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Total estimated sales of all Pickford Bros' games: 6,451,068 |
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Number of games in all territories the Pickford Bros have been involved in:
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Average estimated sales per released game: 41,090 |
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The Sun
An article on the financial page of British tabloid newspaper The Sun announcing Zed Two's sell out to Warthog, published December 2002
I was shocked when I recieved a phone call from the financial editor of the biggest selling national newspaper in Britain asking for a photo, and a bit of background info, after we issed a press release announcing the sale of Zed Two to Warthog in late 2002. I couldn't understand why what was a small story even in the world of video games would warrent any attention in the wider world of big business and finance. I expected that they'd squeeze a little inch high column in the corner about us on what must have been a slow news day, or worse have some dreadful angle on what a bad deal Warthog had done signing this bunch of idiots, but I was pleasantly surprised to find our press release expanded to become a full page success story.
Although we'd seen our names in print in various video game mags before, it was quite exciting being in the 'real' media - in a paper that my mum and dad or their friends might read - but the downside was that everyone thought that we were now rich (I felt this in the hearty hand-shake and congratulations I recieved from the guy who sits in front of me at football, who'd never spoken to me before).
Of course we weren't actually paid £1.5m, nor were we supposed to be; we were to get shares in Warthog capped at that value based on our future profits, but Warthog closed the studio down before we got the chance to fulfill our potnetial. Guess how many shares Warthog eventually paid us for our company? (clue - the number begins with the letter 'z', and its not a zillion...)
Page © 2002 News Group Newspapers Limited.
Ste Pickford
17th August 2004
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