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Nakayama was the head of SOJ
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Console Wars

Nakayama was the head of SOJ, and he really wasthe patriarch and the prime moverin all of...

Nakayama was the head of SOJ, and he really was
the patriarch and the prime mover
in all of Sega

Full Transcript

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Nakayama was the head of SOJ,
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and he really was the patriarch
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and the prime mover in all of Sega.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:37:31
Uploaded
May 31, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Scott Rudin Productions,Point Grey Pictures,Flying Penguin Pictures,Legendary Television

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Movie Summary

It was 1990: Sega, startup gaming co. assembled a team to take on Nintendo, world's greatest video game company. A make or break conflict pit brother against brother, Sonic against Mario and, American capitalism against Japanese trad
Nothing went out without Nakayama's approval - Console Wars 00:05
Nothing went out without Nakayama's approval
- Nakayama-san was very difficult for many people. - Console Wars 00:06
- Nakayama-san was very difficult for many people.
If you do not deliver, he was brutal. - Console Wars 00:04
If you do not deliver, he was brutal.
- We'd all be on alert that he was coming in, - Console Wars 00:08
- We'd all be on alert that he was coming in,
- He had very long hair - Console Wars 00:06
- He had very long hair
- We had all these ways that we thought - Console Wars 00:13
- We had all these ways that we thought
- To me, Hayao Nakayama was a cartoon character, - Console Wars 00:07
- To me, Hayao Nakayama was a cartoon character,
He had weird hair, - Console Wars 00:06
He had weird hair,
The Japanese-U.S. relationship is kind of confusing. - Console Wars 00:06
The Japanese-U.S. relationship is kind of confusing.
It really kind of starts with an American serviceman, - Console Wars 00:25
It really kind of starts with an American serviceman,
- I don't think anyone in Japan thought - Console Wars 00:10
- I don't think anyone in Japan thought
You know, if I go to a party and I say I'm a filmmaker, - Console Wars 00:08
You know, if I go to a party and I say I'm a filmmaker,
And you say, "Oh, I'm an author," - Console Wars 00:04
And you say, "Oh, I'm an author,"
And if you say you're in advertising, - Console Wars 00:05
And if you say you're in advertising,
- We had four agencies pitching to us, big names, - Console Wars 00:08
- We had four agencies pitching to us, big names,
- We, at the time, had just had - Console Wars 00:10
- We, at the time, had just had
The pitch to Sega was probably one - Console Wars 00:05
The pitch to Sega was probably one
We had every person in the company become an expert - Console Wars 00:07
We had every person in the company become an expert
So everybody came out - Console Wars 00:08
So everybody came out
The agencies we were up against - Console Wars 00:07
The agencies we were up against