March 9, 1990
Lunch with Latricia, Sophie and Jessica. Latricia didn’t seem to want to talk about Prince of Persia, so we talked about my Hollywood adventures instead. It’s true what Laurie said: Latricia doesn’t like this game. Even Sophie and Jessica are enthusiastic, but to Latricia, it’s an arcade game, and “arcade games don’t sell.”
A really good review by the Game Wardens.
The 3.5″ version of Apple POP finally signed out of QA today.
The IBM version is down to the last few bugs, and O God, it’s a thing of beauty. Playing it is a pleasure, even for me. It’s the most beautiful game I’ve ever seen. And I’m not the only one who’s saying that. If this version doesn’t sell 100,000 copies, there is no justice in the world.
Dianne stopped by and told me she was submitting it to Konami. Thank God she’s in there trying. I hope they sell a few before the bottom drops out of the cartridge business.
The tension is just about unbearable. This game should be a major hit. It should sell 250,000 copies. In the best case, if it gets licensed to game machines and coin-ops, I could end up making over a million bucks. Alternatively, everything could just… fizzle.
I won’t really know till May. Two more months.
NYU called to say they never got Doug’s letter of recommendation. I had to call and ask him to write a new one. I think it annoyed him. He’s also probably annoyed about the Roland MT-32 fiasco, where he tried to do me a favor and thanks in part to my lack of enthusiasm, it blew up in his face.
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Latricia didn’t seem to want to talk about Prince of Persia, so we talked about my Hollywood adventures instead. It’s true what Laurie said: Latricia doesn’t like this game. Even Sophie and Jessica are enthusiastic, but to Latricia, it’s an arcade game, and “arcade games don’t sell.”
That’s outrageous. How can she not stand behind the product she was hired to push?