John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

Chronicling the history of the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Author of Legends of 16-Bit Game Development. Order here: https://t.co/ahWO8Yi9Rs mdshock.com Joined July 2018

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ＶＴＥＣ @Tosaki_c01

2 weeks ago

sega-dreamcast-info.com/en/post/une-vm… I just found out about the Nintendo 64's secret screen three minutes ago. What is this? When planning the VMU, I took inspiration from keychain games like Tamagotchi and Mini Tetris. We didn't take inspiration from any other consoles.

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

2 weeks ago

@suddendesu Reminds me of BigBoxCollection but for documents: bigboxcollection.com/DaggerfallInte…

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セガ公式アカウント🦔 @SEGA_OFFICIAL

6 months ago

David Rosen氏のご逝去の報に接し、ご遺族、ご友人、関係者の皆様に謹んで哀悼の意を表します。 Rosen氏はセガ創設者の一人であり、ゲーム業界における真の先駆者として多大な功績を残されました。従業員一同、Rosen氏の貢献に深く感謝し、心よりご冥福をお祈りいたします。

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

8 months ago

Must-watch for PlayStation history buffs. It focused a lot on Masahide Ohashi, the Toshiba engineer who designed the PS1's GPU and its texture-mapping capabilities. He sadly died of cancer just one year after the PS1's release. I had never heard his story before.

ファミ通.com @famitsu

8 months ago

『新プロジェクトX』プレイステーション特集回が本日20時より放送 famitsu.com/article/202510… 開発リーダーの久夛良木健をはじめ、丸山茂雄、坂上陽三が出演。ソニーと任天堂による“幻の試作機”、リアルタイム3DCG実現の壁、ローンチタイトルの『リッジレーサー』など、初代プレステ誕生ドラマに迫る

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

10 months ago

@GameResearch_E @retroOtoko I think there might be some confusion going on here. It's definitely pronounced yah-mah-ooh-chee (no stress) in Japanese, but perhaps sounds the way you're saying to an English speaker when spoken naturally. Just checked many examples on Youtube, e.g.: youtu.be/H_zXk2fsK4U?si…

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

10 months ago

@Dosunceste My comment was clearly talking about the home console market, not the handheld market. Consolidated profit numbers aren't very useful since they only indirectly reflect subsidiary profits/losses (and usually on a delay). And, Sega was chasing revenue growth, not profits.

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

2 years ago

People say Sega made a big mistake by not using the SGI chipset (used in the N64). SOA's problem with the Saturn was the cost. They certainly could not have overcome this with the SGI chipset. When the N64 was released, it cost ¥5000 more than the Saturn, without a CD drive.

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塚原清文@卓球をもっと楽しくする人｜p4match @piyoon

12 months ago

２７年経っても遊んでもらえるのほんと幸せ。みんなありがとう！

Bo (Low Context Burning Rangers) @memory_fallen

12 months ago

RINGS OF SATURN: I found a cool Easter egg in *Radiant Silvergun*: * Start playing Arcade mode * Get between 240K and 250K points * Enter your 77th place initials as "SRK" All extra options, plus an otherwise-inaccessible INVINCIBLE option, will be unlocked! More below...

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塚原清文@卓球をもっと楽しくする人｜p4match @piyoon

12 months ago

@MegaDriveShock え、これ見つかってたんですね。確かに”SRK"は僕のクレジットネームなので僕が作ったっぽいですね。この投稿を見てぼんやり思い出したレベルです。他にあるかどうかはどうなんだろう? 意地悪じゃなくほんとに覚えてないんだ。 28年前のことなのでごめん。今でも話題に上がるのはとても嬉しい。 THX

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

12 months ago

Is this your secret @piyoon ? 🧐 Can you share any other info? I wonder if it's the first time someone's discovered it.

Bo (Low Context Burning Rangers) @memory_fallen

12 months ago

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

a year ago

@suddendesu I remember going here way back in 2005. I think it closed within the past 10 years. Does the area need more drugstores and daisos 😂

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Ryoichi Hasegawa @rio_hasegawa

a year ago

1990年代後半～2000年代前半にセガ/SCEに在籍した私が個人的に体験した範囲ですが：・当時の欧米マーケティング部門にはあまりゲームは遊ばないけど MBA 持ち、なんて人材が少なからずいた（そして日本の役員がそういう人材を殊更に有難がっていた）（続

KenSenda @ken_senda

a year ago

日本のビデオゲームを欧米市場に輸出する際、ローカライズの一環として「かわいい」要素を排除する(キャラを差し替えたりパッケージデザインを変更したり)ということが昔はよく行われていたが、それが果たして有効な戦略だったのかについては今ひとつ分からない。

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𝙆𝙖𝙣 𝙉𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙤™/内藤寛 @Kan_Naito_JP

2 years ago

なんと！ 32年前の今日はランドストーカーの発売日だったのね！

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HUGA Inc.　株式会社ヒューガ @HUGASTUDIO

2 years ago

(From 8bit Chronicle) There is not much contact between me in AM and Mr. Naka in CS. Nevertheless, I feel I owe him a debt of gratitude for the good treatment he gave me at SEGAGAGA, so I drew SONIC in this way, alongside President Nakayama, who is rarely talked about nowadays

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

2 years ago

It's hard to believe that Climax Entertainment released Shining in the Darkness, Shining Force, and Landstalker in the span of just 19 months.

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

2 years ago

@k_huntington And to make the comparison balanced we should only look at software revenue. Sega's software revenue today is 10 times what it was in 1994.

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

2 years ago

I see takes like this all the time, but... Sega Sammy's revenue for FY2024 was ¥467 billion yen! That's much greater than in the 90s. For consumer sales: Sega did about the same this year as at its 90s peak (93 and 94). It's one of the top 5 Japanese game publishers.

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John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock

2 years ago

@STGshmups It's also complicated by the value of the yen, which has changed a lot over the past 30 years, but Sega's sales have also shifted heavily to Japan since then, so a comparison isn't easy.