Not exact matches
To me it seems largely a matter of some poor Silent Hill sequels, a withdrawal from mainstream triple - A games development, willingness to use its licenses on
pachinko machines, a falling
out with Kojima — and a very marketable narrative.
Yeah but wasn't Sega created in 1940 on Honolulu Hawaii and yes it wasn't a video game company yet but they did create jukeboxes,
pachinko's, slot
machines in the US at that time, they're video game division didn't start up until the 1970s and they did have a video game system that came
out in 1982 the sg1000 after that was the Sega Master System in 1984 both for a USA release.
There are a lot of Peggle clones
out there and even Peggle is a clone of the popular Japanese gambling
machine Pachinko.
Konami has dropped off the face of the earth, spitting
out licensed
pachinko machines, and Nintendo has let Metroid's major anniversaries roll by, only offering some strange multiplayer event coming up that seems to have nothing to do with lore and storyline.
The most troubling allegation coming
out of the Nikkei story suggests that video game developers at Konami who were no longer seen as useful, especially as the company shifts focus to the mobile game market, have been reassigned as security guards, custodial staff at Konami fitness clubs, or working on assembly lines for
pachinko machines.