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- Not to be confused with Gremlin Graphics.
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| Sega Electronics | ||
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| Founded: 1973 | ||
| Defunct: 1984 | ||
| Merged into: Sega (1978-09-29[1]) | ||
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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 1978, they were purchased by Sega[1], and started releasing games with joint branding, first as Gremlin/Sega, then as Sega/Gremlin.
December 1981 saw Sega's US arm moved from Gulf+Western's manufacturing division into the hands of subsiduary Paramount Pictures, and in to, Sega/Gremlin changed their name to Sega Electronics in 1982[2]. Around which time they also started producing games for home systems, attempting to bring Paramount brands to home consoles (Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator and Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom being the two surviving examples, though many more were planned).
Thanks in part to the North American video game crash, Sega Electronics was shut down in early 1984 and its manufacturing assets transferred to Paramount Studios.
Contents
Softography
Discrete Logic
Blockade hardware
- Should this section and its respective games be removed? It's unclear if Sega was involved during this time.
VIC Dual
- Depthcharge (1977)
- Safari (1977)
- Frogs (1978)
- Deep Scan (1979)
- Head On (1979)
- Head On 2 (1979, as Gremlin; Gremlin/Sega branding)
- Invinco (1979, as Gremlin; Gremlin/Sega branding)
- Carnival (1980; as Gremlin; Gremlin/Sega branding)
- Digger (1980; as Gremlin; Gremlin/Sega branding)
- Pulsar (1981; as Gremlin; Gremlin/Sega branding)
G80
- Astro Blaster (1981; as Gremlin; Gremlin/Sega branding)
- Space Fury (1981; as Gremlin; Sega/Gremlin branding)
- Eliminator (1981)
- Space Odyssey (1981)
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1982)
- Tac/Scan (1982)
- Pig Newton (1983)
Zaxxon hardware
- Ixion (1983)
- Razzmatazz (1983)
Apple II
Atari 2600
- Spy Hunter (1983)
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983)
- Tac/Scan (1983)
- Thunderground (1983)
- Sub Scan (198x)
- Bear Game (unreleased)
- Ixion (Jeff Lorenz version available in ROM sets; unreleased)
Atari 5200
Atari 8-bit
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983)
- Ixion (unreleased)
- Tac/Scan (unreleased)
Commodore 64
MSX
- Congo Bongo (1983)
VIC-20
Arcade games distributed by Gremlin
- Super Bowl (1977; licensed from Exidy)
- Gee Bee (1979; licensed from Namco; the Gremlin version replaces the "N-A-M-C-O" letters on the bumpers with the company's distinctive "G" logo.)
- Astro Fighter (1980; licensed from Data East)
- Moon Cresta (1980; licensed from Nichibutsu)
- Space Firebird (1980; licensed from Nintendo)
- Super Moon Cresta (1980; licensed from Nichibutsu)
- Frogger (1981; licensed from Konami)