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danny_galaga:


--- Quote from: Level42 on February 23, 2006, 06:57:42 pm ---Who cares ? Everything is readily available. I still can't understand why in the world these ancient games would need to still bring up money. They were programmed for a game that would have a life-time of let's say 10 years in the arcades. Most of them have brought up their money now and are no longer operated in broad commercial sense. It's like a song from 60 years ago, no copyrights on them anymore. For computerprograms (which these games are), this lifetime should be much shorter due to the lifetime expectance of these programs.

Well, all just my H.O. of course...


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well, if you were to stick to that scenario then you should have to wait 60 years before it becomes freeware. as they are finding out now, there is still value in the old titles and you cant arbitrarily decide which will be free and which can still be sold in one way or another..

Santoro:

This does indeed suck.   I actully bought ROMS from Starroms, and would have bought a lot more if they were able to get licensing deals with other ROM owners.

And this happened as soon as the Mamedevs made it possible to sell a machine with legal roms, too.  Very unfortunate.  This couldn't be good for the small cab builders that want to stay legit.

neuromancer:


--- Quote from: SirPoonga on February 23, 2006, 04:29:56 pm ---There is two Ataris.  Atari, Inc. and Atari Games.  I believe Atari Games when to Midway and Infrogames is Atari, Inc.  Atari Games is the coin-op side of the old Atari.

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I wonder if it has anything to do with Midway releasing Atari games for PSP. I bought it (the Midway PSP collection) and it's cool. Has old Williams games too. Joust, Defender, and Mortal Kombat to name a few.

Why sell stuff for cheap on-line if people will pay $40 at Wal-Mart.

Bob

SirPoonga:

Nah, I am sure the reason is they didn't have much business.  With only about 20 games you aren't going to be bringing in any revenue.  Granted I am sure they had constant business with the cabinet makers out there, but there probably isn't enough of a demand.

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