![]() When Kalinske notices some people in public playing handheld consoles, he starts to understand Sega’s unique potential and accepts the job. Once there, Nakayama shows him Sega’s latest product line, including its main console, the Genesis, and its first handheld system, the Game Gear. Though he has little experience in video games and is initially hesitant to consider working at Sega, he accepts Nakayama’s offer to fly him out to Japan. Nakayama introduces Kalinske to the still-fledgling company Sega, a venture with no clear financial prospects. ![]() While on vacation in Hawaii with his wife and children, Hayao Nakayama, an old business partner contacts him. Console Wars opens a few years after Tom Kalinske leaves his position as the CEO of toy retail giant Mattel. The book has been adapted into a television series dramatizing the early evolution of the industry. The Genesis console eventually dominated video game sales in Japan and the United States. ![]() ![]() The book examines, in particular, the career of Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske, who revived and united the divided and nearly bankrupt firm to become the creator of the Sega Genesis console. Harris, focuses on the intense competition between the two early giants of the video game industry, Sega and Nintendo, during the 1990s. ![]() Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (2014), a work of nonfiction by American technological historian Blake J. ![]()
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