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'''Sega Amusement Machine Research and Development Department 1''', or '''Sega AM1''' is the first arcade division within Sega. It was first called '''Team Shinobi''' as a team within [[Sega]]. The team is not visibly credited as such in their own games, but are credited as the original arcade developers of ''Altered Beast'' and ''Golden Axe'' in those games's [[Mega Drive]] ports (which were handled by another team within Sega). Some arcade games do say TEAM SHINOBI in messages hidden in the ROM, however.  
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'''Amusement Machine Research and Development Department #1''', (第一AM研究開発部), shortened to '''AM R&D Dept. #1''' or '''AM1''', was a division within [[Sega Enterprises]]. It was formed in primarily to create arcade (or "amusement") games. In May 1999 it became '''Sega Software R&D Dept. 1''', and later [[WOW Entertainment]] in 2000.{{fileref|DCM_JP_19991119_1999-36.pdf|page=15}}{{fileref|DCM_JP_20000825_2000-28.pdf|page=93}} It was a successor to [[Sega R&D 1]].
  
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Team Shinobi became [[Sega AM1]] at some point during the early 1990s. It mostly contributed to Sega's arcade line-up on their various arcade system boards, with the studio only gaining momentum with home console development with the Dreamcast. In 2000, [[WOW Entertainment]] was spun off from AM1.
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AM1 is supposed to be the oldest development division within Sega{{fileref|AnnualReport2002_English.pdf|page=18}}. Koichi Izumi who then was at the sister arcade division [[Sega AM3]], counted numeruos titles developed in AM1, claiming so many were developed that he could not list them all.{{ref|http://web.archive.org/web/20030422213943/www.hitmaker.co.jp/top/lounge/corumun/site/corumun_txt22.html}} This page compiles the games mentioned, as well as common credits among titles.{{ref|http://gdri.smspower.org/credits/sega_ac.txt}} And then titles from the WOW Entertainment production history website..
  
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After the intergration back into Sega as AM1, the studio released the successfull ''[[Sangokushi Taisen]]'', probably the studios most successfull arcade game. With dissolvence of [[AM3]], AM1 gained several hit franchises and development assets from AM3, such as the ''WCCF'' franchise. Currently AM1 is the biggest arcade division within Sega, with it's own internet presence as '''R&D1'''.
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The most popular titles and well known titles from AM1 during the eighties were action or beat' em' up titles, with creators [[Makoto Uchida]] on the forefront with ''[[Altered Beast]]'' andd ''[[Golden Axe]]'' and ''[[Alien Storm]]''. Also noteworthy are the very first ''[[Shinobi]]'' title by [[Yutaka Sugano]] or ''[[Shadow Dancer]]'' by [[Yoshiki Ooka]].
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1991, Sega AM1 had a major shake up, especially with the formation of [[Sega AM3]] which had former Sega AM1 members. Previously involved with ''[[Phantasy Star III]]'', [[Kazunari Tsukamoto]] went on to work on ''[[OutRunners]]'', ''[[Harley Davidson & L.A. Riders]]'' and ''[[The Ocean Hunter]]'' with AM1.
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===[[System 16]]===
 
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* [[Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars]] (1986)
 
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* [[Alien Syndrome]] (1987)
 
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* [[Altered Beast]] (1988)
 
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* [[Cyber Police ESWAT]] (1989)
 
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* [[Golden Axe]] (1989)
 
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=== [[X Board]] ===
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Overall the most known titles during the nineties were ''[[The House of the Dead]]'' and ''[[Die Hard Arcade]]''. AM1 also made strides with the big eleborate cabinets of ''[[Airline Pilots]]'' or ''[[Sega Bass Fishing]]'', bringing back the "taikan" (body sensation) concept of arcades, previously introduced by [[Yu Suzuki]] and [[Sega AM2]]. Another speciality of Sega AM1 were games for the [[Sega Titan Video]] arcade board which had an identical architecture to the [[Sega Saturn]], making ports easy, such as with the AM1 developed ''[[Virtua Fighter Remix]]''.
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* [[Thunder Blade]] (1987)
 
  
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=== [[System C]] ===
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==Softography==
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* [[Columns]] (1990)
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{{CompanyHistoryAll|Sega AM1}}
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* [[Puyo Puyo]] (1992) (Development: [[Compile]])
 
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* [[Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R]] (1994)
 
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* [[Puzzle & Action: Tant-R]] (1992)
 
  
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=== [[System 18]] ===
 
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* [[Alien Storm]] (1990)
 
