Activision vs Atari - Is That Really the Case?

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A handful of A publishers at the time that all had the same idea. Activision just pay you guys Atari like a royalty fee for every cartridge that we sell? You get 10, 20, 30 percent away. It doesn't even matter. We're all making so much money. And by the way, the reason they name it Activision is so it comes before Atari in the phone book.

You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn’t they buy the Seattle Mariners at some point? We thought we knew it too. And then we started researching and were blown away.

The lovable Disney-like Nintendo that we know today is a 130 year-old a playing card company (i.e. gambling), forged in the shadowy world of the Yakuza and shaped by a four-generation cycle of bitter family betrayal. And its unlikely transformation into a global multi-billion dollar media monopoly was led by an iron-fisted patriarch who — amazingly — never played a video game in his life! Get ready for one of our favorite stories Acquired has ever told — we couldn’t make this one up if we tried!

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