SEGA USA. 1993 Documentary. part one

[@MrCozin-kd9mb]

What a cool video we have in here. The Sega vice's president wanted to be a automotive designer. He ended up working for Atari. The music producer created the music based in the current musics of that time as well as the old hits. It is such a nostalgic period. I miss so bad those times.

[@devilzdandruff9199]

The SEGA Genesis, my favorite console ever made.

[@сергей7-к7ш]

Sega is the best, truly folk console, better than snes. Inexpensive games, understandable architecture, fast fps, amazing sound, a huge library of games, all known genres, the presence of serious adult projects and, of course, a corporate logo that no one else has!

[@MephistoOrb]

SEGA is such a great company!!

[@princegroove]

Was...

[@thomasedwardharrison2879]

@@princegroove Sega loves fangames

[@boredianz]

@@thomasedwardharrison2879 Unlike Nintendo

[@G.L.999]

@@boredianz Because Sega lost all their talent that's why. Maybe people should make fan made games based on Sony's IPs instead of Nintendo's for once and see if Sony takes down their projects! People shouldn't be focusing all their energy on Nintendo so much if they're going to complain about Nintendo taking down their so called "fan made" game hacking projects!

[@boredianz]

@@G.L.999 I’m not reading all that, but ok

[@BozonWoz]

SEGA was great. I just played Altered Beast again for the first time in many many years. It was mind blowing! so good!

[@MasterLinkuei]

"if your first home console was the PS2 you have no business opening your mouth on this..." AGREED SEGA Genesis and Super NES rules!

[@TonyMontanaDS]

+P. H. G. F. My first was a ZX Spectrum 48k in 1983. If your first console was a Genesis or SNES you shouldn't be opening your mouth either.

[@MasterLinkuei]

KonnoSting Zx Spectrum rules!!!

[@devicemodder]

+P. H. G. F. My first was my dad's sega genesis.

[@leogamer9793]

+P. H. G. F. I was born in 1997 around the N64 PS1 and Sega Saturn.

[@eratic0311]

Modern Gamers Are So Stupid!

[@CULTÖFDIGITAl]

Long live SEGA!! Thank god I was born in 1984!!

[@PsychoMistress]

I like that the Sonic track playing in the background while Howard introduces himself isn't even composed by him - it was composed by Spencer Nilsen.

[@Cyrillion]

watching this with one laughing and one crying eye

[@PostFrog]

This editing man... it really keeps you going

[@michaelhaguet4316]

A dream to work for sega !

[@PSx1991]

Sega is now rocking with Yakuza series, Sonic mania, Shenmue remake.

[@TheRainbowSMASH]

This was the best era for SEGA and games in general, when sonic was fun to play, AM2 was making innovative and timeless games like daytona and virtua fighter, amazing and obscure games like greendog, now sega is just an embarrassment to its former self

[@juliusnielsen7122]

There was also obvious trash out there like Sega CD. Can't think about anything worth playing other then Sonic CD for that crappy System.

[@ValleDelSergio]

Holy shit, is that a Sonic 3 prototype when it had all the Sonic & Knuckles levels at 4:55 ??

[@IAMNOTVANQUISH]

No mushroom hill would have said mushroom valley

[@Agumon5]

Sonic 3 was originally designed to include the knuckles content in the original base game. They ended up splitting the game into two because development time ran out, and because of the limitations of space on the cartridges.

[@ValleDelSergio]

@@Agumon5 I knew that, it's only that the video would be one of the few "official" evidences of its existence (not counting the rom found a few years back)

[@RetrodudeG]

Sega SMS & Megadrive console made my childhood worthwhile! All Hail SEGA 🙂👍🎮

[@FoxBoy1992]

This is majestic.

[@4estreviews577]

Man I miss that late eighties/early nineties synth.

[@RWL2012]

The Yamaha YM2612 chip? :-)

[@SonofMrPeanut]

"A lot of jobs at a fun place like SEGA don't have piano." Then why are there keyboards everywhere? Thank you, and good night.

[@Cr4z3d]

This is actually really cool man, thx for the upload.

[@rafaelj.1439]

No way this is from '93, with both Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles' boxart clear as day at 3:12. Those two games came out in 1994, so this must be more around 1995.

