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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.
Subcategories
This category has the following 56 subcategories, out of 56 total.
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- Sega 32X
- Sega Bass Fishing
- Sega CD
- Sega Channel
- Sega Dreamcast
- Sega Europe
- Sega Forever
- Sega Game Gear
- Sega Genesis
- Sega Master System
- Sega Meganet
- Sega Pico
- Sega Saturn
- Sega SG-1000
- Sega Sports
- Sega Technical Institute
- Sega WOW
- Sega-AM2
- Shenmue
- Sonic Team
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Space Harrier
- Sports Interactive
- Streets of Rage
- Super Monkey Ball
Pages in category "Sega"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 399 total.
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- After Burner
- Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
- Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
- Alien Storm
- Alien Syndrome
- Alien Syndrome (2007)
- Alien: Isolation
- Aliens vs. Predator
- Aliens: Colonial Marines
- Alien³: The Gun
- Alisia Dragoon
- Altered Beast
- The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin
- Appoooh
- Arcade Smash Hits
- Asterix (Infogrames)
- Asterix (Sega)
- Asterix and the Secret Mission
- Astro Blaster
- Astro Boy
- Astro Boy: Omega Factor
- Astro City Mini
- Astro Warrior
- Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe
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- F-Zero AX
- Fantasy Zone
- Fantasy Zone (Sega Game Gear)
- Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa
- Fatal Labyrinth
- Feel the Magic: XY/XX
- Fighting Vipers
- 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
- Frogger
- Frogger II: ThreeeDeep!
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- MadWorld
- 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
- The Matrix Online
- Medieval II: Total War
- Mega Bomberman
- Mega Games 10
- Mega Games 2
- Mega Games 6
- Metal Head
- Metropolis Street Racer
- Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (arcade)
- Michael Jackson: Moonwalker
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Miracle Warriors
- Missile Command
- Monster Bash
- Monster World IV
- Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
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- Panzer Dragoon
- Panzer Dragoon Saga
- Pengo
- Persona 4 Golden
- Persona 5 Royal
- 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
- Project Rub
- Pulsar
- Pulseman
- Puyo Puyo Tetris
- Puyo Puyo Tetris 2