Lost footage: meeting every SEGA legend at E3 2002

[@SG-BLAST]

I wish all these legends would’ve stayed at sega tbh…

[@evanhanley6437]

Been sharing your footage with various game development and preservation Discords and we are all awestruck by what you upload! Please keep uploading what you have as you're doing an incredible job!

[@AdamDoree]

Thanks so much for the feedback Evan, glad it's enjoyed and shared!

[@virtuaakira]

Nostalgia over 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111

[@a.d.9825]

there was recent japanese interview with hisao oguchi and he talked about this period, and how much darker and sinister it seemed. apperently this 10 studio set up was made to easily investigate and find out who makes money and who doesn't in the new sega 3rd party era.

[@AdamDoree]

It was the sensible way to structure the studios from a business point of view, though some IP may have come off worse than it should have as a result. But the reality is an almost identical studios structure had existed all along before the pivot to third-party or the Sammy acquisition, just under different names for most of them. I think Oguchi dd a reasonable job as the hired boss during some of that transition era.

[@msjb1976]

I know Yu Suzuki 1983 (AM2), Toshihiro Nagoshi 1989 (Amusement Vision) and Yuji Naka 1984 (Sonic Team) are no longer at SEGA…. :-( Left on the video list: Hisao Oguchi 1984 (Hitmaker) Noriyoshi Ohba 1987 (Overworks) Yasuaki Nagoshi 1989 (Red Entertainment Kenji Sasaki 1993 (SEGA Rosso) Takayuki Kawagoe 1995 (Smilebit) Tetsuya Mizuguchi 1990 (United Game Artists) Greg Thomas 1997 (Visual Concepts Entertainment) Yukifumi Makino 1989 (Wavemaster) Rikiya Nakagawa 1983 (WOW Entertainment) I wonder who is now left at SEGA?

[@AdamDoree]

Ha, not many, if any tbh... but to be fair Nagoshi stuck around for decades. Another question is, will any of them return someday :)

[@nmcintosh8769]

Surely they are retiring now​@@AdamDoree

[@dxc699]

Abd then most of them left after the merge with Sammy.

[@AdamDoree]

This is why living in the past via my channel is the way to go!

[@dxc699]

@@AdamDoree right i'm technically retired from gaming, I still keep tabs on SEGA. I think games journalism is dead now, tired of reading opinions of people who clearly never played the game, know basic games history, paid for reviews and worst this revisionist history they keep dishing out. Your site and magic box was the only true source of real game info and the scene back then like diehard game fan and the old EGM was before that. Anyway keep it going.

[@AdamDoree]

​@@dxc699 Ha, to be fair when I was growing up people talked about Space Invaders and the very first consoles etc, they all seemed laughably past it to me, just as anyone going on about the glory days of Sega will seem like an ancient relic to today's younger gamers. I guess we're all here when we're here, and that's OK! However, we do sometimes see younger gamers going out of their way to collect and enjoy much older games, which is great. To me, games of the 90s/00s and the progress they represented, was an exciting chapter that I'm not sure has ever been topped.

[@dxc699]

@@AdamDoree i'm not talking about younger gamers im going on about the people on websites giving them misinformation about the games era of the past. I get what your saying in regards to perspectives but i dont think my gen was mislead by mags about the golden age of gaming when the mags at the time mentioned them. Compared to today.

[@a.d.9825]

@@AdamDoree sega has done a decent job staying contemporary imo, yakuza and persona are pretty big on the todays huge weeb market, as one example. sega is far from retro these days

[@pandaplays971]

Haha cool