UltraCade wins AMOA 2005 Innovation Award

[davidrfoley]

For Crazy Cooter and all those that keep reporting misinformation about our company, here is some official news.

http://www.ultracade.com/news/114/innovation-award-with-breeders-cup---tournament-edition

Innovation Award with Breeders' Cup - Tournament Edition
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

New Features Boost Breeders

[teef two]

So you won an award for a horse racing game. Marvellous. I can see everyone is really impressed. 
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Woah, was that tumbleweed blowing through the thread!

[Edgedamage]

For Crazy Cooter and all those that keep reporting misinformation about our company, here is some official news.

http://www.ultracade.com/news/114/innovation-award-with-breeders-cup---tournament-edition

Innovation Award with Breeders' Cup - Tournament Edition
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

New Features Boost Breeders

[saint]

Just a reminder to everyone without specifically addressing anyone -- This is an open forum and people are free to speak their minds on their opinions here. However, such opinions should be tempered within the boundaries of the rules I've requested everyone follow in these forums. If you haven't read the rules lately (or at all), please take a moment to do so. Product discussions are open game, hate and flaming should be kept off these boards please, thanks!

--- saint

[spystyle]

This should be moved to "Everything else" as this forum is about building cabs.

[spystyle]

Also, innovation means doing something that someone hasn't done before.

From dictionary : "the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new"

What has UltraCade done that no one has done before?

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Craig

[pointdablame]

What has UltraCade done that no one has done before?

try to steal the Mame trademark?

 

[JoyMonkey]

How is Breeders Cup innovative? I've never played it, but I was under the impression that it was a cheap immitation of Sega's Derby Owners Club

[versapak]

What has UltraCade done that no one has done before?

try to steal the Mame trademark?

 

Kind of funny...

That is pretty much exactly what was edited OUT of spystyle's original post.

[Goz]

How is Breeders Cup innovative? I've never played it, but I was under the impression that it was a cheap immitation of Sega's Derby Owners Club

It is exactly like Derby Owners Club....

[davidrfoley]

Breeders' Cup has severl features that Sega's product does not have.  First of all, it's networked, and you can race head2head against other players from around the world in real time.  It has a world wide tournament system and a local progressive tournament system which the Sega system does not have.  It has the ability to link up to 12 systems together in one race, Sega's unit is a fixed unit.  Our system has over 20 features not found in the Sega product, and several patented technologies. 

[hypernova]

it'd be one thing if this was discovered by some third party...but to just come in here, tooting his own horn.  or in this case, tooting his own party favor-i mean, come on, it's breeders' cup.  whipdeedo..  you're not helping yourself here, sir.

a side note:  those horse games have got to be one of those games where you get bored of it pretty darned quickly.

[Goz]

No awards for the fish game?

My kid loves it.... of course I wont let him play it out of principal, but he does sneak to it whenever we go to Dave & Busters. That game seems to be inovative... small fish eats other small fishes.... fish grows.... eats bigger small fishes... eat clocks for time... Would prolly make a good drinking game for frat kids.

-Goz

[darthbane2k]

 Why do people hate this guy so much? I heard something about the mame trademark but dont know much else...

[Stingray]

Simply put, he filed for a tradmark on MAME, which he does not own nor did he have anything to do with it's development as far as I am aware. He then started firing off C&D letters to everyone making anything even remotely MAME related. When the MAME community found out they just went super-gonzo-nutso on the guy so he backed off, or so the legend goes.

But hey, congrats on your little horsey game.

-S

[ChadTower]

Guys, he posted a press release. Do any of you understand the purpose of a press release?  It is an announcement.  How else would you distribute a press release?  Quietly?

[SirPoonga]

And if you don't think a horse game would be popular go to Gameworks in Block E (across from Target Center) in downtown Minneapolis.  There's always someone on the Sega Derby machine.

So David just combined the idea of golden tee golf with horse racing games.

Simply put, he filed for a tradmark on MAME, which he does not own nor did he have anything to do with it's development as far as I am aware.

It's not that so much as he did that, but while the trademark was still in the filing process he was shutting other businesses down that used the mame name because it was trademarked.
Most people understand he just wanted to try and stop the illegal selling of mame machines and so forth since that is unfair competition for him.  However he went about stopping it in a sneaky shoddy business practice manner which is why the mame community is pissed at him.  You didn't really need a trademark to do that.

[darthbane2k]

ahhh.... VERY Sly..

[Effayy]

Guys, he posted a press release. Do any of you understand the purpose of a press release?

[ChadTower]

OTCBB?

[Havok]

Breeders' Cup has severl features that Sega's product does not have.

[Stingray]

Do any of you understand the purpose of a press release?

In this case the only purpose was a very trasparent attempt to try and convice some of us that he's not the devil. It doesn't seem to be working.

-S

[ChadTower]

Dude... all press releases are to convince try to do that.

[Effayy]

OTCBB?

Basically a stock market for smaller companies not listed on the major indexes (indices?)... A breeding ground for con men with good writing skills.

- FA

[ChadTower]

Oh, sarcasm, I get that.

There is a reason that the Press Releases are written by Public Relations people.

[Luckydevil]

I'm currently filing for a trademark on Breeder's Cup and Mr. Foley will be receiving a Cease and Decist letter from my lawyer shortly.   

[ChadTower]

I hope you send it to the people who run the event, since they also own the trademark.

[Crazy Cooter]

For Crazy Cooter...

I feel blessed.  Unloved, but blessed.

[davidrfoley]

if you check the history of the MAME situation, we worked with the MAME team, not against them.  FACTS, let's not let those cloud up this forum, that would be terrible.

[ChadTower]

eh, this forum ain't always big on them fact thingies.

[whammoed]

if you check the history of the MAME situation, we worked with the MAME team, not against them.

[davidrfoley]

We did not try to "squeeze" money out of anyone.  We own several character rights including Mr. DO!, and we have offered companies who wish to use them an opportunity to legally license them for reproduction.

We work closely with the MAME team to ensure legal use of the MAME emulation system, and proper sales of products that have only legal copies of ROMs. 

Anything else reported is misinformation.

[whammoed]

We did not try to "squeeze" money out of anyone.

[Havok]

We did not try to "squeeze" money out of anyone.

[versapak]

if you check the history of the MAME situation, we worked with the MAME team, not against them. FACTS, let's not let those cloud up this forum, that would be terrible.

Yep

You sure did. After you had ebay kill off several legitimate listings, so as to better serve yourself.


I am certainly against the sales of MAME and its roms, but your actions hurt plenty of people that were doing no such thing. Just because the word MAME was somewhere in there, you had ebay yank em, even though you didn't even have any rights what-so-ever to the name yourself.

[ChadTower]

Now, since I have dealt with Ebay's VERO program, I can say that it is certainly possible that that was a result of errors in implementing their VERO protection.  The people who run VERO are blind monkeys and could very easily have misunderstood Ultracade's instructions or simply not cared and used the brute force approach.

I'm not saying that is what happened, but it is very plausible that it was the result of bumps in the road while implementing a new process.

[Crazy Cooter]

We work closely with the MAME team to ensure legal use of the MAME emulation system, and proper sales of products that have only legal copies of ROMs.

[davidrfoley]

funny since you have never once attempted that, instead you throw accusations of wrong doing, and yet, you don't represent any of the companies that you claim have issue with us, and none of them actually do. 

You don't work for Namco.

You aren't part of the MAME team.

What is your interest?  Who do you work for?

[whammoed]

We did not try to "squeeze" money out of anyone.

[davidrfoley]

You are correct.