SonicJPNews archive blog: 03/21/19

2019/03/21

Naka-san once wanted to use Mario but got rejected by Nintendo

News from 2019.03.21
Archived on 2019.03.24

Naka-san on Nintendo being generous for letting an indie game studio use its own IP:


"Letting an indie studio use Zelda's IP - I guess Nintendo has changed,. I remembered that time when I went to them and said we wanted to use Mario, and was rejected straight away."


That must've been way before they were planning Mario & Sonic at Olympic games. I wonder what Naka-san wanted to make with Mario back then...

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GDC Awards 2019 Ceremony: Rieko Kodama-san receives Pioneer Awards as the first Japanese woman

News from 2019.03.21-22
Archived on 2019.04.13

The Game Developers Choice (GDC) Award Ceremony was held on this day and Ms. Rieko Kodama from SEGA Games received the Pioneer Awards as the first Japanese woman for this awards.
Congratulations!

She was unfortunately not able to attend the ceremony on the place, but she sent a video message for the ceremony, which can be seen in the archive of livestream on Twitch.


The news also made it to several game news sites. Congratulations, Kodama-san!

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Naka-san visits old SEGA HQ again: all traces of SEGA are gone

News from 2019.03.21
Archived on 2019.03.24

Naka-san re-visited the old building of SEGA HQ again to discover that the SEGA logos are now completely gone.

He posted following tweets with pictures:

"I visited the Haginaka Park near SEGA Enterprises for my children's bike riding practice, and I took this opportunity to see the building again. All of the signboards and logos on the ground were removed. According to a guardman, due to confidentiality he can't tell me what the next company is going to be, but the construction starts next week. I wonder if it's going to be taken down. "

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New SEGA game character key chains from Amiami!

News from 2019.03.20
Archived on 2019.03.23

New merchandise from Amiami-Figure: SEGA game character key chains (5 pack set)!
Pre-order begins in April. Get your acryl key holders of Rent a Hero, Virtualon, Puyo Puyo, Space Channel 5 and NiGHTS!

That design for NiGHTS is beautiful, don't you think?

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Naganuma-san knows we want a new Sonic Rush game...

News from 2019.03.20
Archived on 2019.03.23

Sonic Rush composer Naganuma-san has a question to you!

 What's your answer?

And yep, he knows. And it looks like he also does want another Sonic Rush game.
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2nd Anniversary of SonicJPNews! Thank you everyone!

News from 2019.03.20
Archived on 2019.03.23

It was the 2nd anniversary of my SonicJPNews account! Time flies.
Here are my messages I posted on Twitter. Thank you everyone for your support! I wish my free time hobby is also helpful to other people.



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