[@JasonSum1979]

I love the comments! I'm sure anyone who's being a troll didn't grow up during the 16bit War! if your first home console was the PS2 you have no business opening your mouth on this.... Sega around this time was massive and strong almost everyone in school had a Genesis & SNES it was a much better time to be into video games (There were no fanboys/marks) like now

[@SwankeyMonkey]

+Duckmanxxx Preach!

[@Darknights23]

Agree I miss those days 😭😭😭

[@javiernesta5876]

Good Statement

[@ministryOFmuff]

+Duckmanxxx Are you being fucking serious? there were no fanboys in the 16 bit era? it was a great time for videogames for sure but it was probably the most fanboyish console generation ever. Pretty much any kid (who wasnt rich) was ardently team Nintendo or team Sega.

[@heyitsablackguy9553]

+Duckmanxxx So true!

[@kn0wname552]

SEGA Mega Drive, Mega-CD, Super 32X... Such fascinating, magnificent game consoles ever.

[@Suzukisenpai]

Excellent documentary! I`m always want to see how to developed a 16-bit video games. Especially - Comix Zone - epic game I think! One of my favorite. Thanks for uploading and happy holidays!

[@ENFDO]

And now, finally... thanks to this video... i understand why SEGA failed so much in the Américas... thank u very much.

[@clownsechonk]

Sega was always ahead of the game HONK But seriously, they were always better in tech, but worse in marketing. Underrated and the best systems available. When sega 32x came out it was 2x 32-bit processors... they called it a 32 bit system... Nintendo made n64 it had 2x 32-bit processors... Clearly marketing failure on the part of sega, and a win for Nintendo. The Sega CD was revolutionary and nothing was like it short of the CD-I by philips and in a whole new price range (adults toy). The 32x gave it great power and combined with the segaCD it had some games that were even beyond Playstation when it came out. Full movies were made for sega 32x and segacd, the very first role for "Danny Trejo" of later "Machete" etc. was in a segacd game, and an amazing one at that "Ground Zero Texas". Completely underrated and to me one of the best consoles/combinations/hardware and games ever. FMV cartoons and movies that sucked you in all the way from the start with SEWER SHARK.

[@clownsechonk]

clownsec honk - I guess for the N64 it was 64 bit technically, but it had a 32bit system bus and everything was mostly written in 32bit. The saturn however was released 2 years earlier so no surprise it was a little less powerful, yet games tended to utilize the hardware more efficiently resulting in often better graphics, and with the CDROM, unlike n64 it was able to get full motion video without a huge expense added to the game cart. The 32X by sega was out even 2 years before saturn in 94! This was 4 years before N64, while everyone was still stuck with SNES. The Nintendo 64's central processing unit (CPU) is the NEC VR4300.[69] This processor was the most powerful console CPU of its generation.[70] Popular Electronics said it had power similar to the Pentium processors found in desktop computers.[26]Except for its narrower 32-bit system bus, the VR4300 retained the computational abilities of the more powerful 64-bit MIPS R4300i,[69] though software rarely took advantage of 64-bit data precision operations. N64 games generally used faster (and more compact) 32-bit data-operations,[71] as these were sufficient to generate 3D-scene data for the console's RSP (Reality Signal Processor) unit. In addition, 32-bit code executed faster and required less storage space (which was at a premium on the N64's cartridges).

[@eila2088]

+clownsec honk Turbographx/PC Engine CD was years before SegaCD...

[@TheClassicWorld]

That wasn't why. N64 was simply better. 4 Ports. One of the greatest controllers ever made. First to have a big analog stick (before PS1 in 1997). Better games, such as Mario Kart 64 and GoldenEye 007, some of the greatest games, which paved the way for where we are today, not to mention karting and first-person shooter games in general. Nintendo has always been ahead, along with SEGA.

[@raccoon681]

5:48 holy shit that tails statue has isues

[@figment1988]

looks like he defied Sonic when he wasn't looking and got a swig of Scratch and Grounder's booze

[@bobbyberetta4206]

Love the When the Levee breaks drum sample

[@NintendoPsycho]

Back when Sega was still good.

