If you read my earlier blog post this week, then you know that this Saturday and Sunday SEGA is going to be present at the Cherry Blossom Festival here in Japantown, San Francisco.

I mentioned that we had some swag to give away and that we were going to have a Trivia contest… Since then, we’ve finalized our plans and dug deep into hidden rooms here at the SEGA office to find the coolest stuff possible.

Now, it’s time for all of you not attending this weekend to turn hedgehog blue with envy – and for all of you who are making the trip – or anyone on the fence – we’ve got 300+ good reasons to look forward to it.

It’s going to be a very cool weekend.

I want you to focus on breathing normally now. Deep breaths in and out – now pinch yourself once. You aren’t dreaming.

Sunday at 3 PM is our SEGA Trivia Contest at the SEGA Booth, and whichever one of you knows your SEGA stuff the best is going to be rewarded for it – and seriously so. The Grand Prize is a stack of TEN newly released SEGA games, AND the exclusive Sonic T-shirt we found the other week in the Box of Awesome. The winner gets everything you see here:

To the winner go the spoils… and a really cool T-shirt.

The games will be given out at specific times during the day, so feel free to visit our booth and ask when the next giveaway will be. Oh, and if you do something to really show off your SEGA love – like wearing a SEGA/Sonic shirt or cosplaying as a SEGA video game character, we’ll see to it you get rewarded for your efforts with some of the rare merch shown above. (JSRF Soundtracks, NiGHTS Pillowcases, etc) Special bonus points if you cosplay as anyone from Valkyria Chronicles, since our DLC is coming out next Thursday!

We hope all of you attending this weekend are as excited as we are – of course, you can also be the first to play Let’s Tap! and Bleach: Third Phantom before they come out later this year, but we imagine what you guys really want is the free stuff.

We’ll see you there!

With OutRun OnLine Arcade due out on XBox Live next week — on April 15th — we’re offering an exclusive download of a gorgeous Ferrari, one featured in the original OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast .

The car is a Ferrari Dino 246 GTS, which if you’re an OutRun fan or just a car fan, is a fine, fine automobile. The Dino 246 GT and GTS was manufactured from 1969 – 1974 — back when Ferraris still had curves, before their chassis inexplicably flattened out in the 80s. I love the styling on the car, both in game and out.

Here’s looking forward to being able to play the game online again — you may never get the chance to power-drift in a Ferrari in real life, but that’s what video games are for. Am I right?

Enjoy this fine automobile, and the game when it is available next week — click on the image to get the hi-rez wallpaper format!