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Sega Corporation is an international video game software development company, and formerly, a home computer and video game console hardware manufacturer.
Founded in 1940 as Standard Games (later Service Games) in East Palo Alto, California, USA, it moved to Japan in May 1952 and established itself as SErvice GAmes of Japan. Over decades, the company garnered considerable success in both the arcade and the home gaming console markets.
Nonetheless, in early 2001, it left the consumer console manufacturing business and began to focus on third-party software development for a number of platforms.
Sega is most widely known as the developer of the popular Sonic the Hedgehog series of video game titles.
Star Trek releases[]
Sega produced only one Star Trek-related arcade game, the Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator, and retailed home versions of it for four different video game consoles and computer systems.
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The company began production on the Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan game for the Atari 2600 and 5200 systems, and an Atari 2600 game based on Star Trek III: The Search for Spock was also developed, but neither reached retail.
Additionally, Sega produced several home video game systems of its own. Of these, only the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Game Gear, and 32X had Star Trek-related games produced for them. A port (version) of Star Trek: New Worlds was announced for the Dreamcast but was cancelled and did not reach release.
From 1993 to 1994, the company also maintained a video game content rating system known as the Videogame Rating Council that rated games released on Sega platforms in North America, before it was phased out in favor of the Entertainment Software Rating Board system.