Episode 110 - SEGA Pinball

About this episode

This episode explores the partnership between Gary Stern and Sega in the North American pinball market during the late 1990s.

Support the show and receive a link to our private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode we explore the period from 1995-1999 when Gary Stern successfully convinced another Japanese arcade game manufacturer to partner with him and rebrand from Data East to Sega for the North American coin-op pinball market. These games are mostly pretty low production run games, with some clear cost cutting measures in place, and the art packages are pretty uneven too. Many pinheads haven't...

People in this episode

Host: Wedgehead

Topics covered

• Sega Pinball
• Data East
• Gary Stern
• coin-op pinball
• 1995-1999
• arcade games
• pinball history

Keywords

• Sega
• Data East
• Gary Stern
• pinball
• arcade
• 1990s
• coin-op

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sega, Data East

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