In-between generating brilliant, though sometimes how-you-say batshit crazy new properties, Treasure needed some way to pay the bills. Occasionally they would make games based on preexisting properties like Astro Boy or even Tiny Toons, long after the show had ended. You can’t blame them, we all gots ta get paid,…
The great Philip J. Fry once said (or will say, I guess) this about ads, “…on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written in the sky.” In an information soaked society such as our own,…
In writing these columns every week, I watch a whole lot of SEGA commercials. Until now I’ve almost entirely focused on American ads. Every week I seem to bitch about the same things like the adverts just being someone screaming gibberish at you over clips from the games. So, this…
1Up posted a new trailer for SEGA and Platinum’s upcoming game, Vanquish. This clip shows us more of the story than we’ve seen. Now we know a bit more than it’s like Starship Troopers with Iron Man and AT-AT walkers. I had a chance to check out the demo on…
Dear SEGA, My name is Matthew Jay, I write a weekly column about your past and present ad campaigns called Radvertisements. Sometimes I genuinely enjoy the commercials and magazine ads you produce and it makes me want to purchase the games featured in said ads. This is the reaction you…
In the classroom at JRPG High, Final Fantasy sits in the front row with his collar popped and sunglasses on inside, Dragon Quest is giving the teacher a nice shiny apple and waaaaay in the back by himself, reading a magazine about a Japanese computer you’ve never heard of is…