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Sega Corporation is a Japanese video game and electronic media company based in Shinagawa, Japan, Japan. Founded in 1960, Sega was originally focused on slot machines and other coin-operated machines such as jukeboxes. It first entered the video game market with Pong-Tron in 1973. In the market's third generation, Sega began competing with Nintendo with its own home consoles, the SG-1000 and Master System. Though it solidified itself in the market during this period, it was not established as a major competitor to Nintendo until the fourth generation, with the introduction of the Sega Genesis and its flagship franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog.
Two additional home consoles were produced by Sega: the Sega Saturn and the Dreamcast. Both consoles saw limited to lackluster success, and the low sales performance of the Dreamcast ultimately led to Sega repositioning themselves as a third-party developer and ending their production of home consoles. In the time since, Sega has published titles on every following major home console produced by Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony.
Sega has a library of multiple influential video game franchises, such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Monkey Ball, Like a Dragon, Megami Tensei, Angry Birds, Puyo Puyo, and Total War.