A load of issues of Beep have come through in the last few days: https://archive.org/details/beep-1988-11/page/15/mode/1up Here's the "you can totally hold your Mega Drive controller upside down" story from November 1988.
They uploaded some more PiO scans too, these have SC-3000 type-ins; https://archive.org/details/pi-o-1985-05/page/138/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/pi-o-1985-10/page/28/mode/2up That should be all of the ones that contain SC-3000 type-ins as according to Wikipedia the 1986-10 issue was the last.
Re: Beep and more Sega AI Computer things Another series of events we might have to care about, as it was showcased by Sega at the "CAI & New Media Show '86".
I think it's time for more Japanese AM Magazines... First up is Amusement Industry (アミューズメント産業). I've also seen the title written in English as "Amusement Sangyo". According to the Diet Library, the first issue was published in 1972. The magazine is still being published today. Last year, the January 1993 issue was scanned and uploaded onto IA. And within recent months, issues from December 1973 and January 1974 were scanned too. Unfortunately, they're water damaged. Obtaining pristine copies of older magazines is a very expensive endeavor. Recently, Chuulimta was able to acquire some issues from 1992; and the December issue is now available. This issue in particular has coverage of the 30th Amusement Machine Show, and a report of Sega partnering with a textile trading company to help operate amusement facilities. The remaining issues should be coming through soon, so be on the look out! I also want to share another item they scanned in: an issue of A-Login from June 2000. As far as we know, it was a single run arcade spinoff of LOGiN/E-LOGiN magazine. Nonetheless, there's coverage of AOU 2000, a whole medal game section, and coverage on games like Star Wars Racer, Power Smash/Virtua Tennis and Sega Marine Fishing
I managed to upload two of them, but when I tried to upload the third one, it started to give me this error "[a5a5872e14702e593c801f21] Exception caught: No specifications provided to ArchivedFile constructor."(it fails right at the beginning)... what a fucking situation!... i'll try a few more times and if i don't succeed i'll try again later... this can't go on like this... it's really frustrating...
Weird. Even halving the dpi (which results in an even smaller file size) did nothing – Same error message! Edit: Tried uploading a Beep magazines (one which we already have) but nada. Something must be broken!
The wiki probably just needs a little break. Sorry for being not much of a help. I suggest saving everything in a folder until it works again.
https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27219 https://www.everygamegoing.com/lpublisher/abc/6418/cover_art/356 This guy scanned a lot of Micro Mart. Issue 62 (1988, not 1989 as stated) doesn't seem to have any gaming content, the 1991 ones have lots of Sega reviews (including Sonic), but it becomes more computer and PC focused later. There aren't too many issues scanned pre-1998 though, so it might be that there were still console reviews prior to 1998 as I did see a CD-i one, along with an Ecco 2 strategy guide review. Of course, from 1996 there were Sega PC games released, so some later issues will still be of interest (I notice Crazy Taxi PC budget release got reviewed at least).
I noticed this existed: https://www.originalvideogameart.com/sega-genesis/ https://www.originalvideogameart.com/game_gear-master_system/ https://www.originalvideogameart.com/sega-saturn/ They key is to make note of the artists too - they might need pages.
I'd like to take this opportunity to pay my respects to Revengers of Vengeance, which I've ignored for years because it didn't look interesting. And it probably isn't that interesting but a) horrible English voice dub and b) https://segaretro.org/File:Revengers_of_Vengeance_Box_Art_by_Donato_Giancola_(Oil).jpg the US artwork is amazing. What am I looking at. The actual box tries to make it look like a poster for a B movie but it feels more like last-minute backpeddling once they realised how bad the game was.
This is truly killer stuff. I'd like to highlight some of my favourites, if you don't mind. Good? Cool! Please view in full size: 688 Attack Sub Box Art Painting by Nixon Galloway: Spoiler After Burner III Magazine Cover Art by Jeremy Pyke: Spoiler Cheese Cat-Astrophe Starring Speedy Gonzales Box Art by Greg Martin: Spoiler Jack Nicklaus Power Challenge Golf Box Art Painting by Bill Hall: Spoiler Jester Unreleased Box Art by Mick McGinty: Spoiler The people at OVGA are absolute legends.
