(This is a re-post of a post on Sega-16.) Recently, an interview was conducted with Hideki Sato on his life and his time at Sega as part of an oral history research project documenting the game industry in Japan. The interview transcription is over 150 pages long. If you don’t…
Over the past twenty years, former Sega of America president Tom Kalinske has often said that Sega and Sony were close to forming a partnership to co-develop a 32-bit console, but that Sega’s Japanese management shot down the idea. Recent evidence translated here for the first time adds new insight…
A translation of the third in a monthly series on game design by Kan Naito (Shining in the Darkness, Landstalker) that appeared in the April 1991 issue of the Japanese magazine Mega Drive Fan.
Recently, a post on the SonicRetro forums asked why early Sonic goods were marked “SegaSonic.” You’ve probably seen this if you’ve ever come across the plethora of stationary, clothes, stuffed animals, and other goods that Sega released in the early ‘90s in Japan: Initially, goods were labeled as “Sonic the…
A translation of the second in a monthly series on game design by Kan Naito (Shining in the Darkness, Landstalker) that appeared in the March 1991 issue of the Japanese magazine Mega Drive Fan.
Here is a translation of the first column in a monthly series on game design by Kan Naito (Shining in the Darkness, Landstalker) that appeared in the February 1991 issue of the Japanese magazine Mega Drive Fan.
On December 24, 1988, Sega released its fourth title for the Mega Drive: Osomatsu-kun: Hachamecha Gekijō (“Osomatsu-kun: Nonsense Theater”). This was Sega’s first exclusive game for the Mega Drive (the previous three were arcade ports), and it would prove to be a disastrous release for the young console in Japan….
Yuji Naka reveals more secrets about the abandoned ‘Sonic 3D’ for the Mega Drive in this translated interview from February 1995.
Here is a translated account of buying a Mega Drive on launch day by Tadashi “Sega” Takezaki!
The Mega Drive has just been launched, but store shelves are empty! Read more about the promised add-ons in this interview!
