The SEGA Spirit Show podcast

The SEGA Spirit

A podcast celebrating the SEGA community, classics, and more! Between the two of us, we helped co-create or run various SEGA-focused publications, including Dreamcasters Realm, SEGA Nerds, Mega Visions Magazine, and SEGA-Addicts.com. Please enjoy the blue, blue skies!

  1. 4D AGO

    Iconic Hits to Forgotten Gems! SEGA’s Xbox 360, PS3 & Wii Classics Ranked pt1 |SEGA Spirit Show Ep18

    The browser makes the cake, as they say... Yes, welcome to Episode 18 of The SEGA Spirit Show - your healthy dose of blue skies, blast processing and retro-fuelled enthusiasm! In this episode, Graham and Scotty take on a challenge so big, we're going to do it in two parts: building a full tier list ranking SEGA’s games from the 7th generation of consoles - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii. From iconic hits to forgotten curiosities, we’re sorting the entire era into S, A, B, C, and D tiers. In the SEGA Community News we dive into a packed week of SEGA indie and homebrew news, including new ports, demakes, and fan‑made projects across the Mega Drive, Saturn, and 32X scenes. Check out the links and timestamps below for more info. And don't forget to Like, Comment and Subscribe for more SEGA goodness! We'd love to hear from you! 😎👍 Level Select: 00:00 - Intro What We've Been Up To 02:00 - Scotty's 90s pickups 06:36 - Scotty shows off his new Dreamcast-related accessory! 15:06 - The life of a retro gamer - Graham realises he owns the Mighty Max videogame on Mega Drive! 19:58 - Graham's hot take on Immortals: Fenyx Rising 22:47 - First impressions: Death & Lead for the Mega Drive SEGA Community News 32:07 - PS1 cult classic, Kula World being ported to the SEGA 32X 35:21 - Bailey the Brave a new indie Mega Drive game and we've played it! 42:08 - Abandoned Panzer Dragoon Saga PC fan port could be worked on again 47:11 - Minecraft being ported to the... SEGA Saturn. Wha?! Feature Topic: Ranking Every 7th Gen SEGA game 51:10 - Intro to our tier list 56:17 - Aliens Colonial Marines, Alien Isolation, Alien vs Predator, Condemned 1 & 2 ranked 01:06:33 - Full Auto, MadWorld, Anarchy Reigns, Alpha Protocol, Beijing 2008 ranked 01:21:53 - The Club, 428 Shibuya Scramble, Alien Syndrome, Amored Core 4 ranked 01:28:47 - Bayonetta, Binary Domain, Bleach: Shattered Blade, Captain America ranked 01:33:30 - Chrome Hounds, The Conduit, Conduit 2, Daisy Fuentes Pilates ranked 01:36:50 - SEGA Dreamcast Collection, Fighting Climax, Football Manager 2006, 2007 ranked 01:42:01 - Full Auto 2, Gen-Sen Love: Plus Pengo, Ghost Squad ranked 01:46:10 - We might have bitten off more than we can chew for one episode! 🤦😂 Shout Outs 01:47:49 - The @SEGAGuys have done an awesome video on SEGA Rally vs SEGA Rally 2, check it out! 01:48:28 - Support indie dev, @OrionSoft - he's doing some great work for lots of retro platforms, including Mega Drive/Genesis and Dreamcast! 01:49:45 - Show wrap-up Super SEGA Sources: Our 7th Gen SEGA game ranking - have a play! - https://tiermaker.com/create/sega-7th-generation-console-games-tier-list-maker-19160121 Kula World 32X port - https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/02/ps1-cult-classic-kula-world-is-being-unofficially-ported-to-32x - https://old-pirate.itch.io/kula-world-32x Bailey the Brave - https://digitalmints.com/ Panzer Dragoon Saga PC port - https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/02/panzer-dragoon-sagas-pc-port-was-abandoned-in-2020-but-its-developer-is-motivated-to-work-on-it-again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPI18jQXFYM Mincraft on SEGA Saturn - https://retrododo.com/minecraft-has-been-ported-to-the-sega-saturn/ - @Frogbull55 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/150559397 SEGA Guys: SEGA Rally vs SEGA Rally 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxTJVVyAqEQ Orion Soft: - https://www.orionsoft.games/

