I can't believe the company who merged with a corporation who's whole business model relies on getting people addicted to gambling would support such blatant consumerism!
I remember playing SA2B at my grandma’s house as a kid and being so fascinated by all the ads in the City Escape level. I’d always stop to look at the ads and always try to imagine what the products being advertised were like. I’d do the same thing with the ads on various Mario Kart tracks too as a kid.
I’ve got ideas for a lot of these sa2 ads Amy’s fortune Cards readings where she uses tarot cards to tell peoples fortunes The raiders of angel island, Indiana jones movie poster featuring angel island Knuckles fighting gloves selling boxing gloves that look like knuckles gloves The Lego shoe. You can build Lego’s and put them on your shoe. Since knuckles shoe top looks like a Lego I find the ideal funny and stupid Amy’s Roses. A botanist selling roses
Remember when Sonic said "no copyright law in the universe will stop me"? My theory is that Sonic is an anti-copyright activist, defending the abolition of copyright and to keep things consistent, he refuses to claim copyright on himself, that's why there are companies using his likeness (I suppose that if he personally wreaks havoc with his superspeed if a company whom he disagrees uses his image)
As cool as that would be, my theory is to ignore everything from the Wii version of Colours which has to do with Sonic or Tails and consider the DS version canon. Eggman scenes from the Wii can stay, but Sonic is too much of a moron there, more so than in any other Pontac written game.
"no copyright law in the universe can stop me" just when I thought Sonic couldn't get any more BASED. Honestly though that just describes the attitude of Sega towards fan games anyway 😂😂
@@genyakozlov1316Yeah I don't know how so many people praised the writing in Colors back in the day considering it came immediately after Black Knight
Given Sonic Frontiers, I'm now coming up with a fan theory that Planet of the Chaos was actually a documentary rather than an action movie despite the obvious reference
@@hamstersandwich9917 tbh there are ruins lying about, it's just anthropology doing it's thing and like History Channel or Nat Geo there are networks making documentaries about their studies
The movie name is "Planet of the Chaos" as Chaos 0, it can't be as plural of Chao, because the plural of Chao is simply Chao Also, I think it's pretty funny how the Chao Kindergarten is apparently the only good ad in the cities promoting education when apparently the Chao Principal apparently got rid of the real principal with the help of the Black Market Chao
Friendly reminder that City Escape is pretty much San Francisco lmao, specially considering Radical Highway bridge. Also the fact Sonic Team comment said in their development that their time in San Francisco was hell so much that they added elements that you can break and gain points, so i wouldn't be surprised if City Escape/Radical Highway/etc were a middle finger to that city lmao (Also i think many of City Escape ads are just a joke, specially the Generations ones lmao)
The truck probably didn't hit anyone inside the cars, as one of the agents of GUN says right at the start of the stage, GUN was blocking all major roads to make Sonic follow the path they wanted him to follow, at the start of the stage there were people with cars moving around because they just started blocking roads with their cars They probably evacuated everyone in the road of the truck section so they could go with all force on Sonic, we can see that GUN feels more comfortable going all out when there are no citizen around, in Radical Highway, which is under construction so there are no cars, and Metal Harbor, which is military area, it is not at all like in City Escape with just GUN drones and robots, we bave jets firing at Sonic and Shadow, dropping bombs at them, etc.
That makes sense, especially when you consider that they may still think he's Shadow, if they're going off military intelligence, "the ultimate life form" isn't really something they'd wanna let run free or interact with people.
That is a great thing to point out! 😅 I just wonder if G.U.N replaced everyone's vehicles. Also cool pfp!, who made the full picture of shadow?, it looks great!.
@@MagnaEssence It's an artwork from "Yuji Uekawa" one of Sonic Team's official artists, which made the redesign of Modern Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Eggman back in 1998 in Sonic Adventure, also helped design many of the Sonic characters we have today, Shadow, Chaos, Tikal, Metal Knuckles, etc. And also the one who made the artworks for many Sonic games, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Sonic Advance 1, 2 and 3, Sonic Rush and Rush Adventure, and probably more I'm forgetting about This artwork of Shadow in specific is from the Sonic Channel, a japanese website from Sonic Team created back in 2007 if I'm not mistaken, Uekawa-san is one of the artists from the Website alongside Yui Karasuno and some other artists who are also "character supervisors" from the Sonic series The website has a ton of unique original Sonic stories taking place in past locations from past games, with many of the characters we know and love, and also many new artworks made monthly by the artists from Sonic Team, sometimes as callendar art, sometimes as a cover art for a new story... the Shadow I'm using is one of those artworks, although the website is mainly in japanese, so it's quite hard to navigate through it
I just remembered I have always wondered what the adverts were in Sonic Generations 3DS specifically, in Radical Highway. There's different adverts but hard to make out due to the resolution of the 3DS. One seems to be a purple Time Eater ad.
I grew up near where some Japanese companies liked to put their American departments, including Sega. It's always kinda surreal to see familiar places mixed with all this crazy stuff.
16:48 I appreciate that this ad is for something you can actually do in the game. The Chao Kindergarten is accessed in the Chao Garden part of the game
Yeah, there really are a whole slew of advertisements in City Escape, huh? My favorite's gotta be the NiGHTS ''Let's Fly!'' poster, because of how stylish it is and... well, c'mon, it's NiGHTS.
it would be Planet of the Chaos - as in the bad guy in SA1. The plural of Chao is Chao as told to us in-game by Omachao in one of the extra menus (possibly the how to play menu option?) in the non-hd versions of the game (I know it's there somewhere on the gamecube version; but it seems to have been replaced with a generic pdf-like document on the steam version)
I always found it interesting how Chao in Space was a series of movies in the Sonic games. We had the first one in Sonic Adventure; I especially remember there being a billboard of it near Casinopolis that you can climb up as Knuckles. Then we had the second one advertised in Sonic Adventure 2 with the special edition DVD in SA2B and the remake in Sonic Generations, and finally we had the third on in Sonic 06. The first movie finally became real as an animated short.
@@nithpro1385 While I've never played Sonic 06 due to not owning any of the systems it was on then hearing major criticisms about it, I read on the Sonic Fandom wiki that there's a torn down billboard of Chao in Space III it in Crisis City in a ruined incarnation of Silver's future. I also forgot to mention that Sonic Adventure DX advertised a collector's edition of Chao in Space.
My brother and I used to combine every drink at the soda machine in Burger King. Since we were kids we didn't mind the taste, but we called it Chaos Cola because of SA2.
Rip Gens 3DS Radical Highway (Btw, im pretty sure Radical Highway takes place in the same City, both Stages are based on San Francisco) The Time Eater has his own Adds as well!
The 3 characters presented in the updated Phantasy Star Online ad include new characters added to the Gamecube Port. The game allowed you to pick a Job/Race/Gender combination, but not all combinations were available. However, the Gamecube added (from left to right) Force(mage)/Human/Male, Ranger/Human/Female, and Hunter(melee)/CAST(robot)/Female. PSO had a special shorthand to define the jobs though, so they were called "FOmar", "RAmarl", and "HUcaseal" respectively. Technically these aren't "characters" but they're default designs for characters you can create, primarily. Although some default designs are used as NPCs in some single player quests.
I'd like to think that "The future is in this disc" in the Chao In Space 1 Collector's Edition poster alludes to the fact that it has a special post-credits epilogue scene that alludes to the sequel which wasn't seen in any theatrical release.
I can’t be the only one who noticed the curious road signs in Shadow’s radical highway right? I swear I remember seeing road signs there that say things like “Freedom ??? Miles”
Considering the full text on the Dreamcast Nights ad is "Let's fly around the world," my guess is that it's an advertisement for a Nights travel agency or airline.
Consider this: the Chao in Space 2 posters say the fill is by Sonic Team in SA2, but say it's by Sonic the Hedgehog in Generations. What if in-universe Sonic Team is Sonic's company (or he at least has some kind of major stake in it). That would explain why they're so comfortable using his likeness. The profits are why he owns his own plane and can wander the world without much of a care. He's actually extremely rich. Sonic, all along, was a business mastermind with several extremely successful ventures. That, or he inherited it all.
15:30 this is something I didn't think about back when I played Sonic adventure 2 battle on the GameCube when I was a teenager when it was new, but you see I'm actually from the bay area. Well the North Bay actually. Wine country as a matter of fact. An hour North of San francisco. So I have gotten some familiarity with San Francisco and knowing that they named a stage route 101 tells me that they base it off of actually kind of a famous freeway that goes basically from the Mexico border to the Canadian border as it goes through the whole state of california, oregon, and Washington. Where I'm from in Santa rosa, it's very common to drive on the 101. And yes the 101 most definitely goes through San Francisco and comes out the other side.
64GiB is not overkill lol Even ten years ago it was comfortable for game development, now it's a requirement for game development. For ai work, it's bare minimum. For gamers and casuals whatever 16 is fine but you're talking like 64 is some supercomputer only amount haha
7:31 Actually, Ian Flynn, one of the writers, has said that everything from SA1 to Frontiers is within one year. And “Long time, no see” is just a common phrase in the franchise. It might’ve been accurate back then, but nowadays, it wasn’t that long.
dude, you said "planet of the chaos" looked like a star wars type film... are you not aware of the HUGE planet of the apes franchise? i mean, even at the time, it was pretty big. multiple movies since, i think, the 60s or 70s.
If you're curious who the characters in phantasy star online are in the ads, don't be. It was an mmorpg and basically just picking your class/race type options let you customize and look like a variety of things. So they aren't specific characters just potentially what your hunter could look like.
4:58 the Company Powerslide makes Modern day Grindshoes with the Brand name "Epic Grind shoes" (yes that's the real Name) that might even be better than Soaps, infact they even had a Collaboration with *SEGA* at some point, where they Made 1:1 Replicas of Sonic's Soap Shoes and Gave them Away in a Giveaway. Aside from those they have shoes in Black, White,Grey and *Red* wich Looks pretty Close to Sonic's (and is pretty stylish) and Hey! it they might give you a Reason to Go Outside!
18:24 I'm gonna guess that the Battle version changes it into advertising the Gamecube ports of PSO? Also, Sonic Generations 3DS has Radical Highway with its own advertisements like the return of Pizza Sonic (Now called Pizza Sonic 20), Chaos Soda, Got Rings blimp and NiGHTS hotel in the background. As for something new, there was something that is branded as "Time Eater",
One of my favorite part of worldbuilding in games is the fake brands and products they would put in. I love walking around the world looking at the signs and designs that someone put there. I don't even mind product placement if it makes sense for the world to have them. I would even argue it's more immersive.
There's also Sonic Team branding on the back of the Shadow and Sonic photo in ShTH, implying they also produce camera film. They also have a building in Sonic Battle where they sell trading cards. Sonic Team in the Sonic universe is QUITE the diverse company.
Station Square is supposed to be a futuristic city. They managed to predict the future. Also "Cinderalla II: Dreams Come True. Is that a Sonic Reference?" That's a DEEP cut.
12:38 actually, there is a comic on deviantart about this exact idea! y'see, ol' charm bee is feeling rather ill (flu season, maybe?) and is wanting access to the toilet to, y'know, not stain the carpet with beebarf. however, vector has a BETTER idea. see, a lot of people don't actually know where honey comes from. he grabs a big ol' bucket and tells charmy to use it instead of the toilet. "uh, okay. if yu say so." a few minutes later, vector has set up a honey shop outside the house, while a very VERY agitated espio is threatening vector with several ranges of doom for these unsavory sales. if 'charmy bee's sweet honey butter is in fact the result of vector's quick thinking, then boy oh boy.
They feel more like mario kart ads with different characters serving as mascots for brands, it does make a little sense since theyre celebrating the series tho id have appreciated some more creative
I mean, technically, nothing really stops Tails from owning a Mobile Phone company. Man owns a lot of land, lots of workshops and obviously has a giant amount of materials to work with. If anyone could own a working business in Sonic's universe it would 100% be Tails
5:24 I think Sega has full copyright to Sonic’s shoes from SA2. They just can’t call it Soap Shoes. They also appear in Forces as a cosmetic for the Avatar.
17:43 Funny how i His fur is described as brown when it’s yellow in this game. Is that a reference to Sonic 2’s prototype design for Tails, that eventually ended up appearing in the comics and cartoons? Also, fun fact, Tails was originally orange and then became yellow over the early years.
I just played sonic adventure again, and there's a chao in space poster right outside of casinopolis. You even have to climb on it to get inside casinopolis as Knuckles.
