Shiny founder was against the N64 from day one due to cartridges

Shiny founder Dave Perry did not like the N64 from the second he saw it. It seems his disdain came from the use of cartridges. The following story comes from UK games journalist Paul Davies as he recalls Perry's reaction to N64 soon after seeing it.

At the Shoshinkai Show in 1995, where N64 was first shown, I'd managed to muscle in on the 'after party' at a nearby hotel. I had a conversation with Martin Hollis from Rare, excited about Goldeneye. The proper way to behave here was to be fawning over the achievement of Mr Miyamoto and Mr Takeda, to discuss a lot of what company president Hiroshi Yamauchi had been saying about PlayStation being this blight on the world of video games with its too many titles overcrowding the store shelves, most of which were mediocre. Then I beamed at Shiny Entertainment's David Perry, a basic, 'what did you think?!' question, expecting an 'Oh my goodness, Nintendo – just wow' response. Instead, he seemed genuinely angry about the decision to go with the cartridge format. He was declaring quite loudly that he was never going to support N64. It was a portent of things to come, I just didn't know it at the time.