The greatest Sega collection

[Nitrosport]

Sega just posted pics of their archives. http://blogs.sega.com/usa/2008/08/07...-game-archive/

I would give anything to see that room in person. They have even more pics on flickr so make sure you guys click the link that's on there blog.

[Hitman Tyler]

I would hate for that that collection to fall down... since its almost to the roof.

[SegaAges]

Please excuse me while I clean my underpants

Cool, but as I was looking at the pics, it is not all Sega games as even the website led us to believe.

SSX Tricky and GTA San Andreas have their camoes in those pics.

Still that is awesome.

[Nitrosport]

They said they have some competitors games and consoles there aswell. I saw a ps1 dev system in one pic and a n64. I assume they used them to research there competition.

[DreamTR]

Looks a lot like our old Tips & Tricks Magazine game archives, with the exception of the tons of multiples of certain games!

[Cloud121]

I just took a quick glance at that. Based on the little I saw, that looks to be every USA Sega game. Meaning a complete collection like that is completely possible.

[dao2]

JUST posted huh?

edit: weird the date on that blog says aug 7 but I saw that very same blog a while ago, same pictures and everything.

[Bojay1997]

I just took a quick glance at that. Based on the little I saw, that looks to be every USA Sega game. Meaning a complete collection like that is completely possible.

Of course it's possible to collect every USA Sega game. Who said it wasn't? How are you sure this is every USA Sega game anyway? It doesn't look like everything to me, especially considering how many duplicates I see in the pictures. I'd really be interested to see what's on those GD-Rs and other stuff in the spindles. Other than that, I've seen equally impressive Sega collections in the Room of Doom area here.

Upon further inspection, it looks like their handheld collection is seriously lacking. I'm not seeing many Gameboy or Game Gear games, other than some in little plastic cases on the earlier move post on what looks like a different set of shelving.

[dao2]

Of course it's possible to collect every USA Sega game. Who said it wasn't? How are you sure this is every USA Sega game anyway? It doesn't look like everything to me, especially considering how many duplicates I see on the pictures. I'd really be interested to see what's on those GD-Rs and other stuff in the spindles. Other than that, I've seen equally impressive Sega collections in the Room of Doom area here.

the blog says the games are stacked double on the shelves, like deeper in.
And where hes getting from is the title that says "the greatest sega collection"

[Adol]

Sega just posted pics of their archives. http://blogs.sega.com/usa/2008/08/07...-game-archive/

It looks like my place. Except there are fewer sega games

[ProgrammingAce]

My company used to have a "library" where you could check out titles for free. They stopped doing it years ago because it was too difficult to manage.

Microsoft's archive is pretty sad. It consists of about a dozen automatic CD changers in a small room just outside the Xbox live control center.

[DreamTR]

Cloud121: I have every single Sega game released in the US complete in box. Game Gear, Master System, Genesis, 32X, Sega CD, Saturn, and Dreamcast, so yeah, it's very possible. I would say Game Gear and a Netlink Saturn game are the toughest, but everything else is very manageable.

[Bojay1997]

the blog says the games are stacked double on the shelves, like deeper in.
And where hes getting from is the title that says "the greatest sega collection"

Yes, but as Adol pointed out, there are much more complete Sega collections out there. Heck, I have complete US Saturn, Dreamcast, Master System, Sega CD and Genesis collections and it takes up a lot more space than the four shelving units in that picture even double stacked and shoved in like the one in the picture. I'm also familiar with libraries of this type as I own what used to be the library for Panasonic Media from the 3do days.

I'm sorry if this sounds snippy, but it makes me sad that the great video game companies have done such a poor job preserving their own history. I just read an interview with a former Sega designer who said that they couldn't port a Dreamcast game he had done to mobile phones because the source code was gone. That's a Dreamcast game, imagine what happened to the source for all the other classic games they developed long before that...

[otaku]

wow. Talk about pack rats! Very cool.

[fishsandwich]

Those Saturn games aren't stored well... laying them flat causes the instruction books to bow in the middle.

And those games nearest the bottom are bound to crack sooner or later.

[dao2]

Yes, but as Adol pointed out, there are much more complete Sega collections out there. Heck, I have complete US Saturn, Dreamcast, Master System, Sega CD and Genesis collections and it takes up a lot more space than the four shelving units in that picture even double stacked and shoved in like the one in the picture. I'm also familiar with libraries of this type as I own what used to be the library for Panasonic Media from the 3do days.

I'm sorry if this sounds snippy, but it makes me sad that the great video game companies have done such a poor job preserving their own history. I just read an interview with a former Sega designer who said that they couldn't port a Dreamcast game he had done to mobile phones because the source code was gone. That's a Dreamcast game, imagine what happened to the source for all the other classic games they developed long before that...

I'm referring to your "Who said it wasn't" comment, cause with a title like "Greatest Sega Collection" it kinda denotes that the collection is unrivaled, so the op did

[Vroomfunkel]

Yowsers .. just checking out some of those DC protos -

Propeller Arena, Farnation(??), Bomberman Alpha, Otoire(??), Dee Dee Planet .. some pretty weird looking stuff there.

And a sealed copy of Taxi 2 ... best way for that game to be kept, truth be told.

Am kind of surprised that there is a bootleg Megadrive Tetris there ...

Oh, and for those who say that there can't be a full Sega release set there, it does say at the end of the slideshow that it is only one wall of the archive. Plenty of room for lots more stuff, I would say! Now, if someone can just sneak in and grab me an Aiwa Mega CD ...

I'm also curious as to what is in those big Dell boxes.

[swlovinist]

Sweet pics. Great to see that, very impressive. This is my ultimate goal to have every US Sega Game on every system. I am wrapping up my dreamcast games and game gear games. Who ever knows if I will finish my Sega Saturn collection. Genesis, Sega 32X, Sega CD, SMS, are done. Not bad Sega, Not bad at all. While we all as collectors can see how they stored it wrong this and that, it is still pretty cool that they at least tried to do an archive.

link to my "sega wall"
http://media.photobucket.com/image/s...CF2791.jpg?o=2

http://media.photobucket.com/image/s...CF2793.jpg?o=1

on a side note, I have one of those Megadrive Tetris carts...they are pretty cool.

[Push Upstairs]

I wouldn't mind looking around that room.

[modest9797]

Wow. I want that room.