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| Founded | Standard Games (1940) Service Games (1951) Sega Enterprises (1965) Sega Corporation (2000) |
| Headquarters | Ōta, Tokyo, Japan |
SEGA is a company founded in Honolulu in 1940 to provide coin-op amusements for the American military station there. In 1965, SEGA merged with Rosen Enterprises, a photo booth company. Within a year, they started selling their first arcade game, Periscope.
Their business continued as they produced arcades. Eventually, they got into the console business with the SG-1000 and the SEGA Master System.
However, SEGA really started competing with Nintendo with the SEGA Genesis. They mounted an anti-Nintendo marketing campaign with the slogan "Genesis does what Nintendon't." They also advertised their Blast Processing, and competed game-wise as well, creating the world-famous Sonic the Hedgehog series.
However, their next system, the Saturn didn't sell as well. After the Dreamcast failed to sell well enough, they decided to leave the console business and focus even more on game development.
SEGA now publishes games on the Wii, Xbox 360, and the Playstation 3, as well as the Nintendo DS. SEGA is also publishing Genesis games on the Virtual Console.
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Video Game Console Market
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Released in 1985 in Japan as the Sega MKIII and in 1986/1987 in Europe and America as the Master System. This was Sega's first widely acknowledged games console, (with their previous Japan only SG1000 and SG1000 II consoles proving unsuccessful). A direct competitor to the NES. This 8 bit machine, whilst actually technically more powerful than the Nintendo machine was no where near as successful in the Japanese or North American market where the flood of A+ games for the NES kept it ahead in the competition. The same could not be said in Europe however, where the Master Syetem kept a steady lead over the NES for the entirety of its availability. And was so popular in Brazil, it is still on sale there today.
Mega Drive/Genesis
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Added by BIG BILL BLINKPopular Franchises
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Games released by Sega
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Note these will be games that have appeared on Nintendo systems only (although they don't have to be exclusive to a Nintendo system)