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Nintendo must now have full rights to the code as we saw the original arcade Donkey Kong re-released in both Donkey Kong 64 and most recently on Switch.Lots of them. There are entirely dedicated shadow companies for this.
Along the same lines as Donkey Kong/Congo Bongo, Nintendo's first arcade game, Radar Scope, was also made by Ikegami:
Who, in the same style, went to Sega and made an isometric spiritual successor in Zaxxon:
No kidding? Huh.
There was practically nothing when I wrote that. OP updated the thread.
Oh, wow! That's amazing! Thanks for the info...OP made it sound like Sega was an American company in which he said that it was founded by Americans as a whole.Sega has been a Japanese company for over 60 years now.
That said, depending on when you knew Sega as a child, and where you were in the world, the early Sega you know, wasn't actually Sega. In the USA, until just before the Sega Genesis released, Sega actually didn't publish their stuff in the US. The Sega Master System days, they actually were published by Tonka, the toy truck people, who licensed Sega's brand.
In the UK, it was Virgin Mastertronic who did this for Sega:
In Brazil, Tec Toy:
In Korea, it was Samsung:
As they say, you learn something new every day. :)Sega was an American company in the 1940's. It was founded by a Jewish-American family in the 1940's. Sega themselves consider this to be a different company history, however, as they consider the offiical start of their current company 1960 with the formation of what became Sega Enterprises. The Sega of the 1940's is known as "Service Games of Japan" which changed their name to SEGA in 1954. Sega has actually changed hands many, many times. When most people know sega from the 90's, they were owned by CSK corporation, which bought them in 1984.
Obviously, today Sega is owned by Sega-Sammy Holdings, a holdings group formed from the merger of Sega and Sammy. Their logo:
While I didn't know the OP info., I certainly did know this.Here's another thing people probably don't realize: Sega is a prolific publisher in Japan, much more so than they are in the West. In japan, when western companies release their games, they rely on Japanese companies to publish to break into that market. As such, many, many western companies use Sega to publish their games in Japan, like EA and Activision.
Best recent examples:
Yep, pretty crazy story. Jewish Ukrainian guy who fled to China before WW2, then ended up in Tokyo. His company started importing and eventually manufacturing jukeboxes, which eventually lead to them making Space Invaders.
CSK Sega was best Sega bar none. The damage Sammy did to Sega cannot be overstated. :(Sega was an American company in the 1940's. It was founded by a Jewish-American family in the 1940's. Sega themselves consider this to be a different company history, however, as they consider the offiical start of their current company 1960 with the formation of what became Sega Enterprises. The Sega of the 1940's is known as "Service Games of Japan" which changed their name to SEGA in 1954. Sega has actually changed hands many, many times. When most people know sega from the 90's, they were owned by CSK corporation, which bought them in 1984.
Obviously, today Sega is owned by Sega-Sammy Holdings, a holdings group formed from the merger of Sega and Sammy. Their logo:
GODDAMN IT JAPANESE CRASH HAHAHAHere's another thing people probably don't realize: Sega is a prolific publisher in Japan, much more so than they are in the West. In japan, when western companies release their games, they rely on Japanese companies to publish to break into that market. As such, many, many western companies use Sega to publish their games in Japan, like EA and Activision.
Best recent examples:
Sega has been a japanese company for over 60 years now.
That said, depending on when you knew Sega as a child, and where you were in the world, the early Sega you know, wasn't actually Sega. In the USA, until just before the Sega Genesis released, Sega actually didn't publish their stuff in the US. The Sega Master System days, they actually were published by Tonka, the toy truck people, who licensed Sega's brand.
In the UK, it was Virgin Mastertronic who did this for Sega:
In Brazil, Tec Toy:
In Korea, it was Samsung:
There are also sega variants from Hitachi, Pioneer, and JVC.