Tails does seem to have his own branding, in unleashed his device/loading screen has "Tails Electric" on it. I believe the Tornado also has a something similar on it but it's been a bit, I'd have to rewatch the cutscene.
Considering that it's canon that the United Federation went around stealing whatever tech invented by Eggman that they were able to for their own and GUN's uses, it's pretty consistent that the computer tech on Sonic's world is vastly better than ours.
You forgot to talk about the ads in SA2 The Trial. It was a demo version that only contains City Escape and the boss that was put out before the deal with SOAP was made. There are also many different billboards besides not mentioning SOAP.
“Isn’t Tikal supposed to be dead?” Nah, Sonic Team when they made Generations travelled to the future to see that the Knuckles promo animation for Frontiers has Tikal’s spirit still wandering around B)))))))))))))))))))
Can't believe you ignored another Chao in Space movie poster in Sonic Generation, where I thought is Chao in Space 3, since below it says "The Search for Tikal," and it shows a chao floating above space, on top of a planet.
For some odd reason, my first thought upon seeing the Dreamcast NiGHTS ad was... An Airline. Yeah I'm not entirely sure if I went in the right direction with that one.
Thinking about it, Digitalchoke is likely supposed to be Digitalchalk like an Etchisketch, but transliterated incorrectly from Japanese, since they'd be pronounced the same
I can't believe the company who merged with a corporation who's whole business model relies on getting people addicted to gambling would support such blatant consumerism!
The things are Engrish because Sonic the Hedgehog is Japanese and always was. Except for Sonic Underground...
Actually the thing is Sega didn't merge with Sammy corporation until after this game like in the mid-2000s I think around 2006 somewhere
@@ElliottWilbur I know, but SEGA merging with a gambling company reflects the same wether it was before SA2's release or not.
@@keip4568Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic SatAM also aren't Japanese, they were made in the states.
@@richardkirkland6805 Don't forget the Archie and Fleetway comic, made in America and the UK respectively.
I remember playing SA2B at my grandma’s house as a kid and being so fascinated by all the ads in the City Escape level. I’d always stop to look at the ads and always try to imagine what the products being advertised were like. I’d do the same thing with the ads on various Mario Kart tracks too as a kid.
I’ve got ideas for a lot of these sa2 ads
Amy’s fortune Cards readings where she uses tarot cards to tell peoples fortunes
The raiders of angel island, Indiana jones movie poster featuring angel island
Knuckles fighting gloves selling boxing gloves that look like knuckles gloves
The Lego shoe. You can build Lego’s and put them on your shoe. Since knuckles shoe top looks like a Lego I find the ideal funny and stupid
Amy’s Roses. A botanist selling roses
ew
Remember when Sonic said "no copyright law in the universe will stop me"? My theory is that Sonic is an anti-copyright activist, defending the abolition of copyright and to keep things consistent, he refuses to claim copyright on himself, that's why there are companies using his likeness (I suppose that if he personally wreaks havoc with his superspeed if a company whom he disagrees uses his image)
As cool as that would be, my theory is to ignore everything from the Wii version of Colours which has to do with Sonic or Tails and consider the DS version canon. Eggman scenes from the Wii can stay, but Sonic is too much of a moron there, more so than in any other Pontac written game.
"no copyright law in the universe can stop me" just when I thought Sonic couldn't get any more BASED. Honestly though that just describes the attitude of Sega towards fan games anyway 😂😂
Very anti Nintendo that way@@apolloforabetterfuture4814
@@genyakozlov1316Yeah I don't know how so many people praised the writing in Colors back in the day considering it came immediately after Black Knight
3:33 fun fact is a reference to the 10th anniversary of Sonic
ew
All those Advertisements Billboards are very charming and gives some of the stages lots of extra soul to them
Given Sonic Frontiers, I'm now coming up with a fan theory that Planet of the Chaos was actually a documentary rather than an action movie despite the obvious reference
With that in mind, it could very well be a novie based on the ancients on their home planet, though how people would know about that is a bit odd
@@hamstersandwich9917 tbh there are ruins lying about, it's just anthropology doing it's thing and like History Channel or Nat Geo there are networks making documentaries about their studies
The movie name is "Planet of the Chaos" as Chaos 0, it can't be as plural of Chao, because the plural of Chao is simply Chao
Also, I think it's pretty funny how the Chao Kindergarten is apparently the only good ad in the cities promoting education when apparently the Chao Principal apparently got rid of the real principal with the help of the Black Market Chao
Friendly reminder that City Escape is pretty much San Francisco lmao, specially considering Radical Highway bridge.
