Famous Last Words (or the Industrial version of Zany Videogame Quotes)

Check the following URL to see some really stupid quotes from some of the gaming industry's most dumbest individuals.
http://www.stewlarts.co.uk/Features/richard.html

Here's some of my personal favorites:

“The Sony product (Playstation) is just too expensive to be taken seriously and I can’t see Sony focusing on a product that won’t have the quantities due to the high price. It will be a player but not a big one.” - Sam Tramiel (former Atari president)

“No matter how great Saturn is, or Playstation is, or Ultra 64 is, we will outsell them by an enormous amount with 32X.” - Tom Kalinske (former Sega prez)

“We’ll definitely have one over on Street Fighter II.” - Sean Griffiths (regarding Rise of the Robots)

“There is more gameplay in Maximum Surge than in Doom. Also, Doom does not contain even one second of full motion video.” - Tom Zito

“The problem is that the higher the resolution, the harder it is to make games interactive.”

Words of wisdom from those BRILLIANT minds at Atari.

Yeah, Lots of great ones there:

Philips CD-I
"I think people look at the processor and think, ‘Ah, that’s not as strong as the PC, it’s not even as big as an Amiga’, and completely forget about the fact that here you’ve got FMV.”

Ooohh, FMV !!! :lol:

ANother good one about FMV games:

Sure, in our game (Quarterback Attack – crap FMV game – Ed) you can’t do something like turning around and running the other way down the field like you could in, say, Madden. You are confined to some preset options. But who would want to run the wrong way down the field? No true quarterback would do that?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Bwahahaha...

FMV, your gift to gaming was killed before it's time...

"Was Night Trap a good game? I thought so."

-Tom Zito


That guy's hilarious! The only thing better than him is the Devry flunkout who says games can't be interactive if they're "high-resolution". Take a programming class, doorknob.

Ah, FMV memories...and they wonder why western console developers have had a stigma to overcome...

That's some funny stuff...this is a great thread. :lol:

And Freeter, I really dig yo sig... :sweat: Sexy witches with guitars always do it for me...

Tom Zito has to be one of the biggest self-centered assholes in the gaming industry, along with Sam Tramiel and Trip Hawkings. All he ever did was brag about how his FMV-crapfests were better than real games like Zelda, Mario, Doom and Madden just because they featured no-name thespians and has-beens. Had any of you guys seen one of Digital Pictures' ads. Their biggest selling point is that their games were made in the good ol' U.S. of A. instead of "soda-drinking college students with bad haircuts".

Somebody needs to dig-out more of these hilarious quotes from old gaming mags.

sam tramiel...i remember thinking this dude looked like richard simmons.

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Originally posted by Johnny Undaunted
Tom Zito has to be one of the biggest self-centered assholes in the gaming industry, along with Sam Tramiel and Trip Hawkings. All he ever did was brag about how his FMV-crapfests were better than real games like Zelda, Mario, Doom and Madden just because they featured no-name thespians and has-beens. Had any of you guys seen one of Digital Pictures' ads. Their biggest selling point is that their games were made in the good ol' U.S. of A. instead of "soda-drinking college students with bad haircuts".

Somebody needs to dig-out more of these hilarious quotes from old gaming mags.

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Was Digital Pictures the ones that made that FMV first person king-fu fighting game? Yes, folks, such a game really existed...

Oh, and I remember the most hilarious gaming mag quote of all time...in one old issue of Gamefan, the Postmeister said the following:

"You know those amazing full-motion cinemas that wowed you on the Playstation and Saturn? Well, that's what you'll be playing on the Nintendo 64!"

Holy shit, pry that hype machine out of your ass, Posty...that's turned out to be the most retarded claim ever. :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by Dolemite


Was Digital Pictures the ones that made that FMV first person king-fu fighting game? Yes, folks, such a game really existed...

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You mean Supreme Warrior, Tom Zito's Virtua Fighter-killer? Yes they did published that, along with dozens of similar non-games, since DP was Tom Zito's game company.

Yup, that's the one. :)

Hmm. . . I wonder where Tom Zito is today. :lol:

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Originally posted by The Ampersand
Hmm. . . I wonder where Tom Zito is today. :lol:

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[Zito]Ya want fries with that?[/Zito] :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Originally posted by The Ampersand
Hmm. . . I wonder where Tom Zito is today. :lol:

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I was hoping somebody would ask that, just so that I wouls have a reason to post this.

EDIT: Eh, the link is actually from 1997, so it would have made more sense back then than now. It's still worth a look though.

Peter Moore: " The Saturn is not the future of Sega."


