Ryoichi Hasegawa is a true SEGA legend. He helped produce some classic titles including NiGHTS into Dreams, Crazy Taxi, Streets of Rage 3, Burning Rangers, Ecco the Dolphin and Sonic Jam. He also worked on other classic titles such as Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Jak and Daxter and The Last of Us for Sony.

Stories include his work on Streets of Rage 3 and why it was so much harder for US gamers, his showdown with Nintendo when bringing Mario and Sonic to the Olympics and the true lowdown on how SEGA of Japan and SEGA of America got along during the 90s!

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It's time for Dyl to give the boys lots of books he's accumulated over the years which bring AI, Witcher and other discussions to the table..

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Following on from last week's pod, James tackles all the toys we loved at Christmas in the 1990s...

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