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Wired Magazine - Consoles.

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  • 10-05-2001 1:51am
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    Hobbes
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    Don't know if the US version of Wired is different, but they have a really cool section on Consoles.

    From how they started, to who were the big players at what time and what the future holds (like X-Box will have built in parental control).

    Some quotes...

    Warren Robinett (consumer game designer, Atari): It was a died-and-gone-to-heaven type job. But around 1979, the designers started getting uptight. We were just getting salaries - no royalties, not even pizza - While Atari was making hundreds of millions of dollars. They wouldn't even put the designers' names on the box. I put up with so much bull**** to get Adventure produced that I hid my name behind a dot in the game. It was the first easter egg in a videogame.

    Nolan Bushnell (founder, Atari): To this day, people hear "Nolan Bushnell" and they think "That's the guy who ****ed up Atari." I was gone years before they ****ed up Atari.

    Gail Tilden (VP, marketing, Nintendo): We did everything we could to avoid being associated with Atari. We wouldn't even call it a videogame. It had to be called an entertainment system. Game cartridges became gamepacks.

    Micheal Katz (president, Sega of America): We needed a character to introduce with Genisis and compete with Mario. Nobody knew who Sonic was. American kids didn't even know what a Hedgehog was, but it didn't matter.

    Jim Whims (exec VP, Sony Computer Entertainment): The rule of thumb has always been the same: Software sells hardware.

    Greg Fischbach (CEO, Acclaim): When we released Mortal Kombat, it revolutionized the industry, in terms of attention it got and the older players that came to the game. Nintendo felt that the no-blood version was more appropriate for its system; Sega told us to put a label on the box so people would know what they were getting. And we sold three times as many units for Sega.


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