Sam Tramiel: " I look at our product this way. If a consumer sees a $300 VCR with a few added features, and then he sees a $200 VCR that's just about as good. The smart minded consumer will say, I take the $200 one. It's a good value for my money." That was his take, on a consumer purchasing the $200 Jaguar, over the $300 Playstation and Saturn.

Hopefully Tom Zito is living in a refrigerator behind your local 7-11.

Oh, that was also part of Sega's reasoning behind releasing the 32X. We all know how that turned out.

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Originally posted by gamevet
Sam Tramiel: " I look at our product this way. If a consumer sees a $300 VCR with a few added features, and then he sees a $200 VCR that's just about as good. The smart minded consumer will say, I take the $200 one. It's a good value for my money." That was his take, on a consumer purchasing the $200 Jaguar, over the $300 Playstation and Saturn.

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It seems that Sam Tramiel forgot that games from different consoles aren't backwards-compatible with each other like VHS tapes. :rolleyes:

Anybody else besides me read that summer '95 Next Gen (the very 1st issue I believe, the one with Wipeout on the cover) interview with Sam Tramiel where he totally trash talked the PSX like a white grandma saying (apparently with a straight face) that they would sue Sony over the PSX vs. Jaguar because the way Sony was introducing the PSX in the U.S. with its price in comparison to the Jag "...that is price dumping, it's illegal and we won't stand for it." --not a verbatim quote but 99% close-- What a moron. Still remember way back every so often to that day 7 years ago when I read that. :lol: Those FMV quotes are really sad.

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Originally posted by Kosh_H
Anybody else besides me read that summer '95 Next Gen (the very 1st issue I believe, the one with Wipeout on the cover) interview with Sam Tramiel where he totally trash talked the PSX like a white grandma saying (apparently with a straight face) that they would sue Sony over the PSX vs. Jaguar because the way Sony was introducing the PSX in the U.S. with its price in comparison to the Jag "...that is price dumping, it's illegal and we won't stand for it." --not a verbatim quote but 99% close-- What a moron. Still remember way back every so often to that day 7 years ago when I read that. :lol: Those FMV quotes are really sad.

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I had that issue too, but I believe it was actually their seventh issue (their first issue had a Virtua Fighter cover). Sam Tramiel was a very sore loser. Rather than trying to produce quality games for his system, he went around suing anyone. If it wasn't for him and his father's incompetempt marketing decisions, Atari might had still be around today.

Dear God!!!! Imagine if these assholes got the industry to go the way they wanted it to. Holy shit! That would fucking suck ass!!!!!

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Originally posted by Johnny Undaunted


I had that issue too, but I believe it was actually their seventh issue (their first issue had a Virtua Fighter cover). Sam Tramiel was a very sore loser. Rather than trying to produce quality games for his system, he went around suing anyone. If it wasn't for him and his father's incompetempt marketing decisions, Atari might had still be around today.

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My bad. I still have that issue somewhere. I still shudder when I think about all the crappy Sega CD and 32X reviews it had in the back, what a crappy era that was. Well, whichever issue it is, it was summer '95 (June or July I think) and it has Wipeout on the cover for PSX and asks "With PSX graphics looking this good can 3DO keep up?" Never mind the fact that it was a pic of a Wipeout RENDER on the cover, not actual REAL TIME PSX graphics. :rolleyes:

A-HAHAHA...


Some of those first few were gold... Especially the resolution one.



More reasons why I simply LOVE video games!

Tom Zito is the most clueless person in the game industry, ever. His ignorance and incompetence is shocking. Oh, by the way, he founded a website - www.garageband.com I believe - to sort of help new bands grow. It folded last year. When I went to E3 I was hoping I would see him in a cardboard box in front of he Staples Center.

A lot of these quotes are funny, but some are taken out of context. The ones on Microcosm stand out - they were taken from a Next Generation article that was literally about the game industry's biggest failures. Microcosm was one of them and the developers were talking about why the game was a disaster. They weren't things that were said throughout development or anything.

In spite of that, this is funny stuff. Richard Miller is the idiot who went from Atari to spearhead the NUON project, by the way.

Oh my God! You remember that issue? The segment they did on Fight for Life for jaguar had me practically shitting in my pants because it was so hilarious. The part where they showed the game to the higher ups( or someone), and the developers knew it sucked. But their bosses looked each other in the eyes, and legitimately said it was better than Tekken and Virtua Fighter sealed it for me. Seems like the Atari stories just keep on getting better and better.

in honor of this thread, i will pay homage to the jaguar. i scanned an ad for the jag in an issue of gamepro i had (march, 1994)...

