SEGA gets sued by sonic restraunts

Badnik · Post by **Badnik** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:13 pm

http://www.thegamerag.com/archives/2007 ... ues_se.php
Looks like they decided to hit them with a 3 billion dollar punch, it took them 15 years to gain up the courage to do this

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:23 pm

I could never figure out why they didn't do a cross-promotion thing.

Post by **G.Silver** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:40 pm

I cannot possibly believe that this is real.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:40 pm

"Customers looking to purchase a delicious value menu meal, one of many affordable options at Sonic, may instead accidentally spend $50 on a video game," the Sonic Corporation released in a statement. "This is trickery and deception at its most vile."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"It's like our slogan says: Sonic's got it, other's don't. Sega wants to have it, but it can't. We won't let them."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ohh, seriously though, they can't possibly be doing this.

Yami CJMErl · Post by **Yami CJMErl** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:49 pm

Wow--you think we've seen the heights of stupidity before, and we get this.

M.C.Dillinger · Post by **M.C.Dillinger** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:53 pm

"Customers looking to purchase a delicious value menu meal, one of many affordable options at Sonic, may instead accidentally spend $50 on a video game,This is trickery and deception at its most vile."

Are they being serious? This has to be the dumbest lawsuit I have ever seen and that includes the "McDonald's made me fat" one.

"Sega has been profiting on the Sonic name, and we want it to stop,It's like our slogan says: Sonic's got it, other's don't. Sega wants to have it, but it can't. We won't let them."

It's a little late four that...

Sniffnoy · Post by **Sniffnoy** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:57 pm

"No one would seek to play a Sonic video game in this day and age, and even if they did, they could tell the difference between a large order of french fries and a pixelated fictional character," explained analyst Kim Nijiyakama of Squidge & Ord. "This is the most assinine lawsuit since the time Sega tried to sue the YTMND website."

I think that pretty well indicates that this is a joke.

Heroic One · Post by **Heroic One** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:00 pm

I'm gonna sue this 6 year old kid. His name is Ben. I had the name "Ben" waaay before he did, that copying bastard! I demand justice!

Post by **Segaholic2** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:00 pm

The Game Rag is a parody site.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:23 pm

There's a "Satire" tag at the bottom of the page, people.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:34 pm

They even mentioned attempting to use Morse Code to reach Sega. Ah, obliviousness, thy name is internet.

KitsuneDarkStalker · Post by **KitsuneDarkStalker** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:54 pm

Oh my god, are you serious?

Because I'm not. >_>

Sniffnoy · Post by **Sniffnoy** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:23 pm

I also wondered why the never did a cross-promotion, though.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:04 pm

I like the cheddar jalapeno poppers.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:37 pm

I like the cheese sticks, but I always get into arguments with people who insist that Sonic no longer has cheese sticks.

WW · Post by WW » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:56 pm

I say the Sonic food place's font is WAY similar to the game anyway. Ever seen one of thier signs? NOW ENTERING CHILI FRIES ZONE: ACT 1.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:23 pm

Damn, I came REALLY close to making a YTMND about this. Good thing I figured out it was fake and pulled the plug before it was too late...

Moral of the story: I'm gullible. Anyone got a bridge I could buy?

KitsuneDarkStalker · Post by **KitsuneDarkStalker** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:32 pm

No jokes about onion rings?

EmeraldGuardian · Post by **EmeraldGuardian** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:12 pm

I just saw a Sonic commercial advertising a new super long chili dog...Hahaha!

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:37 pm

Segaholic2 wrote:The Game Rag is a parody site.

That's rarely funny.

KitsuneDarkStalker · Post by **KitsuneDarkStalker** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:12 pm

Baba O'Reily wrote:I like the cheese sticks, but I always get into arguments with people who insist that Sonic no longer has cheese sticks.

Sonic most DEFINITELY has cheese sticks. Damn tasty cheese sticks too.

Vector · Post by **Vector** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:30 pm

Does anybody else think that the Sonic restaurant logo font looks ridiculously smilar to the Sonic font?

http://www.monthlymuscle.com/images/sonic_logo.jpg

Is this some new chain or have they been around in the east for a while? They only started appearing in California a few years ago.

KitsuneDarkStalker · Post by **KitsuneDarkStalker** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:55 pm

Dude, Sonic has been around since the 1950's...

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:08 pm

That's it, I give up.

Yami CJMErl · Post by **Yami CJMErl** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:18 pm

*sigh* -__-;;