9 May
1997
9 May
'97
1:17 p.m.
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:
On Fri, 9 May 1997, William Donzelli wrote:
I think the rough translation is "Go out of business (again)".
The second company's name was "Sente", and it made a couple of
unnoteworthy video games, if I recall correctly. . .
Atari is
in fact a Japanese word. I forget what it means, but it's the
equivalent of "checkmate" in the game of Go. Founder of Atari allegedly
really liked Japanese culture and Go.
I think this is true, as the founder's second company was also named
after a Go term. I forget what it is.