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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