NES developers paid Nintendo for platform access under tightly controlled licensing terms.

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"NES developers paid Nintendo for platform access under tightly controlled licensing terms."

The court records that Atari paid Nintendo for access to NES owners while Nintendo controlled the technology, cartridge process, release count, and licensing conditions.

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Source title Atari Games Corp. and Tengen, Inc., Plaintiffs-appellants, v. Nintendo of America Inc. and Nintendo Co., Ltd., Defendants-appellees, 975 F.2d 832 (Fed. Cir. 1992)

Source authors U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Source year 1992

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