[game_preservation] 1974 Atari memo by Jobs

[Devin Monnens]

Never heard about that regarding the pizza commercial. Do you have the
article where this commercial was mentioned?  ne would think there might be
a record to the commercial somewhere (magazine ad, most likely). In any
case, Chris Kohler interviewed Toru Iwatani and wrote in Power-Up that
based on Iwatani's response to the question (which was basically 'that's
how I *wish* it had happened'), the story might simply be apocryphal at
this point.

Incidentally, there was an EM Western Gun by Taito. Anyone have footage of
either game in action? I'm particularly interested in Nishikado's work
since he created the first original arcade games in Japan.


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:


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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:

>>

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>> Regarding 'speculation' and 'unsourced' information, there's a lot of

>> that on the web. I'm not sure where some of the ideas come from.

>>

>

>

> That goes in both directions really. There's also the problems of

> "official corporate cannon" vs. what actually happened. Such as the case of

> the Super Mario Bros. currently claimed release date in the U.S. Or for

> instance in regards to Space Invaders, where industry insider Kevin

> Williams says it was known within Taito the idea came from their earlier EM

> game Space Monsters and the characteristic sprites were supposed to have

> been used as test patterns in their pre-Space Invaders video arcade games.

> (Interestingly, the Space Monsters connection was up on Taito's Japanese

> website up until shortly after Kevin wrote the article for me at CG.com.

> That's actually where I got the flyer image from).

>

> There's also Pac-Man, which beyond the official PR, the idea was actually

> supposed to have come from a comercial for a Japanese pizza chain which

> featured a similar looking character eating up pizzas. NAMCO is supposed to

> have bought out the rights to the commercial to bury it.

>

> --

> Marty

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