Gremlin Industries

Gremlin Industries was an American arcade game manufacturer active from 1970 to 1983, based in San Diego, California.

Among Sega/Gremlin's most notable games are Blockade and Head On, as well as being the North American distributors for Frogger and Zaxxon.

In 1981, Gremlin leased the first building in Rancho Bernardo's Technology Park, which they moved into in 1982 as their main manufacturing facility.

The estimated cost of the building was US$10 million and was the plant where games like Zaxxon (1982), Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983), and Congo Bongo (1983) were manufactured.

[10] However, the company entered a rapid decline beginning in mid-1982, due to overproduction issues which ended the golden age of arcade video games.

[15][16] After the sale of arcade manufacturing assets, Sega Electronics became a shell company (holding only Gremlin brand trademarks in several countries).

Deep Scan was included as a bonus game in the Sega Saturn version of Die Hard Arcade.

An arcade game of Star Trek made by Sega Electronics