The inside story of Atari’s battle with Nintendo.
We recently had the extraordinary good fortune to sit down recently for a chat with video game industry veteran Lawrence Siegel to discuss his amazing career and his fascinating battle with Nintendo during his tenure at Atari.
Siegel oversaw the release of the Atari Lynx, a powerful handheld device that had the misfortune of going head-to-head with Nintendo’s world-conquering Game Boy. Nintendo’s stranglehold over the console market was one of the hardest obstacles he would have to face, so Siegel can be forgiven for wanting to find a way to get one over on the Japanese giant – and one such plan involved a certain Canadian ice hockey player.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
The inside story of Atari’s battle with Nintendo.
We recently had the extraordinary good fortune to sit down recently for a chat with video game industry veteran Lawrence Siegel to discuss his amazing career and his fascinating battle with Nintendo during his tenure at Atari.
Siegel oversaw the release of the Atari Lynx, a powerful handheld device that had the misfortune of going head-to-head with Nintendo’s world-conquering Game Boy. Nintendo’s stranglehold over the console market was one of the hardest obstacles he would have to face, so Siegel can be forgiven for wanting to find a way to get one over on the Japanese giant – and one such plan involved a certain Canadian ice hockey player.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
