Abandoned - Sega World Sydney
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2017
- A case study of the former Sega World theme park in Sydney, Australia, including a history of the site, and an analysis into why it closed down, touching upon local industry and local conditions.
This video may be the first of a series focusing on old Darling Harbour. While it is a very unpolished video at this point in time, I intend to improve if I make any more episodes. If you like this video and want to see more, hit the like button, subscribe and comment below. Thanks
Music (in order)
At Dawn... for Speed Highway (Sonic Adventure)
Windy Hill - Zone 1 (Sonic Lost World)
Twinkle Cart... for Twinkle Park (Sonic Adventure)
Sylvania Castle Zone - Act 1 (Sonic 4 Episode 2)
Welcome To Station Square (Sonic Adventure)
The King of Speed (Daytona USA 2001)
Windmill Isle - Day (Sonic Unleashed)
The Lost Prologue (Sonic and the Secret Rings)
Wave Ocean - The Inlet (Sonic '06)
Event: The Final Scene (Sonic Adventure 2)
Beyond the Speed Of... (Sonic Runners)
Ocean Palace (Sonic Heroes)
Mt Red, a Symbol of Thrill... for Red Mountain (Sonic Adventure)
Tornado Scramble... for Sky Chase (Sonic Adventure)
Stardust Speedway (Cash Cash vs Jun Senoue)
I can also confirm (as a former Sega staff member) that originally Sega were to kick off a TV show but later opted to scrap the production of the show in favour of Sega World instead.
Never thought they were going to make a TV show. It would have been interesting to see such a thing... but Sega World was a better concept.
- SL
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We need the sonic and sally statue back well as the Japan sonic stature
We have three cartoons already, and I am making a reboot of the third.
downstairs was an icecream cone shop, they sold REDSKIN flavoured icecream and it was the best thing I have ever tasted in my life and I'm forever looking for another hit
I remember that, and the arnotts store that had the big tiny teddy machine on display
I'm sure someone read your comment and made it
@@katej23I can still smell those freshly made Tiny Teddies! I was devo when I found out the shop was closed down, lol.
Wonderland and sega in Sydney were so good it just sucks that we don’t having anything like that anymore
This was a paradise to me when i was a child. I had the opportunity to visit sega world 5 times . I can still remember most of the rides.. nostalgia
Remember the m&m shop next door?
Feels like a dream
They should restart the concept and make it outdoors.
I worked at Sega World Sydney as a ride operator.
Great co-workers. Had some fun at that place.
Though it hard a very dark side: The management was extremely bad.
What rides were there? The guy in this video didnt describe those rides very well, and its hard to hear what he's trying to say.
You’ve just reminded me about this project. I’ve still got a segaworld branded hard hat from that job. I remember being shocked that the guys designing the signs and branding had no idea about the video games. I had to bring my megadrive to work to show them what sonic looked like. It was a bit crazy 😝
I'm currently watching this video from Darling Quarter here in Sydney and literally looking at the location Sega World was. Pretty surreal as a Sega fan and someone who will only know the park as a brief morbid piece of Aussie history.
Went to SegaWorld a couple of times you are right it was very expensive. You didn't mention in the video but they used to host a huge under18s nightclub called Crush on Fri or Saturdays it was huge, it got packed n so popular that over 18s used to rock up constantly.
I remember Nick Skitz launched one of his Cd's there and wild FM used to broadcast live from Crush.
Omg I was telling my husband about crush as we were comparing Sega world stories.
We went to a foam party there, was wild. Way too many over 18s pretty scary, but such a sick environment to have a kids nightclub 😂 something that would never happen today!
The old Crush U18s Dance partys used to go off,. good old memories. Used to love Sega World.
Dude! You are what barely 18 and created this? Your parents must be proud! Boy have I got some stories... I am so old I can remember when there were rides along the south eastern side of darling harbour, before Sega world and before it was developed into restaurants. And yes I went to Sega World, in fact my Aunty crawled into the bin and stole stamps so we could get in for free! Oh and I have photos too! Also just for a little cherry on top... The last time I was at Sega World I saw Hanson (the band). Yep.
Marni Newman The image at 12:20 shows the amusement rides on the south eastern side. Seems like forever ago!
My father was a carpenter working on the Sega World Sydney Project. He would be happy to talk with you about it’s construction.
There was a common trend happening in the late 90's and early 2000's with theme parks and arcades across the country being reduced to nothing but memories.
