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"On the one hand, if I live at home for much longer I’ll go stir-crazy. What I need is a place to go. Friends. Work. Moving to Marin and doing another game for
by microdrum 8y ago
"On the one hand, if I live at home for much longer I’ll go stir-crazy. What I need is a place to go. Friends. Work. Moving to Marin and doing another game for Broderbund would give me that...the games business is drying up.
Karateka may make me as little as $75,000 all told, and it’s at the top of the charts. Tere’s no guarantee the new game will be as successful."
What. $75,000 for a 21 year old in 1985? ($180,000 today.)
Why did he seem so upset about that?
- amiraliakbari 8y agoProbably not, but expectations change through time - especially if you make such a successful game. Quoting from The Making of Karateka Journals: "February 13, 1982 Scott Barnes from Hayden called. Will they ever publish Asteroids? It’s been over a year — fifteen months — since I submitted it and they accepted it. (Sigh.) If they only sell 1,000 copies, I’ll make $4,500 — if they sell 5,000, I’ll make $22,500 — ridiculously high sums of money. Right now I only have $500, counting everything. So why am I not on the phone with them every morning, pushing, pushing? Oh well. When I finish Deathbounce and sell it, I’ll be rich and then I can stop worrying about money for the next few years."
- grkvlt 8y agoI guess because amortized over, say 5 years, that's just equivalent to a $15k p.a. salary (or $36k today) and that's a maximum for him. Hardly 'fuck-you money' really, and I think it might even be less than the average wage in the US...?