Sega Test (division)
From Sega Retro
To do
- Investigate Product Development Team connections. I didn't image there'd be any, but Test people are sometimes being credited as "Product Development"/etc.
- May have been internally/officially known as the "SOA Software Test Department".
- Founded as early as 1991 (earlier even? Balthaser?)
- Testers also officially called: Product Analysts, Game Tweakers, Sega Testers
- Lead testers also officially called: Lieutenants
- Occasionally credited with specific roles like "game balancing" and even design input
- A few of the lead testers were occasionally credited as "Core Testers"
- Per here, Sega Test would regularly have upwards of 50 different games flashed to cart and loaned to testers. Not all different games, but like, 50 different testers.
CartridgeCulture (talk) 00:07, 31 July 2022 (EDT)