Nazi Sonic Fanart found in old issues of Sega Power Magazine
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Those drawings of Sonic killing Mario are just....wow. I don't remember the console wars being this disturbing between kids back then lmao.
Everyone talking about the nazi Sonic but no one gives love to scythe-executioner Alex Kidd, history repeats itself
90s gaming rags raised a lot of toxic little chaps on a nonstop diet of sexism, toxic masculinity and homophobia.
Back then, the idea of any kind of Nazi sympathy or encouragement was so absurd, that something like this would be looked at as an extreme joke rather than an endorsement. Not even that extreme of a joke, to be honest, given how virulent the console warfare was at the time. Related:
Wow!! That's crazy.
I remember in Kindergarten/Grade 1 (long before Sonic - or even a Sega home consoles was a thing), I drew a picture in class of war, and some of the planes had the swastica on it. I got in so much shit from both the school and my parents when I got home. I truly didn't understand why, other than I knew that the people who used that symbol were bad.
It amazes me that a magazine, many years later, got away with this type of content.
I remember in Kindergarten/Grade 1 (long before Sonic - or even a Sega home consoles was a thing), I drew a picture in class of war, and some of the planes had the swastica on it. I got in so much shit from both the school and my parents when I got home. I truly didn't understand why, other than I knew that the people who used that symbol were bad.
It amazes me that a magazine, many years later, got away with this type of content.
I can't see the image. :(Mario officially did this so he can't talk
Console wars had kids doing some serial killer stuff back then. đź‘€
mutant fuhrer Sonic also has a midarm between his forearm and arm.omg, Sonic even has a Hitler-mustache . This is so bad
Yeah, even the official ones were pretty wild. I guess it was before the platform holders took notice.
I remember Nintendo Magazine System's letters pages routinely tearing into their readers, the competition, and even Nintendo UK. The latter was perhaps justified because it was usually over the lack of RPGs making it onto PAL systems.
Haha that is right, what a weird drawing. I see he also has a white power sign in "o" of the "Sega Power". I am pretty sure this Alex guy is now a Neonazi :(
I bought the official sega saturn magazine in the 90s and the amount of clearly jealous and mean spirited articles & jabs written by the editors and writers of that magazines towards the PlayStation ("grandia is the best!! Bow to your king, ff7!!!") were astounding. Even as a 15 yo teenager then, I thought those editors were even more childish than me.
I legit started coughing of laughing so hard lol.
I knew console wars were bad in the 90's but this is way worse that what I thought.
Oh my god that drawing of Mario in a noose and all the shit around it takes me back to a fucked up thing I saw as a kid, how about a story?
I was 8 or 9 at the time (this was in 98 or 99), I was at my local grocery store in Canada with my mother. We were finishing up and leaving, and I passed by the magazine rack.
I spotted this magazine that for the fucking life of me I can't remember the name of. It could've been Mad or Cracked, but either way, what I saw has stuck with me for my entire life.
It was a collection of VERY well drawn Nickelodeon characters (as in, they looked virtually identical to their actual selves from the shows), and the main focus was Blue (from Blue's Clues) LITERALLY tearing Tommy and Chuckie (Rugrats) to bloody, gory pieces. One bit was Chuckie's shoe with his foot and BONE still in it dismembered. It was FUCKED UP. You saw what's his name Steve (Blue's owner) as a real person pointing a gun towards him face-palming in fear/shame. I think Angelica and Catdog were in this but they were just background characters.
And this was either the front over, or the back cover. Full color and everything.
Does this sound familiar to ANYONE here? I've googled for that image from a decade to no avail. I almost wonder if it was a crazy dream or something, but I swear I saw it because I remember the location and where I was in it when I saw this.
I was 8 or 9 at the time (this was in 98 or 99), I was at my local grocery store in Canada with my mother. We were finishing up and leaving, and I passed by the magazine rack.
I spotted this magazine that for the fucking life of me I can't remember the name of. It could've been Mad or Cracked, but either way, what I saw has stuck with me for my entire life.
It was a collection of VERY well drawn Nickelodeon characters (as in, they looked virtually identical to their actual selves from the shows), and the main focus was Blue (from Blue's Clues) LITERALLY tearing Tommy and Chuckie (Rugrats) to bloody, gory pieces. One bit was Chuckie's shoe with his foot and BONE still in it dismembered. It was FUCKED UP. You saw what's his name Steve (Blue's owner) as a real person pointing a gun towards him face-palming in fear/shame. I think Angelica and Catdog were in this but they were just background characters.
And this was either the front over, or the back cover. Full color and everything.
Does this sound familiar to ANYONE here? I've googled for that image from a decade to no avail. I almost wonder if it was a crazy dream or something, but I swear I saw it because I remember the location and where I was in it when I saw this.
It was absolutely like that or worse on the regular. Which is why the thread a week ago asking "are console wars and fanboys getting worse than ever?" had me going "oh you sweet summer child...".
Honestly this is pretty shocking. Especially the stuff where they make fun kids' art by mocking people with disabilities.
Being a black 90s kid, this makes sense to me. You just assumed most white gamers were racist or racist tolerant.
Mario is the tireless agent of an unchallenged absolute monarchy. Not what I'd call antifa.
what the fuck?
I can only speak by Nintendo's Brazilian magazine of back in the day, but was Nintendo Power this grotesque? SEGA definitely wanted to embrace the image of edgier kids of the street, and as always, looked dumb in the end
I can only speak by Nintendo's Brazilian magazine of back in the day, but was Nintendo Power this grotesque? SEGA definitely wanted to embrace the image of edgier kids of the street, and as always, looked dumb in the end
But what if Peach is actually more of a figurehead monarch and the Mushroom Kingdom is actually ruled by a parliament of toads?
It's hard to believe they would even post this image, but the editorial comment of "Great!" to the idea of a swastika-wearing Sonic is honestly shocking.
I love that in the pic of a white ninja killing Mario, the kid labelled the former as "Shinobi" (because few would know who the hell that was supposed to be), but, of course, didn't need to label Mario for the opposite reason. The way that int itself makes a statement probably so opposite to the artist's intent would be funny in itself, even ignoring the fact that a) Shinobi is the name of the game, not the character (Joe Musashi), and b) the white ninja, as far as I know, only appears in Shadow Dancer, and is considered a different character altogether.
I grew up with these magazines, this doesn't surprise me at all. The art pages were always full of gross images of Sonic or Mario killing each other, the nazi imagery is a little odd but I don't think my child mind would've registered it at the time..
That was 90s gaming magazines. I still remember one printed fanart of Mortal Kombat's Mileena nude saying "I love my boobs" that they barely (not really) censored.
That was 90s gaming magazines. I still remember one printed fanart of Mortal Kombat's Mileena nude saying "I love my boobs" that they barely (not really) censored.
Oh man these were the days. I'm laughing at way more than nazi sonic and dead mario. I love how they have to write sonic and mario and show arrows so the viewer knows who is who. Stink lines lol.
Everyone and his grand mother is probably looking him up on Facebook lol. There's just one of him and he's into gaming also lol good luck to that fella