Zombies on a Stamp

Sure beats having zombies on a plane.

But, if you're using air mail... OHNOES!!!

That's neat. Wish we had videogame stamps here.

Sonic was never a popular franchise over in Japan. Don't believe me, just check out his sales numbers: http://www.vgcharts.org/worldtotals.php (do a page find for the word "sonic" a few times.)

Sonic has always had low popularity in Japan, high popularity in America, and mid-level popularity in Europe.

As with the Mario stamps, this is intended as a collector's item. The actual stamps are the gold and blue squares, with the Biohazard sections being basically little stickers on the side. Plenty of these collector's items come out every year - the idea is to interest fans of the properties and get them to buy the stamp issue. They're not intended to be used for postage, although you could if you wanted to.

If your country has a Personalised Stamp service, it's the same principle. Generally, living people only go on stamp designs if they fulfill special criteria and commercial properties (such as video games) almost never do unless they have an interest to the citizens of that country in general and there's a reason to produce those stamps then (such as an anniversary). I can certainly see the USPS issuing gaming stamps celebrating 50 years of video games, so we might see them in 2008 (50 years since the first working video game, Tennis for Two), 2017 (Ralph Baer's first game) or 2022 (50th anniversary of Pong).

Considering the lead time they need to prepare stamp issues, it might be a wise move to send the USPS the suggestion now.

Does anyone know how to get your hands on a set of these stamps if you live in the United States? I would love a set (or two)! To answer Mr. Miller's question: Yes, the series is definitely worthy of the honor of being on a stamp accords. No Sonic game approaches the greatness of Resident Evil 4. Sorry, cute little Hedgehog.

Im curious why these arent all over ebay yet. After reading this article, I went right there looking for a set to import from japan for myself.

Whither is not a verb. You mean withered.

Is the Biohazard logo one a real stamp? I mean, I'd love to see what would happen if a foreign letter marked with that was sent through the USPS. :D