Wow...Can you imagine the "What If" scenario--if Commodore and Radio Shack had been partners? Then you'd have married a nice package of manufacturing partners with a lockdown retail distribution network. The C-64 would probably have been $50 instead of $200.
Well, relationships were very tenuous in the mid- to late-1970's, so such a scenario would have been distinctly possible. Same thing with Apple and Atari. There were scenarios where Commodore, Atari, Apple and Tandy could have all been partners/distributors with one or the other, went with what became a competitor's computer instead of their own, etc. Wild times.
Up until the industry started to stabilize post-crash, late 1985, pretty much any whacked out scenario could have happened. The industry was making it all up as it went along, be it at the arcade or home videogames or home computers.
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Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Wow...Can you imagine the "What If" scenario--if Commodore and Radio Shack had been partners? Then you'd have married a nice package of manufacturing partners with a lockdown retail distribution network. The C-64 would probably have been $50 instead of $200.
Well, relationships were very tenuous in the mid- to late-1970's, so such a scenario would have been distinctly possible. Same thing with Apple and Atari. There were scenarios where Commodore, Atari, Apple and Tandy could have all been partners/distributors with one or the other, went with what became a competitor's computer instead of their own, etc. Wild times.
Up until the industry started to stabilize post-crash, late 1985, pretty much any whacked out scenario could have happened. The industry was making it all up as it went along, be it at the arcade or home videogames or home computers.
Wii: 1345 2773 2048 1586 | PS3: ArmchairArcade
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director | Armchair Arcade, Inc.
***************************
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.