Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Feb 9, 2012, 3:18 pm
Here's another neat article found in the official UK Sega magazine, from issue 15 (March 1995) featuring Sega of America's website at the time! Would you look at that! I thought this would be an interesting thing to put up as there is no way to access far back anymore: the Way back machine can go as...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Feb 6, 2012, 8:15 am
Now here's something I can't say I have seen anywhere before: a free promotional comic strip for the Mega Drive cult classic Comix Zone! This was a freebie with issue 38 of Mean Machines Sega (the issue of which was when the mag became an official one), though I would imagine it was available to...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Feb 4, 2012, 11:27 am
One of the best articles (at least for this blog) that I found in my new collection of the official UK Sega magazine was this two page article about Sonic Merchandise from Issue #5 (from May 1994). It shows off tons of the Sonic toys, clothes, stationary, books and even food from the era, most of...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Feb 1, 2012, 7:27 am
So I've finally got my hands on a complete set of this magazine. A friend of mine is moving to Sweden soon and is selling a majority of his game collection, and he let me have these for nothing. I also bought a bunch of stuff from him including a pile of Game Gear games, a Sega Nomad and even a Tige...
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Jan 22, 2012, 3:52 pm
Howdy howdy howdy. If you follow me elsewhere such as on Twitter and my more frequently updated Tumblr page, you may of seen me talking about re-branding my website. If not basicilly I've wanted to ditch the maketeanotwar and Tea N Crumpets branding for a while and just now I did it. I am going to k...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Jan 12, 2012, 3:38 pm
Came home this afternoon to find this sitting in my corridor! As you could probably guess I couldn't wait to tear this box open (well, tear it open in a very careful nerdy manner anyway) to see! I don't have time for an unboxing video so I took a truck load of photos instead! Just play this music in...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Jan 12, 2012, 9:07 am
The 2013 Guinness Book of Records Gamer Edition better give Sonic the award for most statues produced for a video game mascot's anniversary. The latest commemorative statue, released by Jazwares in the United States (more territories have yet to be confirmed), may not stack up against the fancy Firs...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Jan 2, 2012, 8:34 am
So First4Figures have just stuck this picture up recently on their Facebook of yet another statue in their classic Sonic range, this time of Tails flying on what appearers to be a stand based on the Mushroom Hill zone. I have to say though, "Coming in 2012" seems very unlikely to me, seeing as we ar...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Dec 31, 2011, 7:18 am
How's this for a "Sega Memory"? Cameron Strother, the man that as a young boy sang in the game NiGHTS into Dreams, contacted NiGHTSintodreams.com recently with a rather special gift: a brand new duet of the song "Dreams Dreams" between himself and Jasmine Ann Allen, the other original singer! Jasmi...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Dec 28, 2011, 11:59 am
 Eeek! It's the brotherhood of Metallix! I love when First4Figures does this. They have put up production photos of the Metal Sonic statue on their Facebook. You know what this means? They are almost ready for shipment! This also means a big chunk of cash will be leaving my bank account. Ouch.
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Dec 19, 2011, 8:09 am
Art Summary 2011: AKA the year I finally got the hang of Illustrator and never turned back. Not quite as active of a year for art or animating as last year, but still a pretty good one and in a quite a few cases the art lead to great things, like prizes! Note: these are placed under the months I was...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Dec 18, 2011, 10:34 am
Believe it or not, this is the American strategy guide for Sonic CD! Back in 1994, between the release of Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles, strategy guide publisher Brady Games released this guide. The book covers all of Sonic 3, but as Sonic and Knuckles had yet to be released and because Sonic 3 its...
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Dec 18, 2011, 7:49 am
Seems like a good time as any to post this years Christmas card. Done in Illustrator and Photoshop, I swear I can’t live without those anymore.Happy whatever you celebrate at this time of the year!
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Dec 18, 2011, 7:47 am

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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Dec 15, 2011, 9:45 am
So Sega has given us the get go to publish our entries for the Sonic CD art contest they set up some time back, with the results being shown on their blog later today. I got e-mailed this morning that I was one of the 50 UK winners! This means I'll be getting a copy of the soundtrack sent in the pos...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Dec 14, 2011, 2:47 pm
Sonic CD is something of a special game to me. game play and level layout wise, it's not my favourite game and not even my favourite Sonic game, but the art style, soundtrack and general tone of the game is by far the one that has stuck with me the most ever since I played it in 1994 when I was ...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Dec 14, 2011, 11:25 am
I did a post like this back when the new downloadable port of Daytona USA was released and I'm doing it again now because Sega deserves to be shown when they do something oh so right. Sonic CD is being released for the X-Box Live Arcade and Playstation Network (in Europe anyway, PSN America gets it ...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Dec 13, 2011, 5:20 am
Meat Bun have been selling unique creative video game t-shirts for quite some time now (such as the day of the Dead inspired Samba De Amigo design) and recently they released a new batch of designs including 2 Sega themed ones! First off, an Alex Kidd design! Never thought I'd see that! This one can...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Nov 2, 2011, 10:14 am
No? Me neither. You don't really cuddle fishes as such do you? Especially fish with miserable ugly human-like faces on them. Still, the Dreamcast game Seaman, in which you raised said creature and had chats with it via a microphone, was big enough of a hit in Japan for it to warrant merchand...
