Sega Nerds

Jackie Chan a Sega fan?

by Graham on April 29th, 2008

If anyone knows me, they will know that two of my greatest loves of all time are the almighty Jackie Chan (been a fan for some 18 years now) and the Dreamcast (which everyone loves really).

Well Siliconera has done a little mention of Jackie Chan’s latest screen venture, The Forbidden Kingdom, co-starring Jet Li, Yifei Liu… and the Sega Dreamcast.

Well we say “co-stars” the Dreamcast, but from the sounds of it, if you blink you’ll probably miss this cameo appearance from our beloved 128-bit system.

In the first five minutes of the movie, after Jason wakes up from his dream, you can see a Dreamcast on the left hand corner of the screen underneath his TV.

Apparently the movie contains several video game references, including one for the Xbox 360 - which is quite shocking to see an Xbox in an Asian movie.  But the Dreamcast is no doubt something that will give all Sega Nerds a little flutter of joy in their hearts when they see the movie (of course you will all see the movie - it’s Jackie Chan!).

Anyone who is a big enough Jackie Chan fan (like myself) will realise that this is not the first time a Sega console has made an appearance in one of his movies.  In Rumble in the Bronx master Chan gives his Game Gear to a disabled school boy (who is the main girls younger brother) and in Police Story 3: SuperCopyou see a drug lord playing on the Megadrive, and makes Jackie wait until he finishes his game.  Great stuff.

Anyway, good to see the Dreamcast appearing as a pop-culture reference in a movie still today.  I’ll let all the slightly more obsessed Sega fanboys make assumptions as to whether this is actually a way for Sega to market the Dreamcast, ready for a spectacular re-launch ;)

[Special Thanks: Psycho_Echidna Via The Forums]

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