Monday, 30 December 2024

The Sega-Samsung Partnership


Did you know that Sega had to circumvent an anti-Japanese embargo imposed by South Korea? That's right. To circumvent the embargo, Sega had to outsource production of their Master System, Mega Drive/Genesis and Saturn consoles in South Korea to Samsung. The same can be said with Nintendo, who had to outsource production of the NES, SNES, N64 and Game Boy to South Korean automaker Hyundai just to bypass the embargo.

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