Hideki Sato has died (opens in new tab)

Remember when Sega made consoles? Hideki Sato remembered, because he was involved in or designed <em>all</em> of them &mdash; from the 1982 SG-1000 under Sega Enterprises Ltd. president Hayao Nakayama, later reworked <a href="https://nicole.express/2023/sg-1000-is-a-stupid-name-why-is-there-no-sg-500.html">as the SC-3000 home computer</a>, to of course the extremely popular Mega Drive/Genesis and the technologically overwrought Saturn, to the flawed but ahead-of-its-time 1999 <a href="/2022/1...