I have a basement, and like most people who live in Michigan who have one, it inevitably becomes a storage area for crap. Fixing this has problem has been on my honey-do list for many years now, but there is a problem: My videogames are in the basement. Still, I do manage to get a bit of organizing/storing/throwing away when I am down there, and when I went down there last night after the kids went to bed I intended nothing but that. Instead I found something quite awesome that I completely forgot was there.
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As you can see from the pictures (or maybe you can't as I cannot seem to get a good pic of this thing) it is a sign made for advertising the Sega Genesis. My old roommate pilfered it from a closing Children's Palace back in '90 or '91 and stuck it into his garage, where about fifteen years later he gave it to me. The sign actually was originally attached to the front of a "light box" (a square MDF box with fluorescent lights on the inside) and hung suspended above the videogame department. The box had long ago rotted away, but the "front" part of the sign had remained preserved.
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It's actually three pieces, the front being a layer of plexiglass, the second being the actual sign, and the back a heavy-than-it-looks piece of translucent white plastic meant to diffuse the light from the fluorescent. While I don't have anything to light this properly, the diffusing plastic works very well. Maybe I can get my son to hold it up in the window tomorrow for a better pic. Also, despite the use of fluorescent lights there is no noticeable fading.
It may be hard to tell from the crappy pic (for some reason my camera has disappeared), but there is a Sega logo (with "restricted" sign) and the art at 2 o'clock is from the cover of Phantasy Star II. There is a tiny bit of wear at the bottom and two small holes drilled through on either side, but other than that it's in pretty good condition.
I have no idea what to do with this thing. It is too large to fit on one of my walls (there would also be lighting issues) so my first thought was to sell or trade it. While I think the picture portion of it could be rolled up and shipped in a large poster tube, but one would loose out completely on the plexiglass cover and diffuser.
UPDATE: I found my camera.
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I've been doing extensive housecleaning lately myself, and have uncovered all sorts of things I hadn't seen for years. I even found a few video games that had gone completely AWOL on me. It is kinda neat to rediscover things you either thought were missing, or completely forgot about, isn't it?
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Rediscovering things like that is almost as good as finding it for the first time. Hey, isn't that a song?
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Wow from that last photo, it is alot bigger then I thought. I am also surprized sonic is not on there but it is a awesome photo. Cool find man
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@Tadpole13: I think this piece might be my all-time favorite find. I think the first time I saw it I really couldn't see it well, but upon rediscovery just seeing all the characters in their glory it did something funny to my guts. All the pics are copied from their respective game covers, though MJ is original (on the NA Genesis cover of Moonwalker MJ's face is in shadow).
Who made this? How widespread was the distribution on it? While I normally don't get like this, I admit it does feel nice to have something quite unique. The only real dig against it is its size and the problem with lighting it properly (although I imagine either creating a lightbox in the ceiling and mounting it or using some sort of fiber optics will work).
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Damn thats a sweet re-find. I'd love to have a display like that. Sometimes I take the posters that came with some games and frame them to hang from the wall, just to go with the game room theme. It's funny earlier today I was rummaging in my Michigan basement full of crap and found some pretty nifty stuff myself
I found a binder full of Pokemon cards that I used to collect years ago. Its full of Japan hologram cards. I totally forgot about that as I thought I lost or sold it a decade ago. I'll post it in the Random Collections Photos later. I have today off and am bored as hell. I think I'll clean the basement and go treasure hunting.
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Yea that is awesome. If you do end up getting it hung up in your house in a cool way you should do another blog with some photos. 
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