[@grabisoft]

Sonic generations? Sonic mania?

[@bapple8693]

@Damin Mance again, Sonic Mania Plus

[@StevieD1x]

Back when every OST was 🔥

[@DengrayKai211]

now game developers are nickle and diming (DLC/SEASON PASS/MICROTRANSACTIONS) us :(

[@jayyt2969]

Because companies are not making enough profit back.

[@FunkyFranky80]

Really great documentary about the Sega technical Institute^^ time to fire up the mega drive tonight!

[@cinnamondan4984]

OMG, the facilitator of this little documentary's choice of words and newscaster accent. yay.

[@fireheartis1]

Man if Sega didn't put out that stupid 32X and foolishly release the Saturn before the bugs were worked out Sega would have been doing good still. I know they are doing okay as a game developer but I sure miss their their hardware days. The Genesis is my 3rd favorite console of all time, and the Saturn is my second. Despite the flaws of the Saturn it's a good console. It just sucks the best games are so dang expensive to pick up now days. Anyways what a good documentary thanks for sharing. Now on to part 2 lol.

[@JaredConnell]

Also if sega of japan and sega of American got along and worked together instead of fighting over everything along with what you said, they would still be doing fine.

[@TexMex420]

NES was my very first game system. it came with Mario/duck hunt and a gun and two controls.... good times

[@turricanrocks1552]

Hank Hill is it still working?

[@TexMex420]

Ibrahimhadi Zgare last time I turned it on was 100 beers ago lol

[@backlogburning]

God, the production values on this are hilariously 90s.

[@AlexYaremchuk]

Jesus, it's crazy 90s documentary...

[@San.Tarcisio]

The editing on this is great. It is very Tim and Eric

[@KungKras]

Wow how times have changed

[@anderslarson6027]

Whoa, I better buy some Sega stock. It'll only go up, up, up!

[@brendongyde]

Look where sega and bill cosby are now lol

[@Zedek]

+User User Yeah. But at least they do not even think about claiming KZbin income from Nintendo Let's Play's :)

[@MLaker221]

awesome! just what I want to watch!

[@scottp3028]

Its 1993 and we have all these AMAZING fx and transitions what should we do with them? Lets use every single one in this video!

[@yank3656]

thanks for sharing Kevin Noonan

[@steffenflindt8670]

Bill Cosby sure was having fun lol

[@coflow9719]

WITH HIS LICENSE TO PRINT MONEY HAHAHA

[@KungKras]

Sega really had something amazing going on. A shame they blundered Saturn and Sony wouldn't let them recover.

[@meangrain7640]

Sega's love for selling add-ons and dividing their user base up is what killed them. The Saturn would have done way better had the 32X never existed.

[@frankbreuer7185]

@@meangrain7640 I think so too. I mean sure, Sony probably would have been a strong competitor regardless, but if the 32X never had existed, and they had worked out the launch of Saturn a little bit more, (software polishing), I absolutely believe it would have done a lot better. Sega was absolutely popular in the western markets, with the Mega Drive as well as with their cutting edge arcade machines. The whole story really is a shame.

[@BenneWill]

Roger Hector was only 39 in this documentary. People looked way older back then.

[@snakes3425]

Back in the day awe man Sega is the coolest Today (after the latest sonic debacle) Sega rage fury irritation humiliation

[@ralfvanbogaert3451]

Interesting how they lie about the origins of Sonic and how they try to keep the fact hidden that all of their stuff is designed by Japanese people

[@robertatkinson6864]

Probably because it's irrelevant. Besides, not everything from Sega came from Japan. In fact, Sega was originally founded in Hawaii, not Japan, by two Americans. You're on the Internet, check your facts.

[@gusbaker4u]

Sega is the Barney Fife of video games, constantly shooting itself in the foot at every opportunity

[@eddyfinnemore271]

Ahh the nineties!Gives me a warm feeling inside!

[@BozonWoz]

I hear you, I too was a little surprised, but the tape ( a VHS tape used in Portland Public Schools) says 93. Sonic 3 was released in February 94 and 32x released in June of 94 so this was filmed while they were still working on them. That's my guess but I'm not sure.

