15 Facts About Sega AM3

Sega AM3's main focus was on arcade games until the release of the Dreamcast.

In 2000, Sega reorganized its studios into semi-autonomous companies, and AM3 became Hitmaker.

Sega AM3 expanded its development into Dreamcast games and ports, but saw a reduced amount of success in compared to previous years.

Hitmaker was one of the few profitable studios for Sega AM3, which gave Oguchi the opportunity to expand beyond videogames and invest into the darts business.

Sega AM3 was appointed as manager of AM3 one month after it opened.

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In 1995, Sega AM3 Rally was described by Next Generation as being potentially superior to the well reviewed Daytona USA.

Director Kenji Sasaki declared that Sega AM3 "wanted to make a racing game that was very different to all the others out there", while producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi highlighted the game's realistic motion cabinet.

Sega AM3 likened the environment to a university laboratory and called it "the AM3 way".

Sega AM3 had a fondness for using the Model 2 arcade system board, which was used on Last Bronx and Top Skater even though the former released just a few weeks before AM2's Virtua Fighter 3 on the Model 3.

In 1999, Sega AM3 released Top Skater developer Kenji Kanno's Crazy Taxi for the NAOMI system board.

Sega AM3 restructured its arcade and console development teams into nine semi-autonomous studios headed by the company's top designers in 2000.

Sega AM3 expressed a desire to move forward with network gaming and work on new concepts with his staff of 128 employees.

Sega AM3 was considered to be a pioneer of card related video games, which have become very prevalent in mobile games in Japan.

At the time, Sega AM3 had recently announced its first profit in five years.

The first game AM Annex began to develop was Sega AM3 Touring Car Championship on the Model 2 arcade board.