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Soviet officials revealed they had never actually licensed Tetris console rights
“And he, Took the Tetris cartridge box into his hand, and he looked at it, and looked at it, and he looked at me, and he said, we never licensed console rights to anyone.”
Rogers paid Atari Games $300,000 for Japanese Nintendo Tetris rights
“I think I made the deal for 300,000 dollars.”
Nintendo agreed to a $1M upfront guarantee for handheld Tetris rights
“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.”
Game Boy Tetris sold 30 million bundled copies and 5 million standalone
“Thirty million packed in, and another five million as just sold as a box product.”
Rogers offered the Soviet government 25 cents per Game Boy Tetris copy
“The offer that I made them was I would pay them 25 cents for every Game Boy Tetris that was sold.”