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Re: ChitownMike post# 242365

Tuesday, 10/21/2014 10:04:23 PM

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:04:23 PM

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"Judy and Stone had spent their personal savings and gone into debt trying to sell Nintendo's first games.

Broke and frustrated, they told Arakawa that they could no longer stay with Nintendo. He responded that a new game was coming from Japan that would be bigger than "Pac-Man" and that he would give them a contract to be its sole distributors."
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' "I said, `Pardon me. What was that? "Donkey Kong"? How do you spell that?' " Arcade blockbuster

Thinking that a game named "Donkey Kong" would never amount to much and not wanting to take on a new client in such desperate straits, Lincoln suggested other attorneys for the job. But Arakawa was impressed with Lincoln and persisted.

As it turned out, "Donkey Kong" was an arcade blockbuster surpassed only by "Pac-Man" in American arcades.

The next time Lincoln heard from Judy and Stone, they were millionaires."


"Judy and Stone had spent their personal savings and gone into debt trying to sell Nintendo's first games.

Broke and frustrated, they told Arakawa that they could no longer stay with Nintendo. He responded that a new game was coming from Japan that would be bigger than "Pac-Man" and that he would give them a contract to be its sole distributors."
...
' "I said, `Pardon me. What was that? "Donkey Kong"? How do you spell that?' " Arcade blockbuster

Thinking that a game named "Donkey Kong" would never amount to much and not wanting to take on a new client in such desperate straits, Lincoln suggested other attorneys for the job. But Arakawa was impressed with Lincoln and persisted.

As it turned out, "Donkey Kong" was an arcade blockbuster surpassed only by "Pac-Man" in American arcades.

The next time Lincoln heard from Judy and Stone, they were millionaires."