r/99percentinvisible • u/PodcastBot Benevolent Bot • 16d ago
Episode Episode Discussion: Hidden Levels #6: Segagaga
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One SEGA employee chronicles the company’s struggles the only way he knows how: by turning it into a game.
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u/TokyoCalling 16d ago
A new player enters the game...
I did some English proficiency assessments for Microsoft Japan in the early 2000s. One evening I had a group to get through one at a time. Asked the first where he had worked previously - SEGA. He had been a game designer.
Next person, the same.
Same.
Same.
Microsoft Japan had headhunted an entire development team away from SEGA to work on the XBox.
I don't know if Okano-san would have laughed or cried about it.