Nintendo

“Video game businesses that were around for a long time tended to have a distribution mechanism of their own that they could use to kind of Buffer the time between making hit titles, because it's a very hit driven industry.”

“I think I made the deal for 300,000 dollars.”

“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…”

“If he ever found out that one of his underlings had canceled a meeting, that person would be fired.”

“Thirty million packed in, and another five million as just sold as a box product.”

“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.”

“Whenever I met him after that, I always set up the meeting on a day when I'm the last meeting. His last meeting, and then we would play Go for the rest of the day. I had all this one-on-one time with Yamauchi, which nobody had.”

“Arakawa made me a deal. I made him an offer and he shook my hand and It was like a million dollar up front, which was like, yeah, right on. Great deal.”

“I said, ok, I'll pay you a dollar per unit until you get your money back. Deal. And so that's how I became a Nintendo publisher.”

“And I realize, this guy's never Played any of the games on his machine. Yeah. And he hasn't, he's just run the company. He hasn't like played any of those games.”

“I still to date say that Nintendo was inspired by the success of my Game & Watch to come up with Game Boy, and of course they didn't want to give me Game Boy.”