This Is Sega Test

To do

• Make a list of every single person who appears in this video. A LOT of them already have pages, but there's a dozen or so that don't.
• Per speculation at the bottom of this article, footage was claimed to be filmed as early as 93. Was probably 95 after all, but there's a good chance that some of Sega Test's footage was filmed at different times. Which is expected, but in this case, it might have been up to two years difference. Agaaaain, probably just 1995 but hey, check the games being developed (and appearing in the background) to at the very least try to verify a rough timeframe.
• MAN JUST A HEADS-UP FOR ANYONE WORKING/RESEARCHING FROM THE ABOVE ARTICLE: I'm on misspelled name number 5. "Chris Muchich" instead of "Chris Lucich". It's that bad. Please be warned to triple-check everyone's name here.

CartridgeCulture (talk) 01:37, 2 December 2021 (EST)

Green Mill Filmworks official post information dump

Director / Editor JOHN JANSEN Assistant to Production ROGER DeFOREST Creative Consultant STANLEY COENBERG

WITH DAVE DODGE REY ALVAREZ CHRIS LUCHICH JANINE COOK MARK GRIFFIN RICH KIRNOCK JEFF JUNIO JEFF HEDGES JOE DAMON ROGER DeFOREST KIM ROGERS MARK FABELLA MITCH GAMBOLINI JOEL BRETON STEVE APOUR STEVE PATTERSON TRACY JOHNSON MARK PANIAGUA

ALSO ERIK WAHLBERG AS KARATE GUY IN PARKING LOT AND TOM KALINSKE AS THE PRESIDENT

Filmed on location at Sega of America in Redwood City, CA Shot with the SONY CCD-V5000 Hi-8 camera on June 1995 - February 1996 Edited on February 23 - 27 1996 with the SONY EVO-9700 Hi-8 Dual Deck Editor

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? (thanks to eyeball_kid)

John Amirkhan, “Assistant Manager”, is listed as a Tester for Sega and thanked in credits up until 2001. I saw an actor on IMDB with the same name, but no idea if it’s the same guy because of the beard.

Mark Paniagua, “Producer-Tester”, was listed as Testerfor Sega games until 1998. Works at HP now I think?

Joe Damon, “Tester” with the goatee, was listed as doing testing until 2000. Then listed as an artist on 3DO High Heat Baseball 2003/2004. Seems to be working as a UI Artist since then.

Rich Kirnock, “Tester” with the lip ring, is listed as doing testing until 2000. No idea what he’s doing since then.

Tracy Johnson, the “Producer-Tester” who liked to troll kids at Toys R Us, has a mountain of credits up until 2006, mostly as a Producer in the later years, but also a couple of music and design credits. Looks like he’s been at Midway since 2004.

Joel Breton, “Lead Tester” who always looked like he just got back from surfing, has his own impressive Wikipedia page, worked at Bethesda, apparently setting up their Russian dev studio, did some casual games, then joined Take-Two and produced some sports games, went to Hudson and produced Bomberman Live, Bonk’s Adventure, Diner Dash. He’s apparently now a professor of social game design at The Games Academy in SF.

Janine Cook, “Tech Coordinator-Tester” and smoking enthusiast, is listed as Tester until 1996 (she has a couple Japan-only Sega titles on another site). According to this Broken Joysticks article she still works for Sega as a producer...not sure why her more recent credits aren’t showing up.

Steve Apour, “Producer-Test Manager” who looks like he just stepped out of Clerks, has done various thingsin the industry; a stint as Producer, then it looks like he went into the biz side.

Steve Patterson, “Producer-Test manager” with the X-Men poster behind him (he worked on design and story for the X-Men Mega Drive game), worked on Testing and as a Producer/Designer until 1999. Seems to have worked at Leapfrog and Nokia afterwards, and is now a freelance? product manager and producer.

Kim Rogers, “Tester”, fan of fighting games, and mega-babe, is listed as doing Tester and Producer roles at Sega until 2012. She still works at Sega as a Business Planning Coordinator.

Mark Griffin, “Pico Tester”, seems to have survived his traumatic Pico experience and has stayed in the industry. Was listed at a Tester until 2000. He has credit thanks on games like BioShock, Fallout 3, so maybe he worked at Bethesda? Worked at OnLive, and last year was working at Nintendo..I think doing dev relations. His Twitter, though he hasn’t posted since last year. Now working at VR Ventures... VR tech maybe?

Chris Muchich, “Tester” and Virtua Cop stuntman, islisted doing testing until 1998, but has some design and producer credits until 2003. Oddly listed as a “Dialogue Editor” for Shenmue, whatever that is. Not sure what he’s doing now.

Jeff Junio, “Tester” and martial arts expert, has worked at several companies and roles after Sega, including 3DO, EA, Zynga, and Rockstar. He was a Game Designer on Midnight Club 3 and “Ambient Designer” (not sure what this is...NPCs and such?) on Red Dead Redemption. Not sure where he’s at now.

Dave Dodge, “Lead Tester” and hero of the story, islisted under many roles at Sega until 1997, from Tester to 2D Animation to Level Layout. Looks like he worked at 3DO after Sega, and is now a founder at a startup called CodaKid focused on teaching kids how to do game design. He no longer has his long curly locks.

Tom Kalinske, “CEO, Sega of America” and meddling school principal in many 1980's teen movies, is currently the Executive Chairman of Global Education Learning, a “company dedicated to children’s education in China”. CartridgeCulture (talk) 20:45, 19 November 2021 (EST)

Sega of America Test Department Tester's Bible...

I think that this "bible" would fit like a glove here on this page ... what do you guys think of it?...--Asagoth (talk) 20:14, 28 December 2020 (EST)