History of Sega in Japan

History of Sega in Japan


Ratings board(s): CERO (2003-present)

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Sega is headquartered in Japan. So quite a lot of history here.

History

Arcade

Monaco GP bacame the company's last Arcade to use discrete logic circuits rather than a digital CPU.

SG-1000

Sega decided to enter the home console market with SG-1000 after the failure of bringing the ColecoVision to Japan.

Released on the same day as the Famicom, Sega's first console was an initial success by selling about 160.000 units against the company's projection of 50,000 units. Despite having a more powerful hardware, the Famicom suffered for the lack of games and had certain units recalled due to faulty circuits and for the and buttons getting stuck over time.

By 1984, the Famicom began to outpace the SG-1000 sales by courting third-party developers, which mostly were Sega competitors in the Arcade market (Tsukuda Original was the only thrid-party developer to publish games for the SG-1000).

Sega Master System

Sega Mega Drive

Sega Saturn

Sega Dreamcast

The last official Dreamcast game

According to an interview made with an anonymous developer, Sega hired the Yakuza to kidnap his young sister in order to make him to stop coorperating with Nintendo. Despite censoring the company's name, he mentioned the Sega's Kakuri Heya (Isolation Room) practice that happened in 2000. ^[1]

In 2002, Sega ended the third-party support of the system in America and Europe.

In 2007, Sega ended the third-party support of the system in Japan after the released of Karous.

Post-Dreamcast

By 2001, Sega stopped the manufacturing of the Dreamcast consoles and started to developing games for the competitors due of losing sales against the Sony's PlayStation 2. Puyo Puyo Fever became the last first-party game to be released for the Dreamcast.

Unlicensed games

The adult section of an used computer software and video game store in Akihabara, Tokyo.

The eroge developer Studio Fazzy became the only known Japanese company to make unlicensed games for the Mega Drive.

References

↑ The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 2 / John Szczepaniak

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[1] The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 2 / John Szczepaniak

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