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DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: Vigo on April 11, 2012, 03:00:54 am ---Makes more sense than a wealthy computer tycoon stopping a major contest so he can have a free sword through defrauding a company he is trying to save. ::)

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Pretty much as Savannah said, the contest was cancelled long before Tramiel stepped in.  Atari could simply not afford to hold the competition (or release the final game, Waterworld), even if the prizes were already set.  And who was he defrauding?  Technically, he paid for those prizes.  ;)

Here's a thread: http://www.cloudstrider.com/cs3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1601

Vigo:
Hmmm...If that is the case, why do people ---smurfette--- so much about Jack Tramiel? The company was tanked before he bought it, and if the contest was scrapped beforehand as well, then people should be grumbling about Warner instead.

Jack is still badass in my book, and if he actually had the Swordquest deathly hallows, I hope he had some kickass plans for them in his will. Another contest maybe? :cheers:

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DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: Vigo on April 11, 2012, 10:19:43 am ---Hmmm...If that is the case, why do people ---smurfette--- so much about Jack Tramiel? The company was tanked before he bought it, and if the contest was scrapped beforehand as well, then people should be grumbling about Warner instead.

Jack is still badass in my book, and if he actually had the Swordquest deathly hallows, I hope he had some kickass plans for them in his will. Another contest maybe? :cheers:

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I think some people did not like how he did not like console gaming and turned Atari into a home computer company and left all work on consoles (5200 and 7800) to rot. It was the success of the NES that changed his mind on consoles but by then it was too late.

Howard_Casto:
Well that may be true, but according to documentries and such I've seen on Atari the whole game development staff devolved into hopeless druggies as soon as the money came rolling in.  People hate hearing this, but in terms of video games there was only a very short window in their history in which the original company made anything good.  We had Pong obviously.... the early atari arcade machines... the first two or three years of the 2600 and then it was downhill from there.

Atari may have started it all, but it's important to remember that they almost ended it all as well.

That being said, all of that mess has nothing to do with Jack and his accomplishments.  It shouldn't have suprised anyone that the founder of Commadore, a company that made computers that just happened to play games, focused on similar home computer units once he bought Atari.  If anything he kept Atari limping along so that the valuable ips didn't fall into obscurity.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on April 11, 2012, 05:26:11 pm ---That being said, all of that mess has nothing to do with Jack and his accomplishments.  It shouldn't have suprised anyone that the founder of Commadore, a company that made computers that just happened to play games, focused on similar home computer units once he bought Atari.  If anything he kept Atari limping along so that the valuable ips didn't fall into obscurity.

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and if I remember correctly, Warner wanted to change Atari over to home computers long before they sold Atari to Tramiel. It was one of the reasons Nolan Bushnell ended up parting ways with Atari.

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