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From: jeff@xanadu.com (Jeff Crilly N6ZFX)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Info on becoming Nintendo developer
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.072853.16540@xanadu.com>
Date: 10 Nov 90 07:28:53 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.181937.6521@NCoast.ORG> ramsey@NCoast.ORG (Cedric Ramsey) writes:
>In article <1459@eastman.UUCP> lsls00@iliad.kodak.com (Ilia Levi) writes:
>>
>>Sorry if this is the wrong group for this...
>>Where does one get information on writing games for Nintendo game
>>system? I know it's Nintendo, but where are they located, and
>>what does it take?
>
>I called them once. They told me that they have their own game developers.
>But if you have an idea, write it down and develope it on different system;
>ibm, amiga etc... Then send it to nintendo with the other many thousands
>of programs that they get each year.

There was an antitrust suit that I heard about recently.  Apparantly the
game developers here in the U.S. were pissed that nintendo wouldn't allow
them to use their cartridge technology when selling games.  Nintendo
claimed the cartridge design was patented.  Anyhow, I don't know if
the suit was settled or not.  At one point congress was debating it
on the house floor.

Jeff Crilly (N6ZFX)
AMIX Corporation  2345 Yale Street  Palo Alto, CA  94306
jeff@amix.com, {uunet,sun}!markets!jeff, N6ZFX@N6IIU.#NOCAL.CA.USA