    1h 52m
  2. FEB 4

    Was Full Auto Underrated? SEGA’s Explosive Xbox 360 Racer Revisited! | SEGA Spirit Show Ep.17

    Start your engines - Episode 17 of The SEGA Spirit Show is here, and this week we’re diving head‑first into SEGA’s explosive 2006 Xbox 360 car‑combat racer Full Auto! 🚗💥 Graham and Scotty revisit the game with fresh 2026 eyes: • Did SEGA’s “Unwreck” mechanic still hold up? • Was Full Auto overshadowed by Burnout, Twisted Metal, and Vigilante 8? • And is still worth playing it today? Did you play Full Auto on the Xbox 360? Do you still play it today? Let us know your favourite memories and thoughts on the game! Good or bad! Plus, we talk SEGA community news, retro pickups, movies we’ve been watching, and the usual chaos you expect from the show. Stage Select: 00:00 - Intro What We've Been Up To: 01:40 - Scotty FINALLY beat Beyond Good and Evil 11:30 - Fast & Furious and Iron Lung movie chat 21:13 - Who remembers Hydro Thunder? 24:07 - IYKYK: Mighty Max on VHS! 27:50 - OG Roadhouse vs Roadhouse 2024 29:34 - Patrick Swayze was definitely the model on a Mega Drive game! Tell me I'm (G) wrong. 30:03 - Renegade is a real TV show and I'm (also G) here for it! 33:26 - Sonic is back, in PEZ form 33:52 - All the Everdrives! 35:47 - New Mega Drive game, Death & Lead lands! SEGA Community News 37:12 - Sonic R modded to be like a 3D platformer (sort of) 43:02 - Castlevania: Circle of the Moon is coming to SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis 45:14 - Simpson's Hit & Run coming to the Dreamcast! 47:12 - Maldita Castilla coming to the Dreamcast too 49:12 - Fan hack Sonic MegaMix Mania launching 6 Feb 2026 51:52 - Virtua Cop demake coming to the NES with full lightgun support 54:24 - Go support OrionSoft's Kickstarter for Escape 2049! Feature Discussion: Full Auto 57:16 - What is Full Auto? A quick intro 59:10 - Who are Pseudo Interactive and where did they go? A brief history 1:02:57 - Is Graham crazy for driving in first person?! 1:03:49 - Full Auto part of SEGA's exclusive games strategy 1:06:43 - Rose Tinted Glasses - our golden memories of Full Auto 1:13:41 - What do we think of Full Auto now? 1:14:25 - Personality - the missing ingredient? 1:17:10 - Unwreck: A pointless feature? Or unique selling point? 1:22:30 - Xbox 360s are getting harder to play on. A comedy of technical errors! 1:35:28 - Rivals were much better in Speed Devils on Dreamcast 1:37:00 - Unlocking weapons is... interesting 1:40:30 - Different racing modes are kind of cool 1:44:36 - Little tips you might not realise when playing Full Auto 1:48:07 - Enter the Warlord! 1:50:21 - But is the game Full Auto or Full Awful? 1:57:33 - Full Auto by name... but what's in a name? 1:58:58 - Final Thoughts 2:01:28 - Audience what are your thoughts? 2:02:09 - Shout outs! 2:07:15 - BONUS audio relating to something Graham said earlier in the show! Super Sources: Sonic R&R: - https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/01/26/sonic-r-the-rr-mod/ Castlevania: Circle of the Moon: - https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/01/castlevania-circle-of-the-moon-is-being-unofficially-ported-to-genesis-mega-drive @thesegaguru - Simpsons Hit & Run on Dreamcast - Maldita Castilla on Dreamcast Sonic Megamix Mania: - https://youtu.be/2JuRgiXiKJA?si=uM_6IgqOnfYGh9b5 Virtua Cop Demake: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHxNNQ-aAHc - https://retrobrogaming.itch.io/virtua-agent Escape 2049: - @OrionSoft - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/orionsoft-games/escape-2049-a-new-platformer-game-for-megadrive-and-gba/posts/4600330 - https://www.orionsoft.games/ @TheDreamcastJunkyard - https://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2026/01/the-final-days-of-official-dreamcast.html Eddie Izzard 'Definite Article': - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T3rMZnA-QQ&sttick=0 Vectorman 2 prototype footage: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzM5PjWU6To Hidden Palace: - https://hiddenpalace.org/Pseudo_Interactive_lot#Carmageddon:_Crude_Awakening

    2h 11m
  3. JAN 21

    Sonic Locked Up on Alcatraz?! Inside MTV’s Rock the Rock - SEGA’s Biggest Marketing Stunt!

