In article <Pine.BSI.3.96.980111010641.12505E-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, you wrote:
>I gave up on the COMMERCIAL CD, which was depressing. Bridgestone has
>ALREADY agreed to a reasonable royalty per CD on the commercial CD for
>their games, but the CD would not have sold in retail outlets without more
>mainstream titles such as the Atari catalog. JTS was the stalwart here,
>and we found no willing publishers (Activision would have been ideal).
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The CD wouldn't have sold retail anyways. The activision packs were a
commercial failure and the market for classic material is too fringe to
have any sort of mainstreme appeal (not to mention it's not like
everyone has a Supercharger to play the games with).
Big department stores would have no interest in the CD at all.
You don't need to sell retail to make a profit. Most of the people who
are going to buy your CD are already accessable to you through
RGVC. And for the non-online collectors, I'm sure video game specialty
stores like Jerry G's would be eager to carry another Supercharger CD.
What the collectors want are the Supercharger games. The Atari and Activision
libraries are available on-line and through a few dozen pirate CDs.
The original Stella CD only had two non-Starpath items on it.
POLO.BIN (now on every ROM site) and SOUND-X.
I'm sure you could negotiate another deal for the inclusion of SOUND-X.
Bob's 2K Okie Dokie is PD, but you might be able to negotiate a deal
with Bob for the 4K version as well as Stella Sketch. And now that
the mighty Oystron is activated you might be able to work out a deal for
that. INV2 might not be far behind either.
Sell on-line and through specialty stores and I'm certain you'll do well
(just be sure create a Webpage for the new Stella CD). You can also stick
all the documentary material you want on the CD and people will buy it for
that too.
The days of mainstreme 2600 sales are long gone. Our market now is the
collectors. Make your product for them, not Joe Six-pack, and it will sell.
Have faith in your product.
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>If we can't, then I'd either can the project or release a CD
>with everything except the Starpath stuff for a profit.
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You mean everything except the JTS stuff. There's no reason to scrap the
Starpath stuff, Bridgestone is willing to deal.
CRACKERS
(Go for it from hell!!!!!!!)
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