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Oct 26, 2011, 7:33 am
New bloggomic. This happens semi-regularly. No I don’t go on holiday a lot but weekends at Stacey’s require a suitcase fulla clothes and bits.
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Oct 24, 2011, 7:53 am
MCM Expo is under week away, starting this Friday! We now know where our table will be so look for us in this top-ish (or bottom-ish) corner if you’re going! We both have quite a chunk of new stuff to offer (especially Stacey) so come have a butchers! See more details about it here and of course...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Oct 22, 2011, 7:10 pm
I've seen these little Sonic toy capsules quite a bit over the past year. They're at Target, they're at Wal-Mart and they were at the local "$5 or Less" store. It was at the last location I finally caved and picked up three, in hopes that I wouldn't be screwed over with two werehogs and a Shadow. So...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Oct 20, 2011, 2:26 pm
Anybody who has seen my XBOX avatar knows I'm a Samba de Amigo nut. I paid real money for the virtual sombrero, I own both versions of the Dreamcast game and have three different sets of maracas. One thing I don't have, however, is this sweet fan made shirt entitled "¡samba de los muertos!" for sal...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Oct 13, 2011, 7:16 am
Sega have been doing a lot to keep fans happy lately, especially on the downloadble games front. As of late they have brought us the Saturn classic Guardian Heroes, two more Dreamcast games including the mega-rare Space Channel 5 Part 2, and later this year we will be getting Sonic CD. Best of all, ...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Oct 11, 2011, 3:25 pm
It's that time again! First4Figures has opened pre-orders for the forth in their series of highly luxurious and highly expensive Sonic statues, this time of Knuckles punching into the ground of the lava reef zone! Much like the Super Sonic and still as yet to be released Metal Sonic statues, this on...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Oct 10, 2011, 5:17 pm
As a little brat I used to go roller-blading from time to time at one of those indoor places where a whole bunch of kids would be roller-blading in a big circle with a disco ball and whatever music was in at the time. I played Bomberman for the first time on an arcade cabinet there, but that's got n...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Oct 10, 2011, 2:58 pm
That's right, stamps! Why not? Bpost have released a set of five stamps with pretty standard artwork of Sonic, including some with Sonic grouped up with Tails, Shadow and Amy. is this the first time Sonic has ever been seen on a stamp, excluding eBay bootlegs? Either way it's interesting to see what...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Oct 9, 2011, 9:48 am
They released a pixellated image of this statue a while ago, and now it's revealed that Knuckles will be the next in First4figures line of massive (and expensive) Sonic statues! So far it doesn't look as though there will be a additional light-up limited edition like there was for Super Sonic and Me...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Oct 4, 2011, 3:43 pm
I apologize for the lack of non-Sonic SEGA posts over the past year, but you gotta believe me: it's not my fault! SEGA has been celebrating Sonic's 20th in a huge way, by offering up amazing classic figures, statues and books. Heck, we've yet to even see the release of Sonic Generations and we've al...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Sep 29, 2011, 1:03 pm
Thanks to the awesome free to use television archive site fuzzymemories.tv, operated by The Museum of Classic Chicago Television, I came across three very old SEGA ads for games released to arcades, Atari and ColecoVision consoles. That's right, these are pre-Master System ads! Funny how SEGA was a ...
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Sep 28, 2011, 8:52 am
We played quite a lot of the games on show at the Eurogamer Expo, or at least a majority of the ones we were interested in. A lot of the games that were getting huge queues like Skyrim and all the first person shooters were not on our interest list (that's right, boo at this man) so excluding the PS...
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Sep 25, 2011, 2:46 pm
So the first half of the prize I won from Ubisoft and RaymanPC occured over the weekend: the trip to Eurogamer Expo in Earl's Court, London! We already had tickets pre-ordered a while back for the Saturday so we had those tickets changed into Thursday ones so we could be there a total of three days ...