Sega world remains one of my fondest memories. Those years were peak times.
I just got to the end of this video and I am absolutely blown away that you were only 17 when you made this video... Your videos are incredible for someone your age, and you appreciate nostalgia with a wiseness well beyond your years!
My dad took me to Sega World when I was 8 or 9. We lived in Newcastle and he never liked video games so I'm extremely thankful he took me. I have some old memories of the place and it's crazy to think of how much of a ghost it is within the memories of a select few people.
I dearly wish it was still around in some form.
Nice video, I had the opportunity to visit Sega World back in the day, probably very close to just before it closed (2000), because I remember the games being free. I really wanted to play Metal Slug but it kept getting hogged. I was a big Sega fan back in the day, I had a Mega Drive and watched all the Sonic cartoons and I think I really wanted to try out a chili dog at Sega World because it was Sonic's favorite food (kinda insidious to have all the popular cartoon/game characters of the 80s and 90s be fans of fast food though), but I don't think they had them - missed opportunity. I also remember quite a few other places around the area, like this space themed restaurant called Xerts where you ordered off of a screen.
Great video. I was born in 1986 in Tasmania and got a megadrive for my 5th birthday in 1991, growing up with a megadrive.
I got to visit Segaworld when my family relocated to Nsw when I was 10 or 11, while it wasn't the most amazing theme park. To a kid that has spent hundreds of hours on a Sega it really was a great experience.
Thanks again for all your hard work on this video. It's great
I can tell a ton of work went into this. Good job
as an arcade fan (currently), always is facinating to see the history of arcades in my home city.
i did not know this place existed until today.
I was one of the lucky ones that got to got to SEGA world when I was about 10. I loved it so much, even my Mum had fun.
Me too! My mum used to take my sisters and I almost every school holidays.
With me myself at the age I am(35), I'm old enough to remember the SEGA World building and also to at least one time get to experience the inside of it.
It was a nicely set up place honestly, the arcade machines were awesome far more then the rides(to me at least)
Only got to visit it that one time though and I want to say I visited it in around the year 2000 or so.
I do remember it
#SaveSonic #SaveSally!!
I've heard about that statue for a while. Once considered buying the statues, but I can't afford the restoration.
- SL
They're not even for sale : ( ua-cam.com/video/cC2ZPh3V10Q/v-deo.html
Sally will never be saved.
@@SirLaptop There's this one Sonic Statue in the Japan Mountains no one knows where it came from.
SirChryslerOfThePhaeton Ik it has been a year since you posted this comment but it came from another sega world in 2003 the owner has since passed away from okuda sega world
Thank you for the nostalgia! I loved that place as a kid!
Bloody awesome video mate! Subscribed and gearing up for a binge-session of your other stuff. 😘
I remember going here in my teenage years, was awesome
Great memories, thanks for bringing them back up
A resounding success for the Sydney of Sydney
love this, if you go further back - there use to be huge tennis/basketball courts where Sega World was which was amazing back in the day on weekends. if you find any photos or videos i will be very surprised, so hard to track anything about darling Harbour around this time
The stories I could tell about working at this place egs: Rides not working properly,yet still opened. Rides failing safety checks,and still being opened. Rides being closed for days,only because they wanted to cut staffing levels,but claimed the ride was broken.
Sega World management were extremely dodgy.
Now that Super Nintendo World is a thing, SEGA should rebirth the concept.
if sega world was still around I think kids and adults would still enjoy it
You got the price issue right, it was always way too expensive for me and my friends to visit, $30 was a lot of money back in those days!
Sega was just never big enough draw to me, the only character I knew from the Sega franchises was Sonic, and big deal he was a blue creature that ran fast and picked up rings.
💯 I worked there,and among others we pointed out that it was way too expensive to begin with.We warned management this won't work,and they didn't listen.
I remember visiting Sega World in the late 90s and going on the Indy 500 (I don't remember going on the other rides) and playing around with some of the other exhibitions. From memory, the place was almost like a ghost town but I remember enjoying it because I was more free to run around without the crowds. A great and clearly well researched video. Thanks for sharing.
Great overview! Always wanted to go there as a kid...
Wasn't even alive when that place was open. Wasn't born until a couple weeks after the place shut.
- SL
it wasn't worth it..
Great videoI have great memories of going to Sega world park in Sydney thanks mate
I remember wagging school to go there one day, way back when.... ☺️👌
I have a feeling if SEGA World had continued operations qnd their remodeling was a success, its very likely all AoSTH and SatAM elements wouldve been completely scrubbed in favor of the Adventure era style and replacing Sally with Amy Rose
There SHOULD have been Sonic Underground stuff as well.
