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SEGA Cult: No Wii Fit For You!

wiifit.logo.jpgFor the first time in nearly two years, it snowed in Akihabara today. While most Tokyo-jin probably enjoyed a rare frolick in the snow, the inclimate weather was particularly tough on Mr. Underwear & Shirt Fetish. This Akihabara icon, famous for wearing little more than his name implies while exercising in front of Akihabara station, didn't let the cold interrupt his routine. But why? Why would someone subject themselves to the humiliation of exercising in public?

Two words: Segata Sanshiro.

Many outside of Japan don't realize that even after his tragic death, the legacy of Segata Sanshiro continues. From the martyr's nuked ashes has arisen a small cult of Segata followers. Living in a cavern deep beneath the sewers of Akihabara, the Segaters (as they are commonly called) are rarely seen by the non-believers as the Segaters are said to surface only once a year.

On "Saturnday," or September 2nd, of each year, there are usually reported sightings of white-robed men with big hair carrying giant Saturn controllers roaming the streets of Akihabara. The Segaters are said to venture out in the modern world only to search for copies of Segata Sanshiro Shinken Yugi. No one is quite sure why the cult needs so many copies of Segata's game. Theories range from the disks being a key component in a machine designed to resurrect Segata to an attempt to deprive today's generation of modern gamers from Segata's masterpiece - the implication being that the modern gamer is not worthy of experiencing Segata's greatness. Although skeptics dismiss this existence of the Segata cult, since no one has been able to snap a definitive picture of a Segater, the reports are too numerous to ignore.

But yesterday's sighting of Mr. Underwear & Shirt Fetish may resolve the controversy once and for all. When Fuji Television reporters questioned Mr. Underwear & Shirt Fetish as to his motive, he begrudgingly responded by stating that he was an exiled member of a branch of the Segata Cult, which goes by the acronym SEGA (Segata Exemplifies Gaming Awesomeness). Apparently, he was caught playing Wii Fit in the cult's underground lair. This violated the cult's only tenet, "Though shall do nothing but eat, sleep and play Sega Saturn." As punishment, the young man's head was shaved, he was stripped of his Segater garb and was condemned to an eternity of exercising in public to show the world just how foolish gamers look playing Wii Fit.

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Is Mr. Underwear & Shirt Fetish actually an exiled member of SEGA? Will Mr. Underwear & Shirt Fetish's antics appease the skeptics? Or is the guy simply attention starved and making the whole story up for his five seconds of fame.

Regardless, let Mr. Underwear & Shirt Fetish serve as a lesson to us all. No matter how tempting, avoid secret underground videogame cults. It's all fun and games until you anger the powers that be. Then life becomes eternal damnation dancing around the streets in your skivvies.

Pictures courtesy of akibablog.net.


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