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SEGA gets sued by sonic restraunts
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:13 pm
by Badnik
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
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:23 pm
by Zeta
I could never figure out why they didn't do a cross-promotion thing.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:40 pm
by G.Silver
I cannot possibly believe that this is real.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:40 pm
by Locit
"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.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:49 pm
by Yami CJMErl
Wow--you think we've seen the heights of stupidity before, and we get this.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:53 pm
by M.C.Dillinger
"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...
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:57 pm
by Sniffnoy
"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.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:00 pm
by Heroic One
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!
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:00 pm
by Segaholic2
The Game Rag is a parody site.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:23 pm
by Zeta
There's a "Satire" tag at the bottom of the page, people.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:34 pm
by Baba O'Reily
They even mentioned attempting to use Morse Code to reach Sega. Ah, obliviousness, thy name is internet.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:54 pm
by KitsuneDarkStalker
Oh my god, are you serious?
Because I'm not. >_>
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:23 pm
by Sniffnoy
I also wondered why the never did a cross-promotion, though.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:04 pm
by Green Gibbon!
I like the cheddar jalapeno poppers.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:37 pm
by Baba O'Reily
I like the cheese sticks, but I always get into arguments with people who insist that Sonic no longer has cheese sticks.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:56 pm
by WW
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:23 pm
by Shadow Hog
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?
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:32 pm
by KitsuneDarkStalker
No jokes about onion rings?
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:12 pm
by EmeraldGuardian
I just saw a Sonic commercial advertising a new super long chili dog...Hahaha!
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:37 pm
by Light Speed
Segaholic2 wrote:The Game Rag is a parody site.
That's rarely funny.
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:12 pm
by KitsuneDarkStalker
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:30 pm
by Vector
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:55 pm
by KitsuneDarkStalker
Dude, Sonic has been around since the 1950's...
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:08 pm
by Brazillian Cara
That's it, I give up.
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:18 pm
by Yami CJMErl
*sigh* -__-;;
