Henk Rogers
19 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2023 by Henk Rogers · across every show →
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Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi agreed to pay $300,000 for a Go game
“And he's sitting across from me, and Yamoichi says, I can't give you any programmers. I said, I don't need programmers. I just need money. And he says, how much? And I said, gosh, I mean, I, I'm thinking of what's the biggest number I can think of right now. A…”
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ELORG's director panicked and redirected a Tetris wire transfer during Soviet privatization
“I remember there was a very interesting moment in time when it was just the transition when it became a private company, and it was Mr. Belikov called me up in a panic and said, you know, the money that you cabled me, can you, like, Get it back, and then send …”
Jul 31, 2023 positive
Rogers and Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov sealed their 1993 partnership via handshake
“And it's 93, and he said, look I'm gonna make you an offer, you're gonna represent me, you're gonna take care of me, and you and me are gonna be partners. And basically made me an offer, and we shook hands in, in 93. That, that handshake is still alive today.”
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Nintendo cartridges prevented the software piracy that plagued early PC games
“It was the way to make money. It's, you know, like personal computers, you can copy that stuff. Right. So there's only so much you can sell. But cartridges, you can't copy them. If somebody wants to play a Nintendo game, they have to buy a Nintendo game.”
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Rogers realized video games would be imported globally like movies and music
“So I started traveling around the world looking for games to bring to Japan, because at the time, movies were coming from other countries, and music was coming from other countries. So I could see that all this culture was being imported from a lot of from the…”
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The Tetris Company was formed as a 50-50 split with the Soviet ELORG
“So basically, I start hammering out the deal with Belikov, and we end up making a, making the Tetris company, and it's fifty-fifty. That's, you know, because they had the copyright and trademark in 60 countries, and that was just too much for me to try to figh…”