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-<p>
-<strong>
-Sega [AKA Sega Group Corporation AKA Sega Sammy Holdings] [related:
-<em>
-Sonic the Hedgehog
-</em>
-]
-</strong>
-<br/>
-Japanese-based video game developer founded by Martin Bromley and Richard
-Stewart as Nihon Goraku Bussan, launching in the late 1960's with
-<em>
-Periscope
-</em>
-, the company's first coin-operated arcade game. Sega began
-developing home gaming consoles in the 1980's beginning with the SG-1000 and
-the short lived Master System which included an FM audio chip and a port for
-integrated 3-D glasses. Following the failure of its initial two systems, Sega
-found relative success with the Genesis
-<sup>
-</sup>
-(AKA Megadrive), a console based largely around the
-<em>
-Sonic the Hedgehog
-</em>
-franchise, until the release of
-<em>
-[[metroid]]
-</em>
-in 1986 by Nintendo
-Entertainment Systems (
-[[nes]]
-). Subsequently, Sega
-experienced a dramatic loss of market share attributed by many to the lack of
-[[vpd]]
-functionality in Sega's titles for the
-platform. Following the demise of the Genesis model, Sega fell into an
-extended mode of corporate nostalgia including ill-advisedly shifting focus
-from the emerging world of personal entertainment systems back to the
-production of standalone arcade games for outdated and underutilized amusement
-parks
-<sup>
-</sup>
-- a self-defeating and much criticized pattern of behaviour
-culminating in the release of the first
-<em>
-Sonic the Hedgehog
-</em>
-film a
-full thirty years after the game's initial development
-<sup>
-</sup>
-.
-</p>
-<div class="footnote">
-<p>
-<sup>
-</sup>
-As differentiated (somewhat) from both the biblical book "
-<a href="">
-Genesis
-</a>
-" and its outlining of
-the "
-<!-- links to Exile from Paradise -->
-[[error]]
-"
-basis of
-<!-- links to self -->
-[[error]]
-.
-</p>
-<p>
-<sup>
-</sup>
-By the time of the film's release, Sega no longer owned the
-rights to the
-<em>
-Sonic the Hedgehog
-</em>
-franchise after its production
-partner Sony put the project in "turnaround" following a dismal third-party
-assessment of the film's financial prospects. Ironically, despite
-unanimously unfavorable reviews, the film went on to become the second
-highest grossing film of 2020, and the highest grossing video game-based
-film of all time.
-</p>
-<p>
-<sup>
-</sup>
-In fact, Sega was later found to have knowingly manufactured and
-installed functional arcade games in parks that had been completely
-abandoned months or even years prior. Speculation regarding Sega's motives
-for doing so vary and include the aforementioned corporate nostalgia and the
-theory that Sega was in fact exploring a lateral move into the blossoming
-and more lucrative world of
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-[[error]]
-.
-</p>
-</div>
-]]>

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