So time for some Summer of Sonic footage, nothing yet from our eye that is SEGASonic:TV. But whilst we were at the convention this year we bumped into fellow podcast enthusiasts We Are Arcade who grabbed me for the brief time I wasn’t busy DJ-ing or helping out on the day. They dig deep into my mind to talk about Sonic; past, present and future along with fellow oldbie Syaming Li.

So you want to know what the FastFeet Media (or soon to be SEGA Media) peeps got up to at Summer of SOnic 2010? Well we have a few pictures here to tease you with. It’s not a lot but in comparison to the exclusive music and video we have to offer it’s only the beginning of the coverage.

I’d thought I’d drop by and give you all the latest about Summer of Sonic 2010 just before I make my way to the event! Starting off with our upcoming switchover to SEGA Media.

INVITES TO THE BETA

As you may know by now we are offering 30 invite codes to the SEGA Media website beta right at Summer of Sonic this year. They’re available on a first come first served basis.

You can only get them from FastFeet himself by asking but you’ll have a better chance of finding him throughtout the day by keeping an eye out for fellow SEGA Media staffer Mr. Sonic Stream, who will probably help point you in the right direction. We’re both pictured on the flyer which you can see on the right.

Find us and you may be lucky enough to take part in the beta week starting Monday the 9th and ending on Sunday the 15th of August.

Finally we can now start making some Summer of Sonic 2010 announcements, we start off with information regarding the music you’ll all be hearing at the convention this year provided by Summer of Sonics own team of DJ’s. Now this year there has been a reshuffle in comparison to the team that has been behind the decks the last 2 years. For starters I can now announce that myself (FastFeet) will be Lead DJ this year.

What that means is that I will be watching over the decks and the team of DJ’s we have this year. Whilst I have been responsible for providing all the music and some of the gear needed to let DJ’s work with the Sonic the Hedgheog music in previous conventions, this year I’ll be keeping a thorough eye on the DJ decks and the DJs themselves.

So who’s part of the DJ team this year I hear you ask? Like I say there has been a change from the previous 2 years. With the success of RadioSEGAs live shows since the start of this year I am now pleased to announce a mix of DJ’s from the Sonic communities 2 major radio stations. DJ line up is as follows.

So I just listened Fastfeet Media Episode (Gratz to Sound Reaper & Knukxy) And i heard one of the guest say ‘Sonic 4 is fucked because of Dimps’ I’m pretty sure Dimps Made the sonic advance games and the rush games and they were classic sonic games.

Granted Sonic has had a bad few years with Sonic 2006 etc but can’t we as sonic fans have a little more faith in the game developers? Does this give us a reason to say ‘the new sonic game will be crap’ before you have even played it for yourself just because Sonics last few games weren’t as good as the 2D ones or Sonic Adventure 1 and 2? Look at Sonic 4, SEGA are going out of their way to make the perfect Sonic game for his fans and we still have people boycotting it for reasons I can’t understand. SEGA even went as far as putting an option to play as the modern Sonic or the Classic just because a number of fans are complaining about his eye colour.

It was a just as Katio_Kun said on RadioSEGA: ‘why do these people complain about something so much when no-one is forcing them to like it? If they don’t like how Sonic has been over the past few years why don’t they just move on and stop bugging everyone?’ No one if forcing you to like sonic, so if you don’t have faith in the game’s developers and always expect the worst in his new game’s you might as well move on.

As for me, I see new Sonic game, I wait for Sonic game, I buy the Sonic game, I play the Sonic game then I decide if it’s a good game or not instead of judging it on is announcement.
Please note this does not apply to every sonic fan. I’m very aware there are a lot of sonic fans out there that don’t act like this. If I have offended you then I am sorry. There’s a topic to found at RadioSEGA about this and I will also open one on the forums here. Also read Mr.Streams blog about Sonic Colours which is found on this website to. Thanks for reading as always!

Gonic

Once again… we witness the return of the world’s greatest Sonic the Hedgehog convention. I would say the world’s only Sonic the Hedgehog convention but that of course is no longer true. However that said, based off of the success of the Summer of Sonic conventions, it now returns for its 3rd annual convention in good ol’ Blighty.

So wondering what the hell I’m talking about? Well instead of boring you with a long history, head on over to the official Summer of Sonic website where there’s plenty of stuff to check out. Along with all the juicy bits of news now in the form of a blog, attendee information and a spotlight for you, the fans to give your input for this years convention! But veteran of the Sonic scene and staff member at every convention so far, FastFeet, will now give you his first opinions on Summer of Sonic 2010 (or as I prefer to call it, Summer of Sonic 3) with exactly 1 month to go until the party starts…

When we were kids, we either grew up with SEGA or Nintendo (or if you were lucky both) so you grew up with either Sonic or Mario.

Me? I grew up with SEGA and as I was quite young I can only remember up to five game’s I owned on the mega drive, one of which I don’t think is well known within the SEGA community. You may have already guessed this, but I got into gaming thanks to the SEGA mega drive which in sense was the first console I owned but you can’t own a console you can’t play at the age of Zero…

What a celebration! Not only did we do a 3 hour long show to celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog’s birthday full of some of the best tracks ever made along with bundles of requests, we were also joined by SEGA’s community manager ArchAngelUK and T-Bird, both of whom are helping organise this years Summer of Sonic. SEGA’s twitter account also gave us a shoutout twice too, cheers for that by the way! Not only do we talk about random things from Sonic but we talk about the Past, Present Future of Sonic and also get given some exclusive information from our guests!

On a side note this show is a replacement for this weeks FoneMix show usually aired every Sunday, on RadioSEGA so there won’t be a show this Sunday. On the other hand this is 3 times as long and about 1000 times as funny! You can now download this 3 hour show from our “One-Off Specials” category in the Podcast Directory. Click here to check it out and if you missed the celebrations add your comments below!

Hello one and all it is I FastFeet! I come here bringing news of a special one off show (no not Trial) for Sonic the Hedgehog’s 19th Birthday. The show will start at 9PM UK Time (GMT +1) and will feature music from Sonic the Hedgehog games only of course as well as remixes and rare promotional music.

You’ll be able to request music as usual in the chatroom and via @fastfeetmedia on twitter. You’ll also be able to call into the show to say your birthday wishes on air! Just add the user fonemix to your skype account. We’ll have plenty to talk about and we look forward to all of your input too. Listen in here – www.radiosega.net/listen.php

Happy Birthday Sonic and we’ll see all you fans later this evening!

That’s right folks, for the first time in 3 years FastFeet Media will be going through a massive change and rebranding itself to the new name of SEGA Media. I hear you all cry why? Well as much as the name is very well known in the Sonic community we want everyone else out there to know who we are and get more involved in SEGA and Sonic the Hedgehog music, video and more!

Whilst we are in development stages of the new website you will be able to check it out at the new address of www.segamedia.com. Expect to find out more about the all-new site and more on here and on the teaser page.