From: weaponx013@yahoo.com   
      
   Ted wrote:   
   > Scott H wrote:   
   >>> Like the Genesis...   
   >> Do you mean the Atari controller port deal?  Didn't Sega settle out of   
   >> court, and then give Atari a lot of money to start publishing games   
   >> again?  I recall reading something about this making the Jaguar   
   >> possible as well.   
   >   
   > Virtually everything settles without going to trial. And patent   
   > infringmeent in this case was pretty cut and dry. I've also heard the   
   > cash from the case was essentially sunk into the Jag. I don't think any   
   > money went from Sega to Atari to make games for Sega systems (which was   
   > implied in your statement, but I may be wrong about your intentions   
   > there), as the console business and the arcade Ataris were separate by   
   > that time, and Atari's home division never made anything for a Sega   
   > system before it was sold off as a name. Was the Atari Anthology even by   
   > the home divions successor in interest or was it the arcade division's?   
      
         Right, but in the Emmersion case, Sony chose to fight and lost,   
   while MS settled out of court and Nintendo and Sega had previously been   
   paying them already.  It's just one of many examples of Sony's business   
   tactics, whether one likes them or not is another thing entirely.   
         I'm not sure who released the Genesis Atari collections, I might   
   be able to find out tomorrow though, when I can look at a box.  I am   
   also not certain that I recall any kind of deal for games from Atari for   
   the Genesis specifically.  The deal I'm recalling was something between   
   Sega and Nintendo and Atari, where the former two basically provided   
   life support for Atari financially, in exchange for games.  I'm not sure   
   what came of that though.   
      
      
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