sega of America's Tom Kalinske taking questions at E3 1995 sometime after the PlayStation "$299 Speech," courtesy of the new Anthony Parisi tape acquired and released by @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

PandaMonium@pandamonium· 23d

I hope the WAITING FOR ENTRY girl is doing alright.

This is a screenshot of Virtua Racing for the arcade, released in 1992. It displays the waiting screen that shows when waiting for a multiplayer match to begin. In it, a woman with black hair and a one-piece swimsuit is standing to the left with "VR" tattooed in bright capital letters on the left side of her chest. She appears to be wearing ear buds. To the right of the screen, a box that says "WAITING FOR ENTRY - INSERT COIN(S)" shows above a countdown, counting down from twenty. Text at the bottom of this box says Virtua Racing. The background of this image is of a beach with calm waves on a partly cloudy summer day.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· 28d

:sadyeehaw:

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jul 12

Watch those wrist rockets.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jul 9

Nice of them to put in Link Wray as a boss in Soul Hackers.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jul 8

Goldfinger doesn’t miss, the new album rips

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jul 4

A screenshot of a Facebook image post showing a short white semi truck next to a Taco Bell location. The truck has US flag artwork painted on the trailer with “We the People” in a handwriting font style. The post text reads, “Saw this beautiful truck sitting at Taco Bell on Godwin this evening when I left work,” followed by a U.S. flag emoji and red/white/blue heart emojis.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jul 3

Current goings on reminded me of this Tom Kalinske email from the SegaFY1997 leak. Not exactly the same issue, nor am I suggesting the physical media exit started in 196. But still.

"I have been saying the same thing. If the Video Game Industry does not find a way of increasing retailer margins, we will soon be left with only specialty store distribution. In the past year we have seen many retailers exit the business, ie Macy's, Shopko, Hills, Kohl's, etc.; more will this year if margin is not increased. The toy industry went through this several years ago and had too make changes to address this. FYI."

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jun 23

More Dirt Rally 2.0 shitposting

Leaderboard shows me (P. Saturn Slut) winning the stage with a .021 time gap ahead of second place. The second picture is a close up of the time difference.

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PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jun 18

Isis the family cat, who is now roughly 20 years old, is still going strong. During my visit last weekend, I was informed that at her latest annual checkup, the vet was like, “How??” You see, she cannot die, for she harbors the universe within her butt. She is a cosmic being, a vessel for our world.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jun 16

From 2008. I did not have proper hair care figured out yet, and clearly had issues with DS care. Somewhat good ending here: It was replaced with a DS Lite in a matter of days.

A long haired 9th grade weirdo holds up a blue OG DS with a busted hinge. Both screens still light up, but the top half of the DS hangs at a roughly 100 degree angle. This picture is in a basement with artwork scattered across the white brick wall in the background near an iMac G3. The year is 2008.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jun 15

Clicked the "Inspiration" tab without fully realizing what the hell it was. I do not condone or support this insulting feature, nor will I ever click it again, but I had to take a screenshot because it's kind of hilarious.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jun 13

More flippy.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jun 10

Flippy Toad

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Jun 9

Never a sinner when you’re a fidget spinner.

A rusted out green fidget spinner sits on a brick sidewalk at daytime, top down view.

A rusted out green fidget spinner sits on a brick sidewalk at daytime, side view with grass in the background.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· May 28

Another absolute hum dinger from Ken Horowitz. Must read.

Sega-16: I don’t know if you’ve seen this article about a lecture Irimajiri gave in 2022, where he talked about Tom Kalinske’s departure and SOA’s financial troubles around 1995-1996. I was wondering if you knew anything about that or had something to add. There’s a lot that’s still unclear.

Mike Fischer: I was still a junior team member back in those days, so I got to sit in on some amazing executive sessions, but I wasn’t a key participant and wasn’t privy to any of the discussions you mentioned. Also, I was pretty focused on Pico at the time and wasn’t involved with Saturn/32X at all; however, I do have some general observations.

All the stories are pretty consistent and ring true to me. Keep in mind that the Mega Drive was already dead in Japan while the Genesis was still going strong. That’s why the US team wanted to keep reaping the benefits of the Genesis active installed base while Japan wanted to quickly move on to the next generation and have another shot at success.

In retrospect, the introduction of the Super Nintendo meant that Sega Japan was right to quickly prepare for a next-gen battle.

I think the criticism of Tom for not managing the U.S. inventory and the price protection issue is a little bit of “victim blaming.” At this point, Sega still had an export-driven model. Sega Japan sold and shipped hardware and cartridges to Sega of America, and kept most of the added value on the Japan P&L (profit and loss). Of course, it all evened out on the consolidated P&L at the end of the day, but the Overseas Consumer Products Division (my division) only knew how to do one thing: push the subsidiaries and distributors to buy more product. A subsidiary like SOE or SOA really can’t refuse. Europe doesn’t have price protection in its markets, and it also has more global outlets it can use to clear old inventory, but the SOA team is stuck with what gets shipped to them. SOA pushed back hard, but at the end of the day, it needed to order quantities big enough to satisfy its HQ counterparts.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· May 27

Front cover for the George Clanton edition of Make My Video, a smash hit FMV classic for the SEGA CD. The King of Vaporwave was a huge get for Digital Pictures, helping jettison their vision for interactive video to living rooms across the world.

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PandaMonium@pandamonium· Apr 27

Double Switch is next in my Saturn series. After getting an obscene amount of material, this spiraled into a 7+ hour video about the history of Digital Pictures, its canceled projects, and why it shut down. Digging for Isix early release for Patreons/Ko-fi by April 30th, public premiere on May 9th.

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PandaMonium@pandamonium· Apr 16

lol I kinda hate social media

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Mar 30

Hey guys. So I am about 75% done with the video edit. Once I have a rough cut done, I will have an actual release day. Getting close now. :)

The Statue of Isix, as seen in the FMV game Double Switch. The small statuette depicts a woman carved out of blue stone standing on a round platform with a large disc protruding from the top of her head.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Mar 28

The SEGA CD version of Double Switch being used as a prop in the Sega Saturn port of Double Switch.

PandaMonium@pandamonium· Mar 27

If you’ll forgive me for the tired meme: