SegaBase is it another Wikipedia?

[FoxHound]

Or is it a orginal with accruate info

http://www.segacd.org/segabase/SegaBase-Genesis.html

It has huge articles on all the systems..

http://www.segacd.org/segabase/index.html

[stalepie]

Looks like an excellent resource to me. I'd seen it before, but had forgotten about it. Seems longer and more in depth than I remember.

This picture's neat:

http://www.segacd.org/segabase/image/concept2.jpg

[Elusive]

IMPORTANT NOTICE - PLEASE READ!!!

Folks, after months of being pulled off to one project and then another, coupled with a growing sense that my time is done in this arena, I've decided to call it quits for now. I will be pulling SegaBase down within the next few days, save for certain selected items I'm leaving for Eidolon's Inn. It's been nice and it's been grand, but it's time for me to move on. So, if you want to loot anything off of here before the site goes down, better hurry (wink, wink).

Don't be too upset, though. There's tons of Sega stuff out there for you to find. And who knows? SegaBase just might come back someday on my own personal server.

Until then . . . . . . be seeing you.

Sam Pettus
(aka "The Scribe")
22 May 2002

Discontinued?

[Chameleon86]

Great site. Thanks for posting the link.

[Chilly Willy]

Great site. Thanks for posting the link.

Yeah, thanks! The color scheme might be a little hard on the eyes, but it's still great. :)

The front page is okay, but the individual pages use light text on dark, which is much harder on the eyes than dark text on light. At least it's not yellow on light (I've actually seen that!). :D

[kool kitty89]

Is the site gone?

[j_factor]

It's "another Wikipedia", and the articles were written a long time ago.

[stalepie]

Is the site gone?
I saved a copy of the Genesis page before it went down. (only 207 kb):
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=60c98a733e66cfd4d2db6fb9a8902bda

[mick_aka]

Archive of the site here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080214162039/www.segacd.org/segabase/index.html

[Chilly Willy]

Err - the links in the original post still work for me. :)

[Melf]

I'd say that Pettus' work is more reliable than Wikipedia, and he has to be credited as one of the first people to compile a comprehensive history of Sega's consoles.

True, some of the information in his work has been debunked or corrected, but that has more to do with the passage of time than anything else. When he wrote those articles, most ex-Sega employees were still quite tight-lipped about the goings-on at the company, and it's taken time for them to open up.

If you want to read the 16-bit era articles, they've been archived here, with the permission of the good people over at Eidolon's Inn.

- Genesis: A New Beginning (http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=61&title=Genesis:%20A%20New%20Beginning)

- Genesis Factoid (http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=129&title=The%20Genesis%20Factoid)

- Sega CD: A Console too Soon (http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=256&title=Sega%20CD:%20A%20Console%20too%20Soon)

- Sega CD Factoid
(http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=180&title=The%20Sega%20CD%20Factoid)
- Project Mars: Anatomy of A Failure (http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=56&title=Project%20Mars:%20Anatomy%20of%20a%20Failure )

We also have an article that combines some of Pettus' work with an unpublished article from issue #2 of GameGo!

- The Ones that Got Away: 32X Titles (http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=11&title=The%20Ones%20That%20Got%20Away:%2032X%20Titl es)

[32x]

cheers for the links , bookmarked

[WarmSignal]

That text will rape your soul out through your eye sockets. Damn that hurt.