Sega AM1 (2005-current)

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Sega AM1 (2005-current) Division of Sega of Japan
Founded: 2004-07-01
Headquarters: Japan
2004-07-01 ← Sega WOW

Sega AM1 is the first arcade division of Sega Interactive.

After the Sega Sammy Holdings restructure, the various studios established in July of 2000 got the corporate names again in April of 2005. Sega WOW employees were split into consumer and arcade studios, with latter becoming Sega AM1. However alot of the development staff came from the Overworks side (Yasuhiro Nishiyama), due to many senior developers of WOW Entertainment joining the game company Paon. In addition many developers of late Sega AM3 joined AM1 in April of 2009.

The current AM1 ultimately became Sega's most successfull division, having a large amount of cash-cows across arcades and mobile, and a big amount of titles in different genres in general. Sega AM1 has many of Sega's and Japan's most popular brands on arcade and mobile, such as Initial D Arcade Stage, World Club Champion Football, Maimai, Sangokushi Taisen and Chain Chronicle. Sega AM1 has produced novel and innovative arcade machinery such as the Toylet or Nail Puri.

In comparision to sister division Sega AM2, AM1 also still has international arcade releases with various rail-shooters such as The House of the Dead 4, Let's Go Island: Lost on the Island of Tropics , or most recently the arcade edition of Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Members

• Jun Matsunaga
• Kenji Arai
• Masaru Kohayakawa
• Makatsu Watanabe
• Maasaki Ito
• Naoyuki Sato
• Takashi Hiraro
• Takashi Oda
• Toru Ohara
• Tomohiro Kashiwada
• Yasuhiro Nishiyama
• Daisuke Kubota

Former Members

• Atsushi Seimiya
• Shinichi Osagawara

Softography

NAOMI

• Dragon Treasure III (2005)

System SP

• Monopoly The Medal (2005)
• Brick People (2009)
• Tetris Giant (2009)

Chihiro Satellite Terminal

• Sangokushi Taisen (2005)

Lindbergh

• The House of the Dead 4 (2005)
• Ami-Gyo (2006)
• Sangokushi Taisen 3 (2007)
• Harley-Davidson: King of the Road (2008)

Lindbergh Blue

• World Club Champion Football: Intercontinental Clubs 2008-2009 (2009)
• World Club Champion Football: Intercontinental Clubs 2009-2010 (2010)

Lindbergh Red

• Network Taisen Quiz Answer X Answer (2007)
• Ai Sareruyori Ai Shitai: The House of the Dead EX (2008)

Lindbergh Red EX

• Rambo (2008)

RingEdge

• Sengoku Taisen (2010)
• Initial D Arcade Stage 6 AA (2011)
• World Club Champion Football: Intercontinental Clubs 2010-2011 (2011)
• World Club Champion Football: Intercontinental Clubs 2011-2012 (2012)
• Initial D Arcade Stage 7 AA X (2012)
• World Club Champion Football 2012-2013 (2013)
• World Club Champion Football 2013-2014 (2014)
• World Club Champion Football 2015-2016 (2016)
• World Club Champion Football 2016-2017 (2017)

RingWide

• Sega Golden Gun (2010)
• Let's Go Island: Lost on the Island of Tropics (2010)

RingEdge 2

• Maimai (2012)
• Maimai Plus (2012)
• Transformers Human Alliance (2013)
• Code of Joker (2013)
• Maimai GreeN (2013)
• Transformers Human Alliance Special (2014)
• Maimai GreeN Plus (2014)

Nu

• Wonderland Wars (2015)
• Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Arcade Edition (2016)

Nu 1.1

• Chunithm (2015)

Nu 2

• Sangokushi Taisen (2016)

ALLS UX

• House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn (2018)

Nintendo DS

• Rekishi Taisen Gettenka: Tenkaichi Battle Royale (2010)

Android

• Chain Chronicle (2013)
• Champion Football (2013)
• World Chain (2016)
• Code of Joker Pocket (2017)
• StarHorse Pocket (2017)
• Sanpoke: Sangokushi Taisen Pocket (2017)

iOS

• Brick People (2011)
• Samurai Bloodshow (2011)
• Alexandria Bloodshow (2012)
• Champion Football (2013)
• Chain Chronicle (2013)
• World Chain (2016)
• Code of Joker Pocket (2017)
• StarHorse Pocket (2017)
• Sanpoke: Sangokushi Taisen Pocket (2017)

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NAOMI

Sega System SP

• Dynamite Deka EX (2006)
• Monopoly The Medal: 2nd Edition (2008)
• 100 & Medal Geki Kazaan!! (2012)
• 100 & Medal Hyozaan!! (2012)
• 100 & Medal Gingaan!! (2014)

Chihiro

• Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 Card Builder (2005) (with Banpresto)
• Sangokushi Taisen 2 (2006)
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Card Builder (2007) (with Banpresto)
• Sangokushi Taisen 3 (2007)

