John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock

Chronicling the history of the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Author of Legends of 16-Bit Game Development. Order here:

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

Orders are now open on my book:

Legends of 16-Bit Game Development: A History of Treasure and the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis

https://t.co/bn8Axj40SB

Thank you to all the supporters who backed it!

There aren't many copies remaining. Order now while you can.

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

A new secret has been found in Dynamite Headdy!

The B-A-C-A code that Maegawa previously mentioned is actually in Dynamite Headdy, not McDonald's TLA.

@TreasureCoLtd これ、何か覚えていますか？

[Bo (Low Context Burning Rangers) @memory_fallen]

Treasure founder Masato Maegawa once recalled putting a code that spells "baka" into *McDonald's Treasureland Adventure* after getting frustrating feedback.

It's not in the final game, but I found it in *Dynamite Headdy*!

B-A-C-A-↓ makes the Sega logo fall with a boom sound.

[株式会社やのまん | Yanoman Corp. @puzzle_yanoman]

『SUPERやのまんCOLLECTION』発表記念！
SFC版『フェーダ』発売当時の貴重なPVを公開します。
故・玉木美孝先生のお姿も収められた貴重な映像です。ぜひご覧ください。
※公開にあたり、多大なるご厚意をただいた関係各位に心より感謝申し上げます。
玉木先生、見てくれてますかー！
#超やのまん

[ＶＴＥＣ @Tosaki_c01]

https://t.co/Gi56lontIH
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.

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

@suddendesu Reminds me of BigBoxCollection but for documents:

https://t.co/eEPGqXpU9g

[セガ公式アカウント🦔 @SEGA_OFFICIAL]

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。

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

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]

『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
https://t.co/GsJ6jWLOqq

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

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

@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.:

https://t.co/thE59aS8FT

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

@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.

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

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.

[塚原清文@卓球をもっと楽しくする人｜p4match @piyoon]

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！

[塚原清文@卓球をもっと楽しくする人｜p4match @piyoon]

@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���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

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

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]

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...

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

@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 😂

[Ryoichi Hasegawa @rio_hasegawa]

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

[𝙆𝙖𝙣 𝙉𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙤™/内藤寛 @Kan_Naito_JP]

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！

[HUGA Inc. 株式会社ヒューガ @HUGASTUDIO]

(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

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

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

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

@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.

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

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.

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

@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.

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

@STGshmups It's Japanese yen. There's almost no inflation. Maybe 10% from 1994 to 2024.

[John Harrison - Mega Drive Shock @MegaDriveShock]

@OverJumpRally They are one of the biggest video game publishers in Japan.