Also the fact Sonic Team comment said in their development that their time in San Francisco was hell so much that they added elements that you can break and gain points, so i wouldn't be surprised if City Escape/Radical Highway/etc were a middle finger to that city lmao
(Also i think many of City Escape ads are just a joke, specially the Generations ones lmao)
I never really paid attention to the ads in the gens version, I'll have to take a look xD
Thanks for pointing that out for me!
@@SaviorOfEdge (they're in this video, btw)
there's a picture of the devs in san francisco lol
The truck probably didn't hit anyone inside the cars, as one of the agents of GUN says right at the start of the stage, GUN was blocking all major roads to make Sonic follow the path they wanted him to follow, at the start of the stage there were people with cars moving around because they just started blocking roads with their cars
They probably evacuated everyone in the road of the truck section so they could go with all force on Sonic, we can see that GUN feels more comfortable going all out when there are no citizen around, in Radical Highway, which is under construction so there are no cars, and Metal Harbor, which is military area, it is not at all like in City Escape with just GUN drones and robots, we bave jets firing at Sonic and Shadow, dropping bombs at them, etc.
That makes sense, especially when you consider that they may still think he's Shadow, if they're going off military intelligence, "the ultimate life form" isn't really something they'd wanna let run free or interact with people.
That is a great thing to point out!
😅 I just wonder if G.U.N replaced everyone's vehicles.
Also cool pfp!, who made the full picture of shadow?, it looks great!.
@@MagnaEssence It's an artwork from "Yuji Uekawa" one of Sonic Team's official artists, which made the redesign of Modern Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Eggman back in 1998 in Sonic Adventure, also helped design many of the Sonic characters we have today, Shadow, Chaos, Tikal, Metal Knuckles, etc. And also the one who made the artworks for many Sonic games, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Sonic Advance 1, 2 and 3, Sonic Rush and Rush Adventure, and probably more I'm forgetting about
This artwork of Shadow in specific is from the Sonic Channel, a japanese website from Sonic Team created back in 2007 if I'm not mistaken, Uekawa-san is one of the artists from the Website alongside Yui Karasuno and some other artists who are also "character supervisors" from the Sonic series
The website has a ton of unique original Sonic stories taking place in past locations from past games, with many of the characters we know and love, and also many new artworks made monthly by the artists from Sonic Team, sometimes as callendar art, sometimes as a cover art for a new story... the Shadow I'm using is one of those artworks, although the website is mainly in japanese, so it's quite hard to navigate through it
Stage 01: "I guess we doin ads now"
I just remembered I have always wondered what the adverts were in Sonic Generations 3DS specifically, in Radical Highway. There's different adverts but hard to make out due to the resolution of the 3DS. One seems to be a purple Time Eater ad.
I grew up near where some Japanese companies liked to put their American departments, including Sega. It's always kinda surreal to see familiar places mixed with all this crazy stuff.
6:36 Chao in Space 1 posters were present in SA1.
16:48 I appreciate that this ad is for something you can actually do in the game. The Chao Kindergarten is accessed in the Chao Garden part of the game
1:30 as you said that, an ad played.
Same
4:45 originally the poster said anti Sony Corporation PS2 Association
It was anti xxxx xx2 but it was pretty obvious
Yeah, there really are a whole slew of advertisements in City Escape, huh?
My favorite's gotta be the NiGHTS ''Let's Fly!'' poster, because of how stylish it is and... well, c'mon, it's NiGHTS.