FUN FACT: Amy Rose was INTENDED to be Sonic's girlrfriend all this time, but Sally was ctreated to fill that niche instead.
The things id do to relive going there again as a kid, extremely exciting and satisfyingly great experiences had
Hoping you re-record the audio for this video. Music is too intrusive in some places.
The Music??? Daaaamn aint no one gonna tell him to stop fucking about with the mic stand???
@@Dread-I-Productions Yeah I can definitely hear it.
He also really sounds like he needs a lozenge.
Plus you can barely understand homeboy 🤣
Maybe correct ZIGA to SEGA also
WOW! good work mate! such a good video. hope you keep up the good work, you'll be a big player some day
I really enjoyed this video! I went there in 1998 and I had a great time, but I remember thinking it was quite expensive at the time (parents paid of course, lol) and now that you mention it, there was no ride about Sonic or other Sega mascots, but I still had a lot of fun. It's a shame it didn't last very long, and similarly how Wonderland closed down as well. I'm from Melbourne, and Wonderland and Sega World were my two favourite things in Sydney when I was a kid. I'm going to dig up family photos of those places. If there's some without family members on it, I guess we could use them for historical purposes, haha.
does anyone remember the Crush under 18 dance parties that were at sega world?...I attended some of them in 2000...fun times for us high school kids
Great video - well (deeply) researched too.
"So without much further ado" - such a perfect way of saying this in "aussie".
Awesome video... I was lucky enough to go back in 1998. The VR gave me a headache but I still had a blast there.
I went there multiple times as a kid and absolutely loved it. Favourite was the indi 500. Everytime you won a race you could stay on as the champion. Ended up on there for over an hour was a hell of alot of fun.
Used to live in Sydney around 2000-2005 around when I was in highschool and thought it was such a cool place at Darling Harbour in that area. Never went to Sega world but always thought the building was awesome and wanted to go inside. I remember playing in the water area out front though, going to the Arnotts shop and getting free tiny teddies and all the other things they had there focused on kids (lolly shops, toy shop, peddle boats etc). When going back to Sydney a few years ago it was a bit sad to see the change, the new playground looks fun for kids and the building I'm sure serves it purpose, but it looks like pretty much any other CBD/cafe area now, without the charm and fun it used to have.
i went to Sega World for my 8th birthday im 33 now, the city and Harbour now is deeply depressing compared to how it was in my childhood
I remember playing mad bazooka . Great memories as a kid
what the problem was that the entry was too damn expensive and I couldn't find my way around when I was a kid. Only hung out at the token games area and all rides need to be paid for in addition to the entry fee (needed to buy a card). All tokens were also $1 each, so basically you pay about $30 to get in and pay extra to enjoy the stuff inside it. It was beyond budget when I was a kid, costs an arm and a leg..... If only they made entry fee cheaper, then there will be more attendance. Which over time will pay off because most parents wont pay that kind of money all in a single days out especially if you have more than one children. I actually cheered when that place went broke and demolished because of it's greedy fees. Now I as an adult I felt quite sad.
that is where my dad got our Atro City Cabinets for dirty cheap still enjoy them to this day :)
What?
Nice video, hit many of the history points on SWS. Really sad how timing was, and things that happened, including the mess over Darling Harbour zoning . I've collected many photos, audio and video over the years and was happy to see a handful of images I have yet to come across ^_^. The best I have in my collection is great footage of Sonic and Sally mascots in action. I hope more media continues to show up, it just is a shame the technology of cameras was not great back then! Thanks for this and sharing mate!
On a side note (from a former Sega staff member) a bit of a fun fact: The girl who performed in the Sally mascot costume was accidentally seen whilst changing into the costume (walked in on) and it was said it would ruin your image of Sally if you seen the girl.
sega world - LETS JUST DROP THE E! SGA
Man the memories of Intensity!
Great video mate, brought back some childhood memories of nagging my dad to take me to sega world. Completely underwhelming.
Thanks for the video.
