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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.

Sega Enterprises, Inc.

Founded: 1974^[1]

Defunct: April 1984^[2]^[3]

Headquarters:

	2550 Santa Fe Avenue, Redondo Beach, California 90278, United States
	2029 Century Park East, Los Angeles, California 90067, United States^[4]

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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.

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)

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)

Softography (Arcade)

Electro-Mechanical/Discrete Logic

Bullet Mark (1975)
Fonz (1976)
Moto-Cross (1976)
Road Race (1976)
Tic Tac Quiz (1976)
Tracer (1976)

List of staff

References

45	60	65	69	74	78	84
Early Sega
Service Games			Gulf+Western
Service Games, Hawaii & Nevada & Japan	Nihon Goraku Bussan & Nihon Kikai Seizou			Sega Enterprises, Inc.
		Sega Enterprises, Ltd.			Sega Ltd. & Gremlin	Sega Ltd.

[:File:CashBox_US_1974-04-13.pdf_p50-1] Cash Box, "April 13, 1974" (US; 1974-04-13), page 50

[:File:SegaVisions_US_11.pdf_p81-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Sega Visions, "February/March 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 81

[:File:CashBox_US_1984-06-09.pdf_p28_.2828.2F29.29-3] Cash Box, "June 9, 1984" (US; 1984-06-09), page 28/29 (28)

[:File:PJPizzazz_trademark_US73271177.pdf_p2-4] File:PJPizzazz trademark US73271177.pdf, page 2

[:File:CashBox_US_1975-11-29.pdf_p21-5] Cash Box, "November 29, 1975" (US; 1975-11-29), page 21

[:File:Billboard_US_1976-08-14.pdf_p113-6] Billboard, "August 14, 1976" (US; 1976-08-14), page 113

[:File:Billboard_US_1976-09-04.pdf_p47-7] Billboard, "September 4, 1976" (US; 1976-09-04), page 47

[:File:Billboard_US_1978-04-29.pdf_p59-8] Billboard, "April 29, 1978" (US; 1978-04-29), page 59

[:File:CashBox_US_1978-10-28.pdf_p72-9] Cash Box, "October 28, 1978" (US; 1978-10-28), page 72

[:File:CashBox_US_1984-06-09.pdf_p28-10] Cash Box, "June 9, 1984" (US; 1984-06-09), page 28

[11] California Business Search: Entity #C0718983

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-==Softography (Consumer)==
-===Apple II===
-*''[[Tapper]]'' (1983)
-===Atari 2600===
-*''[[Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Congo Bongo]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Spy Hunter]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Sub Scan]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Tac/Scan]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Thunderground]]'' (1983)
-===Atari 5200===
-*''[[Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Congo Bongo]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Zaxxon]]'' (1983)
-===Atari 8-bit===
-*''[[Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Congo Bongo]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Super Zaxxon]]'' (1983)
-===Commodore 64===
-*''[[Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Tapper]]'' (1983)
 ==List of staff==