Consultant at Microsoft and Virgin PLAY, Former President of Sega
Hayao Nakayama (中山 隼雄, Nakayama Hayao, born 21 May 1932) is a Japanese businessman and was the former President and CEO of Sega Enterprises, Ltd from 1983 to 1999.
manga artist HayaoNakayama (中山 隼雄, born 1932), Japanese businessman Shimamura Hayao (島村 速雄, 1858–1923), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral Hayao Tada (多田 駿...
Nintendo Entertainment System. In 1984, Sega executives David Rosen and HayaoNakayama led a management buyout, with backing from CSK Corporation. In 1988...
Sega CEO HayaoNakayama and widely supported by Sega of America employees. According to the former Sega of America producer Scot Bayless, Nakayama was worried...
America, in 2009 As a result of Sega's deteriorating financial situation, HayaoNakayama resigned as president of Sega in January 1998 in favor of Irimajiri...
phone call in his Las Vegas hotel suite from Sega president HayaoNakayama, in which Nakayama stressed the importance of coming up with a quick response...
executive of an American automobile manufacturer. After his recovery, HayaoNakayama, then president of Sega Enterprises, asked him to become vice president...
games) were purchased by a group of investors led by David Rosen and HayaoNakayama the year after. Gulf and Western subsequently folded the former Sega...
replaced by Tom Kalinske, formerly of Mattel.: 423–424 Sega president HayaoNakayama decided Sega needed a flagship series and mascot to compete with Nintendo's...
1989. The decision to make a handheld console was made by Sega's CEO HayaoNakayama and the name was chosen by newly appointed Sega of America CEO Michael...
divested its non-core businesses including Sega, and Sega president HayaoNakayama was installed as CEO. Sega released another console, the SG-1000 II...
With its arcade business in decline, Sega Enterprises, Ltd. president HayaoNakayama advocated that the company leverage its hardware expertise to move into...
Entertainment System. Around the same time, Sega executives David Rosen and HayaoNakayama executed a management buyout of the company from Gulf and Western, with...
However, during development, the Dragon Ball license expired and Sega CEO HayaoNakayama ordered the developers to start the game over from scratch. The game...
was more successful than Sony's PlayStation, so Sega Enterprises CEO HayaoNakayama decided to focus on the Saturn, resulting in the end of support for...
limited capabilities made development difficult.: 65 Sega president HayaoNakayama informed Naka of the Saturn's successor, the Dreamcast, and he believed...
Kong as a parking attendant—was canceled after Sega's David Rosen and HayaoNakayama arranged a management buyout from Gulf and Western Industries in 1984...
was more successful than Sony's PlayStation, so Sega Enterprises CEO HayaoNakayama decided to focus on the Saturn. By 1999, the Nomad was being sold at...
service's games and demos to sell more cartridges. In early 1995, Sega CEO HayaoNakayama ended development on the Sega Genesis and its add-ons, the Sega CD and...
Donkey Kong game, but it was canceled after Sega's David Rosen and HayaoNakayama arranged a management buyout from Gulf and Western Industries in 1984...
relationship with Esco Trading, a company formed by Sega president HayaoNakayama, which gave the latter the rights to distribute Hoei Sangyo's video...
but it was cancelled halfway through development. Sega's president HayaoNakayama decided that Sega needed a flagship series and mascot to compete with...
console. By contrast, Steven L. Kent claims that Sega of Japan CEO HayaoNakayama watched the Pico "utterly fail" in North America. In December 1993,...