Really good video dude. I grew up in the age of master system and mega drive and I was your age when Sega World opened. I never went sadly because by that stage I'd become a big sony and PC fanboy, you know the age where nothing from childhood is cool anymore, so regrettably I never went to Sega World. I do have several amazing memories of wonderland though. Really happy to see someone doing videos like this. I also love wondering about the history of old buildings, specially pubs like on the victoria rd side of the Anzac bridge, near the factory. What was it like in the factories hayday when it would have been packed every afternoon. Anyway good job, it's great seeing that curiosity about stuff I took for granted.
went twice and loved it
Got to go there on the holidays, had a lot of fun there because we grow playing mostly on Sega consoles.
I've been to gameworks back in 2012 when I was a second grader, love that place. I had no idea it was Sega created!
18:45 Jeez! The Sonic Runners loading theme! What a good chunk of memories!
Outstanding video man. As a kid I visited sega world 2 or 3 times and this video has been a great nostalgia flashback.
My favourite attraction was the nickelodeon play area, the mazes and slides, ball pits and just generally running a muck in this place where adults could not enter was some seriously fun times. I remember coming across random kids in gangs having a beef or blocking off access and controlling areas. It was like a free for all in there bro.
Its such a shame you never got to experience it.
One thing you may have no idea about but I feel was connected to my Sega World experience was the little “tiny teddie” shop/factory, they would make freshly baked tiny teddie biscuits in the shop and you could watch them come off the conveyor belt and you would recieve a free cup of the little biscuits.
This store was not part of the Sega World but it was on the ground floor left side as you walk in.
Thanks for the video
I remember seeing this building when I first came to Sydney. It was demolished a few months later. Would've been cool to actually go inside. Darling Harbour looks so different now.
at least rode on a row boat on the lake and ate McDonald's where darling square is now
I loved this place so much....even crush dance parties lpl
Yeah, the price was ridiculous. My brothers and I wanted to go but with 4 kids and 2 adults, it was way outside our price range. We walked past and looked around but that was as close as I ever got to Sega world Sydney.
I find it sad that thair gone
The idea of a sega theme park sounds fun
I wish I could go back in time to 1999 and 2017 just to see those theme parks
enjoyed this...moved to Sydney from the UK in 2008 and lived close to darling harbour to date... such a lot of change
I guess the closing and demolishing of SegaWorld was a hard kick for the fans of Sega...
Wait this just made me tear up! When I visited Sydney as a kid I wanted to go here more than anything!
This is a great video
this is as great as bright sun film's Abandoned Series! I Think you should continue!
Never imagined this would be compared to Bright Sun's movies. Thank you.
- SL
Nice video legend
2019,and now Timezone is going strong and a new one has opened near my place
Nice job on the research, wish I could have visited SEGA World at least once.
How I miss this place and the times when Sega were true innovators.
Visited on a trip to Sydney with family in 2000. I remember the lines were so long, like an hour long wait for some, that we only got to go on a couple of rides. Remember Aqua Nova, and a VR roller coaster. Kind of sad what happened to it but inevitable really.
I always wanted to visit Sega World
I always saw it but I never got to enter it. I think my brother did go there but my parent's couldn't really afford such things.
I have actually been to this theme park. Memories still strong.
Good work well done
Went there once with a school excursion in 1997.
Spent most of the morning waiting in line for rides, blew most of my spending money on a stupidly expensive lunch - stupidly expensive for an 11 year old - won a collection of toys with the last of my spending money by making one really unlikely throw in the ticket games and spent the rest of the day waiting in line for one of the rides.
Stage show didn't happen that day for some reason or other and I never saw the mascot costumes at all.
I still wanted to go back but it shut before I got my part time job.
Still have the rides pass which hasn't aged too well and the toy collection is still in the box but I never got any merchandise with Sega World Sydney on it.
Hopefully one day sega would open another theme park because nintendo just opend one but unfortunately they're chances are slim
Never say never, man.
PS2 didn't destroy the Dreamcast, it didn't get chance as Sega pulled the plug barely 2 months after the PS2 launched. Fascinating to watch this though. I always wanted to go to the London one.
Sega killed it's Self first with almost zero marketing . Second with no copy protection for the console lol you could just burn a copy of a rented game and never have to buy one . Third they released the dreamcast and saturn to close to each other it kinda pissed off their customers.
@@jimbotheassclown 32X just before the Saturn didn't help either. But I think the biggest problem Sega had with the Dreamcast was the Arcade market completely collapsing at the same time giving them a massive cash flow crisis. The dreamcast actually didn't still too badly in the time frame it was on the market and there were some potential system sellers on the very near horizon that would have launched had Sega not pulled the plug.
