It s football time again, and to be honest it s not something that really pulls my interest. So just time for a quick cash in on the publicity, then. Sega Worldwide Soccer 98 was part of the Victory Goal series, a great if simplistic up the pitch, mile high viewpoint, and a sequel imaginatively enough to [ ]
There s a group of like minded types to which I belong, where we have a tendency to talk about our interests and some of the more unusual trivia that interests us. Amongst that group is the excellent Snathe (https://bsky.app/profile/snathe.bsky.social), who it s fair to say has quite the expertise around the world of the telephone network [ ]
Recently, as part of a deep dive of Atari and Tengen internal servers, a recoverable ROM of a hitherto rumoured Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game was released, and provoked a lot of interest. To give one example, here s a longplay video of the game, the unreleased Pit-Fighter II. The idea of a home exclusive sequel to [ ]
Whenever this comes up in some form or other on social media, I tend to mention the vestigial tail that is the Excitebike track editor, left in the cartridge version despite having no chance of working, looping forever. But I only do that because the real answer is so far in the weeds that people [ ]
A while back, I brought up my dive down the rabbit hole regarding an old news report about GYOB. Before we get to this follow up, two things. I hadn t intended to go back to this, the situation seemed largely resolved, but I got a message out of the blue (sky) from Christopher, mentioning he [ ]
Legend: The shows that evening were exceptionally bizarre. During the third show, just before the dinner break, someone resembling an ex-con took twenty minutes worth of bows. (Considering that the entire program lasted half an hour, the bowing took up a disproportionate amount of time, to say the least). It all began with his first bow. [ ]
There’s a general trend in the world of children’s TV discussion to imbue it with some sort of undeserved darkness, or sinister ironic representation. From adding rude names to Captain Pugwash’s cohort, to lazy ‘LOL drugs’ gags about anything remotely colourful there’s always someone trying to tell the ‘real’ story. Some of this isn’t helped [ ]
Be advised that the following post will discuss hidden dialogue that makes reference to several offensive and sexually charged terms. Reader discretion is advised, but the worst of this is beyond the page break. In previous parts of this series, we discussed the embedding of a political message across two episodes of the 60 s cartoon [ ]
My original part 2 is awaiting some review of the contemporary archive, as I refuse to believe that something as widely marketed as it never had any reports at the time. For now, having been given a lead by Tilt Araiza on BlueSky (find me there as docwallace.bsky.social), I felt I had to look further [ ]
The idea of hiding messages in innocuous dialogue scenes is nothing new, either real (in the case of the explicit images in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Rescuers) or rumoured, but in this article I d like to take some time to look into one of the more interesting, long hidden examples. This comes from [ ]