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... which is why the latter is ostensibly still the bigger failure, as the MD/genesis' highest profits and income did end up outstripping every success they had in the arcades for a bit, but when nakayama's theme park plans couldn't even be sega's bottom line when that went south, things got funky

the key difference between their ATP concept and console business is of course that one was a botched attempt to take something that seemed like a tentative success in japan global, and the other was quickly driven into the ground after its sudden success dwarfed the arcade business overseas...

still being used by a french distributor as late as 1988!

don't think we didn't notice, sega

arai was oddly only involved as development support, much of the staff who made it were newer devs that did the 2010s initial d games + sega world drivers (with a few exceptions, like this interesting fellow from AM1 who switched from being an artist to game designer) segaretro.org/Norio_Ishii

i think that's a misinterpretation, they didn't literally use the exact same code outright but took inspiration from it, initial d and outrun's handling + game design to create a new blend that feels sega-like but isn't a total copy of them in unreal engine

it's a bit more complex than this - one of the main CW programmers appears to be this guy, who didn't work on sega rally and only became involved with initial d more recently, but was mentored by its OG lead programmer (kazuhiro mori), and did the obscure sega race TV segaretro.org/Makoto_Shimo...

between this and the google books search function disappearing into the ether i am going to become the joker

i cannot believe it!

An illustration of Sega's corporate headquarters in Haneda, Ota Ward, Tokyo (pg. 2).

Sega's "amusement line" for manufacturing coin-op games in one of their factories (pg. 3).

Sega's showroom (circa late 60s) featuring various electromechanical games, pinball tables, and jukeboxes (pg. 4)

Singer Mieko Hirota standing in front of "Grand Prix", an electromechanical driving game (pg. 13)

1971 - It's been 6 years since Nihon Goraku Bussan and Rosen Enterprises merged. And this then-new amusement company called "Sega Enterprises" would later become one of the largest arcade companies in the world.

From the May 1, 1971 Sega Price List scanned by @thestacks.ca

#sega #arcadehistory

rave racer remix 30th anniversary sounds届いた

a "real career series" game (a la emergency call ambulance, jambo safari etc) based on driving around in one of these servicing arcade locations with machine parts would go unbelievably hard

I wonder if any of the old 1970's Sega service vehicles are around out there, somewhere...

was a little annoyed recently when they locked several new articles behind another paywall even though i'm already subscribed, but they're available now 🥲 really enjoying the series where sato talks to other engineers e.g. hiroshi yagi + a SG-1000/SC-3000 designer who'd never been interviewed before

you been checking out beep21's recent articles on it with kenji sasaki? they're great as always

YouTube video by Bandai Namco Amusement Europe Ltd. Meet Wincha 🐔 a UK based Crane Machine mobile game from Bandai Namco Amusement Europe

even bandai namco europe had a 100% legit one that next to nobody played and only lasted two years, lmfao youtu.be/Gz07Qvk3daw

if i have the timeline right, net merc got delayed so much that the ride with the same headset actually came out before it in 1994 - and IIRC it did use the model 2 (which was apparently a major PITA as they needed shedloads of them for 4x eight player pods, 2x for each eye) so the support was there

Pac-Man VR - Wikipedia

the first VR boom has a lot to answer for as taito and namco weren't above collaborating with them too, and it all turned out very badly there as well lol faberp.tripod.com/zh.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man...

AFAIK net merc itself was a weird byproduct of a deal that sega JP cut with virtuality way back in 1993, which got delayed multiple times and only wasn't cancelled altogether because it allegedly outperformed daytona on loctest - you wonder why they even bothered to plan for VO to use the same tech

The Galaxian 3 at Fun World, NH is reportedly operational again, having had one of its LaserDisc players replaced. Go play it while it still works (I hear they're open over the long weekend.)

slashout, emergency call ambulance and *magical truck adventure* is possibly the most nuts triumvirate they could've came up with for this and they actually did it

no resident evil 2 dead shot though :(

real EAGaming hours

Some new scans for you to start off your 2026, including another Sega company profile.

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when people talk about "playing 5key" this is what they mean

they genuinely spent £45 million on opening the place and took losses upwards of £2-3 mil every year it was open, greatest sega money pit of all time lmao

YouTube video by juntistik Sega VR Arcade machine - Sega Net Merc [1994]

there's this from a BBC science education programme too - some direct capture footage of it has also turned up on a crazed sega model board collector's channel but the spoilsport watermarked it lol youtu.be/AaTMa10UvwQ
youtu.be/E3Cg40ZmWpQ

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