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leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Gambit on October 25, 2006, 02:23:08 am ---
--- Quote from: DarkBubble on October 24, 2006, 04:15:30 pm ---Sony's been a bit too 80's Nintendo in their business practices.

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Nintendo was the best thing that could happen to the home arcade scene in the 80's.

They came into the scene with a quality product with quality games. Much different then what everyone else was doing. Such as Atari who seemed to just flood the market with as many games as fast as possible, most of which no better than pong.

And lets not forget Nintendos greatest gift to the home arcade machine industry..... The thumbpad controller.

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You have some misleading information there that I would like to point out as false. There were definetly some junk cartridges made for the Atari system - but most of them were not made by Atari. Atari allowed anyone to make a game for their system. It was an open platform. The result was lots of companies creating crap just to make a buck.

I'll agree with you that they were junk games though! Nintendo games were far superior graphically and playability.

As for the controller... they were first to popularize the thumpad controller. They also produced more goofy controllers than anyone else. Glove, Robot, etc. They aren't afraid to take a gamble.

While I love nintendo... I loved my atari first!

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on October 25, 2006, 12:05:40 pm --- Atari allowed anyone to make a game for their system. It was an open platform.

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It was not an open platform.  They sued the crap out of the first third party developers (Activision was the big one).  The end result was Activision winning but (IIRC) having to pay a royalty for each copy sold, leading eventually to the licensing schemes that developers use today.

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 25, 2006, 12:19:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: leapinlew on October 25, 2006, 12:05:40 pm --- Atari allowed anyone to make a game for their system. It was an open platform.

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It was not an open platform.  They sued the crap out of the first third party developers (Activision was the big one).  The end result was Activision winning but (IIRC) having to pay a royalty for each copy sold, leading eventually to the licensing schemes that developers use today.

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your right.... kind of. I definetly should have choosen my language more carefully. Here is a good history of the 2600 if your interested in doing some reading on the worlds best system!  :)

http://www.classicgaming.com/museum/2600/

DarkBubble:
For all the years of being considered a kiddy company and the recent innovations, Nintendo was once a cutthroat company who didn't like to play fair.  They kept a stranglehold on developers and distributors.  They forced developers to tweak their games to fit the mappers that they used in cartridges outside of Japan, often resulting in downgraded audio and visuals in the process.  They sued unlicensed 3rd party developers and took Galoob to court over the Game Genie.

Rudi:

Is there anywhere else where I can get a pair of LCD Topguns?  That's the last control I need for my next cab, and was about to buy one next month.  Shows you what happens when you wait.....

-Rudi

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