It's worrying that the 'SEGA' bit seems to have been covered up.
It's definitely been covered up, hasn't it? It would be some coincidence for a piece of paper exactly that size to randomly attach itself to that sign in that specific place, wouldn't it?
Sadly, to get to SEGA World, you have to walk down the sort of underpass that we usually associate with buying heavily-cut drugs from tramps or having our laptop stolen. This might explain why the sign has been papered over and why it looks like it might be closed and abandoned. What lies down the underpass of DOOM? Is it really a SEGA World? Is it still open? Or is it closed? Or has it been turned into a McDonalds or a Starbucks like every other available retail space?
It's a boring shopping center. There is no SEGA World in Sydney any more. That was a waste of everyone's time. We looked for ages. Nothing.
THEN, JUST NOW, THREE WEEKS LATER AND AS IF BY COINCIDENCE!
We got an email from this bloke who saw a second closed SEGA World in Shanghai. What is happening to the world? :(
All the while, Apple is opening *more* iPod hellholes. The end times really are upon us.
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It came with the template. Maybe in 2014 we'll jump on board the Twitter train and put that in here. Or a radio. That'd be nice.
Can't be arsed writing more about it so here's a link to an article about it on Wikipedia here.
I think I will go and watch an episode of friends.
I'll try and get a photo to you guys (just like I was supposed to get a photo of that Sonic 2 jacket! - whoops!)
I seem to remember playing air hockey. Which is almost like excersise.
sigh, maybe next time...
It had some crappy bits and some moments of arcade wonderfulness.
It had loads of Saturn Era arcade machines including the skateboard one with the actual skateboard controller :-)
It also had a Dreamcast area where there were about 16 networked :-) Playing Quake 3 :-(
And all the arcades WERE on free play, dunno if this was because they were closing down though.
And a giant TV showing... Fox Kids???
"Just to chat. Nothing suss."
That there is comedy gold, kids. Comedy gold. Aussie TV references FTW.
The 'Sega World' sign being covered up makes me sad. The world can't just cover up 'EG', and pretend the Dreamcast never happened.
Seriously?! I'm sure it was open t'other day.
*cries*
The Sega shop is now a washing machine shop and the Nintendo one a fancy delicatessen.
oh the humanity :(
What I thought was cool is that at another (better) theme park in Aus, Dreamworld, they actually had a Dreamcast, some 6 months before it was released over here. A friend of mine got to try out Sonic Adventure, and I couldn't believe how lucky he was.
Then I finally got to play it myself, and consequently get bored with it like I do with every other video game. Ah well.
But yeah, given these photos.. Robotnik shall never receive his Chaos no matter how much he asks for it in song.
But hey at least Sega haven't vapourised altogether.. And we all can look forward to NiGHTS 2 in 2010 :D
I took some pictures but Outlook is being a shit so I'll send them in tonight, which is like yesterday morning in your country.
Hey, you could feature it alongside the Sega Pencil or Carpet?
Or I could keep them here, still warm, wrapped in my Sega T-Shirt forever....
By the way did you collect all the McDonalds Sega games last year. What a sellout for Sega, the games were so crap. I ate so many Happy Meals to get them all....
After the park closed we used to play the giant Indy 500 game all night and shoot the other technicians with the bazooka dodgems. The best of times and the worst of times. As a theme park it sucked. As a job where you could fuck around and still get paid, it was pretty good.
Our Walkie Talkies had a huge range so we could walk up to Pizza Hut and still pretend we were down the other end of the park fixing a machine. The indoor roller coaster had a fake wall half way along where workers could hide out.
It was shut down not long after I left.