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- For the Japanese company by the same name, see Sega Enterprises, Ltd.. For the later company established in 1985, see Sega Enterprises USA.
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Sega Enterprises, Inc. was the parent company of Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and Gremlin Industries. It was established by Gulf+Western and the first game it produced was Bullet Mark.[5]
SEI also traded as "Sega of America"[6][7][8], sold electro-mechanical arcade games, sold the Sega-Vision (as part of a short-lived home theater division), and was responsible for the licensing and publishing of home console and computer versions of Sega arcade titles.
The company purchased Gremlin Industries in 1978[9]. This company, eventually becoming "Sega Electronics" was sold to Bally Midway in 1983.
In April 1984 Sega's Japanese arm was purchased by a group of investors including Hayao Nakayama, David Rosen and Isao Okawa, becoming a subsidiary of CSK[2][10]. The remaining American Sega assets owned by Gulf+Western would then be absorbed; SEI became Simon & Schuster Entertainment Software, Inc. on March 18, 1985 before becoming a shell company, Ages Entertainment Software, Inc. on August 30 of the same year.[11]
SEI technically still exists as Ages Entertainment Software, having survived Gulf+Western's 1994 aquisition by Viacom and various corporate restructures. It remains a shell company as part of the Paramount Global empire, having not been involved in video games since the mid-1980s.
Sega would return to the North American market with a similar company, Sega Enterprises, Inc. (USA) (Sega Enterprises USA; SEU) in 1985.
Contents
- 1 Softography
- 1.1 Electro-mechanical arcade
- 1.2 Discrete logic arcade
- 1.3 Arcade
- 1.4 VCO Object
- 1.5 Zaxxon hardware
- 1.6 G80
- 1.7 Atari 2600
- 1.8 Intellivision
- 1.9 ColecoVision
- 1.10 Atari 5200
- 1.11 Atari 8-bit family
- 1.12 Apple II
- 1.13 VIC-20
- 1.14 Adam
- 1.15 BBC Micro
- 1.16 Commodore 64
- 1.17 IBM PC
- 1.18 Amstrad CPC
- 1.19 ZX Spectrum
- 1.20 Electro-Mechanical/Discrete Logic
- 2 List of staff
- 3 References
Softography
Electro-mechanical arcade
- Plinker's Canyon (1976)
- Shooting Trainer (1976)
- Wild Gunman (1976)
Discrete logic arcade
- Bullet Mark (1975)
- Tic Tac Quiz (1976)
- Tracer (1976)
Arcade
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (unreleased)
VCO Object
- Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (1982)
Zaxxon hardware
- Ixion (unreleased)
G80
- Battle Star (1982)
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1982)
- Tac/Scan (1982)
- Pig Newton (1983)
Atari 2600
- Frogger (1982)
- Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (1983)
- Congo Bongo (1983)
- Pengo (1983)
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983)
- Thunderground (1983)
- Deep Scan (1983)
- Spy Hunter (1984)
- Tapper (1984)
- Up'n Down (1984)
- Frogger II: Threeedeep! (1984)
- 48 Hrs. (unreleased)
- Airplane! (unreleased)
- Buck Rogers: Caverns of Zagreb (unreleased)
- Buck Rogers: Marathon of Zenda (unreleased)
- Buck Rogers: Secrets of Zadar (unreleased)
- Congo Bongo II (unreleased)
- Dragonslayer (unreleased)
- Friday the 13th (unreleased)
- Ixion (unreleased)
- Marathon Man (unreleased)
- Mission: Impossible (unreleased)
- Muffett (unreleased)
- Star Trek II: In Search of Spock (unreleased)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (unreleased)
- War of the Worlds (unreleased)
Intellivision
- Frogger (1983)
- Congo Bongo (1983)
ColecoVision
- Frogger (1983)
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1984)
- Up'n Down (1984)
- Frogger II: Threeedeep! (1984)
Atari 5200
- Frogger (1983)
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983)
- Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (1983)
- Congo Bongo (1983)
- Pengo (1983)
- Zaxxon (1984)
- Frogger II: Threeedeep! (1984)
Atari 8-bit family
- Frogger (1982)
- Congo Bongo (1983)
- Zaxxon (1983)
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983)
- Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (1983)
- Frogger II: Threeedeep! (1984)
- Pengo (1984)
- Spy Hunter (1984)
- Super Zaxxon (1984)
- Up'n Down (1984)
- Tapper (1985)
- Ixion (unreleased)
Apple II
- Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (1983)
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983)
- Zaxxon (1983)
- Frogger II: Threeedeep! (1984)
- Spy Hunter (1984)
- Super Zaxxon (1984)
- Tapper (1984)
- Up'n Down (1984)
VIC-20
- Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (1983)
- Congo Bongo (1983)
- Ixion (unreleased)
Adam
- Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom Super Game (1983)
- Zaxxon Super Game (1984)
BBC Micro
- Spy Hunter (1985)
- Tapper (1985)
Commodore 64
- Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (1983)
- Congo Bongo (1983)
- Frogger (1983)
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983)
- Frogger II: Threeedeep! (1984)
- Spy Hunter (1984)
- Tapper (1984)
- Up'n Down (1984)
- Zaxxon (1984)
- Super Zaxxon (1985)
IBM PC
- Frogger II: Threeedeep! (1984)
- Spy Hunter (1984)
- Super Zaxxon (1984)
- Up'n Down (1984)
- Tapper (198x)
Amstrad CPC
- Tapper (1984)
- Spy Hunter (198x)
ZX Spectrum
- Spy Hunter (1985)
- Tapper (1985)
- Zaxxon (1985)
Electro-Mechanical/Discrete Logic
- Fonz (1976)
- Moto-Cross (1976)
- Road Race (1976)
List of staff
References
- ↑ Cash Box, "April 13, 1974" (US; 1974-04-13), page 50
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sega Visions, "February/March 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 81
- ↑ Cash Box, "June 9, 1984" (US; 1984-06-09), page 28/29 (28)
- ↑ File:PJPizzazz trademark US73271177.pdf, page 2
- ↑ Cash Box, "November 29, 1975" (US; 1975-11-29), page 21
- ↑ Billboard, "August 14, 1976" (US; 1976-08-14), page 113
- ↑ Billboard, "September 4, 1976" (US; 1976-09-04), page 47
- ↑ Billboard, "April 29, 1978" (US; 1978-04-29), page 59
- ↑ Cash Box, "October 28, 1978" (US; 1978-10-28), page 72
- ↑ Cash Box, "June 9, 1984" (US; 1984-06-09), page 28
- ↑ California Business Search: Entity #C0718983
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