Hi Jim,
That's very true. A lot of people believe because Atari opened the
console to third-party developers and there were a number of
unsuccessful games released it lead to Atari's downfall. Atari got a
reputation for having very low quality games just when Nentendo was
beginning to come out with their own console and sales for the NES were
going through the roof while Atari went belly up.
As far as I know Nintendo was one of the first to require developers to
pay them to support their game console, and to use a review board to
approve and reject perspective games for the console. Sega followed
Nintendo's lead and began to do the same thing. Not surprisingly by the
late 80's and early 90's video games had dramatically improved, and
those standards set by Nintendo and Sega forced out all the lower
quality games. Its for that reason Sony, Apple, Microsoft, etc continue
this practice. Its a good way to make sure everything produced for the
platform lives up to the quality and standards the brand expects.
On 5/22/2012 5:04 AM, Jim Kitchen wrote:
Hi Dennis,
On the History channel they said that Atari not having standards and
letting just about anyone develop just about anything for their system
lead to the downfall of Atari.
BTW My Windows games have their title on the screen, but that is it.
And sighted people play the games at my place and say that they think
that they are pretty cool. But I doubt very seriously that they go
home and install them. Not with all of the great video games that
they have.
BFN
Jim
Now if I could only find the Video switch!
j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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