The storied engineer passed away this Friday, February 13, 2026, at age 77. Joining Sega back in 1971, Sato saw the company go through every transformation firsthand, from a U.S.-based electronics ...

Hideki Sato, the designer behind the majority of Sega's video game consoles, including the Dreamcast and Master System, has died.

Hideki Sato, the designer behind virtually every Sega console, and the company’s former president, has died age 77. Japanese games outlet Beep21 reports that Sato passed away this weekend.

Sega is giving us exactly what we want: more of that sweet, retro gaming nostalgia. Following the success of its Mega Drive Mini from 2019, Sega announced a follow-up that has 50 more classic video ...

The visionary engineer who created the Master System, Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast has passed away. Sato spent 37 years at ...

Nintendo didn't start the trend of micro-consoles catering to nostalgic tastes, but with the launch of 2016's NES Classic, it set the standard. Yet while Nintendo followed up with the SNES Classic in ...

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TweakTown may also earn commissions from other affiliate partners at no extra cost to you. In a bid to counter Nintendo's NES Mini, Sega is ...

When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing ...

Sega’s Genesis Mini console was one of the only officially licensed retro emulation boxes that came close to the NES and SNES Classics’ combination of software quality and hardware authenticity, even ...