SEGA Sports R&D
| Division | |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | 1994 (Team Andromeda) 1998 (Smilebit) 2004 (Sega Sports Japan) |
| Headquarters | Japan |
| Products |
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series Panzer Dragoon series Jet Set Radio series The Typing of the Dead series |
| Parent | Sega Games Co., Ltd. |
Sega Sports R&D (also known as Sega Sports Japan) is a Japanese video game development division of Sega. The studio is responsible for creating and producing the Let's Make a, 90 Minutes, Sega Worldwide Soccer, Virtua Pro Football, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series.
Initially founded in mid-1994 as part of Consumer Software R&D Dept. 1, Team Andromeda became a separate internal development team when the first Sega Saturn software was entering development. The name came from Andromeda, the code used to make their games. The group produced three Panzer Dragoon titles and, after the release of its final game Panzer Dragoon Saga in 1998, was then dissolved. Different teams of the same division were responsible for the Let's Make a series and the Sega Worldwide Soccer series.
After the restructuring, many of the group's members joined Sega's Smilebit and United Game Artists development teams. Former Team Andromeda staff have also developed video games at other studios, including Polyphony Digital, Artoon, feelplus and Land Ho.
Key members of Team Andromeda were folded into the new second-party Sega studio Smilebit Corp., which crafted such titles as Jet Set Radio, Panzer Dragoon Orta and GunValkyrie. On July 1, 2004, Sega's subsidiaries, Wow Entertainment, Amusement Vision, Hitmaker, Smilebit, Sega Rosso, and United Game Artists reintegrated into Sega following the merge between Sega and Sammy in 2005, and a holding company, (Sega Sammy Holdings), was formed. The subsidiaries ceased to exist and were renamed.
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