pacman000 Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Sam sums up video game history & plugs the Jaguar. Anyone know of a longer/better quality version of this? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 I don't have any video of Sam, but I can tell you how the story ends. But seriously, neat find. I had never seen him speak before. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted August 1, 2018 Author Share Posted August 1, 2018 (edited) Another 90's talk with Sam Tramiel. According to the description he's talking about getting the Jaguar online. I can't understand everything he's saying; too much echo. Edited August 1, 2018 by pacman000 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Sam sums up video game history & plugs the Jaguar.His point about Nintendo's "monopolistic practices" is pretty funny when you know that they actually offered Atari the opportunity to handle distribution of the NES. Atari declined, and the rest is history. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete5125 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 His point about Nintendo's "monopolistic practices" is pretty funny when you know that they actually offered Atari the opportunity to handle distribution of the NES. Atari declined, and the rest is history. true in hindsight that was a bad move on ataris end but the 5200 had just came out 2 yrs previous to this without backwards compatibility and that was one of the main reasons consumers listed for it being a nonpurchase, adding a extra device that costed near the price of a 2600 as an adapter to play games didnt help, so atari didnt want to be in same situation with nes. add to that they had a similar system better in some ways 7800 ready to launch, and nintendo if successful had a normal nintendo deal that benefited them more than atari, i could see walking away. granted knowing the success of nes and assuming atari launched nes could have same success atari taking the table scraps of money nintendo was offering would of kept them a strong company and changed history, tamells would of never bought the company, and the pc line wouldn't of been priority to stomp c64 into the ground. kerp in mind years later nintendo made the same mistake twice 1st launching the failure Phillips cdi, then the success sony PlayStation. all because nintendo wanted a snes cd drive and backed out of agreement at last minute. if sony was under nes belt immagine the last 2 decades could be completely different as sony changed all the rules 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 Leonard Tramiel talking about the Jaguar's architecture. Using transparencies, he compares the system bus to a highway. Apparently from their 1st press conference about the Jaguar. Hard to believe it would end within 4 years. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 he compares the system bus to a highway. Maybe the M25 lol. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinkoVitch Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Maybe the M25 lol. Dunno, the M6 is probably a pretty good analogy too, full of collisions and restrictions 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 Alright, here it is. This appears to be a complete video of Atari's 1993 press conference. It looks so empty. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Dragon Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 Alright, here it is. This appears to be a complete video of Atari's 1993 press conference. It looks so empty. Thanks for sharing. There are a lot of empty chairs at that conference. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 Judging by the thumbnails it might have filled up once things started. Haven't watched it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 His point about Nintendo's "monopolistic practices" is pretty funny when you know that they actually offered Atari the opportunity to handle distribution of the NES. Atari declined, and the rest is history. It's not even remotely as simple as that 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Dragon Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 It doesn't look like the Atari presentations impressed everybody: 'Richard Millar was sitting right next to Sam Tramiel. I've been in similar conferences, and believe me, you don't say anything that the boss doesn't want you to say when you're in such a situation. I found the delphi conference to be singularly uniformative. Same old marketing-type hypeola, no substantive information. And replication of some of the more stupid lies, so I find it difficult to trust the information there any more than any other marketing "opportunity". I'm looking forward to being able to get my hands on a *real* Jaguar. An afternoon with a screwdriver and inspection lamp will tell a whole lot more of the story than anything I've seen here, there, or anywhere.' Michael Farren of Psygnosis there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupremeEnchanter Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 His point about Nintendo's "monopolistic practices" is pretty funny when you know that they actually offered Atari the opportunity to handle distribution of the NES. Atari declined, and the rest is history. He was right. The US justice department about gave Nintendo the death nod and ban them from doing business in the US. They reached a deal last minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empsolo Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 He was right. The US justice department about gave Nintendo the death nod and ban them from doing business in the US. They reached a deal last minute. They reached a deal because a jury came back in Nintendo’s favor in the Atari Corp lawsuit and that spooked the feds into thinking they couldn’t win a case in open court. Remember the Justice Department only tries cases they are damn sure they can win and I don’t think they thought a ban would survive a jury. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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