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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."

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  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/

    1. Re:Pictures on Flickr by Darkness404 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      ...My question is why there are SNES games in there. Because the Mega Drive came out before the SNES... Perhaps a merger?

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  2. Re:slashdotted already... by dreemernj · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, the website was being served up by a Sega TeraDrive. So, more than one user and it starts getting a minor case of burning uncontrollably.

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  3. So... by Darkness404 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So let me get this right, there was an unmarked door in Sega's office that everyone had forgotten about but really contained every game ever made by Sega?

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    1. Re:So... by Psychotria · · Score: 2, Funny

      You are correct of course... also note the lack of dust. The "forgotten" room has less dust than my bedroom (not that that is saying much)

      Cheers

    2. 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. Blue Playstation? by DigiShaman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On the shelf below the Sega CD games, anyone notice an N64 along with a *blue* PS1? Isn't that console used for development?

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    1. 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.

  5. Re:First post? by Majik+Sheff · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The article said every piece of hardware. I see no Virtua Racing, no Sega Rally, no Top Skater, no arcade games to speak of. I also don't see any pinball machines.

    Sega's shining stars were in the arcade (with the exception of the Naomi system which was just a Dreamcast on 'roids). I was genuinely excited that there might still be a mint collection of arcade jewels, but instead I'm treated to pictures of spindles of preproduction GD-ROMs.

    Oh well, it's still a neat collection. I admit I'm still a little bit envious.

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  6. 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.

  7. Re:First post? by lordofthechia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They should have sent a poet...

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