The story of Sega is one for the Ages. Their history has been covered by countless websites, magazines, and tv shows. Any video game reporting channel that takes itself seriously (and plenty that don’t) have written extended features on the rise and fall of Sega. That said, no one has ever gone in as much depth as SegaBase – a micro-site hosted at Eidolons Inn. What makes SegaBase so unique is that it explores the story of the humans (executives) that were responsible for Sega’s success and failures. Complete with business and psychological analysis along with technical hardware factoids. A couple of years back the microsite was published as a book.
It was fairly successful for a website to book transition. Although to David Munoz it only served to highlight it’s shortcomings. He realized that SegaBase wasn’t cohesive, it had several redundancies, the facts and figures needed better sources, the pictures were tiny etc. In short he found the book could be done more professionally. In order to achieve this goal he went to Kickstarter and collected pre-orders along with a little donation and raised 7090$. Now along with the gang from the Tavern he is trying to self publish the more comprehensive History of Sega.
Age-Media has teamed up with DCS, SegaBits and DC Emulation to bring you this interview.