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If you wanted to publish a game for the NES, you had to go through Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo. He had the final veto power at the moment of pub
by 29athrowaway 5y ago
If you wanted to publish a game for the NES, you had to go through Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo. He had the final veto power at the moment of publishing a game.
If he didn't like the game, the game would not get published no matter what.
This process ensured that the NES had only quality games.
Yamauchi was 7th dan in Go, and at one point was the richest man in Japan.
- lxrbst 5y ago>This process ensured that the NES had only quality games. Probably some rubberstamp thing then. NES had _plenty_ of bad games though, actually the majority of games published were bad. See LJN.
- 29athrowaway 5y agoI was so incredibly disappointed with some of those games. Like the BTTF game.
- nemo44x 5y agoIt had to do with bugs, etc. And that a game wasn’t E.T. level awful.
- butlerm 5y agoSome companies did manage to produce NES compatible cartridges without NES permission, but it wasn't easy. They had to work around or defeat the lock out chip designed to prevent that.
- 29athrowaway 5y agoIronically, "Super 3D Noah's Ark", a bible inspired game, was one of such games, but for the SNES. The required you to put a licensed catridge on top of the game catridge, and the unlicensed catridge would piggyback on the licensed catridge for loading.
- LocalH 5y agoAnd the engine was actually licensed from iD, so it was entirely legal.