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* [[Shadow Dancer]] (1989)
 
  
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=== [[System 24]] ===
 
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* [[Bonanza Bros.]] (1990)
 
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* Quiz Ghost Hunter (1994)
 
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** Quiz Magical Brain (1996)
 
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** Quiz Mekurumeku Story (1993)
 
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** Quiz My Homework (1991)
 
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** Quiz Rouka ni Tattenasai (1996)
 
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* Tokoro San no MahMahjan (1992)
 
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** Tokoro San no MahMahjan 2 (1994)
 
  
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===[[Sega H1 Board]]===
 
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* [[Cool Riders]] (1994)
 
  
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===[[System 32]]===
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* [[Alien 3: The Gun]] (1993)
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===[[System 16]]===
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* [[Air Rescue]] (1992)
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* ''[[Touryuumon]]'' (1994)
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* [[Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder]] (1992)
 
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* [[Holosseum]] (1992)
 
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* [[Stadium Cross]] (1992)
 
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* [[Super Visual Soccer]] (1994)
 
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* [[OutRunners]] (1992)
 
  
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=== [[Sega Titan Video]] ===
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=== [[System C-2]] ===
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* [[Die Hard Arcade]] (1996)
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*''[[SegaSonic Cosmo Fighter Galaxy Patrol]]'' (1993)
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* [[Ejihon Tantei Jimusho]] (1995)
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*''[[Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car]]'' (1993)
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* [[Golden Axe: The Duel]] (1994)
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*''[[Waku Waku Tama & Friends]]'' (1994)
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* [[Puyo Puyo Sun]] (1996) (Development: [[Compile]])
 
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* [[Puzzle & Action: Treasure Hunt]] (1995)
 
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* [[Super Major League (ST-V)]] (1995)
 
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* [[Virtua Fighter Kids]] (1996)
 
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* Maru-chan de Goo! (1997)
 
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* Taisen Tanto-R Sasissu! (1998)
 
  
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===[[Sega Model 1]]===
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===[[System 32]]===
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* [[Wing War]] (1994)
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*''[[Stadium Cross]]'' (1992)
  
 
=== [[Sega Model 2A CRX]] ===
 
=== [[Sega Model 2A CRX]] ===
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* [[Sky Target]] (1995)
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*''[[Dynamite Cop]]'' (1998)
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* [[Dynamite Cop]] (1998)
 
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* [[Motor Raid]] (1997)
 
  
 
=== [[Sega Model 2B CRX]] ===
 
=== [[Sega Model 2B CRX]] ===
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* [[Indy 500]] (1995)
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*''[[Indy 500]]'' (1995)
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* [[Dynamite Baseball]] (1996)
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*''[[Dynamite Baseball]]'' (1996)
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** [[Dynamite Baseball 97]] (1997)
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*''[[Dynamite Baseball 97]]'' (1997)
  
 
=== [[Sega Model 2C CRX]] ===
 
=== [[Sega Model 2C CRX]] ===
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* [[The House of the Dead]] (1997)
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*''[[Sega Ski Super G]]'' (1996)
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* [[Sega Ski Super G]] (1996)
 
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* [[Wave Runner]] (1996)
 
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* [[Sega Water Ski]] (1996)
 
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=== [[Sega Model 3 Step 1.0]] ===
 
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* [[Sega Bass Fishing]] (1998)
 
  
 
=== [[Sega Model 3 Step 2.0]] ===
 
=== [[Sega Model 3 Step 2.0]] ===
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* [[Harley-Davidson & L.A. Riders]] (1997)
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*''[[Harley-Davidson & L.A. Riders]]'' (1997)
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* [[Ski Champ]] (1998)
 
  
 
=== [[Sega Model 3 Step 2.1]] ===
 
=== [[Sega Model 3 Step 2.1]] ===
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* [[Emergency Call Ambulance]] (1999)
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*''[[The Ocean Hunter]]'' (1998)
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* [[The Ocean Hunter]] (1998)
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*''[[Emergency Call Ambulance]]'' (1999)
  
 
=== [[NAOMI]] ===
 
=== [[NAOMI]] ===
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* [[Airline Pilots]] (1999)
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*''[[Ring Out 4x4]]'' (1999)
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* [[Dynamite Baseball '99]] (1999)
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*''[[Sega Marine Fishing]]'' (1999)
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* [[Ring Out 4x4]] (1999)
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*''[[The Typing of the Dead]]'' (1999) (with [[Smilebit]])
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* [[Sega Marine Fishing]] (1999)
 
