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Anonymous Sun Mar 29 15:40:55 2015 No.2316542 [Reply] [Original]

Yearly reminder that Sega is an American company.

>Sega's roots can be traced back to a company based in Honolulu, Hawaii named Service Games, which began operations in 1940. In 1951, Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart moved the company to Tokyo, Japan to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes, games, and slot machines. Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan.

>In 1954, David Rosen, an American officer in the Air Force, launched a two-minute photo booth business in Tokyo. This company eventually became Rosen Enterprises, and in 1957 began importing coin-operated games to Japan. By 1965, Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades, with Service Games its only competitor. Rosen then orchestrated a merger between Rosen Enterprises and Service Games, who by then had their own factory facilities, becoming chief executive of the new company, Sega Enterprises, which derived its name from the first two letters of SErvice GAmes.[8]

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 15:43:34 2015 No.2316547 >>2316542 Doesn't really matter anymore, does it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 15:45:57 2015 No.2316551 >>2316542 >Sega's roots can be traced back to a company based in Honolulu, Hawaii named Service Games, which began operations in 1940. In 1951, Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart moved the company to Tokyo Thanks Pearl Harbor

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 15:49:04 2015 No.2316554 >>2316551 More than 50 years later, the war was still making claiming lives. >RIP Dreamcast >Gone but never forgotten.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 15:56:32 2015 No.2316561 >>2316547 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoIAfspxtp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnerydxKtEs

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 17:01:32 2015 No.2316687 >Jews who flee the country as soon as their company turns a profit >American

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 17:51:46 2015 No.2316773 1973 hang on? https://youtu.be/xhO02gQEu-k

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 18:24:21 2015 No.2316819 Why would I care if it's American?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 18:33:21 2015 No.2316831 >>2316687 hi

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:07:34 2015 No.2316881 >>2316687 >Hawaii >America >1951 >Hawaii >America

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Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:11:29 2015 No.2316889
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It really depends on whether you consider a company's nationality based on where it was founded, or where its head of operations is. Sega-Sammy Holdings is based in Tokyo, so I would personally say it's a Japanese company.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:17:41 2015 No.2316901 >>2316881 what, I though Hawaii was in Japan?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:19:08 2015 No.2316905 >>2316889 >all those IPs sega dont care about im so sad

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:19:59 2015 No.2316908 >>2316905 Play one of the sega all stars racing games.

>>	Razz Sun Mar 29 19:31:11 2015 No.2316934 >>2316908 I bought a Wii U partly for Sonic Racing All Stars.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:42:28 2015 No.2316964 >>2316905 I grew up a Nintendo fanboy. But that image >Phantasy Star >Golden Axe >Columns >Shinobi >Shining Force >Sonic Sega did not deserve it's fate.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:44:23 2015 No.2316969 >>2316964 Ever had the fortune to play a SEGA arcade game? I recently got to play After Burner Climax at an amusement park, I was NOT disappointed. It was one of the best games I've ever played.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:49:08 2015 No.2316975 >>2316969 Only Out Run back in 1991, and House of the Dead, if you don't count compilation releases.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:51:32 2015 No.2316981 >>2316975 Oh man, that reminds me when my local Wal-Mart used to have a sit down OutRun cabinet. I sort of miss it, I wonder what they've done with it? Was it common to see cabinets in Wal-Marts?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:52:31 2015 No.2316984 >>2316969 Many of them HotD is pretty ubiquitous

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 19:58:36 2015 No.2316996 >>2316981 When I was a kid, my town's Wal-Mart had a WWF Raw machine, and a Battletoads machine.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 20:41:35 2015 No.2317063 >>2316901 I'm not really sure what you're trying to say, but Hawaii wasn't a state yet in 1951.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 22:27:14 2015 No.2317246 >>2317063 It was still US territory

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 22:33:00 2015 No.2317262 >>2317063 >>2317246 Do they eat sushi in Hawaii?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 22:46:45 2015 No.2317289 >>2317262 They do now for the most part, since there are so many Japanese immigrant there. Hawai'ian culture stemmed from Polynesia and not Japan, though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 22:48:21 2015 No.2317292 >M2 will never remake Space Harrier II to be more faithful to the original like they did with Fantasy Zone II Damn, I wish someone would at least reverse engineer Space Harrier like they did with OutRun so we could at least attempt it ourselves.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 22:51:43 2015 No.2317295 >>2317292 Then again it's mostly the same game, I really want it just to hear Manabu Namiki's interpretation of "Harrier Saga" on the YM2151.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 23:09:06 2015 No.2317316 >>2316542 >>2316687 >>2316881 >implying hawaii is white. >inb4 pol/

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:46:21 2015 No.2317524 >>2316969 >After Burner Climax My nigga, I just picked up an upright After Burner 2, I was so pissed when they got rid of the After Burner Climax at the little mini arcade in my local mall Sega makes the best arcades

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:48:06 2015 No.2317661 >>2316981 The Walmart in my college town has a few cabinets. I think they have Hydro Thunder and one of the Need for Speed games. Haven't checked it out yet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 03:10:14 2015 No.2317681 >>2316542 The Sega Japan bough Sega of America in the 70s though, making it a Japanese company afterward.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 06:19:53 2015 No.2317837 >>2316969 I dumped 5 or more bucks into Die Hard Arcade back when it was pretty new. Holy fuck was that fun. And Daytona USA. Playing a round of that is a god damn event.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 08:24:29 2015 No.2317918 Sega was stupid to make PC ports that cannibalized their Saturn sales

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 15:57:23 2015 No.2318743 If I remember correctly, David Rosen stepped in in Sega's declining days and bailed the company out with millions of dollars of his personal fortune.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 16:14:25 2015 No.2318786 >>2317681 but muh heritage

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 21:51:27 2015 No.2319317 >>2317918 Master race wins again!

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Anonymous Tue Mar 31 00:31:09 2015 No.2319720

>>2316889
>>2316964
>>2316905

Nintendo seems to have operated the exact opposite of how Sega did.

>our console is wildly popular, and all our games sell well, what should we do?
>MORE SONIC. SONIC AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE.
>our console is struggling to get momentum, what should we do?
>REVISIT OLD IPS THAT WE NEGLECTED YEARS AGO AND CREATE NEW ONES, FUCK SONIC.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 07:56:46 2015 No.2320206 >>2316773 that is cool as fuck Seems difficult to really control your winning or losing though

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 08:00:49 2015 No.2320208 >>2316889 I guess you should remove Bayonetta now, shouldn't you? >>2319720 What do you mean by that? Are you talking about the Dreamcast with your second instance?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 08:01:49 2015 No.2320209 >>2318743 A Japanese guy did it too, 693 million dollars or some crazy amount

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 08:02:49 2015 No.2320210 >>2316969 Sega is the king of arcade. Sadly those are dead everywhere but in Japan and in our dreams.

>>	Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo Tue Mar 31 14:09:36 2015 No.2320647 >>2317918 They'd be smart to see if GOG can get those ports working for modern OSes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 14:17:37 2015 No.2320657 File: 20 KB, 469x354, 1386593328333[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2316687 >>2316901 >>2317262 Gee I wonder who deleted all these posts ITT

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 14:07:03 2015 No.2322572 why does it matter OP?