INTERVIEW: David Javelosa (Multimedia Studio, Vince Neil, Sonic and the Wolf, undocumented games)

cartridgeculture · May 11, 2025

Interview: David Javelosa (2025-05-07) by Alexander Rojas

This month I had a chance to speak with David Javelosa again! Back in late 2023, Javelosa gave me my first ever "interview", and it was high time I pay him back. This is the longest interview I've ever conducted at OVER 2 HOURS of Sega info, and boy is there a lot here. We've got insight into his musical background, we've got anecdotes about early Sega of America. We've got 4 undocumented games, including a fricking Genesis SETI project and a smatter of celebrity tie-ins that went nowhere. Including the Sister Sonic-like Sonic and the Wolf adaptation. I guarantee you it's a much less exciting story than you're imagining. Anyway! There's so much here I know I'm missing a lot. Enjoy!

As a bonus, we've even got a clean copy of the fabled SCES 93 Spinball demo and the full Multimedia Studio/Jurassic Park documentary. EDIT: NOW UPLOADED. Special thanks to KatKuriN and MDTravis for their research and assistance!

Black Squirrel · May 11, 2025

Love it

For what it's worth, I don't have a record player either, but I do have a record collection which I saved from a skip (the highlight being Trains in the Night. Because trains sound different in the dark??)

Asagoth · May 11, 2025

cartridgeculture said:

Interview: David Javelosa (2025-05-07) by Alexander Rojas

This month I had a chance to speak with David Javelosa again! Back in late 2023, Javelosa gave me my first ever "interview", and it was high time I pay him back. This is the longest interview I've ever conducted at OVER 2 HOURS of Sega info, and boy is there a lot here. We've got insight into his musical background, we've got anecdotes about early Sega of America. We've got 4 undocumented games, including a fricking Genesis SETI project and a smatter of celebrity tie-ins that went nowhere. Including the Sister Sonic-like Sonic and the Wolf adaptation. I guarantee you it's a much less exciting story than you're imagining. Anyway! There's so much here I know I'm missing a lot. Enjoy!

As a bonus, we've even got a clean copy of the fabled SCES 93 Spinball demo and the full Multimedia Studio/Jurassic Park documentary, which will be uploaded later today or tomorrow. Special thanks to Kat and Travis for their research and assistance!
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Dude... you rule... it's a pleasure to have you here with us... keep up the good work... ...

chilistudios · May 12, 2025

What stuck out to me was this part of the interview.

David Javelosa said:

So with all this music available, Sega was able to really crank out games, probably faster than it should have. There was probably more music than games to put them in. And I remember our VP of development [Joe Miller], used to say, “You know, we got to slow down” and “We're doing too much shovelware.” That's what he used to call it. Sega releases of shovelware. Like, yeah, we're just like generating garbage here.
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It interests me that SoA's management saw their own games as shovelware.

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INTERVIEW: David Javelosa (Multimedia Studio, Vince Neil, Sonic and the Wolf, undocumented games)

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