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This series of games is just about the only videogame-related collecting I’ve done. I just had to have all them little boxes
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Oh, neat!
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Not having the weirdly shaped Eidos boxes is a bummer but this is neat!
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definitely a game made for these times
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i think the sega dreamcast in japan had one of the best console boxes of all time
also, the solid blue PS2 box was wicked, as well. i wish i had saved mine.
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When did they run this box? I’m imagining it as the maudlin ‘we’ve already announced we’re killing it, SGGG is our destiny’ obituary box
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Nope!
In 1998, Hidekazu Yukawa, Senior Managing Director of Sega, became an overnight celebrity in Japan when he began appearing in Sega commercials that were promoting their upcoming console, the Dreamcast. The first commercial shows Yukawa overhearing some kids disrespecting Sega and praising Sony and their own gaming console, the PlayStation. Saddened by this, he mentions what he had heard to his employees and later hits the streets to wallow in his own sorrow. While in his state of despair, some gang members rough him up and say some demeaning things to him. He finally staggers home where his wife finds him as a total mess. When the commercial ends, you hear a kid say: “Get on your feet, Yukawa!”
Yukawa’s acting was so good that it convinced viewers that he was a professional actor. After the public viewed the first few commercials he was in, Sega was flooded with emails and phone calls that were praising him. He became so popular that his face was put on prepaid convenience store cards and photo sticker booths. Kids even mimicked his acting from the commercials. He was so famous, Sega decided to put his face on the back of Dreamcast boxes so it could attract more customers into buying a Dreamcast.
Just Sega being weirdos.
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Yukawa replaces shady travel agency guy in the chase scene at the end of this Shenmue demo
I got that version of the console because it apparently was a bit sturdier than later models and had “better heating efficiency.” Some unproven or insignificant BS I found on a dreamcast-specific forum about metal heatsinks and fan blades. It has a mail-in card you could send in for a browser disc that let your DC act as a WebTV.
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eta: i’m so disappointed they didn’t have Yukawa’s face doing the dramatic turn to the camera pose like the other characters.
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