The games business is drying up. Karateka may make me as little as $75,000 all told, and it’s at the top of the charts. There’s no guarantee the new game will be as successful. Or that there will even be a computer games market a couple of years from now.
This was a few weeks after Jordan graduated from Yale. He had just created Karateka, which was at the top of the computer game charts. He was thinking of quitting completely -- the games business is dead. This was before he even created Prince of Persia, let alone the myriad of sequels and motion picture too.
Hindsight is 20/20, for real.