Im guessing its some sort of airline service or a travel agency
Pretty sure the EMERALD NOTWORK ads are a parody of AOL, an internet provider that gave 72 hour trials etc
Tails' Nationality being identified as "None" raises so many questions for me. That's a rabbit hole waiting to happen
it would be Planet of the Chaos - as in the bad guy in SA1. The plural of Chao is Chao as told to us in-game by Omachao in one of the extra menus (possibly the how to play menu option?) in the non-hd versions of the game (I know it's there somewhere on the gamecube version; but it seems to have been replaced with a generic pdf-like document on the steam version)
I always found it interesting how Chao in Space was a series of movies in the Sonic games. We had the first one in Sonic Adventure; I especially remember there being a billboard of it near Casinopolis that you can climb up as Knuckles. Then we had the second one advertised in Sonic Adventure 2 with the special edition DVD in SA2B and the remake in Sonic Generations, and finally we had the third on in Sonic 06. The first movie finally became real as an animated short.
wait where is chao in space 3 in 06?
@@nithpro1385 While I've never played Sonic 06 due to not owning any of the systems it was on then hearing major criticisms about it, I read on the Sonic Fandom wiki that there's a torn down billboard of Chao in Space III it in Crisis City in a ruined incarnation of Silver's future. I also forgot to mention that Sonic Adventure DX advertised a collector's edition of Chao in Space.
My brother and I used to combine every drink at the soda machine in Burger King. Since we were kids we didn't mind the taste, but we called it Chaos Cola because of SA2.
Rip Gens 3DS Radical Highway
(Btw, im pretty sure Radical Highway takes place in the same City, both Stages are based on San Francisco)
The Time Eater has his own Adds as well!
The 3 characters presented in the updated Phantasy Star Online ad include new characters added to the Gamecube Port. The game allowed you to pick a Job/Race/Gender combination, but not all combinations were available.
However, the Gamecube added (from left to right) Force(mage)/Human/Male, Ranger/Human/Female, and Hunter(melee)/CAST(robot)/Female.
PSO had a special shorthand to define the jobs though, so they were called "FOmar", "RAmarl", and "HUcaseal" respectively.
Technically these aren't "characters" but they're default designs for characters you can create, primarily. Although some default designs are used as NPCs in some single player quests.
Chao in Space was advertised in Station Square (I believe it was across from the Casino)
This is why I love this channel, who else would make a video about this, yet alone an almost 20min one😂
Would be funny to see the ads in Speed Highway
I'd like to think that "The future is in this disc" in the Chao In Space 1 Collector's Edition poster alludes to the fact that it has a special post-credits epilogue scene that alludes to the sequel which wasn't seen in any theatrical release.
chao in space really exists, and it's an official animated short, it's on UA-cam.
I can’t be the only one who noticed the curious road signs in Shadow’s radical highway right? I swear I remember seeing road signs there that say things like “Freedom ??? Miles”
Considering the full text on the Dreamcast Nights ad is "Let's fly around the world," my guess is that it's an advertisement for a Nights travel agency or airline.
Chaos in space 2: PCSB is the third movie but part 2 of a trilogy that is the entire "part 2" of the story.
I wish there were advertisers collaborating with Sonic
Original's Chaos Cola slogan: 'primordal venom'
2 Battle: No thanks, let's just steal one of Mario's catchphrases instead.
Wonderful video as always!
These were my favorite Sonic AD-ventures!! 10:05
The running gag was legit good~ nice work Kiro!
Consider this: the Chao in Space 2 posters say the fill is by Sonic Team in SA2, but say it's by Sonic the Hedgehog in Generations. What if in-universe Sonic Team is Sonic's company (or he at least has some kind of major stake in it). That would explain why they're so comfortable using his likeness. The profits are why he owns his own plane and can wander the world without much of a care. He's actually extremely rich. Sonic, all along, was a business mastermind with several extremely successful ventures. That, or he inherited it all.
I think the 10th item box expo is for item boxes in general- you can see other item icons, like shields and 5-rings, in the background of the poster!
14:25 they needed a consultant for the film as well as a tamer for perfect chaos 😂
18:00 he did get a job, the smartphone company 😂
I like to think Planet Chaos is a spinoff of Chao in Space which is why he's in the Remake
had quite a rough day, and you managed to make me smile again- thank you mate :)
That “Chao in Space 2: Perfect Chaos Strikes Back” also lists Chaos himself being involved.
2:00 and what's their rival drink then, pepsol(Pepsi+Sol energy, also yes this was sarcasm)
4:42 - This is how Sega generates a crop of Chris Chans.
