The game rooms Of Saw they do not exist anymore. Theirs dismantling it is the obvious consequence of the sale of the remaining part of the Entertainment division to the company Genda, but now the replacement of the signs has arrived, the last step of the cupio dissolvi of a glorious era in the history of video games.
Genda bought 85.1% of Sega Entertainment in 2020, so he recently got his hands on the remaining 14.9%. Sega Sammy decided to sell due to the problems created by the local COVID-19 pandemic, even though the business had actually been in decline for years.
After the sale, Sega Entertainmet changed its name to Genda GIGO Entertainment and now all Sega arcades are called GIGO. On Friday the sign at the Akihabara arcade was changed, as documented by Hisashi Kataoka, the head of Genda GIGO, and some passing photographers.
Sega founded its first arcade in 1960 and in the late 1990s, at its peak, owned more than a thousand venues. In any case, arcades have been in crisis for years: practically vanished in the West, they have increasingly shrunk even in Japan, where in 2019 there were only 4,022 left, compared to 26,573 in 1986.
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