Japanese Videogame Company Acronyms
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Am I missing something or are you just sharing some trivia?
Co founder of Sega died recently and the topic of how the name came about was brought up. Assuming this is an extension of that.
Yup
It came up earlier, so I thought it would be interesting.
You fool! Do you not realize that these acronyms are secret messages meant to disparage us chuds?!
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Sorry. It's great trivia though. I didn't know how, well, somewhat sterile and "clinically corporate" some of these acronyms actually are.
There was a period where inserting basic English descriptions into branding was trendy, I think just because english fluency was exploding at the time. Same reason shirts that saying something mundane like "I love hats" sold like hotcakes.
So Service Games might sound incredibly dull to us, it probably sounded cool and exotic to people at the time. Or maybe it was cringe to the general public, like all the silicon valley bros suddenly naming things with hindi words thinking it's cool and spiritual.
Looks like it but I'm not sure, gonna need more evidence
Near all Japanese companies have weirdly long histories that got back 60+ years that have absolutely nothing to do with games. Like Tecmo was into yachts, industrial cleaning equipment and shit. Same goes for Korean Chaebols.
They didn't fuck around when it comes to diversifying their portfolios. No one ever told them to pick a lane. And Tecmo doesn't stand for anything.
Yeah, Nintendo had love hotels and vacuum cleaners. SeGa had TVs and radios.
During the rebuild in the 50's-70's a lot of money was invested in every direction possible. The Nintendo toy line was created by a guy working the factory floor. Miyamoto didn't apply to be a video game creator. He brought in cool coat hangers for kids. Nintendo had factories that built all sorts of stuff based on orders.
Satoshi Nakamoto = Samsung Toshiba Nakamichi Motorola.
Correct. Even Elon Musk himself said that, but deleted it.
Yeah, that makes flight history and videogames history very confusing at points.
I thought Namco was Nakamura Amusement Machine Corporation.
It was both and Nakamura Seisakusho as well.
What about Falcom?