Sega Seal of Quality Awards

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The Sega Seal of Quality Awards was an award ceremony organised by Sega of America to commemorate third-party publishers which qualified for the Sega Seal of Quality. The events were featured prominently in Sega Visions.

It is not currently known when the event ceased to exist - Seals of Quality were still awarded to games in North America up until 1999 with the arrival of the Sega Dreamcast, however, third-party support would have been greatly reduced 1996 and 1997 when the Sega Saturn failed to capture a lion's share of the market, so the event may have been made redundant before then.

Though Sega of America made physical awards, it is not known whether these were presented to publishers, or just used as a marketing showpiece.

Magazine articles

Main article: Sega Seal of Quality Awards/Magazine articles.

1992 Awards

Presented at Winter CES 1993[1].

Mega Drive

Game Gear

1993 Awards

Presented at Winter CES 1994[2].

Mega Drive

Mega-CD

Game Gear

1994 Awards

Presented at Winter CES 1995[3] with special guests Penn and Teller[4]

Mega Drive

Mega-CD

Game Gear

All platforms

1995 Awards

Presented somewhere[5].

Mega Drive

Saturn

Game Gear

1996 Awards

Presented at E3 1997(?)[6]. Only Sega Saturn games were awarded this time.

Gallery

  • 1992 award

  • 1993 award

References

  1. ↑ Sega Visions, "April/May 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 94
  2. ↑ Sega Visions, "April/May 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 107
  3. ↑ Sega Visions, "February/March 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 14
  4. ↑ Sega Visions, "February/March 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 17
  5. ↑ Press release: 1996-05-16: SEGA PRAISES TOP VIDEOGAME DEVELOPERS WITH THE 1995 THIRD PARTY SEAL OF QUALITY AWARDS
  6. ↑ Press release: 1997-06-19: SEGA OF AMERICA APPLAUDS, AWARDS THIRD PARTY VIDEOGAME DEVELOPERS
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