June 18, 1990
Meeting with Don and Alan to renegotiate the royalty terms for Nintendo and GameBoy Prince. Ed Bernstein was absent, even though he’d asked for the meeting, so all Don and Alan could say was that they’d talk to Ed and get back to me.
In a nutshell: My contract (negotiated in 1986 with then-director-of-product-development Ed Bernstein) gives me 10%. Now they want to add a clause allowing them to deduct the cost of goods, which would effectively bring the royalty rate down to 5%. If I don’t agree, Broderbund probably won’t do Nintendo versions. So I’ll probably end up having to swallow it.
