SEGAGAGA

Format: Dreamcast Publisher: Sega

Developer: Sega Year: 2001

Fan translation available?: No

By 2001, Sega’s fortunes were at an all-time low and, while the company’s directors sought to reverse those fortunes by ushering in a new age of third-party production, its typically zany game designers briefly forged on with their nuts ideas. And in Segagaga they asked one simple question to the fans: ‘What would you do differently?’ In this game you got to run a failing Sega for yourself, but Segagaga was no stuffy business sim; it was a self parody that juxtaposed frustrated Sega staff with depressed has-been mascots, culminating in an epic battle against Sega hardware past. The game remains a work of crazy reflexive genius, and demands to be played by anyone with even a passing interest in games industry history.