Atari brings 100 Retro titles to IoS

[scream1973]

Anyone seen this announcement ?

http://toucharcade.com/2011/04/06/atari-brings-100-retro-titles-to-ios-in-ataris-greatest-hits/

Retro gaming junkies, you may want to sit down for this. In a launch that's sending pixellated shockwaves across the App Store, Atari has just released Atari's Greatest Hits [NZ App Store], a Universal app that brings 100 (yes, one hundred) Atari games, along with the original cabinet and box art, to your iPhone and iPad.

[javeryh]

Too bad touch controls suck.   

[VanillaGorilla]

Meh. NO Marble Madness ?!?

Marble Madness on the IPad could be cool with the gyro controls.

What implications might this have on the community vis a vis roms? Might this just be a move to re-establish the marketability of these old titles, and give them some ammo to pursue legal action against emulation enthusiasts?

[Donkbaca]

Oh boy, the jumbled intellectual property rights issue. 

It wouldn't matter if they were marketable, if their copyrights have expired.  Also there is the issue of, if I buy a game for my iphone, do I have the rights to the game? Or just the rights to the game on the iphone? Lets not go there, its a headache.

[Bender]

Copyright expired?!?!!?

video games weren't even invented till the 70's

[Bender]

Too bad touch controls suck.   

yeah, but that makes the Icade a pretty cool thing for those that don't want to build their own

[RayB]

Threads about copyright, roms, and DMCA, make baby jebus cry. 

[boardjunkie]

Valid copyright or not, its too late 'cause everythings already "out there". Even if they shut down the rom sites (certain titles are already disappearing from them), there's always usenet binaries, file hosting sites, torrents, etc.

Kinda late to start jumping up and down now about stuff they didn't give a rat's --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules-- about 20 years ago.....

Another thing is the arcade hardware is getting hard to keep running. I just spent a couple days going thru a load of Midway CCRS boardsets (Gorf, Wizard of Wor, etc.). The failures of the 3 custom chips that boardset is designed around was disturbing. 10 years ago when I was heavy into repairing all that kinda stuff, there was just the "custom data" chip that was the common fault. Now the address and I/O customs are going tits up as well. They were custom made hybrid digital/analog and not replaceable by anything off the shelf. So....once they're gone/dead, these boards will never run again. Same with Namco boards that used customs...

I did manage to repair enough of them to put together 2 Gorf sets and a WOW.

[Donkbaca]

I am going to copyright threads about copyrights so that none of you can speak about it without paying me.

[Gray_Area]

I am going to copyright threads about copyrights so that none of you can speak about it without paying me.

Heh heh heh heh heh. When I win the lottery, I'm going buy you so I can have this on demand.