[@bradberryman3197]

I miss old school gaming so much

[@samthemultimediaman]

I'd love to have that audio development cart and the program!!!

[@AmberShort]

I don't work at Sega but I do work at PWE. Working in a game company is probably the most awesome thing ever. If you love games and if you can, you should consider working for a game company. It's not like any other job.

[@klub7justin]

Amber Short wtf is pwe

[@CardboardSliver]

That early 90s editing...god dang.

[@Pimpeaux]

Woah son, calm down. This whole 21st century thing is still years away.

[@matthewschweim3463]

I’m a developer who helped design the levels to many games and want to tell KZbin after feeling like nobody gives me attention. I invented many inventions

[@AGwolf2097]

boy i wish this vhs transfer was a little better, it's got a lot of frame jumping and bad interlacing effects ;_;

[@raylyd]

omg i wish i could have visted there when i was a kid omg 😍 grew up with the mega drive mega cd and loved the dreamcast shame i would have loved to play with the dev units to make a game or 2

[@DevinDIABLOGriffin]

What's the music that plays between 3:43 to 5:45 from? It sounds catchy to me.

[@dave4shmups]

Thanks so much for uploading these videos! What kind of computers were they using to design games?

[@ConversusVans]

Roger Hector is showing a beta-test Sonic 3 in the video, but yet the video also includes later 32X games. This cannot be from 1993!

[@WhatsOnMyShelf]

It depends when dev hardware was made available to developers.

[@ConversusVans]

If you watch part two of this video, you can see beta-test footage of Saturn games in development (same footage from the 1995 Saturn promo video)... and Dean Ruggles working on 'Comix Zone'. I'm a little surprised to see how early these games were already in development. :P

[@WhatsOnMyShelf]

I'm Just Saiyan, Paul Gah! I could barely make it through half of this way 90s video. You want me to watch part two :P If they are showing footage of Saturn and Comix Zone in part two, then this was probably filmed in late '94 or early '95 since both were was just about to launch. So this is probably marketing to hype Sega's upcoming releases. I wonder which network aired this?

[@ConversusVans]

Yeah, that time period actually sounds right. I've seen the North American 'Sonic & Knuckles' ad (with Santa in it) on this video, and that leads to conclude: there's no way this video is from 1993! You can see the "K-A" rating here, too... now way this is '93.

[@figment1988]

not only that, but there was one game shown which wasn't by Sega, which is Konami's Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (or as it's known in Japan, ''Lethal Enforcers II: The Western''), and it's the Sega CD port since the redbook audio uses music from the arcade game

[@17R3W]

This video is so 90s. it's also funny watching this knowing what's coming for both Sega and Bill Cosby.

[@TashaE25]

It would have been nice to work there

[@DonBeckett]

12:19 Anyone else notice the iconic drum sample of Led Zeppelins When The Levee Breaks...?

[@raccoon681]

sega might as well be spelled bank? years later add rupt to it.

[@mojibake.]

man the early 90s sure were terrifying..

[@jeditenihongo]

I always wondered how Howard Drossin made all of his great OSTs.

[@sirMAXX77]

Ah yes, the 90's also well known for those video toaster visuals.

[@TeamRocketHQR]

About 6 minutes in guy just shows a Sonic prototype just like that wow.

[@RockeyDAproductions]

why is there a black border in the video? it makes it difficult to watch in full screen, plz fix and re-up.

[@enidmolko1126]

You must be very young. It looks like that because the video came from a VHS. So it was edited to fit on a CRT TV.

[@RockeyDAproductions]

Enid Molko and im on a 4:3 1536p monitor. the black border is your falt not the tapes, its like you took a 4:3 vid and exported to 16:9 to be a dick to those that want fullscreen.

[@RWL2012]

How is it his fault when he didn't upload the video?

[@RockeyDAproductions]

***** hes defending it like he did, replying with a quick jab to defend his error.

[@GoldStandardGames]

Sega today is but a shadow of its former self

[@TheRealEvilRoy]

Now do a Sega 2016 documentary but edit the video in the same way.