My younger self was lazy, and my older self forgot how lazy I was until this afternoon: https://www.flyerfever.com/ https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/ We're missing a lot of arcade flyers, which is slightly problematic as sometimes it's the only online proof that things existed. At the time I prioritised the single-page flyers because it was less work, but also because some of the "European" flyers confused me. I am less confused now... but I'm still too lazy to fix the problem myself. Take a game like Dirt Devils - because we don't have non-Japanese flyers uploaded on the wiki, it was wrongly assumed to be a Japanese-only game until I fixed it a couple of hours ago. Flyers do exist https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/287 but this one is incorrectly labeled as Japanese, when it's British. The deciding factor is usually the company that's named - "Sega Amusements Europe" almost always means it was intended for the UK. You also get weird ones which we don't think were designed for any particular country, just "not Japan". These are usually the Japanese flyers translated into English - Sega Retro labels these as "export", while other sites might say US or Europe. But they're probably wrong - you can usually tell when a flyer is indended for the US or UK markets. Also annoying is that Sega Retro can't display thumbnails for newly added PDFs, so multi-page flyers tend to ruin pages somewhat. There's only so much lobbying I can do on that issue.
I'm lazy as well, that's why I still don't know how to use templates the right way. Let's say I were to mirror everything from the Arcade Flyer Archive (including the ones we already have) and used [[Category:SEGA Enterprises, Inc. (USA) arcade flyers]] and so on and so forth to categorize them by "Segas", would that suffice for now? In the example of this Golden Axe flyer, the file name could be something like "SegaEnterprisesLtd_GoldenAxeTRoDA_ArcadeFlyer_JP". It seems like an attempt was made in the past to sort arcade flyers by arcade board / platform, but that's a little over my head, tbh. Sorry
One page in, and chaos already unfolds in all its glory: SegaEnterprisesLtd_DaytonaUSA_ArcadeFlyer_JP.PDF SegaEnterprisesLtd_GoldenAxeTRoDA_ArcadeFlyer_JP.PDF SegaGameWorks_TLWJP_ArcadeFlyer_EN.PDF Sovoda_TVGameMachines_ArcadeFlyer_JP.PDF KabushikiGaishaSega_VirtuaFighter4_ArcadeFlyer_JP.PDF KabushikiGaishaSegaEnterprises_Alien3TheGun_ArcadeFlyer_JP.PDF KabushikiGaishaSegaEnterprises_VirtuaFighter_ArcadeFlyer_JP.PDF Sega_AlteredBeast_ArcadeFlyer_EN.PDF Sega_OutRun_ArcadeFlyer_EN.PDF Sega_Shinobi_ArcadeFlyer_EN.PDF SegaEnterprisesIncUSA_AfterBurner_ArcadeFlyer_EN.PDF SegaEnterprisesIncUSA_GoldenAxe_ArcadeFlyer_EN.PDF SegaEnterprisesIncUSA_THotDIII_ArcadeFlyer_EN_Back.jpg SegaEnterprisesLtd_AmusementMachineGuide_ArcadeFlyer_EN.PDF SegaEnterprisesLtd_AstroCityCabinet_ArcadeFlyer_JP.PDF Two things: Do Japanese flyers still read from left to right? For file names, I'll go with just "Sega" if there are multiple Segas listed. Please someone stop me if they think I am screwing up. Edit: Looking a bit better already: Multilingual flyers are labeled as such ("Multi").
Bear in mind some of the flyers on the wiki already came from those sites, so you'd literally be uploading the same thing again (we may even have better versions in some cases). In other news https://archive.org/details/service-games-nevada-inc-parts-price-list-1958-04-15 https://archive.org/details/sega-parts-catalog-1965 That last one finally answers a question Scarred Sun had yeaaaars ago - that funky Sega logo is apparently from 1965.
