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Beautiful Sega arcade book coming up
#377807 - 07/26/18 10:32 AM
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From ROM on kickstarter; I can vouch for the quality of their books and relationship with sega.
The Megadrive / Genesis book is gorgeous with some really cool artwork / industrial drawings from the archives.
I hope this isn't considered spam, I have no links to the company and the new book has already hit the funding goal.
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Re: Beautiful Sega arcade book coming up
[Re: -Mitaine-]
#377808 - 07/26/18 01:51 PM
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I would support this if they were going to fully document all Sega arcade games (including both retail and prototype machines), not only 5 dedicated cabinets!
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Re: Beautiful Sega arcade book coming up
[Re: R.Coltrane]
#377829 - 07/27/18 05:35 PM
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> fully document all Sega arcade games
That doesn't sound like a very reasonable scope.
Just look at Sixtoe's system16.com, how many arcade games did sega procuce over twenty-ish years ?
This book chooses a very narrow focus on purpose, with the pop-up gimmick - that's not for everyone.
I've read books which try to document the whole lifecycle of a console (PC Engine and SNES for example) and they're boring, reading like a superficial catalog.
Those super scaler games are iconic and covering them as industrial objects is interesting, not something you can find on a million articles on the web.
ROM has proved they can dig up exclusive inside info, not just copy-paste stale stuff.
Hopefully if the book is a hit they will do more (I'd like one about model2 machines like top skater & co).
TLDR I accept the quality over quantity approach even if I would like them to aim higher. Still a little afraid they would miss info that MAME / collector enthusiasts have dug up over the years !
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