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Founded in 1940, Sega started up as "Standard Games" in Hawaii as a business to provide coin-operated amusements for military bases. The company moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1952 as "Service Games of Japan". In 1954, Rosen Enterprises Inc. was established by another American businessman to export art, but found great success with coin-operated photobooths and expanded into coin-operated games.
Sega Enterprises was officially formed in 1965 when Service Games and Rosen Enterprises merged; their first hit was a submarine simulator called "Periscope".
Over the next few decades Sega changed hands a couple of times, owned first by Gulf+Western, producing Frogger and Zaxxon. Gulf+Western then sold the US portion of Sega to the pinball business Bally Manufacturing after the videogame crash in 1983, while the Japanese business was bought by Rosen Enterprises founder David Rosen and Japanese businessman Hayao Nakayama. In 1984 the Japanese conglomerate CSK bought Sega and relocated its entire business to Japan under the name Sega Enterprises Ltd. The American subsidiary, Sega of America, was founded in 1986 to cash in on the growing videogame market there, launching the Sega Master System against Nintendo's NES.
The Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in the US) launched in 1989, accompanied by a new mascot in the shape of Sonic The Hedgehog, and a directly anti-Nintendo advertising campaign. This didn't pay off, and the company lost market share in the face of Nintendo's strong Super Nintendo lineup and the commercial failures of the 32X and Sega CD.
The Sega Saturn followed in 1994 (1995 in America), but despite strong Japanese sales the machine failed to gather momentum in America. Sega's last-ditch attempt to recapture part of the home console market was the Dreamcast in 1998/1999. Like the Saturn, the Dreamcast got off to a strong start but was ultimately devastated by Sony's PlayStation 2 before being discontinued in 2001 — a move which signaled the end of Sega's home console ambitions.
Sega is currently owned by Viacom and the Japanese conglomerate Sammy, under the official name Sega Sammy Holdings.
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Pages in category "Sega"
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- Final Fight
- Fist of the North Star (arcade)
- Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise
- Flicky
- The Flintstones (1988)
- Football Manager 2005
- Football Manager 2006
- Football Manager 2007
- Football Manager 2008
- Forgotten Worlds
- Frogger
- Frogger II: ThreeeDeep!
- Fushigi no Dungeon 2: Fuurai no Shiren
- Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren Gaiden: Onna Kenshi Asuka Kenzan!
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- G-LOC: Air Battle
- Gain Ground
- Galactic Protector
- Galaxy Force
- Galaxy Force II
- Game Gear Micro
- Game no Kanzume Vol. 1
- Game no Kanzume Vol. 2
- Genesis 6-Pak
- GG Aleste
- GG Aleste II
- The GG Shinobi
- Ghost Squad
- Ghost Squad: Evolution
- Ghostbusters (1990)
- Ghouls 'n Ghosts
- Golden Axe
- Golden Axe II
- Golden Axe III
- Golden Axe Warrior
- Golden Axe: The Duel
- Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder
- The Golden Compass
- Guardian Heroes
- Guilty Gear XX Slash
- Gungriffon
- Gunstar Heroes
- Gunstar Super Heroes
- Guttang Gottong
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- Halley Wars
- Hang-On
- Hang-On GP
- Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F
- Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix
- Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX
- Head On 2
- Headhunter
- Hellfire
- Herzog Zwei
- Hokuto no Ken (arcade)
- Hokuto no Ken (Sega Mark III)
- Hokuto no Ken: Shin Seikimatsu Kyūseishu Densetsu
- Hopper Robo
- The House of the Dead 2
- The House of the Dead
- The House of the Dead: Overkill
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- Madou Monogatari I: 3-tsu no Madou Kyuu
- Madou Monogatari II: Arle 16-Sai
- Madou Monogatari III: Kyuukyoku Joou-sama
- MadWorld
- Magic Knight Rayearth
- Magic Knight Rayearth (Sega Game Gear)
- Magic Knight Rayearth 2: Making of Magic Knight
- Magic Knight Rayearth: Magic Knight Tanjou
- Magical Taruruuto-kun (Sega Mega Drive)
- Mahjong Cop Ryuu: Shiro Ookami no Yabou
- Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
- Math Antics with Disney's 101 Dalmatians
- The Matrix Online
- Medieval II: Total War
- Mega Games 10
- Mega Games 2
- Mega Games 6
- Mega Twins
- Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible Special
- Metal Head
- Metropolis Street Racer
- Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (arcade)
- Mickey no Yukai na Bouken
- Mickey to Ooki na Furudokei
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Sega CD)
- Miracle Warriors
- Missile Command
- Monster Bash
- Monster World IV
- MUSHA
- My Hero
- Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
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- Panzer Dragoon
- Panzer Dragoon II Zwei
- Panzer Dragoon Orta
- Panzer Dragoon Saga
- Pengo
- Pepenga Pengo
- Persona 3 Reload
- Persona 4 Golden
- Persona 5 Royal
- Persona 5 Tactica
- Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
- Phantasy Star
- Phantasy Star II
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium
- Phantasy Star Online
- Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II
- Phantasy Star Zero
- Pig Newton
- Pitfall II: Lost Caverns
- Planet 51: The Game
- Pooh-san no Ichinichi
- Popful Mail
- Power Drift
- Power Strike II
- Project Rub
- Pulsar
- Pulseman
- Puyo Pop Fever
- Puyo Puyo
- Puyo Puyo 2
- Puyo Puyo Champions
- Puyo Puyo Sun
- Puyo Puyo Tetris
- Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
- Puyo Puyo~n
- Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R
- Puzzle & Action: Tant-R