I'd occasionally visit the Gameworks at Grapevine Mills mall. It's now a place with aquariums that people pay to look at.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Venture
I still have my GW replay card. It still has credits I didn't use up.
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I'd occasionally visit the Gameworks at Grapevine Mills mall. It's now a place with aquariums that people pay to look at.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Venture
I still have my GW replay card. It still has credits I didn't use up.
There's humor in those shows?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Venture
Pfft, tv, that's so 90s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Venture
Isn't it bit sick to try and make a light hearted comment ? The late great ISAO OKAWA died after a long battle with cancer and even with his poor health still made sure to support and look after SEGA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drakon
Mr SEGA I tend to ingore you comments with SEGA as they just seem to be made to wind people up . Please don't have a dig at OKAWA-san with at least getting your facts right . OKAWA-san was the boss of SEGA since 1983 and since then was always the biggest shareholder with-in SEGA and where his company CSK bankrolled SEGA . Far from killing the DC Okawa-san funded the machine development and was the main who believed so much on the internet and how the DC should be on-line from day one , so much so that most of the DC servers were named after him in Japan .Quote:
He was the one who killed Dreamcast, also he wasn't in charge when Dreamcast was in development and when it launch, he took over in 2000. He was hired to KILL Dreamcast and dissolve SEGA's Away27 division
Really so why is SEGA name mud no with in the industry , why does hardly anybody care about SEGA anymore under who's watch did the likes of Sonic 06, NiGHTS JOD, PSO U, Project Altered Beast , Golden Axe Beast Rider. Since Sammy taken over SEGA SEGA fans have had very little to cheer imo and worst still under Satomi-san rule Yu Suzuki was treated terrible and allowed to leave the company and where SEGA Arcade board are less powerful than TATIO's.Quote:
I'm confident, Haijime Satomi will be called a savior 3 years from now because he's certainly turned SEGA's fortunes completely around the past 5 years and will do even BIGGER things for the company in the next half decade
How I miss the SEGA than was able to make the likes of Orta, REZ, JSR, Space Channel 5, Shenmue
1: I don't / didn't know mr. okawa or any of his family / friends personally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
2: I wasn't making fun of him, just the bizarre timing of the death.
3: It happened 12 years ago.
I had a job where the company got sold then immediately filed for bankruptcy and liquidated. At least 2 people died right after / around that time. I honestly believe losing something you're used to having can have effects on your health. Great loss = sudden huge stress and if your body is in a certain condition that stress is what's needed to finish you off.
4: You most likely don't / didn't know mr okawa or any of his friends / family personally, stop acting like you two were roommates at harvard.
Dieing from cancer sucks and I hope it was as painless as possible.
[QUOTE]1: I don't / didn't know mr. okawa or any of his family / friends personally.
Never do I , but I still try and respect people . I mean even with him letting have SEGA have his stock with them for nothing - he was still a billionaire at the time of his death
It was confirmed a year before his death that Mr Okawa was battling with cancer and he was not very well at all . It's thanks to that great one that SEGA become what is was and also thanks to his funding that we had the DC in the 1st place (even if it was madness really )Quote:
2: I wasn't making fun of him, just the bizarre timing of the death
QFT, yet I seem to remember having read that he also was one of those responsible for eventually going software only. (Another name we know in this context is Peter "Xbox" Moore)Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
I read in an interview with Bernie Stolar at bitmob that Okawa actually meant to do an Internet only machine (!). Wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
Yes EDGE did a special when the Teams became semi independent and Okawa-san said this was done with an eye to SEGA becoming a 3rd party. He knew that SEGA couldn't cut in the console Hardware game really and the DC wasn't selling enoughQuote:
yet I seem to remember having read that he also was one of those responsible for eventually going software only
He did fight hard to have the DC ship with a modem , but Okawa funded DC development believed in the internet and so many of the DC servers in Japan used his nameQuote:
I read in a recent interview that Stolar was among the pro-Internet fraction at Sega as well.
All of this is conjecture. You can spin any business strategy to look stupid or greedy really. I say that 80s-90s Sega nearly single handedly disproved the business model/myth of "if you build it they will come." Pettus' Okawa quote that they had no concept of cash flow is more in line with them sparing no expense to make NEW games, which is the single greatest characteristic Sega used to have.
The theory was, if you make great games the customer will keep you alive, that turned out to be false.
Didn't you criticise me for using Pettis in that other thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by sheath
I said that we shouldn't cite him unless we are only going to cite Pettus himself. He doesn't provide sources, so none of his quotations are validated. I consider him a secondary source the same as Steven Kent. If they don't provide primary references for us to check then we can only say "according to the writer". In other words, according to Pettus' writing Okawa thought Sega had no business sense. We don't know that Okawa actually said that though.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
He did in fact say that .Quote:
We don't know that Okawa actually said that though
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Yeah, I didn't believe that Pettuss was just pulling that info out of his ass. His article seems far more researched and informed than anything else out there, when it comes to the Saturn. It looks like he quoted that article word for word.Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
Nice find!
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Originally Posted by Drakon
You must spread some reputation before giving it to Drakon.
It doesn't matter whether or not Pettus invented these quotes, until they are validated and cited we can rightly assume that he has skewed them to his narrative in some way. Thanks TA for the verification on that Okawa quote though. Where is that picture from?