This week we've had some really positive and exciting news about contributors in the book that will ultimately make the content much better and interesting.
Firstly, on the game reviews front, I'm delighted to say that Ian Wall (
Sega 8-Bit), Omar Cornut (
SMS Power!) and Ken Horowitz (
Sega-16) have agreed to cover a few games between them. I'm really happy about this as these guys run some great community SEGA sites and are super passionate about the subject. We've also been lucky to get quite a few games journalists that worked on SEGA magazines back in the day to write game reviews. These include Julian Rignall (C&VG/Mean Machines), Phil South (Sega Power), Paul Davies (C&VG/Mean Machines), Tony Takoushi (SEGA Europe/C&VG/Mean Machines), Heinrich Lenhardt (Gamers) plus others.
We've also been very lucky to get some time with Stefano Arnhold, the chairman of Tectoy which will give us some AMAZING insights into the 'Master System in Brazil' feature. Next week I'm planning chats with Nick Alexander who is the former CEO of Virgin/Mastertronic (which then became Sega Europe) who distributed the Master System throughout Europe to great success. I'm also set to chat with Steve Hanawa who not only introduced Tetris and Columns to SEGA, but also worked for SEGA and created many early arcade games. Steve will hopefully be able to give some good insights into the early SEGA days and add in any anecdotal memories.
So all in all, it's been a fantastic week. Loads of new contributors, the design is in full-flow and the campaign is slowly rising, day-by-day.
We're planning a big push for the last week to try and get that slipcase in the page and some extra pages/gatefolds.
Thanks, Sam