Gremlin Industries

Gremlin Industries was an arcade game manufacturer active from the 1971 to 1983 based San Diego, California, USA.

History
Gremlin was founded in 1971 as a contract engineering firm by Harry Frank Fogleman and Carl E Grindle. In 1973 they became a manufacturer of coin-operated wall games with their first game Play Ball (1973). Gremlin joined the video game market in 1976 by releasing its first video arcade game entitled Blockade (1976).

In 1978, Gremlin was acquired by Sega Enterprises Inc. and their games acquired the label of Gremlin/Sega or Sega/Gremlin. Following the Sega purchase, Gremlin began to release games from both Sega and other Japanese companies. Among these video games were Namco's Gee Bee (1978) and Konami's Frogger (1981).

In 1982 the name of the company was changed to Sega Electronics to better strengthen the Sega brand name in the United States. In mid-1983 the arcade assets of the company were sold to Bally Manufacturing and Sega Electronics was shuttered soon afterwards.

The company still exists as Ages Electronics under CBS.

Video games

 * 1976:
 * Blockade (Gremlin's first released video game)
 * 1977:
 * Safari
 * Super Bowl
 * Comotion
 * Depthcharge
 * Hustle


 * 1978:
 * Gee Bee (licensed from Namco; the Gremlin version replaces the "N-A-M-C-O" letters on the bumpers with the company's distinctive "G" logo.)
 * Blasto
 * Frogs


 * 1979:
 * Deep Scan
 * Fortress
 * Head On
 * Head On 2
 * Invinco


 * 1980:
 * Astro Fighter
 * Digger
 * Monaco GP
 * Moon Cresta (licensed from Nichibutsu)
 * Space Firebird (licensed from Nintendo)
 * Super Moon Cresta (licensed from Nichibutsu)
 * Carnival


 * 1981:
 * Astro Blaster
 * Eliminator
 * Frogger (licensed from Konami)
 * Pulsar
 * Space Fury
 * Space Odyssey
 * 005


 * 1982:
 * Zaxxon

Ports
Sega released emulated and playable versions of some of the early Sega/Gremlin arcade games as vault material for the Sega Genesis Collection for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable.