I saw this posted on reddit today and didn't see it anywhere on the site. THIS IS SEGA TEST Color / 28 min. / 1996 A "trainumentary" created for the Sega Test Department in 1995-1996. Director / Editor JOHN JANSEN Assistant to Production ROGER DeFOREST Creative Consultant STANLEY COENBERG WITH DAVE DODGE REY ALVAREZ CHRIS LUCHICH JANINE COOK MARK GRIFFIN RICH KIRNOCK JEFF JUNIO JEFF HEDGES JOE DAMON ROGER DeFOREST KIM ROGERS MARK FABELLA MITCH GAMBOLINI JOEL BRETON STEVE APOUR STEVE PATTERSON TRACY JOHNSON MARK PANIAGUA ALSO ERIK WAHLBERG AS KARATE GUY IN PARKING LOT AND TOM KALINSKE AS THE PRESIDENT Filmed on location at Sega of America in Redwood City, CA Shot with the SONY CCD-V5000 Hi-8 camera on June 1995 - February 1996 Edited on February 23 - 27 1996 with the SONY EVO-9700 Hi-8 Dual Deck Editor
You should post it over here http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/sega-hiring-on-zero-hour-contract.61559/
Some details: THIS IS SEGA TEST Color / 28 min. / 1996 A "trainumentary" created for the Sega Test Department in 1995-1996. Director / Editor JOHN JANSEN Assistant to Production ROGER DeFOREST Creative Consultant STANLEY COENBERG WITH DAVE DODGE REY ALVAREZ CHRIS LUCHICH JANINE COOK MARK GRIFFIN RICH KIRNOCK JEFF JUNIO JEFF HEDGES JOE DAMON ROGER DeFOREST KIM ROGERS MARK FABELLA MITCH GAMBOLINI JOEL BRETON STEVE APOUR STEVE PATTERSON TRACY JOHNSON MARK PANIAGUA ALSO ERIK WAHLBERG AS KARATE GUY IN PARKING LOT AND TOM KALINSKE AS THE PRESIDENT Filmed on location at Sega of America in Redwood City, CA Shot with the SONY CCD-V5000 Hi-8 camera on June 1995 - February 1996 Edited on February 23 - 27 1996 with the SONY EVO-9700 Hi-8 Dual Deck Editor
Thanks for sharing. That video does not paint a pretty picture about games testing, but it is/was pretty realistic. That poor guy testing the Pico games, haha!
Haha, people openly puffing away on cigarettes in the break area. I'm pretty sure somebody now days would be triggered into a seizure fit if they saw that.
Gotta love how a large portion of the testing staff are such stoners. Were I 10 years older I may have seriously considered this gig. I've been a software tester before so it's not too far fetched. Cool video with an excellent soundtrack. Thanks for posting this.
It just hit me that the video had instrumental versions of songs that were at the time only a few years old and sound as though they are from the actual masters. I wonder how Sega pulled that one off back in 96 as that was more closely guarded and more of a hassle to provide back in the day. Seeing as there are no music credits it makes it seem as though there was no deal between Sega and the rights holders, yet they have something that one would generally have to get from the entity that controls it. While the studios they were mixed at could have a copy of instrumental passes that may have been printed during mixing, that would seem like an awful lot of leg work for Sega for something that wasn't really going to be seen outside their company.