    We're back, with our first show of 2026! And we're stepping into peak ’90s chaos, as SEGA teams up with MTV for one of the wildest video‑game launch events ever staged. In this episode of the SEGA Spirit Show, we dive deep into Rock the Rock, the high‑energy Sonic & Knuckles tournament filmed on Alcatraz Island - yes, the actual former prison. It's a marketing event that's so big, so wild and so totally does not make any sense, that it could only be done in the 90s! Welcome to SEGA & MTV's Rock the Rock! Plus we catch up on some seriously awesome SEGA Community news, including an excellent Saturn indie game that needs to be checked out. Stage select: Intro, WWBUT, and pickups 00:00 - Introduction 00:57 - What we've been up to for the last two months! 7:51 - Scotty went to MAGFest 17:15 - G turns this into a movie podcast for a few mins 25:00 - G's SEGA pickups galore! SEGA Community News 43:25 - SEGA Channel ROMs recovered 48:45 - Sonic Mania Dreamcast port gets a boost 51:24 - Final Fight Mega Drive port update 53:15 - Vigilant Paradise: A Saturn homebrew FPS game you need to play! 1:08:48 - Mario 64 is now playable on Dreamcast! 1:11:24 - 100 Swords & Power Smash are both back online on the Dreamcast! Feature topic: MTV's Rock the Rock with Sonic & Knuckles 1:15:44 - What is MTV Rock the Rock? 1:20:42 - An intense opening with helicopters, Alcatraz, Bill (not David) Bellamy & Daisy Fuentes 1:23:30 - Some footage of the global prelim events, winners are 'arrested' and taken to Alcatraz... by limo 1:25:09 - Daisy Fuentes meets her future husband 1:26:00 - Intense camera angles and interviews with SEGA staff... still no tournament action! 1:30:56 - RIP David Bellamy (and apologies to Bill Bellamy) 1:31:13 - Prelim winners being led to prison to practice 1:33:23 - Interview with former Alcatraz inmate (still no tournament footage!) 1:36:02 - Now the tournament begins! 1:38:56 - Chris Tang and Mark Guinane revealed as the finalists 1:40:13 - Trying to explain what the heck the finalists are standing in 1:42:48 - Sonic & Knuckles' secret finally revealed to the public! 1:43:25 - The final cage match begins: Chris Tang vs Mark Guinane - fight! 1:47:11 - Chris Tang wins! 153 rings to 123 rings 1:48:06 - What prizes have they won? 1:51:36 - Our overall thoughts on the video 1:58:24 - Fun facts about Rock the Rock, Daisy Fuentes and a whole lot about Chris Tang 2:06:48 - Does Sonic make sense for a tournament game? 2:09:08 - Would a marketing event like this work today? Plugs & shout outs 2:14:09 - Scotty was on Sonic Weekly defending Sonic Shuffle 2:15:25 - Check out Scotty's Sonic Shuffle Marathon for ExtraLife! 2:17:12 - Check out our "12 Days of SEGA Christmas Gaming" video 2:17:30 - The @SEGAGuys have put out an awesome video all about Sonic R Super Sonic Sources: SEGA Channel ROMs recovered: - https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7E8gvgF3pQ Sonic Mania: - https://x.com/falco_girgis/status/2010986897749762149?s=20 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr1adGXydKA Final Fight MD: https://www.patreon.com/cw/mauroxavier/posts Vigitlant Paradise: - https://playnautic.itch.io/vigilant-paradise - https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/01/02/vigilant-paradise-a-new-homebrew-saturn-fps-flies-under-the-radar/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNccy_Ulf8 Mario 64 DC: - https://x.com/falco_girgis/status/2009651674206355789 - https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/01/plays-like-a-aaa-native-release-super-mario-64-gets-a-dreamcast-port One Hundred Sword & Power Smash back online: - @DreamcasticChannel - https://dreamcastlive.net/blogs MTV's Rock the Rock: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8ZzscpZLk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u54Atg4rCA - https://segaretro.org/Rock_the_Rock - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7121544/ - https://segabits.com/blog/2020/08/26/exclusive-sonic-knuckles-rock-the-rock-revisited-with-chris-tang-beating-the-previous-record/ #SonicTheHedgehog #MTV #SEGA

