the.com/sega
the console maker that lost the war but won the argument.
means a japanese video game company that made hardware and games until 2001, then became games-only.
from founded 1960 in tokyo as service games, an import business supplying jukeboxes and slot machines to american military bases in japan — the name got clipped to sega and it never went back to arcades quietly.
name originliterally short for service games
blast processinga marketing term, not a real chip feature
exit hardwarestopped making consoles after dreamcast in 2001
arcade dnaoutsold nintendo in arcades for a decade
for instance
sonic the hedgehog — 1991 mascot built to out-attitude mario
dreamcast — 1999 console, first with a built-in modem
genesis vs snes — defined the 16-bit console war of the early 90s
virtua fighter — 1993 arcade game that pioneered 3d fighting