Release of Sega SG-1000

Date: July 15, 1983 • Location: Tokyo, Japan

Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000 (pictured), was released in Japan.

Sega Corporation is a Japanese video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Tokyo. It produces several multi-million-selling game franchises for arcades and consoles including Sonic the Hedgehog, Angry Birds, Football Manager, Phantasy Star, Puyo Puyo, Super Monkey Ball, Bayonetta, Total War, Virtua Fighter, Megami Tensei, Sakura Wars, Persona, and Like a Dragon/Yakuza. From 1983 until 2001, Sega also developed its own consoles.