SEGA Corporation
Moby ID: 12
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- April 17, 2023
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Company offers to acquire Rovio Entertainment Oyj.
- April 1, 2015
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SEGA Corporation changes its name to SEGA Games Co,, Ltd.
- December 31, 2014
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SEGA Corporation absorbs SEGA Networks Co., Ltd..
- January 25, 2005
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The company sells its second-party developer Visual Concepts, along with its wholly-owned subsidiary Kush Games, to Take-Two Interactive for $24 million.
- October 2004
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Sammy Corporation buys a controlling share in Sega Corporation at a cost of $1.1 billion, and from the merger Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. is created.
- August 2003
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After discussions with Namco, Electronic Arts and Microsoft, the outstanding shares are bought by Sammy Corporation.
- 2001
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The company discontinues the Dreamcast and ends its run as a video game hardware manufacturer.
- 2000
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The company name is changed from SEGA Enterprises Ltd. to SEGA Corporation.
- 2000
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All the R&D Divisions are separated from the main company and established as semi-autonomous subsidiaries.
- 1986
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SEGA of America, Inc. is established.
- 1984
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Hit by the video game crash of 1983, Gulf & Western sells the U.S. assets of Sega to Bally Manufacturing Corporation. The Japanese assets of Sega were purchased for $38 million by a group of investors led by David Rosen and Hayao Nakayama. Rosen became the head of the American subsidiary in the United States and Nakayama became the new CEO.
- 1984
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The company is bought by CSK and renamed Sega Enterprises Ltd., headquartered it in Japan.
- 1983
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The company releases its first video game console: the SG-1000 and also the first laserdisc game.
- 1969
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The company is purchased by Gulf and Western Industries.
- 1965
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Rosen Enterprises, Inc. and Service Games merge in 1965 to become Sega Enterprises.
- May 1952
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The name "SErvice GAmes of Japan" is registered.
- 1951
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The company moves to Tokyo, Japan.
- 1940
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Company founded as Standard Games (later Service Games) in Honolulu, Hawaii, by Martin Bromely, Irving Bromberg, and James Humpert to provide coin-operated amusements for American servicemen on military bases.