August 31, 1990
Another pleasant lunch with Ed Bernstein. I cheered him up about his career prospects.
Virgin Mastertronics wants to license Prince for NES and GameBoy in the U.S. Virgin’s not a big force in the Nintendo market, but that’s still the best news I’ve heard in a long while. Both Alan and Ed Bernstein have pledged their assistance. This time, I’m not going to sit by and let the deal fall apart through lack of (Broderbund) interest as happened with SunSoft six months ago. I need the money!
Broderbund’s also had an offer from Japan – two offers, actually – for the Sega rights there. Things are finally starting to look up.
Also, the Tandy order shipped: 12,000 units, doubling in one stroke the IBM sales to date.
The bad news: It’s true. EB has de-listed and recalled Prince in all formats.
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Wow, and at that time I thought Broderbund was a respectable publisher who knew what they were doing. They still had such a great reputation, but it sounds like they basically went out of their way to screw you over.
Yeah, they should have used their clout (“we make Carmen Sandiego”) to keep it on shelves.