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* [[Super Major League '99]] (1999)
 
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* [[The House of the Dead 2]] (1998)
 
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* [[Zombie Revenge]] (1999)
 
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=== [[Hikaru]] ===
 
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* [[Brave FireFighters]] (1999)
 
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=== [[Sega Aurora]] ===
 
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* [[Brick People]] (2009)
 
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* [[Dynamite Deka EX]] (2006)
 
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* [[Tetris Giant]] (2009)
 
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=== [[Chihiro]] ===
 
  
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* [[Sangokushi Taisen]] (2005)
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=== Unique/Unknown ===
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** [[Sangokushi Taisen 2]] (2006)
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*''[[Starlight Fortune]]'' (1993)
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*''[[Teso Uranai Chotto Misete]]'' (1993)
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=== [[Lindbergh]] ===
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*''[[FuwaFuwa Puren]]'' (1994)
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*''[[Majikaru Zuno Pawa]]'' (1996)
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* [[2 Spicy]] (2006)
 
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* [[Answer X Answer]] (2007)
 
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** Answer X Answer 2 (2008)
 
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** Answer X Answer Live (2010)
 
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* [[Harley Davidson: King of the Road]] (2009)
 
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* [[Hummer]] (2009)
 
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* [[Rambo]] (2008)
 
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* [[Sangokushi Taisen 3]] (2007)
 
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* [[The House of the Dead 4]] (2005)
 
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* [[The House of the Dead EX]] (2008)
 
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=== [[RingEdge]] ===
 
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* [[Initial D Arcade Stage 6 AA]] (2011)
 
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** [[Initial D Arcade Stage 7 AA X]] (2012)
 
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** [[Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity]] (2014)
 
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*Sengoku Taisen: 1560 Owari no Fuuunji (2010)
 
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**Sengoku Taisen: 1570 Maou Jouraku su  (2011)
 
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**Sengoku Taisen: 15XX Gokishichidou no Yuu (2012)
 
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**Sengoku Taisen: 1582 Nichirin, Honnouji Yori Izuru (2012)
 
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**Sengoku Taisen: 1590 Aoi Kanhasshuu ni Tatsu (2013)
 
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**Sengoku Taisen: 1477 Yabu Fu, Rokujuurokushuu no Kakera e (2014)
 
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**Sengoku Taisen: 1600 Sekigahara Jo no Fuseki, Aoi Utsu (2014)
 
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*[[World Club Champion Football: Intercontinental Clubs 2010-2011]] (2011)
 
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**[[World Club Champion Football: Intercontinental Clubs 2011-2012]] (2012)
 
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**[[World Club Champion Football: Intercontinental Clubs 2012-2013]] (2013)
 
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**[[World Club Champion Football: Intercontinental Clubs 2013-2014]] (2014)
 
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**[[World Club Champion Football: Intercontinental Clubs 2014-2015]] (2015)
 
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=== [[RingWide]] ===
 
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* [[Let's Go Island: Lost on the Island of Tropics]] (2011)
 
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* [[Sega Golden Gun]] (2011)
 
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=== [[RingEdge 2]] ===
 
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* [[Code of Joker]] (2013)
 
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**Code of Joker Ver. 1.1: Arcana no Kakusei (2013)
 
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**Code of Joker Ver. 1.2 Re:BIRTH (2014)
 
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**Code of Joker Ver. 1.2 EX (2014)
 
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**Code of Joker Ver. 1.3 begiNNing (2014)
 
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* [[Maimai]] (2012)
 
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**[[Maimai Plus]] (2012)
 
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**[[Maimai GreeN]] (2013)
 
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**[[Maimai GreeN Plus]] (2014)
 
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**[[Maimai Orange]] (2014)
 
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**  Maimai PinK (2015)
 
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* The World of Three Kingdoms (2014)
 
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* [[Transformers: Human Alliance]] (2014)
 
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=== [[Nu]] ===
 
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* [[Chunithm]] (2015)
 
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* Urunai Collection Torotte (2014)
 
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* Wonderland Wars (2015)
 
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==Consumer==
 
  
 
===[[Saturn]]===
 
===[[Saturn]]===
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* [[Die Hard Arcade]] (1996) (with [[Sega Technical Institute]])
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*''[[Sky Target]]'' (1997) (with [[Tantalus Interactive]])
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* [[Sky Target]] (1997) (with [[Tantalus]])
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*''[[The House of the Dead]]'' (1998) (with [[Tantalus Interactive]])
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* [[The House of the Dead]] (1998) (with [[Tantalus]])
 
