Amusement Vision

Amusement Vision

Founded: 2000-04-21Media:IR EN 2003-07-30.pdf^[1]
Defunct: 2004-07-01 (as Subsidiary)Media:IR EN 2004-05-18.pdf^[2],2005-04-01 (as Division)
Merged into: New Entertainment R&D Dept.
Headquarters: Japan

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Amusement Vision (アミューズメントヴィジョン) was a research and development division within Sega.

It was created in 2000 to act as a replacement for Sega Software R&D Dept. #4 (formerly known as Sega AM11)Media:DCM JP 20001013 2000-32.pdf^[3]. Just like the newly formed WOW Entertainment, Hitmaker and Sega Rosso, Amusement Vision were given a more home-centric purpose, in addition to catering the arcade market.

Sega AM2's Toshihiro Nagoshi managed the studio, with his brainchild Daytona USA seeing an Amusement Vision-led upgrade in the form of Daytona USA 2001.Amusement Vision's big success was the Monkey Ball franchise, one of the most notable post-Dreamcast successes. They were also responsible for the critically acclaimed F-Zero GX. Based on these successes, Nagoshi was allowed to further develop home console projects in the future, while other studios returned to be arcade-centric.

Following a corporate restructure, Amusement Vision would become New Entertainment R&D Dept. in 2005.

Members

Softography

GameCube

Triforce

Virtua Striker 2002 (2002)
F-Zero AX (2003)

Game Boy Advance

Super Monkey Ball Jr. (2002) (with Realism)
Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon (2004)

Chihiro

Ollie King (2004)

PlayStation 2

The Typing of the Dead: Zombie Panic (2004)
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe (2005)

Xbox

Spikeout: Battle Street (2005)
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe (2005)

Magazine articles

Main article: Amusement Vision/Magazine articles.

External links

Homepage (Japanese; appears to be very incomplete and outdated)
- Archived on 29 June 2004 (Internet Archive)

References

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Domestic Sega studios
CSK												Sega Sammy Holdings
Sega Enterprises, Ltd.									Sega Corporation										Sega Games & Interactive
Sega AM1									WOW Entertainment			Sega WOW	Sega AM1
	Sega AM2
							Sega AM11	R&D #4	Amusement Vision				New Entertainment		Sega CS1
																	Ryu ga Gotoku Studio
											DigitalRex		AM Plus
		Sega AM3							Hitmaker				Sega AM3
						AM Annex		R&D #5	Sega Rosso
			Sega AM4						Sega Mechatronics							Product R&D
																		N. Pro. R&D
			Sega AM5						Mirai R&D				Family Entertainment
			Sega AM6
Sega R&D2			Sega CS			Sega CS1		R&D #6	Smilebit				Sega Sports Design
					Team Andromeda
						Sega PC											Online R&D
						Sega CS2		R&D #7	Overworks				GE2		Sega CS3
						Sonic Team
						Sega CS3		R&D #8					GE1		Sega CS2
													GE3
								R&D #9	United Game Artists
	Sega Sound Team
				Sega Digital Studio						Wave Master			Wave Master (label)
													Mobile Content R&D					Sega Networks
														Visual Entertainment			Marza Animation Planet

[:File:IR_EN_2003-07-30.pdf_p4-1] File:IR EN 2003-07-30.pdf, page 4

[:File:IR_EN_2004-05-18.pdf_p.7B.7B.7Bpage.7D.7D.7D-2] File:IR EN 2004-05-18.pdf

[:File:DCM_JP_20001013_2000-32.pdf_p91-3] File:DCM JP 20001013 2000-32.pdf, page 91

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