Dolphinzero

I like stuff, SEGA and Jazz Fusion enjoyer

[janeTM🏳️‍⚧️ @jane_trademark]

everybody hates sonic r

[Cartoon Base @TheCartoonBase]

Hideki Sato has sadly passed away at the age of 77.

The former SEGA president and creator of nearly every SEGA console.

[🦝MelohRush🦝 🔜 Sonic Expo Atlanta @MelohRush]

Remaking Sonic OVA scenes with the Rush models

(They don't know this is secretly Rush Rerun work for cutscene animation reference)

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

LOL hahaha. Of course.

Here’s the reality: video game nerds like us spent our weekend nights inside games.
When we were young, after school or work, we weren’t just “playing” ..we were living in arcades, battling for high scores, dissecting strategies. Every year brought new massive cabinets and motion-based machines, and that raw excitement was irreplaceable.

Unlike the normies, gamers like us were grinding gold and coins long before crypto and digital wallets became trendy buzzwords.

Back in the early internet days of the 1990s, farming items, gold, and platinum in Diablo, Ultima Online, and EverQuest was busier than our actual day jobs.

And the first moment the world truly connected through online games? That was unreal.
On Ultima Online’s official launch day, players were introducing themselves by country, saying things like:
“My grandfather and yours fought in WWII — and now we’re playing together. How insane is that?”

That was the first time the world genuinely felt connected. The virtual world outshined real nightlife districts by a mile.

This was the narrowband era. Servers were fragile, and just putting an image on your homepage could get you treated like a criminal. Early Ultima Online? One step could take minutes. No exaggeration.

We weren’t using undersea fiber from Japan to North America. Japanese players literally signed contracts with American AT&T providers and dialed by phone line all the way to Lake Superior servers. The lag was borderline unbelievable but no problem at all because fun.

Going out to real-world parties? Not even remotely an option.

When EverQuest hit its peak, anyone who invited you out on a Friday or Saturday night was friendship-ending. If you had time for nightlife, you clearly weren’t camping rare named spawns.

Why go drinking when you could go dragon hunting?
And yes.... the excitement was bladder-bursting level. We literally couldn’t leave to use the bathroom.

Then PC performance went insane. Overclocking, benchmarking, higher resolutions.. nonstop.
Then came story-driven shooter campaigns like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty, plus multiplayer games that simply never ended once you started.

At some point, our lives even turned into nightly virtual bank robberies.

Gamers were absurdly busy. There was zero time for old men’s social gatherings, elite banquets, or brain-dead club parties.
The truth? Video games completely surpassed real-world entertainment.

When my wife first came to my place, she was horrified and asked:
“Why is there an arcade table cabinet in your living room? Does it cost 100 yen per play?”
“Why is the next room filled with towers of empty boxes, CDs, and DVDs?”
“Why are there so many screens and PCs ,,,, are you trading stocks?”
“Why are hoses filled with green liquid running from all these PCs to giant metal towers on the balcony?”
“Why are arcade controllers everywhere?”
“Why are PC parts literally covering the walls?”

Because at night I was being a blacksmith, a cute elf, a soldier, a bank robber, and a world saver —
then going to work to make games, talking games, “researching” games by playing them, rushing home, and staying busy landing headshots.

How long do you think it took before that finally made sense to her?

I’ve lived a life that was insanely busy! and incredibly fulfilling.

I’m proud. I’ve experienced every kind of place, moment, and community in the game world... and traveled the real world too, talking about games with people everywhere.
It’s been an overwhelmingly fun life.

There was no time wasted in decay. Every second was converted into XP, coins, or skills.

And yes,,, even within the same game industry, there are plenty of people who have never written a line of code, drawn a single pixel, composed a bar of music, or written a line of specs.... yet somehow stay busy burning entertainment budgets with outsourcing vendors and license holders.

They still love saying “when we made this game,” dropping the word "made", while bragging about nightlife war stories like that’s an achievement.

For the record, those fake “industry guys or producers” (and there are a lot of them) live in a completely different world from us.

[Christian64 @Chris64_64]

#ytpmv

[ItoShin @ito5shin]

チューニングショップ画面のBGM的な

[crush40 @crush40]

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic_hedgehog]

In 2026, we’re celebrating 35 years of speed, friendship, adventures, and being Forever Fast.

Here’s to the next level!

Check out the official Sonic 35th anniversary site to stay up to date on what’s ahead: https://t.co/ajKUf7LuJP

[白玉 @torufu1029]

おはよう

[Seam @seaminglygood]

Happy (late) anniversary Sonic CD!

[- ̗̀dylan ̖́- @kerophibian]

haru urara has such a fascinating story, you should watch her documentary “the shining star of losers everywhere” if you’re unfamiliar!! she became a beacon of hope even to non horse racing fans, and saved a failing race track from closing its doors

[Umamusume: Pretty Derby @umamusume_eng]

It is with heavy hearts that we share that Haru Urara passed away on September 9.

The legendary racehorse's legacy serves as the inspiration for the character of the same name in Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

We share our condolences to all the staff involved in Haru Urara's care.

[jacksob @jackosob]

dude fucking calm down .. ill give it you in a minute what the hell dude

[The Myst @SmthInTheMyst]

Tryna watch the White House announcement and got this funny screenshot

[セガ公式アカウント🦔 @SEGA_OFFICIAL]

1991年6月23日に「ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ」が誕生しました🎉

🎈🎂🎈🎂🎈🎂🎈🎂

今日はソニックの誕生日🦔
Happy Birthday, Sonic!!

🎈🎂🎈🎂🎈🎂🎈🎂

#ソニックバースデー2025 #ソニック