


SEGA also announced the collaboration with Whitehead to produce an official version of the “Sonic Boy CD” that will eventually be released on platforms such as iPhone, Android and Xbox 360. There is a fan of artist and programmer named Christian Whitehead, who played an important role in the development of “Sonic Boy Mania” in SEGA, and he also made a concept transplant of “Sonic Boy CD” for the iPhone. In fact, SEGA has benefited from cooperation with fans in the past. The players basically expressed support for her response, believing that SEGA’s views on fan creation are healthy and positive. When asked if they accept fundraising activities initiated by fans, she said it was a gray area, and she suggested “if possible, it’s better not.” When discussing homemade games, Kate Chrzanowski said that as long as the fans do not involve commercial activities such as profit, fan-made games “usually no problem.” But she also noted that for legal reasons, she must also emphasize that not all content will be allowed by SEGA.Ĭhrzanowski said that unless there is an “abnormal situation”, they will deal with those works that violate the regulations one by one, but their purpose is not to stifle all content creation. However, some of the comments made by SEGA’s social media director Kate Chrzanowski on Twitter recently may have made fans feel a lot of heart. In the gaming industry, the most intolerable of this type of fan games is of course Nintendo, which is known for having “the strongest legal affairs in the Eastern Hemisphere.” Over the years, many people have developed various related games with “Super Mario” as the role, and all of these people have received copyright warning notices from the strongest legal affairs. Unfortunately, this kind of fan enthusiasm is often wiped out because of copyright. The PlaySEGA Rings used as the site's currency are the same Rings from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.Powerful game fans often make fan games by themselves, allowing their favorite game characters to continue to develop more stories in different worlds.A Green Hill Zone-themed Escape was also exclusively available to VIP members.
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Several virtual items based on the Sonic the Hedgehog series were available in the Shop, including a blue Avatar t-shirt with the outline of Sonic's face and a Sega logo picture frame with Sonic standing in front of it.Green Hill Zone, as seen among other PlaySEGA VIP-exclusive Escapes. List of Sonic games Sega Mega Drive/Genesis While most of the games were Sega/Mediatonic-developed, several games from external developers were licensed by Sega and distributed on the site. Instead, emulated versions of existing Sega Mega Drive games and several new Flash games produced by Mediatonic were launched on the website, integrated into an API that calculated high scores, leaderboard ranks, achievements, and payouts of the site currency, PlaySEGA Rings. The website was originally conceived as a portal for all of the promotional browser mini- games previously used on Sega's game websites, but the idea was dropped due to the games' lack of depth. Several years later, development of a new browser game portal named PlaySEGA began, developed by the SEGA Network Group in cooperation with Mediatonic. Registered by Sega Europe on 14 November 2002 and launched in 2003, the PlaySega domain was initially purposed as a gateway page to the online hub for the Phantasy Star Online series. Only a few years after its release, the PlaySEGA service quietly shut down in June 2011, displaying a maintenance screen until its complete closure in 2013. The virtual website currency, PlaySEGA Rings, was earned by playing games or obtained via site microtransactions, and could have been used to purchase Avatar accessories, enter prize draws, and decorate the Escape area, which served as a personalized profile for users on the site. If anything, as others have said, the fans are doing a large part of the work for keeping Sonic.
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Users who purchased a three-month membership or longer were mailed a free Sega Saturn-styled PlaySEGA USB joypad. The fan made Sonic game’s aren’t really in direct competition to the Sega published ones. All users were able to browse the website and play games, but paying VIP members has access to the Mega Drive game library and level editors. The PlaySEGA website featured an extensive library of games playable on demand, consisting of exclusive Flash games and existing Sega Mega Drive games emulated through a Java emulator named jEnesis. However, gamers on the go who opted for Segas handheld Game Gear got a very different version of Sonic in the summer of 1991, which also found its way to the Master System in Europe that fall. It served as a portal for casual gaming via browser and social networking. PlaySEGA was a web service developed by Sega and Mediatonic.
