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Sega's Game Archive

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-easy-to-collect-your-own-stuff dept.

Jeff Coe tips us to news that a group of Sega employees recently stumbled upon a storage room in the company's product development department that contains just about every piece of hardware and software Sega has ever released. They were also kind enough to snap some photos and share them. "We asked around about how the room came together and couldn't get a straight answer. Some had said our old legal department had run the archive and given it up to someone else to manage. Others said that the legal archive still exists in another room in the office, and this was pulled together over time from producers and product managers. We don't know the exact how or why, but we love that it exists and immediately accessible."

4 of 45 comments (clear)

  1. Pictures on Flickr by Dioji · · Score: 5, Informative

    The blog is slashdotted, but the pictures are all on Flickr and can be seen here: http://flickr.com/photos/segaamerica/

  2. Re:Blue Playstation? by davidpack01 · · Score: 3, Informative

    From Wikipedia
    Another version that was colored blue (as opposed to regular console units that were grey in color) was available to game developers and select press.

  3. Re:So... by D'Sphitz · · Score: 2, Informative

    The blog explains that it was not a forgotten room. If it were forgotten, it wouldn't be a complete archive would it? (and as someone points out below it contains PS3 games)

  4. Sammy by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    My question is why there are SNES games in there.

    Sega merged with a company called Sammy that made NES games such as Vice: Project Doom.