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Ben Gilbert: belief

18 Apr 2023 Acquired Short: The Death of Sega

“I think that was in 1984. They would go on to take it public, I think, in 1988 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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belief
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18 Apr 2023
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Acquired

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…Boy, did they ever. I think that was in 1984. They would go on to take it public, I think, in 1988 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Now it's a publicly traded company. Yup. That makes sense because pretty quickly after the buy-out, Sega gets back to their old tricks, and they're crushing it. They're pumping out smash arcade hits like Out Run that people might have heard of, a very famous racing game, Shinobi, Afterburner, Altered Beast, which was a beat-him-up brawler that we talked about on the Nintendo episodes.…

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