Lindbergh

• 2 Spicy (2007)
• Network Taisen Quiz Answer X Answer 2 (2008)
• Hummer: Extreme Edition (2009)
• StarHorse 2 Fifth Expansion (2009)
• Ami No.3 (2010)
• Network Taisen Quiz Answer X Answer Live! (2010)
• StarHorse 3: Final Destination (2010)

RingEdge

• Sengoku Taisen: 1560 Owari no Fuuunji (2010)
• StarHorse 2 Final Destination (2010)
• Sengoku Taisen: 1570 Maou Jouraku su (2011)
• StarHorse 3 Season I: A New Legend Begins (2011)
• Sengoku Taisen: 1582 Nichirin, Honnouji Yori Izuru (2012)
• Sengoku Taisen: 15XX Gokishichidou no Yuu (2012)
• Horuka x Toruka (2013)
• Puyo Puyo!! Quest Arcade (2013) (with Sonic Team)
• Sengoku Taisen: 1590 Aoi Kanhasshuu ni Tatsu (2013)
• StarBoat (2013)
• StarBoat Progress (2013)
• StarHorse 3 Season II: Blaze of Glory (2013)
• Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity (2014)
• Sengoku Taisen: 1477 Yabu Fu, Rokujuurokushuu no Kakera e (2014)
• Sengoku Taisen: 1600 Sekigahara Jo no Fuseki, Aoi Utsu (2014)
• StarHorse 3 Season III: Chase the Wind (2014)
• StarHorse 3 Season IV: Dream on the Turf (2015)
• Sengoku Taisen: 1477-1655 Hinomoto Itto Eno Gunki (2016)
• StarHorse 3 Season V: Exceed the Limit (2016)

RingWide

• Rekishi Taisen Gettenka (2009)
• Operation G.H.O.S.T. (2011)
• REC Check Golf (2012)
• Hero Bank Arcade (2014)

RingEdge 2

• Code of Joker Ver. 1.1: Arcana no Kakusei (2013)
• Maimai Orange (2014)
• Code of Joker Ver. 1.2 Re:BIRTH (2014)
• Code of Joker Ver. 1.2 EX (2014)
• Code of Joker Ver. 1.3 begiNNing (2014)
• Maimai PinK (2015)
• Code of Joker Ver. 1.4 GroW = Win (2015)
• Code of Joker S (2016)
• Maimai Murasaki (2016)
• Code of Joker EDGE Ver. 2.1 (2017)

Nu

• Uranai Collection Torotte (2014)
• Chunithm Plus (2016)
• Nail Puri (2015)
• Sangokushi Taisen 4 (2016)
• Shin Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking (2015)
• Wonderland Wars: Unmei No Jikokuban (2016)
• Chunithm Air Plus (2017)
• Initial D Arcade Stage Zero (2017)

ALLS

• Sega World Drivers Championship (2018)
• Chrono Regalia (2018)
• Ongaki (2018)

Unique/Unknown

• Let's Go Golf (2008)
• Galileo Factory (2008)
• Galileo Factory 2 (2009)
• Arabian Jewel (2010)
• That’s Paradice (2011)
• Toylet (2011)
• Lady Luck (2011)
• Galileo Factory 3: Planet Zero (2012)
• Bingo Drop (2013)
• Soreike! Anpanman Popcorn Koujiyou 3 (2013)
• Hokuto no Ken Battle Medal (2013)
• Zukan no Tamago (2013)
• The World of Three Kingdoms (2014)
• Uno Chare (2014)

Nintendo DS

• Sangokushi Taisen DS (2007)
• Sangokushi Taisen Ten (2008)

Wii

• The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return (2008) (with Sonic Team)

iOS/Android

• Fuuin Yuusha! Main Tou to Sora no Meikyuu (2014)
• League of Wonderland (2019)

List of staff

• Daisuke Anayama
• Chihiro Aoki
• Mitsuharu Fukuyama
• Keitaro Hanada
• Toshifumi Hara
• Takashi Hiraro
• Yoshifumi Ishihata
• Yasuo Iwasaki
• Shoichiro Kanazawa
• Tomohiro Kashiwada
• Hiroshi Kawaguchi
• Masateru Kawasaki
• Koji Kitamura
• Masaru Kohayakawa
• Kentaro Koyama
• Tatsuto Kumada
• Masaru Kurosawa
• Isao Matsumoto
• Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
• Yuka Miyazawa
• Kazuhiro Mori
• Tomoyuki Nishimura
• Yoshihiro Okabayashi
• Katsu Oshida
• Atsushi Seimiya
• Kazuhito Shimizu
• Nanae Suizu
• Yoshiharu Suzuki
• Yasuhiro Takagi
• Masanori Takeuchi
• Susumu Tsukagoshi
• Masakatsu Watanabe

External links

• Official website
• Sega R&D 1 on Twitter