Was The Sega Genesis Seal of Quality Bad Luck?

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Channel: Defunct Games · 2017 · Gaming

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Today we're talking about the official Sega Genesis Seal of Quality. It was a selling point back in the early 1990s, and a way to remind customers that we were a world away from the Great Games Crash of 1983. But was the Sega Genesis seal of quality actually bad luck? No, probably not, but a lot of the companies featured in this advertisement went out of business within a year or two of it running in magazines.

Today we're going to take a look at the seventeen publishers featured in this old school commercial and uncover their fate. Let's see how many of these companies are still around.

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