Imagine loaning 500 million dollars of your own money out of the kindness of your heart. In turn saving thousands of jobs, and peoples stability. Then on your deathbed, knowing you wont need that money soon, simply dropping the debt. That's half a billion dollars... Loaning the money was commendable on it's own, but then simply dropping the debt...

Then we have Activision/Blizzard CEO's are laying off hundreds of people to make sure they get their few mil at the end of the year. Isao Okawa was a name I have never heard before today, but wish I had. If only we had more people like him. Having that kind of money, and actually using it to do some good is honorable, and yet men like him are rare. Hit me right in the feels.

Developed by two teams? Thousands of miles apart and with a language barrier? Absolutely no communication? Always a good idea! Never goes wrong!

The fact that Sega was saved by one extreeeeeeeeeeeemly generous man is honestly amazing in a way I cannot tell is good or bad.

“Years ago, I was Chinese” that had me dying.

I still find it hilarious that despite being Nintendo’s Rival, the two things that killed Sega as a hardware competitor was themselves and Sony.

I feel Sega got too overconfident with the Genesis success and didn't bother to properly advance their console line, taking the phrase "They do what Nintendon't" way too far.

Isao Okawa went above and beyond to keep Sega alive. If that doesn't inspire selflessness, I don't know what will.


He deserves all of our gratitude for saving Sega. May he rest in peace.

A Fred Durst signed Dreamcast is one of the most late 90s things I've ever heard

"WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE ATARI JAGUAR"

That's a t-shirt right there 👍

It always strikes me as how strange the US, European, and Japanese home offices were constantly at war each other within Sega. It wasn't until after the restructuring with the collapse of the Dreamcast that their overall global platform was unified.

Damn, seeing that Okawa bit made me emotional. I hope SEGA still paying respects to him.

Isao Okawa is the Sega version of Satoru Iwata. What a fucking outrageously generous man to singlehandedly save Sega when they should've by all metrics gone under. Without him we would've never gotten shit like the Yakuza games or even possibly Persona or Dark Souls.

This Isao Okawa sounds like a decent person.

I remember the end of the Dreamcast cycle. I was working at Toys R Us at the time and I remember they discounted the Dreamcast to $50. I bought it and 2 extra controllers 2 extra memory cards and a handful of games, plus my employee "discount" I spent around $80. They were just trying to get rid of them. I still have mine til this day. I even still have the box lol. The playstation 2 release was a BEAST. We could NEVER keep even one on the shelf and we'd only get like 1 to 5 of them a week

Gotta say, these days it's hard to imagine a wealthy chairman bailing out one of his own flagging companies instead of giving it the axe while waiting for a bailout from the government so he doesn't have to cut his own paycheck.

RIP Okawa san
the supervisor of sonic adventure 1 ,2 ,and the savior of sega
your dream will never die

Thank you Isao Okawa

I remember my brother and I being at the midnight launch at Gamestop. It was PACKED. So much hype and the clerk said "Dreamcast is no joke!" It's such a bittersweet memory because if you were there that night you would've thought that this thing was going to beat the PS2. RIP Dreamcast.

Isao okawa is officially a gigantic mega chad. Mad respect

What Okawa did genuinely made me tear up. That's amazing.