Talk:Bernie Stolar

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"Leaving" or fired?

All I've read about him is from tvtropes so probably not considered a valid source, but the article says :

After leaving Sony, he accepted an offer to become President and Chief Operating Officer at Sega of America, who were engaging with the development and launch of the Dreamcast.

Version I have is that he was fired from Sony for messing playstation game releases in the US (refusing games without reason) and then did the same for the Saturn when he was hired by Sega. So not after "leaving" Sony", and was on some Saturn-related projects instead of Dreamcast?

My sources are maybe not the best but right now this page looks a lot like a resume wrote by someone who want to hide his previous failures by being intentionally vague :/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.209.232.54 (talk) 17:56, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the "résumé" part. I got to this article by clicking his name on another article where a company was talking about how his policies hurt them severely. And then when I get here... absolutely nothing about it. Just non-stop talk of "success" and companies he helmed. And then after Googling his name, he is apparently VERY controversial in gaming, with most people hating him deeply, and a handful defending him by saying that Sega was going to fail with or without him. They all agree he was fired by Sega though, and he even confirmed it himself in an interview, saying that he had an argument with the Japan corporate office and they pushed him out. 147.21.8.1 (talk) 00:39, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Stolar's discharge

"While Stolar left the company a month prior to the US release of the system"

I vaguely remember Stolar being relieved of his duties as president of Sega of America after Sega of Japan's president heard about his inflammatory remarks in some magazine interview, where he said something about how the imminent success of the Dreamcast (it had such a bright future before the PS2 details came out) in the US would mean Sega's parent company allowing him control of SOA independent of SOJ.

If anybody ever looks for citations on this article, they might look into that. -VJ 01:08, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

his opinion failed to show the power of the PlayStation in a positive light

Erm, that should be Saturn, not PlayStation...

OOPMan 21/09/2006

Woops, I'm an idiot. Shoulda read further. Doh.

OOPMan 21/09/2006

This person is not insignificant!!!

Mr. Stolar is extremely important in the history of videogames. Whether you love him or despise him, his role was NOT insignificant in the advancement of videogames, due to his high roles at both Sony and Sega.

Please do not delete!!!

64.160.132.130 19:21, 1 May 2007 (UTC) Videogamer[reply]

Then add some reliable sources - the article has been tagged for 18 months. Addhoc 20:23, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 10:59, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Google's Game Evangelist

Stolar has been serving as Google's Game Evangelist since the sale of the company.

What does that mean? Game Evangelist?--108 Stars (talk) 10:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicting Atari Information

"Bernard "Bernie" Stolar is an American businessman who worked in the video game industry for several important companies. His career started at Atari where he worked initially in the coin-op arcade division and eventually moved over to the home division in charge of platforms like Atari Lynx. He served as President of the company. He also founded Pacific Novelty, an arcade cabinet manufacturer that produced four games: Shark Attack, Thief, NATO Defense, and The Amazing Adventures of Mr. F. Lea."

This doesn't make sense: Atari Corp. had no arcade division EVER, Atari Games split as a separate company in 1984 when Atari Corp. and was the Arcade company (also home publishing under Tengen and later Tine Warner Interactive -after being bought in 1993).

So if Stolar did work at both, he would have been going to 2 separate companies entirely, not separate divisions. (that hadn't been the case since the split-up of the original Atari Inc. in 1984)

Additionally, Stolar was never president of Atari Corp., though he may have been president of Atari Games (I have no information there), and was the president of Atari Entertainment division at Atari Corp, Sam Tramiel was president and CEO of Atari Corp during Stolar's brief tenure in Summer to Fall of 1992. (the latter referring to http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/atari-jts.html )

One additional note: It's a bit interesting that both Michael Katz and Bernard Stolar held the same positions at Atari Corp. (head of the Entertainment) and Sega. (president of Sega of America) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kool kitty89 (talk • contribs) 05:30, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]