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* [[Virtua Fighter Remix]] (1995)
 
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* [[World Series Baseball]] (1995)
 
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* [[World Series Baseball II]] (1996)
 
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* [[World Series Baseball '98 (Saturn)]] (1998)
 
  
 
===[[Dreamcast]]===
 
===[[Dreamcast]]===
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* [[Dynamite Cop]] (1998)
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*''[[The House of the Dead 2]]'' (1999)
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* [[Sega Bass Fishing]] (1999) (with [[SIMS]])
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* [[The House of the Dead 2]] (1999)
 
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===[[Nintendo DS]]===
 
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* [[Sangokushi Taisen DS]] (2007)
 
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* [[Sangokushi Taisen Ten]] (2008)
 
  
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===[[Wii]]===
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==List of staff==
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* [[The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return]] (2008)
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===[[PlayStation 3]]===
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==Magazine articles==
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* [[The House of the Dead 3]] (2012)
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* [[The House of the Dead 4]] (2012)
 
  
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=== [[iOS]] ===
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==External links==
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20030625045159/http://www.wow-ent.co.jp/jpn/products/history.html Sega AM1's production history in the WOW Entertainment website (Internet Archive)]
  
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* [[Samurai Bloodshow]] (2011)
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==References==
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* [[Sega Bass Fishing Challenge]] (2011)
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Sega AM1
Division of Sega of Japan
Founded: 1992[1][2]
Defunct: 1999-05-11
Merged into: Sega AM3 (1990), WOW Entertainment (2000)
Headquarters:
Japan
1992
1999-05-11

Amusement Machine Research and Development Department #1, (第一AM研究開発部), shortened to AM R&D Dept. #1 or AM1, was a division within Sega Enterprises. It was formed in primarily to create arcade (or "amusement") games. In May 1999 it became Sega Software R&D Dept. 1, and later WOW Entertainment in 2000.[3][4] It was a successor to Sega R&D 1.

AM1 is supposed to be the oldest development division within Sega[5]. Koichi Izumi who then was at the sister arcade division Sega AM3, counted numeruos titles developed in AM1, claiming so many were developed that he could not list them all.[6] This page compiles the games mentioned, as well as common credits among titles.[7] And then titles from the WOW Entertainment production history website..

The most popular titles and well known titles from AM1 during the eighties were action or beat' em' up titles, with creators Makoto Uchida on the forefront with Altered Beast andd Golden Axe and Alien Storm. Also noteworthy are the very first Shinobi title by Yutaka Sugano or Shadow Dancer by Yoshiki Ooka.

1991, Sega AM1 had a major shake up, especially with the formation of Sega AM3 which had former Sega AM1 members. Previously involved with Phantasy Star III, Kazunari Tsukamoto went on to work on OutRunners, Harley Davidson & L.A. Riders and The Ocean Hunter with AM1.

Overall the most known titles during the nineties were The House of the Dead and Die Hard Arcade. AM1 also made strides with the big eleborate cabinets of Airline Pilots or Sega Bass Fishing, bringing back the "taikan" (body sensation) concept of arcades, previously introduced by Yu Suzuki and Sega AM2. Another speciality of Sega AM1 were games for the Sega Titan Video arcade board which had an identical architecture to the Sega Saturn, making ports easy, such as with the AM1 developed Virtua Fighter Remix.

Softography

System 24

System 18

System C2

System 32

Model 1

Model 2

H1 Board

Model 3

Mega Drive

Game Gear

Sega Titan Video

Saturn

NAOMI

NAOMI Multiboard

Dreamcast



System 16

System C-2

System 32

Sega Model 2A CRX

Sega Model 2B CRX

Sega Model 2C CRX

Sega Model 3 Step 2.0

Sega Model 3 Step 2.1

NAOMI

Unique/Unknown

Saturn

Dreamcast

List of staff

Magazine articles

Main article: Sega AM1/Magazine articles.

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.wow-ent.co.jp/jpn/aboutWOW/index.html (Wayback Machine: 2002-06-06 10:46)
  2. ↑ http://www.wow-ent.co.jp/eng/about_WOW.html
  3. ↑ File:DCM_JP_19991119_1999-36.pdf, page 15
  4. ↑ File:DCM_JP_20000825_2000-28.pdf, page 93
  5. ↑ File:AnnualReport2002_English.pdf, page 18
  6. ↑ htt (Wayback Machine: 2003-04-22 21:39)
  7. ↑ http://gdri.smspower.org/credits/sega_ac.txt


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