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Sega Corporation, or commonly known as Sega (stylized as SEGA, meaning Service Games), is a Japanese video game company founded on June 3, 1960, by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart. Its international branches, Sega of America and Sega Europe are headquartered in Irvine, California, and London, England.
History
SEGA was firstly started by Bromley, Irving Bromberg, and James Humpert, when they were making mini slot machines for military bases during WWII. In 1952, Bromley would send employees to establish Service Games of Japan to provide slot machines to U.S. bases in Japan, though in 1960, it was dissolved. In 1969, SEGA was sold to Gulf and Western Industries, and released its first video-based game in 1973, called Pong-Tron.
SEGA started to develop a video game system, called the SG-1000, which would sell over 160,000 units in 1983. The Sega Genesis released in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, becoming one of the most popular consoles released by SEGA at the time. SEGA was also competing with Nintendo, mainly with its series of the character, Mario. SEGA released Sonic the Hedgehog in 1991, and has been recognized as the primary mascot of SEGA. The Dreamcast console, another popular console made by SEGA, would be the last console SEGA releases.
Channels
SEGA
The channel was created on February 23, 2006, and the first video was uploaded on March 7, 2008. The majority of the videos uploaded to the channel are in Japanese. Trailers of various SEGA games and features are uploaded to the channel.
SegaAmerica
The channel was created on March 5, 2008, and the first video was uploaded on April 17, 2008. Much like the SEGA channel, trailers of games made by SEGA are uploaded here, including updates and features to games.
SEGA Europe
The channel was created on March 6, 2007, and the first video was uploaded on March 23, 2007. They upload content similar to the previous channels mentioned.
SEGA Forever
The channel was created on January 26, 2017, and the first video was uploaded on July 12, 2017. Various retro games that SEGA made are showcased on the channel, sometimes showing gameplays or soundtracks.
Sponsorships
The official Sonic the Hedgehog Japan account tweeted in June 2022 that Korone was to be an ambassador for the Sonic franchise.[1] It was later announced that Korone would be a voice actress for the Japanese dub of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022).[2]
On September 19, 2022, Shylily was sponsored to play Phantasy Star 2 Online.[3] On December 13, 2022, PastaroniRavioli was sponsored to play it as well.[4]
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