Low hanging fruit
15:30 this is something I didn't think about back when I played Sonic adventure 2 battle on the GameCube when I was a teenager when it was new, but you see I'm actually from the bay area. Well the North Bay actually. Wine country as a matter of fact. An hour North of San francisco. So I have gotten some familiarity with San Francisco and knowing that they named a stage route 101 tells me that they base it off of actually kind of a famous freeway that goes basically from the Mexico border to the Canadian border as it goes through the whole state of california, oregon, and Washington. Where I'm from in Santa rosa, it's very common to drive on the 101. And yes the 101 most definitely goes through San Francisco and comes out the other side.
I can't believe you didn't mention Gens 3ds Radical Highway
64GiB is not overkill lol
Even ten years ago it was comfortable for game development, now it's a requirement for game development. For ai work, it's bare minimum.
For gamers and casuals whatever 16 is fine but you're talking like 64 is some supercomputer only amount haha
doea it hurt to compress games
@@ninlaw9810game development is different from playing games my friend
Wow, a Planet of the Apes reference in Sonic. You learn something new every day.
7:31
Actually, Ian Flynn, one of the writers, has said that everything from SA1 to Frontiers is within one year.
And “Long time, no see” is just a common phrase in the franchise. It might’ve been accurate back then, but nowadays, it wasn’t that long.
Just because of 6 alone it's hard to believe that
But this thing definitely does help Riders and the Storybooks
10 out of 10 video, would watch again.
dude, you said "planet of the chaos" looked like a star wars type film...
are you not aware of the HUGE planet of the apes franchise?
i mean, even at the time, it was pretty big. multiple movies since, i think, the 60s or 70s.
If you're curious who the characters in phantasy star online are in the ads, don't be. It was an mmorpg and basically just picking your class/race type options let you customize and look like a variety of things. So they aren't specific characters just potentially what your hunter could look like.
Y'all ready for the 19inches of "Primal Venom"?
4:58 the Company Powerslide makes Modern day Grindshoes with the Brand name "Epic Grind shoes" (yes that's the real Name) that might even be better than Soaps, infact they even had a Collaboration with *SEGA* at some point, where they Made 1:1 Replicas of Sonic's Soap Shoes and Gave them Away in a Giveaway.
Aside from those they have shoes in Black, White,Grey and *Red* wich Looks pretty Close to Sonic's (and is pretty stylish)
and Hey! it they might give you a Reason to Go Outside!
18:24 I'm gonna guess that the Battle version changes it into advertising the Gamecube ports of PSO?
Also, Sonic Generations 3DS has Radical Highway with its own advertisements like the return of Pizza Sonic (Now called Pizza Sonic 20), Chaos Soda, Got Rings blimp and NiGHTS hotel in the background. As for something new, there was something that is branded as "Time Eater",
One of my favorite part of worldbuilding in games is the fake brands and products they would put in. I love walking around the world looking at the signs and designs that someone put there. I don't even mind product placement if it makes sense for the world to have them. I would even argue it's more immersive.
I like the topics you pick a lot, very keen eye to detail
I played Phantasy Star Online religiously as a teen so seeing the ad for it in SA2 made me so happy.
Got me wanting to play the game again 😂
"Notwork" is for sure just a case of Engrish.
The URL was "emeraldnotwork.not", I think they didn't want it being confused for an actual website.
Why didn't you talk about Sonic Generations 3DS' Radical Highway ☹️
There's also Sonic Team branding on the back of the Shadow and Sonic photo in ShTH, implying they also produce camera film. They also have a building in Sonic Battle where they sell trading cards. Sonic Team in the Sonic universe is QUITE the diverse company.
It's pretty clear that Sonic's world is some sort future earth
Just realised that on the Lego Sonic sets, they have drink pieces that have Chaos Cola on them. Didn’t even know what that was until now!
Hope you're prepared for Shadow Generations as there's some new ads in there too
Yeah I may have to find some way to incorporate those into a video haha
3:48 "while kinky" is too funny
Station Square is supposed to be a futuristic city. They managed to predict the future.
Also "Cinderalla II: Dreams Come True. Is that a Sonic Reference?" That's a DEEP cut.
Is Station Square that futuristic? In SA1 it's nothing special and it's pretty much the only game this city appears in
Ngl ive wanted to make those posters for years. I might make prints of them soon. "Playing SA2 is habit forming -- DONT TURN OFF"
I don't know why but I really like the ads in sa1 and sa2. They are really charming and have such an early 00's vibe to them I love it.
