SEGA UK TV Ad - Sonic The Hedgehog

[MrCruiseBlackorby]

That's an Austrailian ad,not a British ad.

[BelatedCommiseration]

I always used to think that bloke was a young Alistair Mcgowen, but I think he may have been a bit old by then...I still think they look eerily similar. This is the sort of sega advert I remember. Didn't seem to see much of the 'Nintendo bashing' ones, although there obviously are enough of em! I miss the old cold war gaming days...the passing of sega is one of those things that makes you realise time changes everything...unfortunately.

[WHYTRIP206]

0:15 Adrien Brody



[ilovewildkratts1]

hahahaha

to be this good takes ages...and SEGA's wits!

[Darian21StJohn]

OMG young Peter Wingfield AWWWWWWW he looks so cute but I like him as Methos from Highlander even more

[comptonmofo1]

And yes it is funny seeing Canary Wharf lit only by the builders worklights on a couple of floors! Christ you'd probably get done for terrorism if you parked a whacky Sega lorry up there now and started filming!

[comptonmofo1]

The ad that is always missing from blogs is 'howdhedodat' and thats available from the site of the cinematographer...

w w w (dot) gboyle (dot) co (dot) uk / HOW%20qt.HTM

Also check out the 'cyber razor cut' ad in perfect film quality (almost). I'm sure someone with more brains than me will upload them both here!

[19Nick80webb]

@ glockers nope its british gymnast chong thong

[Glockers76]

The Ninja was British Trampolinist Sean McLoughlin

[EasterGhost]

GAYEM GEYAH

[joe9320]

No mention of Blast Processing in the UK commercial of Mega Drive/Genesis.

[HyperSonicXtreme]

The boy used Chaos Control

[MinaseTakix]

Saiga? What the fuck?

[smashking41]

Playing Sonic can help you own ninjas?

WTF...

[BIGPIMPINUPDANYC]

Couldn't stand Sonic, It's OK when you're speeding about, but then you hit something and he stops completely and then he's really slow for a couple of seconds.

Bunch of ARSE!

[MrSyrett]

Canary wharf looks a bit.........empty

[Asaeis]

Wow, as if you'd get fast just by playing 'sonic'.

[manintheryanmask]

was that peter wingfeld?

[lamparalaptopiaguita]

god i hate the british accent...what a fake, greasy, homosexual accent, christ...

[TopGunSGA]

@lamparalaptopiaguita

If you're talking about the guy playing Sonic, he IS BRITISH (well Welsh)

[ImPoliticalOK]

@lamparalaptopiaguita Welsh RETARD fucking Americans we fucking owned u and we can easily do it again

[barker888]

@lamparalaptopiaguita thanks for sharing ....

[cartoonmarc]

I think this ad is from 1992 because I have that game gear that's bundled with Sonic, which was from that time just before Sonic 2 was out.

[25FreakOuts]

i remember watching it when i was little.

[shinkosai]

holy shit the docklands in background lolz

[Kill2Smile]

This makes me feel embarrassed to be English.

[MarkeyTheJester]

Agreed

[werewolf1423]

don't worry mario will catch him

[griffit6]

Noddy Holder?

[joeottoson]

Methos?

[lyris1]

"Everything else seems a bit slow" - what, like the gimped 50hz version of the game you're playing?

[Cesariono]

Loool, "To be this good takes AGES, to be this good takes SEGA" I find that line quite admirable.

[ianwilson1978]

Superb slogan!

[3kliksphilip]

It shows that the advert was memorable. 'Don't worry I'll catch him' was a great way to end this one!

[bytesabre]

Good thing you could hack a PAL megadrive to run at NTSC speed if you had a SCART lead for it, just needed you to fit a couple of switches to it.

[cakestalker]

@mononokehime316uk

lol i thought about the same thing when watching this.. even the music was slower.

[Zeldaartist]

i rememer sonic 1 on my mega drive started about 6am up until about 9-10 am, my sega was scolding hot but at least i completed it.

i also got sonic one on master system II built into the console

[joeshgamespot]

what, 3-4 hours playing and it got that hot ?

[yethboth]

It is the guy who played Methos in the Highlander series and two films. The guy's name is Peter Wingfield and I wouldn't be surprised if he was playing Methos in this advert by having a bit of time out from the other immortals. :) Good advert anyway.

[destructionsnakepit]

That looks like the guy who played Methos in the Highlander tv series and last two films

[dougd1015]

He looks the star actor from teh movie, "The Pianist."

[chaoscommentaries]

dont worry, i'll catch him

CLASSIC line

[megadrive08]

think it would of been called megadrive in america but for some reason they couldnt use that name so they had to change it to genesis

[dbz4e]

the reason was they already had some thing called mega drive thats why they had to change it to that aweful name

[DavidXNewton]

Thanks for uploading this, I'd seen it when I was about five and had had a half-memory of it ever since! I can't say it makes a whole lot more sense than how I remembered it...

[daredevilsguidedog]

that is true every other video game character seems slow

[jason1985monkey]

Is it only me that thinks its Alistair McGowen the now psuedo famous impressionist. As in doing a good impression of Bush not a painter.

[DavidXNewton]

He does look like Alistair McGowan! You've got me wondering now...

[RG7621]

I had this ad on tape at the time it was on TV. I used to rewind it and watch it over and over.

[DrButler]

Nothing makes me want to buy Sonic games more than eye-raping, blurry, washed-out, game footage.

[korgkiller]

wierd how they like turned against shinobi and are like dissing him in this ad.

[salemdoom]

I loved the "to be this good takes ages" campaign. Even though at the time, you was either a mario player or sonic, I was a mario (itsame)

[Pete5475]

Hehe, I've been wanting to watch this series of ads again for ages. Nostalgia is a great thing. Thanks for posting this!

[geckoyamori]

Did the narrator squeeze in a "feck y'all" in the end there?

[SegaMarkUK]

Nah, he's saying Thank you in a very dodgy accent. :)

[JDudex1]

@SegaMarkUK the accent is british

[ColtSSR]

haha yeah thats a feck y'all for sure!

[andyukmonkey]

Sounds like 'Thank you' in a very dopey midlands accent.

Which sounds more like Thank yaow

[eakooffire]

I didn't know he was saying anything else ^-^; Just instantly took it for thank you

[antideborah]

@geckoyamori

Nah, he said "thank you" at the end.

[ASSEMblerEX]

Lol @ the rotating chair with TV built in.

[SegaMarkUK]

Mate, you know you want one! I do, haha.

[duffers]

Hah, as do I. Looks intense!