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Tangentially, I recently learned that Sega (of games, consoles, Sonic fame), started as a slot/amusement machines selling business for the US military bases in
by glandium 4y ago
Tangentially, I recently learned that Sega (of games, consoles, Sonic fame), started as a slot/amusement machines selling business for the US military bases in Hawaii and later Japan, and that the name, Sega, is derived from its original name: "Service Games".
- mouse_ 4y agoThat's amazing, I never knew.
- johnwalkr 4y agoI was surprised by this article for this very reason. Sega's predecessor started as an American company that had business in slot machines on military bases in Hawaii, and when slot machines were banned in the US, it bought them up and moved to Japan to American bases in Japan. "Moved" is really simplifying things, there were mergers and split-ups and re-mergers along the way. But in short it became a Japanese company run by Americans in the military sphere and in the 2000s was merged with Sammy, a pachinko machine company.[1] So Sega started with, and ended up back as a slot machine company. [1] https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/04/21/ign-presents-the-history-of-sega https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/04/21/ign-presents-the-his...