[@RebeccaGunn]

The visit to STI seems a little older than the game footage in some cases. As I'm pretty sure if Sonic 3 was already out - then the game mainly on display at STI wouldn't be Sonic 2. + Howard Drossin only mentions Genesis on his workbench. 32X and Saturn titles don't seem to be in dev yet (nor the infamous Sonic Xtreme)

[@PPHDocumentaries]

Theirs no way this documentary came out in 1993. They are showing games that came out in 1994 and 1995. And they showed the 32x which sega planned and started working on in early 1994 and released in late 1994. This documentary have to be late 1994 at the earliest.

[@DjSkyattack]

my first console was atari

[@bardhi09]

Holy shit...Howard Drossin is so freaking young in here EDIT:He's hilarious too xD

[@BozonWoz]

I know what you mean. The tape said 93.

[@Wesley_C]

This is a so great company.

[@HikikomoriDev]

"...Don't have piano". Awww.... ;)

[@Doo-l5x]

Part two?

[@ooooo524]

Did they just explain what is meant by the phrase money

[@NoahNCopeland]

12:20 Howard is sampling Led Zeppelin's "When The Levee Breaks" here

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

Yeah you're right. Good ears

[@gilbert2185]

Love the old BTS footage!

[@ttrboy182]

was this 93 or 94? some of the games they've shown were 1994 releases. I suppose it could have been late in 93.

[@gizmo359c]

i was already laughing when it was like "sonic should be spelt money" then when cosby came on i lost my shit oh how times have changed..

[@jarvisbrown5299]

I'm 19 and my very first console was a Sega Dreamcast.

[@jarvisbrown5299]

+Toxic Phantom Thanks, I shall

[@austinwilson8849]

I'm 24, and owned/still own every home console sega made.. including some of the Japanese versions.. same with nintendos.. hell I even have an original atary vcs 2600 from 1977 made in Sunnyvale Cali.. do you even clockwork knight bro? lol. dreamcast was okay. saturn will always be my personal favorite though.

[@austinwilson8849]

*Atari...

[@austinwilson8849]

+John Doe there has never been such an underrated console with a vast library of awesome games.. it's more than a damn shame that it didn't take off because games would be so much better now if sega still made consoles..

[@austinwilson8849]

+John Doe p.s. I just got a Japanese saturn in the mail today lol.. the u.s. console is obtainable, but the games are unbelievably expensive anymore. you can import Japanese saturn games for much less. lol.

[@johneymute]

that's cool how sound effects gets digitized to run on a sega genesis,alltrough at 8bit and 8khz,that's sound even lower then 4bit at 32khz,but i am sure many games just uses 1bit sound because their quality sound s so harsch,so scratchy,so flat and short,but that's what the genesis is know about,twang fm sound and scratchy voices,but they could doo high quality voices if they weren't coriouse about expensive memory space.

[@TheRosemontag]

Oh I almost forgot.......SEGA!!!!

[@eraser1103wastaken]

2:08 how is this 1993 if this footage shows sonic 3 with SEGA 1994 instead of nothing edit: actually i think its footage from the Nov 20 1993 prototype because in that prototype it also says SEGA 1994

[@BentHeWiLdER]

So mr. vp is that how you envisioned The Sega Dreamcast till PlayStation 2 came out and made guys just develop games instead of consoles and games.

[@Zedek]

1993 commentary with Sonic 1994 copyright^^

[@roadstack1111]

New Sega featuring Password Blocker

[@rosaortiz2975]

(JasonOrtago) When you gona make a part two?

[@Reepicheep-1]

I forgot 'edgy' editing, and how annoying the frame-skip fad was. I miss early-80's NOVA camerawork. I feel old...

[@queenanne5917]

3:27 pretty modern haircut for '93

[@yuzokoshiro1306]

the music at 3:43 is fire as is Howard Drossin music...

[@marmac7467]

Today "SONIC" is associated with "CRAP" and "SEGA" is associated with "DEAD". How the times have changed.

[@michael47359]

Yea wow

[@taesubcommander5221]

Okay you made this video 2 years ago so that means this is the sega Genesis documentary 1995 part 1

[@rwdplz1]

Please tell me TAKEOFF went out of business after this was made? Watching their editing and presentation is physically painful.

[@damightybenstein]

8:24 Naruto? That doesn't even look anything near like Naruto... :p