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:

インディースタジオにゼルダのIPを使わせてくれてる任天堂って変わった感じがしますね。昔マリオを使いたいと言う話を任天堂に話に行って撃沈して帰ってきたのを思い出しました。 https://t.co/cNZDLXmlIu

— Yuji Naka / 中　裕司 (@nakayuji) March 21, 2019

"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.

GDC Choice Awards 授賞式。セガゲームスの小玉理恵子が日本人女性として初めて受賞（Pioneer Awards）しました。
小玉本人は残念ながら出席できませんでしたが、受賞の模様は1:46~1:54の約8分間、1:50~1:54に小玉のビデオメッセージが流れます。https://t.co/PPBYs7YOWZ https://t.co/PPBYs7YOWZ

— 松原　健二 (@kjmatsu) March 21, 2019

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

「Game Developers Choice Awards 2019」パイオニア賞をセガゲームスの小玉理恵子氏が受賞 https://t.co/LkpoWeNqA9 pic.twitter.com/MS97gPprw8

— Gamer＠ゲーム情報 (@GamerNeJp) March 22, 2019

セガの小玉理恵子氏が「Game Developers Choice Awards 2019」パイオニア賞を受賞　日本人ゲーム開発者では史上3人目、女性としては史上初！ https://t.co/YWXhQv0DLK #セガ pic.twitter.com/qqfDvvsSM4

— GAME Watch (@game_watch) March 22, 2019

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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. "

子供達の自転車の練習の為にセガエンタープライゼス近くにある萩中公園に来たついでに、見に寄ったら、地面のロゴも看板も全部外されてました。警備員さんによると守秘義務があるので次の会社は言えないんだけど、来週から工事が始まるようです。壊されるんですかね。 pic.twitter.com/0vo2QZE4lA

— Yuji Naka / 中　裕司 (@nakayuji) March 21, 2019

子供達の自転車の練習の為にセガエンタープライゼス近くにある萩中公園に来たついでに、見に寄ったら、地面のロゴも看板も全部外されてました。警備員さんによると守秘義務があるので次の会社は言えないんだけど、来週から工事が始まるようです。壊されるんですかね。 pic.twitter.com/3wLtvuPit8

— Yuji Naka / 中　裕司 (@nakayuji) March 21, 2019

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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!

SEGAキャラクターキーホルダー 5種セット[インドア]⇒ https://t.co/CJflfwq4OC
ご予約開始です♪ pic.twitter.com/U34Tf2NExG

— あみあみ (@amiami_figure) March 20, 2019

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!

Which is my best Sonic Rush track?

— HIDEKI NAGANUMA｜長沼 英樹 (@Hideki_Naganuma) March 19, 2019

 What's your answer?

I know. RT @FlamefammS: We want a new Sonic Rush game

— HIDEKI NAGANUMA｜長沼 英樹 (@Hideki_Naganuma) March 20, 2019

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.

Oh! Looks like it's the 2nd anniversary of SonicJPNews!🎉

2 years ago I started out this project by collecting and translating tweets related to Sonic Forces and Sonic Mania, in the hope to reduce misunderstandings on information given by the Japanese side.
My follower count - pic.twitter.com/SGTvRd1B1h

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 20, 2019

- reached 100 on day 1 and continued to grow, now surpassing 2k. Some of my followees followed me back too. Incredible!

After 2 years, now we are expecting Team Sonic Racing and more information on new major Sonic games.
Let's see what future awaits us!#MyTwitterAnniversary

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 20, 2019

So everyone, thank you all for your support! I started this to help the worldwide Sonic community, and I wish to continue to do so.

If you need to remember what happened back in those days, take a look at my new archive blog!https://t.co/EKzH1VOtAm

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 20, 2019

And if you like what I do, please consider supporting me through ko-fi.

Thank you very much!
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— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 20, 2019

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