Bean reviewed Service Games : The Rise and Fall of SEGA by Sam Pettus
Review of 'Service Games : The Rise and Fall of SEGA' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
The content is interesting, but it's not put together well. The text is rambling and goes off on tangents, and it tends to repeat itself often.
Its organization was confusing (which admittedly wasn't helped by Sega's product line). It covered the rise & fall of the genesis, and then the full story Sega CD, and then the 32x, and then the Sega Saturn.
The problem is these devices have overlap in their lifetimes. In the story of Sega CD the first mention of the 32x was how Sega CD affected the 32x sales. "Wait, what? When was it released? When & why was it developed?" I think a straight chronological story, covering all products at once, would've been much more readable.
