Remember The Rise of Sega With This Quick History Lesson

[Michael Epstein]

Remember The Rise of Sega With This Quick History Lesson

Sega wasn't always known as "the guys who make those Sonic games," you know.

It's hard to remember sometimes, but Sega wasn't always a publisher on the ropes. Before there was three-way console war between Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, there were only two big dogs in the console gaming fight: Sega and Nintendo. Though Sega has always been a "gaming" company, there was a time when they didn't even make video games!

If this is news to you, or if you just want a quick look back at the events of a bygone era, the folks over at LORE [http://www.youtube.com/user/lore?feature=watch] have put together a very brief history of the Sega's rise to prominence in the video game industry. You'll see the company transition from slot machine purveyor to arcade cabinet maker to console manufacturer in under a minute right before your eyes.

The video is a true rarity: Closing with the commercial success of Sonic The Hedgehog, it may the only Sega retrospective we'll ever see that ends on a positive note.

Source: LORE [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmrSJDOI6sI]

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[Canadamus Prime]

I didn't know Sega was born out of a manufacturer of slot machines.

 

[Frezzato]

I didn't know Sega was born out of a manufacturer of slot machines.

Last I heard, there are still entire, multi-story arcades under the Sega name in Japan, probably in other parts of Asia as well. Not just video games either, they make every type of weird machine you would find in an arcade, like those "coin fishing" games where you drop one in to get a stack of coins to fall over and collect them

 

[FinalDream]

I had a Master System for a while, but I was a Nintendo kid, and well, its made me SEGA-hating man I am today.

Sonic 1 was good though, that's my only concession. I remember Alex Kidd in Miracle World, that was built in.

 

[georgeo18yal]

I didn't know Sega was born out of a manufacturer of slot machines.

Last I heard, there are still entire, multi-story arcades under the Sega name in Japan, probably in other parts of Asia as well. Not just video games either, they make every type of weird machine you would find in an arcade, like those "coin fishing" games where you drop one in to get a stack of coins to fall over and collect them

That's sounds really cool. Wish I could visit Japan at least once in my life just to experience stuff like that.

 

[Frezzato]

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It's actually not just Sega [http://kotaku.com/5925356/this-sega-arcade-is-ridiculously-over-the-top/] either. Plenty of crazy arcades [http://travel.cnn.com/tokyo/play/4-best-tokyo-arcades-424517].

 

[georgeo18yal]

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It's actually not just Sega [http://kotaku.com/5925356/this-sega-arcade-is-ridiculously-over-the-top/] either. Plenty of crazy arcades [http://travel.cnn.com/tokyo/play/4-best-tokyo-arcades-424517].

Welp. Now I have to make sure I go to Japan one day. Not enough arcades in the states at all.

 

[1337mokro]

Tune in for part 2 to see the decline of a once great legacy.