I Had a Dream... That I Was Vectorman

I'm not joking. That's very sad, I know.  What's that? You don't remember Vectorman?!

I had a Genesis in 1995, and I had never played Vectorman until yesterday, but while grabbing the above screenshot from the wikipedia entry, I stumbled across an interesting news article that said this:

Oct. 24, 1995, will go down in history as "V-Day," the day Sega of America turned video gamers around the country into "Vectormaniacs."