"cuz this is the jaguar, and it aint no toy........:lol:


...Not to mention the 17 button controller that gives you so many ways to annihilate your enemies, you'll never have to kill one the same way twice."

jag ad

*looks at Cybermorph portion of the ad*

"...with intense 3D texture-mapped graphics..."

Erm, I'm not seeing any textures.

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Originally posted by Tain
*looks at Cybermorph portion of the ad*

"...with intense 3D texture-mapped graphics..."

Erm, I'm not seeing any textures.

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i seriously didn't think anyone would check out the ad, but thanx Tain :)

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Oh my God! You remember that issue? The segment they did on Fight for Life for jaguar had me practically shitting in my pants because it was so hilarious. The part where they showed the game to the higher ups( or someone), and the developers knew it sucked. But their bosses looked each other in the eyes, and legitimately said it was better than Tekken and Virtua Fighter sealed it for me. Seems like the Atari stories just keep on getting better and better.

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I remember someone at Gamefan magazine giving the game a review. He had me rolling. He said something like this: " If you like your fighting games to include 2 people, who look like the're made out of 2"x 4"'s , than this is your game."

Taken from Wired's Behind the Scenes article

Michael Katz (president, Sega of America): In '88, when I was still at Atari, Hayao Nakayama and Dave Rosen brought us the Genesis. They asked if we wanted to license the product. At the time, we needed a next-generation system to take on Nintendo, and Genesis would've been perfect. But Jack Tramiel turned it down

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Originally posted by Reno
Taken from Wired's Behind the Scenes article

Michael Katz (president, Sega of America): In '88, when I was still at Atari, Hayao Nakayama and Dave Rosen brought us the Genesis. They asked if we wanted to license the product. At the time, we needed a next-generation system to take on Nintendo, and Genesis would've been perfect. But Jack Tramiel turned it down

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I'm glad he did. He probably would have screwed that up too.

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Tom Zito is the most clueless person in the game industry, ever. His ignorance and incompetence is shocking. Oh, by the way, he founded a website - www.garageband.com I believe - to sort of help new bands grow. It folded last year.

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Are you sure it's the same Tom Zito and not just chump who happens to have the same name?

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Michael Katz (president, Sega of America): In '88, when I was still at Atari, Hayao Nakayama and Dave Rosen brought us the Genesis. They asked if we wanted to license the product. At the time, we needed a next-generation system to take on Nintendo, and Genesis would've been perfect. But Jack Tramiel turned it down

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While trying to imagine how things could've turned out, Tain's mind explodes.

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While trying to imagine how things could've turned out, Tain's mind explodes.

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Try to imagine things if this would've happened (from same Wired article):

Tom Kalinske: The specs for our next-generation console, the Saturn, didn't look very good, and it was way too expensive - Sega Japan told us it was going to retail at $549. Then Jim Clark, the chair of Silicon Graphics, says, "I've got this chipset that's a derivative of the MIPS chipset that would be perfect for your system." We call Sega Japan and say this thing will be cheaper than Saturn, and that it will move polygons 50 percent quicker. The Sega hardware group comes over and says that the chip is too big, it won't be efficient to manufacture. Forget it. When I tell Jim Clark this, he says, "What do I do with this now?" And I say, "Well, I'm sure there are a few folks who might be interested in buying it." And he says, "Yeah, I've already talked to Nintendo." The rest is N64 history

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Try to imagine things if this would've happened (from same Wired article):

Tom Kalinske: The specs for our next-generation console, the Saturn, didn't look very good, and it was way too expensive - Sega Japan told us it was going to retail at $549. Then Jim Clark, the chair of Silicon Graphics, says, "I've got this chipset that's a derivative of the MIPS chipset that would be perfect for your system." We call Sega Japan and say this thing will be cheaper than Saturn, and that it will move polygons 50 percent quicker. The Sega hardware group comes over and says that the chip is too big, it won't be efficient to manufacture. Forget it. When I tell Jim Clark this, he says, "What do I do with this now?" And I say, "Well, I'm sure there are a few folks who might be interested in buying it." And he says, "Yeah, I've already talked to Nintendo." The rest is N64 history

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Cool story!

"Everyone agrees that Bill Gates is a great businessman," he admitted, "but he's human after all -- there are things that he does not know. Games are one of them. If you know nothing about sumo, you can't expect to become a Yokozuna...I believe that in a year's time, we'll start seeing the consequences of this." -- Hiroshi Yamauchi

he's had a bunch of doozies, of course, there was one about the GBA being more powerful than a Dreamcast or a PSOne.

though i suppose his quotes cant really be seen as "famous last words." but he is zany.

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Are you sure it's the same Tom Zito and not just chump who happens to have the same name?

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Positive. I thought that too and looked into it, but its the same guy.