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'''Gremlin Industries''' was an early San Diego, California arcade game manufacturer in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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'''Gremlin Industries''' was an American arcade game developer and manufacturer who manufactured wall games in the early 1970s before switching to video games starting 1976. In 1979, they were purchased by [[Sega]], and started releasing games with joint branding, first as Gremlin/Sega, then as Sega/Gremlin. To [http://www.digitpress.com/library/newsletters/arcadeexpress/arcade_express_v1n10.pdf avoid confusion], they changed their name to '''Sega Electronics''' in 1982, around which time they also started producing games for home systems. This would not last; the company was shut down in early 1984 and its manufacturing assets transferred to Paramount Studios.
 
 
Gremlin was founded in 1973 as a manufacturer of coin-operated wall games. Gremlin's first wall game, ''Play Ball'', was fairly successful.
 
 
 
== History ==
 
Gremlin joined the video game market in 1977 by releasing its first video arcade game entitled ''[[Blockade]]''. In 1979, Gremlin merged its operations with [[Sega]] and, from then on, all new video games by Gremlin were labelled either under the '''Gremlin/Sega''' or '''Sega/Gremlin''' brand names. Some of Gremlin's output, both before and after the marriage with Sega, were titles originally created by Japanese companies. Among theses video games were [[Namco|Namco's]] ''[[Gee Bee]]'' and [[Konami|Konami's]] ''[[Frogger]]''.
 
 
 
Gremlin became one of the many victims of the video game crash of 1983 and completely closed its doors in 1984 after being acquired by Paramount Studios. Some of Gremlin's original wall games have since been re-released under different names.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 21:38, 13 November 2013

Not to be confused with Gremlin Graphics.

Gremlin Industries was an American arcade game developer and manufacturer who manufactured wall games in the early 1970s before switching to video games starting 1976. In 1979, they were purchased by Sega, and started releasing games with joint branding, first as Gremlin/Sega, then as Sega/Gremlin. To avoid confusion, they changed their name to Sega Electronics in 1982, around which time they also started producing games for home systems. This would not last; the company was shut down in early 1984 and its manufacturing assets transferred to Paramount Studios.

Games

1976
1977
1978
  • Gee Bee (licensed from Namco; the Gremlin version replaces the "N-A-M-C-O" letters on the bumpers with the company's distinctive "G" logo.)
  • Blasto
  • Frogs
1979
1980
1981