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Any winner or runner-up still here from the Sega Sub Terrania competition, besides me and Joe?
Excellent 'name the fighter ship' competition from Sega Visions in 1994. Only for USA citizens, I lived in the UK and won anyway (Yeah, UK is one of USAs little States!!!)
1st Winner was Benny Greenberg from NY for the entry Super Energy Gravitational Attacker (SEGA).
4 Runners-up, I remember the names Jeff Adkins and Frank Polosky.
15 'creative name entries': included me and Joe Santulli, I don't recognize any other names from the list.
My ship name was 'Axiom'.
Still got my 'win':
Poster, Baseball cap, 32X writing block, B&W screen picture, T-Shirt, labels.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c173/thomasholzer/subterrania.jpg
digitalpress
05-21-2006, 08:00 PM
What was my ship's name? Whatever it was it should have won, I remember it was brilliant. Well, at least I saved my swag from that contest.
Was it... "Sub-Terrania Ship"
<-- is brilliant!
Joe, you don't wanna know......The TERRArizer !!!!!!!
Quite good actually
digitalpress
05-21-2006, 08:11 PM
Joe, you don't wanna know......The TERRArizer !!!!!!!
Quite good actually
Oh yeah! That sounds familiar. 12 years ago. Just a child.
<-- is old!
rbudrick
05-22-2006, 10:13 AM
Do you happen to have a higher res pic than that? Interesting thread...can you tell me more about this competition?
-Rob
What's the 32X writing block?
Hm, since Room of Doom is down again,
I can only show some here:
http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c173/thomasholzer/tom%20Other/
the 32X writing block is a ...writing block, you scribble on the paper, take it of, scribble on the next piece....until it's used up...that's all I can explain, sorry.
c2000
05-22-2006, 03:00 PM
Cool goodies :D
What did the winner get? X_x
a CDX and games plus the other gimmicks we got
Quite funny, read the letter:
"You're entry"...= "You are entry", what kind of English is that? I think she meant "Your entry".
rbudrick
05-23-2006, 09:56 AM
I wish I hadn't thrown out all my old Sega Visions mags...I don't remember this contest, but it's really cool to see some winner docs and prizes! Thanks!!
-Rob
the 32X writing block is a ...writing block, you scribble on the paper, take it of, scribble on the next piece....until it's used up...that's all I can explain, sorry.
Sega Post-Its!
BennyG
10-07-2007, 10:05 PM
I stumbled onto this by mistake - But I was the grand prize winner -
Anyone still around?
I'd really like to hear more of this- what the contest was, how it went, etc. It'd make for a great article.
Vectorman0
10-07-2007, 10:44 PM
I stumbled onto this by mistake - But I was the grand prize winner -
Anyone still around?
Everyones still here! It's pretty neat when you realize we have 3/20 winners all in the same place at the same time.
How did you come across this, Google?
zektor
10-07-2007, 10:53 PM
Which issue was this? All I have left is the Sep/Oct issue of 94....don't think it's in here tho.
gosh, that's an old thread, i see if i can dig out my winner box again
Dreamcast
10-08-2007, 10:38 AM
I freaking love that game! It has the best soundtrack in any genesis game. period.
rbudrick
10-08-2007, 01:41 PM
Good to see this thread alive again. So, tell some stories, gentleman. I want full accounts on my desk by 9 am. :D
-Rob
BennyG
10-09-2007, 08:49 PM
I actually found it on an ask.com search.
And actually I sent in my prize-winning entry through a magazine called Game Meister in NY. Was a local fanzine that had the "contest" inside the pages of the mag.
Wonder what I did with all of that crap. I think its in some tupperware in my garage. Actually - funny ting - they sent the whole lot to my house with no "sig" so it just sat there a few days before I even knew it was there. And I received it a good two weeks before they even told me I won.
kainemaxwell
10-09-2007, 09:00 PM
Do tell stories!
slapdash
10-11-2007, 10:39 PM
Game Meister? Hmm... Do you recall who the editor was? I'm not familiar with that one.
But otherwise, congrats, and welcome to Digital Press!
Here’s my winning box:
Letter:
Winner Benny Greenberg = Super Energy Gravitational Attacker (Sega)
Runners up: Kris Wu = The Savior
Frank Polosky = Liberator 1
Michael Greenberg = The ST 1-Cavern Hopper
Jeff Adkins = Cavern Cruiser
15 further runners up:
Tom = Axiom
Joe = The TERRArizer
+ others
Date Sept 1994
see here: http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/album138/sega_comp?full=1
Tell stories? I don't even remember how I've gotten into that competition living in the UK at the time. Must have been mentioned in DP fanzine, or maybe in a UK Sega magazine (which is not very likely as it was a USA based compo only), or EGM which I was reading every month. I don't remember ever reading Sega Visions though.