Sega Enterprises Ltd was formed by the joining of coin-op amusement machine businesses Service Games and Rosen Enterprises in 1960.
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(Image credit: Getty / tupunegato) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google David Rosen, one of the co-founders of Sega , passed away on Christmas Day. His funeral took place on January 2 at Inglewood Park Cemetery in California, according to RePlay Magazine . Rosen founded Sega after staying in Japan after he completed his Air Force service in the Far East.
Most will know Sega as a “Japanese video game company,” as per the Wikipedia page dedicated to the company, so it might come as a surprise that ‘Sega’ isn’t a Japanese word but a portmanteau of ‘Service Games.’
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By the late 1950s, Rosen began to see an increase in disposable income among the Japanese, so he thought it was a good idea to import coin-operated amusement machines from the U.S. Despite 200% import fees on these machines, the bet paid off handsomely, with the machines being paid off within two months.
Sega Enterprises Ltd was formed when Nihon Goraku Bussan, founded in Hawaii by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart and operating in Japan under the name Service Games, merged with Rosen Enterprises, which had by then become a major importer of coin‑op machines.
The first Sega-branded game is thought to be 1966’s Periscope. Of course, this was an era before video game arcade machines roamed the earth in search of quarters. Periscope is a “fun – suspense – excitement” shooting game amusement based on an electromechanical mechanism. The game was a huge hit and is attributed as a turning point for the industry, and a formative moment for Sega and developer Namco (then Nakamura Manufacturing).
Pong-Tron was mostly Pong, no detectable Tron (Image credit: Black_Squirrel ) Game Gear handheld gaming console (Image credit: Evan-Amos ) As the new breed of electronic coin-op machines became available, Rosen was happy to jump on board with games like Pong from day one. Sega saw the opportunity to develop and produce its own arcade titles, beginning with the obviously pong-influenced Pong-Tron discrete logic arcade title in 1973.
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