I searched the forums and didnt see it, but congrats on getting into game informer this month guys. Hope this doesnt flood the thread with tons of Gamestop brats. -Steven
I assumed it was known. I'll take a picture later when I can however a photo of the reverse engineered sega genesis that electronic arts was shown and a link back to assembler games was given with the main YouTube link as well.
Where was that photo posted on this forum? I never saw it. And what, exactly, is a "reverse engineered Genesis"? Like a Genesis built from the ground up by EA?
Okay to summarize the article: Ea severely underestimated the 8 bit console market. After a toys r us rep showed them that the first six pages of top software was for the nes ea tries to make games for the nes. They hate and will not agree to the terms nintendo has and by 1988/1989 they figure the genesis would be a good fit for the company as they have all these 16 bit pc games. They think sega would love this since sega had very little 3rd party support for the master system. They're surprised after sega says no "were just as good and the same as nintendo!" so they plead and realize that they will have to legally reverse engineer the genesis. They take their two best engineers and pay them to just take apart sega genesis consoles. They pass the findings off to the lawyers who when they say okay let the engineers continue. Finally after getting frustrated Anne finder finds how to make it work. They show up to tue 1993(?) summer ces and rent a booth and pull over sega japan pres and tell him they can play ball or they now just sell dev kits to anyone who wants to make genesis games... The next day ea games were on the sega booth featured prominently. They were allowed to make as Many as they wanted and how they wanted. They won. Turns out though that sega could have easily locked ea out again... But the rest is history
So the device was basically a dev kit that EA made by modifying a retail Genesis? What about my first question: where was this posted on ASSEMblergames?
Thats in the back. The last article after all the reviews etc. Where they used to have retro reviews.