3:18 Cool detail I just understood until now that its the 10th item box expo since the first one was in ten years before this ones in 1991.
SA1's ads were great too, I love "The Man 3"
12:38 actually, there is a comic on deviantart about this exact idea! y'see, ol' charm bee is feeling rather ill (flu season, maybe?) and is wanting access to the toilet to, y'know, not stain the carpet with beebarf. however, vector has a BETTER idea. see, a lot of people don't actually know where honey comes from. he grabs a big ol' bucket and tells charmy to use it instead of the toilet. "uh, okay. if yu say so." a few minutes later, vector has set up a honey shop outside the house, while a very VERY agitated espio is threatening vector with several ranges of doom for these unsavory sales.
if 'charmy bee's sweet honey butter is in fact the result of vector's quick thinking, then boy oh boy.
The newer posters in sonic generations are probably alternate timeline posters. Because I feel like they are unrealistic.
They feel more like mario kart ads with different characters serving as mascots for brands, it does make a little sense since theyre celebrating the series tho id have appreciated some more creative
I mean, technically, nothing really stops Tails from owning a Mobile Phone company. Man owns a lot of land, lots of workshops and obviously has a giant amount of materials to work with.
If anyone could own a working business in Sonic's universe it would 100% be Tails
16:50 Does he realise that there is a black market in the Kindergarten?
1:44 youtube be like
You forgot 3ds generations radical highway lol
Wow it's just like real life
great video i can't wait for sonic movie 3
3:28 With how the Minecraft Community acts, that's pretty realistic
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I think Sega has full copyright to Sonic’s shoes from SA2. They just can’t call it Soap Shoes.
They also appear in Forces as a cosmetic for the Avatar.
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Funny how i
His fur is described as brown when it’s yellow in this game. Is that a reference to Sonic 2’s prototype design for Tails, that eventually ended up appearing in the comics and cartoons?
Also, fun fact, Tails was originally orange and then became yellow over the early years.
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It’s planet of the Chaos. (The character)
As Chao doesn’t have a plural version. You just say Chao if there are multiple of them.
I just played sonic adventure again, and there's a chao in space poster right outside of casinopolis. You even have to climb on it to get inside casinopolis as Knuckles.
Tails does seem to have his own branding, in unleashed his device/loading screen has "Tails Electric" on it.
I believe the Tornado also has a something similar on it but it's been a bit, I'd have to rewatch the cutscene.
8:00 straight out of Vought and The Boys lol
Its called an ISP… back then, the internet came on discs. Before then, they came out on DISKs!
1024Mhz is definitely the memory speed.
Considering that it's canon that the United Federation went around stealing whatever tech invented by Eggman that they were able to for their own and GUN's uses, it's pretty consistent that the computer tech on Sonic's world is vastly better than ours.
You forgot to talk about the ads in SA2 The Trial. It was a demo version that only contains City Escape and the boss that was put out before the deal with SOAP was made. There are also many different billboards besides not mentioning SOAP.
“Isn’t Tikal supposed to be dead?” Nah, Sonic Team when they made Generations travelled to the future to see that the Knuckles promo animation for Frontiers has Tikal’s spirit still wandering around B)))))))))))))))))))
Planet of the Chaos logo resembles the Planet of the Apes logo, so I guess that was its inspiration.
The Emerald not work website actually exists It just has a logo and an anime picture. Nothing else very boring, but it’s appropriate.
Can't believe you ignored another Chao in Space movie poster in Sonic Generation, where I thought is Chao in Space 3, since below it says "The Search for Tikal," and it shows a chao floating above space, on top of a planet.
I’ll be honest when i first played i just put it together that it’s a city and a very money central city, so ads make sense
For some odd reason, my first thought upon seeing the Dreamcast NiGHTS ad was... An Airline.
Yeah I'm not entirely sure if I went in the right direction with that one.
Well, Kiro certainly Talks a lot…
Chao in space 1 was in sa1 right outside the entrance casinopolis
Thinking about it, Digitalchoke is likely supposed to be Digitalchalk like an Etchisketch, but transliterated incorrectly from Japanese, since they'd be pronounced the same
Yayy I’m early! Awesome vid