Bernie Stolar, former Sega of America president and Sony Computer Entertainment America founder, has died aged 75.
, and verified in messages sent to the publication from Stolar’s friends, the businessman passed away in his home state of California.
Stolar was instrumental in signing the likes of Crash Bandicoot, Ridge Racer and Spyro the Dragon to the platform, however, controversially, he reportedly enforced a “no RPG” policy during his time at SCEA due to the genre mostly being in 2D at the time, and thus not showing off the power of theFollowing the successful first year of the PlayStation, Stolar moved to Sega of America where he oversaw the launch of Sega Saturn.
Prior to the console’s launch in North America, Stolar was let go from Sega and received a $5Million dollar severance package.
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