If you can’t be bothered to flesh out the sign for your own business, you obviously haven’t got the mental strength to make it a success.

“Here’s a photo of Megagames in Morecambe. It says they buy and sell ‘Saturns etc’ but as they appear to have closed down I couldn’t check. Perhaps they were unable to keep up with demand?” – Paul, Lancaster.

We got sent this photo of some bananas. Several times. We suspect (well, KNOW) it’s a promotional activity from SEGA, but the submitter seems to be suggesting he just happened to spot them on some bananas in his kitchen.

We replied asking “Are they promotional SEGA bananas you got from SEGA?” and he replied sending another photo taken at a higher resolution. So here it is. We’ll probably never get to the bottom of this.

“Some game with some kind of animal from some weird company published on that strange white thing that I found out about when I was about to eat a banana. As you can see those bananas spent some time at my kitchen and I only noticed now that there is…(insert previous sentence)” – Dmitry.

UPDATE: BANANAS CONFIRMED AS “REAL”
“The Monkey Ball stickers on Dole bananas are a real thing. My girlfriend was cooking dinner last night and I saw one on a freshly purchased bunch from the Safeway in Redmond, Washington. I wanted to jump up and down and say “AHHH MONKEY BALL!!! I LOVE SEGA” and start singing one of the raps from Metropolis Street Racer but managed to contain myself. I think the banana was significantly more delicious than other non-SEGA-branded bananas though” – Colin.

OK, so we’re going through a demotivated phase. Hopefully Sony will do something stupid tonight and we’ll be all excited again. Until then…

“Recently I came across this photo which my girlfriend took whilst travel ling through Pisa. As you can see from the photos – this is clearly the new Dreamcast flagship store, which must be opening up sometime soon.”

“Included is a close up of the store’s sign for your titillation” – Paul.

Has nothing to do with Sonic. It’s like when we used to think it was funny to put up photographs of Carol Vorderman or Anna Kournikova. It just doesn’t make any sense.

“I was walking to work the other day when I came across these posters on two successive newspaper boxes. Obviously someone is promoting the Kings and Queens mash up featuring DJ Quinces pretty heavily. I’m not entirely sure what the event is although I know Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is the home for ‘Queer Theatre’ in Toronto so I assume the event is, at the very least, a bit gay. I’m also not familiar with DJ Quinces. For all I know he/she may be a student DJ and therefore not even a real DJ. It’s also unclear how Sonic is involved” – James.

Perhaps “Buddies in Bad Times” refers to the current gaming malaise in which Sonic and friends currently fester, hence the use of the art?

There are some benefits to going outside where other people are – you might see something related to SEGA! Don’t bother typing in that domain name, it’s expired and points to a contextual list of car-related insurance sites.

“So I step outside last night and the first thing I see is this flagrant disrespecting of a registered SEGA trademark. I wonder if they asked SEGA if they can name their lorry company after the finest 16-BIT console? I DOUBT IT.”

“Taken with iPhone’s unspeakably shit camera in Leicester Square – I think the MegaDrive lorry was setting up some sort of film premier or something” – Adam.

It looks like the manufacturer of whatever this is stole a bit of Ulala fan art off the internet, rightly assuming that only a few losers on a few gaming blogs would notice.

“I saw this in a shop today: a product with some anime girls drawn on the package to appeal to young girls, but one of them shall look familiar to you…” – Adamis.

A man risked losing face with his wife and members of the public by taking photographs of a work-in-progress SEGA installation that’s being set up in the Bluewater shopping centre. SEGA, meanwhile, is risking losing face by copying one of Sony’s most ridiculous claims – FOUR DIMENSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT.

“Imagine my surprise when I actually went out one night to Bluewater with the wife. Sega have a 4D motion ride that was being assembled.”

“Ignore the quality of the photos, the camera on my Sony X1 has the focusing ability of a man with cataracts.”

“Thought you might like to see the stand. I’m still fuming about the Saturn and Dreamcast and don’t need to see this shit” – Rusebke.

Seeing as we’re back in the spiral phase, here’s another nice sighting. Of more interest in this series of shots is this rare insight it gives us into how some human males exist in the year 2009. This update will hopefully be of some interest to future anthropologists. So it’s OK if it is of no interest to you NOW.

Future observers may ponder why, for example, have those three bottles been taped together?

“I was cleaning up our garage after a particularly messy night, when something previously unseen caught my eye.”

“As has become tradition, I have taken three photos whilst getting closer to the objects of interest. I like the last one as it looks like a frog feeling rather ill after eating a few too many cigarette butts” – Tim.

“(Oh, was using a crappy LG camera phone, hence the shite quality)”

If the fabric is rockin’ don’t come a-knockin’ – I’m rocking backwards and forwards in my van because I’ve just lost all my savings on the stock market and got made redundant last month, although I am still leaving the house at 7.55am every day so it looks like I still have a job.

Spotted by a “Darren” who concocted the sort of half-baked LIE we would expect to hear from a person called Darren.

“Me and my pals are hoping to make it all the way to E3 in America to see the official launch of the rocking new Dreamcast console. We reckon it will beat the new ‘funstation’, or what ever it’s called from Sony. What does Sony know about gaming anyway, it makes video players! I thought I would send you a picture of our awesome van we are using. We customized it special, hope you like it” – Darren.

Igromir is a Russian video games show, held earlier this month. It offered a unique take on the usual tired Western expo. What we mean by that is “here are some photos of it, mostly featuring women”.

We found it while searching the internet for photos of rough women doing Bayonetta cosplay. Not that this one’s rough, we just have this idea that the Bayonetta woman will take over from Lara Croft as the woman women who are into games will dress up as, as she’s quite sexy but also has that “troublesome” midriff area covered up.

Most of the photos nicked off some bloke’s Flickr page. The rudest one is this one. She’s too rude to go on here.

It’s the Element of War girls! We certainly always associate girls in orange cheerleader costumes with PC RTS games. From left to right – Colonel Olga Kuryenko, Lieutenant Commander Tatanya Illievskya, and Field General Lady Silvava Bondarenko.

A booth girl looking at the bottom of a rival booth girl. The Russians know how to put on a show.