Ajax on 14 April 2008
and Atari should be getting more credit for it's role in this history
eventhough that if they hadn't get in so much trouble in the early 80's
Nintendo wouldn't have even made the NES on it's own
because the original plan was that Atari would make the Famicom and publish it, while Nintendo would get royalties for it's developed games
but that never happened
These problems were followed by the infamous video game crash of 1983, which caused losses that totaled more than $500 million. Warner's stock price slid from $60 to $20, and the company began searching for a buyer for its troubled division. In 1983, Ray Kassar was forced to leave Atari, and executives involved in the Famicom deal were forced to start over again from scratch and the deal eventually languished. With Atari's further financial problems and the Famicom's runaway Japanese success after its July 16th, 1983 release date, Nintendo decided to go at it alone.
that's the original plan I mean..
''Hadouken!''