Miss these old theme places in Sydney don’t know why they didn’t keep it was so fun when I was little something that my children would’ve experienced use to have little stores beside it that use to make tiny teddy bears biscuits.
Is this still up ? Like is the store still there but abandoned or is it just gone now
did you watch the whole video?
An interesting video. Was always meaning to go there but I never got around to it before it closed. However, I did go to the auction and I still have the auction catalogue as well as some of the items that I purchased. Some of the interesting items that I still have are, the large Sega World Banner that was hung at the entrance, several digital video players (Doremi V1) which were used to display videos of the rides and games as internal advertising, entertainment and ride information on the various video screens, the actual laserdiscs from the Aqua Nova ride (I won some of the hardware as they decided to auction off the ride separately as it was passed-in as a complete item), various Sega World laserdiscs which played video on the spherical 3D looking screen near the ceiling, Mad Bazooka display screens, circuit boards and some misc. IT stuff, like CDROMs with original artwork drawings, advertising source material, etc that should have probably been destroyed rather than be auctioned off. It was a sad sight to see the place being dissected and picked apart at the end. The same thing happened to Fox Studio's Backlot theme park, and I went to that auction too
You should post images of all these online!
I went there only once, it was the only time my parents let us go. I loved it, it was amazing and i wish i could go again.
Sydney is so depressing now compared to how it was back in this time, i was 8 years old back then, now the city has become heartless and cold with no soul anymore, i mean yeah sure theres newer technology and buildings, its just not the same..
Replacing it with a giant PS2 would've been more fitting
Nice documentary
I went twice. It was bloody great. Expensive though.
I remember playing Ghost Hunters and trying to beat the boss before the ride got back around to the beginning, so we could go round again for the next level.
Very impressed with your research.
I remember going to the park as a kid/teen. You where right, too expensive or they should of put all the arcade games on free play to make the price worth while.
I was a big fan of Sega and owned both megadrive with the 32X and mega CD as well as a Saturn but Sega world never really captured the magic.
Sure it was fun new and exciting but not the place you'd keep going back to.
Wonderland however in its heyday was something else that place was epic
I was just a tad too young to have been able to go to the theme park at the time, but even for someone who's not that keen on theme parks, this place looked fun, unique and not too extreme for most people. Wish it could've opened just a little bit longer, so I could've at least walked around it :(
for as long as I remember otherwise though, I only remember it in its abandoned state, and the only sega themed thing I ever got to see there, was the sign (that got taken off soon after closure ofc) and a few arcade machines playing sega games. Otherwise, it was just the domed entrance that was open, and some weird anamatronic animal things that you could ride on, everything else on the inside was closed, so likely I remember it only on the outside from the last few months it was open in late 2000 and onwards.
I also remember its last days, when the domed foyer was all that was left in the demolition site, and saw the youtube video of it getting torn down soon after like 2008ish? :(
i remember going their as a kid in 1998 sad it closed two years later in 2000
2000*
I had the pleasure of going as a kid. I loved it! Just a shame it never really took off
I sometimes laugh whenever they want to go here but remember riding the boats on the lake
I have been to Sega world in Dubai before it got shutdown. Some of my greatest memories.
Excellent video and nice to see Panzer Dragoon make an appearance. It's a shame SEGA fell far, but their legacy lives on 👾
I was sad when sega world falls down and some of it broke some more
I had no idea this place existed
If it's not too hard, could you put out a source list? Just for future use and reference, thanks
I went here once when I was a kid (I think it was in '99), but can't remember much of it (which I suppose is quite telling; but I was a Nintendo kid anyway...). I liked spending a lot of time on the "bikes" outside the building though (the ones that shot water), and jumping across the water to reach them.
Oh, also rip Tumbalong Park fountains and water spots :(
Darling harbour in the 90s and 2000s looked more fun than compared to now
Going here was one of my favourite memories as a kid. I am always going on about it, but no one really knows what it is...
Ah Sega World. A place I always loved looking at whenever I went to this part of Sydney, but never had the chance to go into because of the cost.
I can tell you that even when the Olympics had been on, and there was a lot of things happening in Darling Harbour for the games, this failed to gain any real interest from people. Best memory I have from the place was the offended look by an old gentlemen behind the counter when I said that I couldn't pay the fee. I might be wrong, but when I asked why they didn't just charge for the rides I was informed that they cost a lot of money and something about not wanting to create long lines of people inside the place with the huge crowds unable to access the games/rides. The lack of people there made that logic ring hollow to me.