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Sep 14, 2011, 1:38 pm
Ubisoft have been rather lovely to me lately. First they printed my rabbids art in the official fan club magazine, and now this! The above art was my entry for a contest run by the Rayman Pirate Community, which is not a website for people that burn CD-Rs of Rayman games but rather the biggest Rayma...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Sep 12, 2011, 2:28 pm
I've held off on sharing a lot of these as I was awaiting to have every figure that I wanted in my hands. Now that that time has come, I can finally show off everything in one go, so prepare yourself for an epically sized Sonic action figure post. Hey, at least it's better than me spamming SEGA Memo...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Sep 8, 2011, 7:40 am
Watch live streaming video from gagaman at livestream.com Today is the day before the 12th anniversary of 9/9/99 and because I won't have time to livestream tomorrow just before barry's one I've decided to dedicate today for my show! I will be starting at 1pm UK time (7:00am Eastern Standard Time) w...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Sep 7, 2011, 11:44 am
... So yeah, would you look at that. Sega have just revealed the European collector's edition of Sonic generations and boy is it something special. Here is Sega's announcement copy-pasted: Celebrations continue in Europe for Sonic the Hedgehog’s 20th anniversary with an impressive collector’s ed...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Sep 5, 2011, 12:13 pm
So recently in my eBay hunts for anything and everything Sega I came across this oddity. I had a crack at bidding on it but lost out though it didn't go for any where as much as I thought it would, but it's worth talking about I think. Finding one of these in the UK is extremely rare as they were on...
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Sep 1, 2011, 9:13 am
Well here's something I've wanted to try out in quite some time: QR codes! I've set this one up so I can get it printed on my new business card which I will start designing sometime soon in time for the MCM Expo in October. So anyway here they are! They both link to the same page which has links to...
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Sep 1, 2011, 9:07 am
Just to let you guys and girls know that me and Stacey will have a table at the MCM London Expo once again on October the 28th-30th. same Gaga time, same Gaga place! Well roughly, not sure what table we have excatly yet but I'll let you know as soon as I know! We will have all the same wares we had ...
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Aug 23, 2011, 3:11 pm
New Bloggomic. Both these things did happen (except the lemur talking part anyway). The latter was a show where they showed off some animals and the lemur just took a mooch around the audience and walked right under us! Btw yes I do mainly post on my Tumblr account now but I haven't forgotten abo...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Aug 21, 2011, 12:41 pm
Regulars to SEGA Memories should know about the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 McDonalds toys and how Japanese fans were treated to a very different looking Eggman toy. Gagaman covered it not too long ago. While Westerners received an Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog design of Robotnik, the Japanese received...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Aug 13, 2011, 3:30 pm
I'm back with another of the Jazwares Sonic 20th Anniversary figures! This time we're looking at an old favorite: Classic Tails and Grabber from 1992. This has got to be one of my favorite figures yet, as it represents my favorite Sonic game and includes a badnik from my favorite zone, Chemical Plan...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Jul 30, 2011, 6:08 pm
Jazwares has finally shipped the first wave of Sonic the Hedgehog 20th Anniversary figures to stores! I feel like we've been talking about this line forever. Since February, we here at SEGA Memories have been eagerly anticipating this action figure line that promised characters (and enemies) from ...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Jul 22, 2011, 8:35 am
I had always thought that Square Enix only churned out Final Fantasy action figures. But apparently they do more than just Cloud and Yuffie, they also have produced stunning figures of characters from Metal Gear Solid, Batman: Arkham Asylum and even SEGA's own Vanquish. Revealed at Comic Con is this...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Jul 15, 2011, 8:39 am
Digging through my old image files, I came across these remnants of Sonic fandom past: my old Sonic Adventure 2 chao fan comic "Chao Fan World". Dated August 20th, 2001, these Sonic Adventure 2 inspired comics began when I frequented the forums at The Sonic Foundation . As forum members began to ra...
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Aaron F. posted an article on The GagaMan (n) Is In. - Jul 13, 2011, 10:58 am
Better late than never I suppose. In case you're wondering what this is even about check out this post from Sega Memories.
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Jul 7, 2011, 6:39 am
Here's the last of the footage I took on the day. My camcorder batteries ran out so I couldn't get as much as i would have liked but still. here you will see us joining the signing queue for Yuji Naka and Takashi Iizuka, of which we got to watch Never Mind the Buzz Bombers while in it. There is also...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Jul 5, 2011, 4:46 pm
So here is (most) of the cosplay contest in a huge 22 minute video! I didn't get all of it because one of my camcorder batteries ran out half way through and at one point I thought I was recording and it turns out I wasn't, oops! Either way you can see most of the people that went up on stage to com...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Jul 5, 2011, 7:53 am
Funny how NiGHTS anniversary is so close to Sonic's really: only 5 years and 11 days between them. Both were the defining games for their respective Sega consoles though while one went on to become one of the biggest franchises in the industry the other has barely been seen of in it's entire existen...
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Aaron F. posted an article on Sega Memories - Jul 4, 2011, 4:56 pm
So here's the first of three videos of the day itself! Here you will see where we arrived at about 9:30 to join the huge queue! That was just the queue for those who had reserved, the other queue for those who had not was even longer and some people were waiting outside until well into the afternoon...
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