About Blast Proc
Blast Proc introduces one video game every day. It is maintained by one person, with no publisher relationship; the introductions are produced from the sources each one names, under that person's direction, and how this site is made has the details.
Editor
C. B. Zakarian (a pen name) is the owner and editor of Blast Proc. C. B. Zakarian holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems, with a focus on data science, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2016), and is an assistant professor.
C. B. Zakarian decides what Blast Proc publishes and when, and the figures on each page are checked against the sources it names before publication. Pages the editor has reviewed in full show the date of that review, and errors are corrected when they are found.
The name
"Blast processing" was a SEGA marketing phrase from the early 1990s, coined to sell the Genesis against the Super Nintendo. Whether it described anything real is a story the site tells in its hardware and history articles. The name is borrowed with affection; the site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SEGA or any other publisher.
What a game introduction is
Each article takes one game and gives it a proper introduction: who developed it, who published it, which platforms it shipped on and when, by region, with the sources named; what the game actually does; why it matters or mattered; and what to know before starting it. Retro classics, games available today, and announced titles take turns, so a reader who only cares about one era can follow one topic.
Upcoming titles are described from what the publisher has said, with the release window quoted as stated and a reminder that dates move. Sales figures and review scores appear only when they can be quoted from a named source. There are no invented numbers here.
The dataset
Every game covered becomes a row in a dataset you can download: title, developer, publisher, first release, platforms, genre, era, and the source. As the site grows the dataset becomes its own subject, and the dataset articles read it: release patterns, platform histories, what the decades look like in a table.
What this site refuses to do
Official screenshots or artwork appear only when a publisher's press kit provides them for editorial use, credited under the image; the card images are generated text in the site's own palette. No leaks, no rumours, no emulation or piracy guidance. No exclamation marks, even about games that deserve them.
Corrections, especially on dates and credits, are welcome and acted on: contact.