Talk:Tengen (company)

Website
ok, i couldn't find a link to their dammed website. i give up. →Posted by 201.52.162.29 23:09, 31 July 2006.

XEGS
There's a link to more information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEGS#Tramiel_Era:_XE_series_and_XEGS Shall I turn the XEGS word into an article link? lilewyn 21:01, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Midway Connection?
I don't understand something. The Tradewest article says that WMS aquired them (Tradewest) and was later renamed Williams Entertainment (which is now Midway Home Entertainment). However, all the console ports of Ms. Pac-Man was released by Tengen. However, the exception here is the Super NES version which was released by WIlliams. Most of all however, Tengen was formed by Atari Games (which used to be the arcade division of Atari Inc.), and Atari Games was later aquired by Midway.

My question is, does anyone know if there is some kind of connection I am missing here?


 * I doubt Nintendo would have been open to giving Tengen a licence to make games for the SNES after the lawsuits, which is why Williams probably did it themselves. Ms. Pac Man was not made by Namco BTW, WMS licenced the name to make the sequel because Namco was taking to long making their own and Midway (WMS) already had one in the form of Crazy Otto (back in the day that is). They probably licenced it out to Tengen for release on other consoles but did it themselves for Big N systems. Midway didn't buy Atari Games until 1996, which is why Tengen was still making games for systems of the 16-bit era. Lando242 03:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Atari Lynx
Tengen made those games in that list, but they have made more than that. Also Tengen game were also released on other platforms such as the Atari Lynx so to say they were on only NES is an incorrect statement. Govvy 14:15, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Time Warner Interactive
I don't think Tengen went under, per se. I think they started using the Time Warner Interactive name. Crv1 09:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Game list?
Should we create a games list page for all the games associated with Tengen? because having that list on the article seems not right, we could do a list, and link to it in a See also. Good idea? Govvy 10:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Marble Madness?
I wonder why Marble Madness is on the list. I don't think Tengen had a hand in it, but rather Milton Bradley only. --Sivak 00:48, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

They might not of created it, but they certainly could of been the distributor in the UK Govvy 09:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

On the title screen it has:

Milton Bradley presents Marble Madness

© 1984 Tengen

Licensed by Nintendo of America Inc.

So, unless my copy of the game is a weird, pirated copy of the game, Tengen had at least some input. Starvr344 (talk) 15:31,

12 June 2014 (UTC)

NES games
I was looking at this article, it has a section on NES games, is this section really needed? I am not sure if that list is good coverage, there just feels like that section is wrong in the article to me. What about the rest of you? Comments? Govvy 14:54, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I think that is a good section to have, since NES games was their main product. Xif866 19:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 * No, it's not needed. The whole article is obssessed with Nintendo and full of crap. I removed some of the more ridiculous claims out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.85.180.157 (talk) 08:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

The games list is also incomplete, i know of at least one game not in there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.187.4.137 (talk) 05:27, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Dispute of patent story
There is an interview with a Tengen programmer here: http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/special/el/el.html in which he gives the following story: Tengen actually did successfully reverse-engineer the lockout chip. Unfortunately for Tengen, one of their lawyers was at the patent office shortly thereafter, obtained a copy of the patent, and sent it to Atari. This "tainted" them, making the work look like the result of patent infringement when it actually was not. Should this other side of the story should be presented in the second and third paragraphs of the first section?

Xif866 19:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I added one ref from New York times, but can't be sure if they would accept this link, it looks like an armature site. Wouldn't know if is within the wiki policy to allow it. Govvy 18:15, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

How do you pronounce the name of this company should be in here
Is it TEN-GIN (With G (Get) sound) or TEN-JIN (With J (Jennifer) sound) If anyone knows for sure please add to the article. Maybe just no one knows and that is why it is not already here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.224.26.222 (talk) 15:09, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Fact check: company or brand?
The article claims that Tengen was a subsidiary owned by Atari Games. Was this in fact the case, or was this merely Atari Games marketing under a different brand name? Note that copyright was often assigned to Atari Games Corp., not Tengen. Ham Pastrami (talk) 00:00, 28 March 2010 (UTC)