    2h 20m
  4. 11/03/2025

    014 SEGASpirit - SEGA Released a Game on Halloween

    SEGA Spirit Show Episode 014 - Halloween Special with SEGA’s Most Halloween Game | The SEGA Spirit Show What could possibly be the most Halloween-type game released by SEGA? Could it have been a game SEGA decided to release in North America on the very day of Halloween in 2000? Yes! You guessed it and it was so obvious, right?! Did you dress up in celebration as well? And what do you think about this very Halloweenie game?   Timestamps: 0:00 - intro 1:11 - Debut our Halloween Costumes! 5:03 - What have we been up to? 15:55 - Housekeeping: We are on other podcatcher platforms now! 19:10 - Pick ups! 23:15 - Graham was on the SEGA Lounge: 25:15 - Indie News! 26:54 - Fan Port of Wipeout on Dreamcast has been completed: https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/10/23/fan-finishes-port-of-wipeout-to-dreamcast/ 29:06 - Final Fight MegaDrive Edition Update: https://www.patreon.com/posts/final-fight-md-1-141520236 32:47 - Flashback ported to SEGA Saturn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNBdWqJfdI 40:10 - Half-Life Decay and Half-Life Uplink ported to Dreamcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVIY6WkP0Y8 43:59 - Feature Topic: The most Halloweenie SEGA Game! 46:40 - Am I a W3bc4m Girl now? 1:19:15 - Regional Differences 1:33:52 - Current Impressions 1:42:15 - We made it into a SEGA game?! 1:57:14 - Final Thoughts and Memories Unlocked   Github link mentioned in episode: https://github.com/chrisderwahre/JSRGraffitiTool

    2h 13m
  5. 10/30/2025

    SEGA Released a Game on Halloween?! | The SEGA Spirit Show

    SEGA Spirit Show Episode 014: SEGA's Most Halloween Game What could possibly be the most Halloween-type game released by SEGA? Sure it was the one SEGA decided to release in North America on the very day of Halloween in 2000? Yes! You guessed it and it was so obvious, right?! Did you dress up in celebration as well? And what do you think about this very Halloweenie game? Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/segaspirit.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/segaspirit/ Follow us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/segaspirit Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:11 - Debut our Halloween Costumes! 5:03 - What have we been up to? 15:55 - Housekeeping: We are on other podcatcher platforms now! 19:10 - Pick ups! 23:15 - Graham was on the SEGA Lounge: https://youtu.be/nikp9XM5-dI?si=GECBoCx7t5x_nt51 25:15 - Indie News! 26:54 - Fan Port of Wipeout on Dreamcast has been completed: https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/10/23/fan-finishes-port-of-wipeout-to-dreamcast/ 29:06 - Final Fight MegaDrive Edition Update: https://www.patreon.com/posts/final-fight-md-1-141520236 32:47 - Flashback ported to SEGA Saturn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNBdWqJfdI 40:10 - Half-Life Decay and Half-Life Uplink ported to Dreamcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVIY6WkP0Y8 43:59 - Feature Topic: The most Halloweenie SEGA Game! 46:40 - Am I a W3bc4m Girl now? 1:19:15 - Regional Differences 1:33:52 - Current Impressions 1:42:15 - We made it into a SEGA game?! 1:57:14 - Final Thoughts and Memories Unlocked Github link mentioned in episode: https://github.com/chrisderwahre/JSRGraffitiTool #SEGA #Halloween #Horror #Halloween2025 #Retrospective #JetSetRadio

    2h 13m

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A podcast celebrating the SEGA community, classics, and more! Between the two of us, we helped co-create or run various SEGA-focused publications, including Dreamcasters Realm, SEGA Nerds, Mega Visions Magazine, and SEGA-Addicts.com. Please enjoy the blue, blue skies!