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is a video game developer, publisher, and hardware development company headquartered in Tokyo,

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, with multiple offices around the world. The company's involvement in the

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industry began as a Japan-based distributor of coin-operated machines, including pinball games and jukeboxes. Sega imported second-hand machines that required frequent maintenance. This necessitated the construction of replacement guns, flippers and other parts for the machines. According to former Sega director Akira Nagai, this is what led to the company into developing their own games.
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by Shmuplations. ). Sega released '' Pong-Tron'', its first video-based game, in 1973.Horowitz 2018, pp. 14-16 The company prospered from the arcade game boom of the late 1970s, with revenues climbing to over million by 1979. Nagai has stated that '' Hang-On'' and '' Out Run'' helped to pull the arcade game market out of the 1983 downturn and created new genres of video games. In terms of arcades, Sega is the world's most prolific arcade game producer, having developed more than 500 games, 70 franchises, and 20

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s since 1981. It has been recognized by Guinness World Records for this achievement. The following list comprises the various arcade system boards developed and used by Sega in their arcade games.

Arcade system boards

Additional arcade hardware

Sega has developed and released additional arcade games that use technology other than their dedicated arcade system boards. The first arcade game manufactured by Sega was ''Periscope'', an electromechanical game. This was followed by ''Missile'' in 1969.Horowitz 2018, pp. 8-13 Subsequent video-based games such as '' Pong-Tron'' (1973), ''

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'' (1976), and ''Monaco GP'' (1979) used discrete logic boards without a CPU microprocessor. '' Frogger'' (1981) used a system powered by two Z80 CPU microprocessors. Some titles, such as '' Zaxxon'' (1982) were developed externally from Sega, a practice that was not uncommon at the time.Horowitz 2018, pp. 48-50

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Sega arcade system boards

Arcade system boards

Additional arcade hardware

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