Albert Posted December 25, 2001 Share Posted December 25, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Pete Perpetua: I read that interview, I can't beleive he is worried about Coleco after all these years if he would release the rom. No kidding. Prototypes for unreleased games get released all the time from companies that are still in business, and as far as I know no one has ever been chased down for doing so. There's very little profit to be had on the rights to games written for a 20 year old platform, not to mention the PR disaster of attempting to prosecute someone sharing these bits of classic-gaming history. Even companies like Activision, which is working on an anthology package of 2600 games for the PS2, is benefitting from the release and discovery of Activision protos as they will be including them in this package. If they stayed hidden from public view because prototype owners were afraid of legal action, Activision may never had a chance to include them. Given that Coleco isn't even in business any more, the rights to those unreleased Coleco prototypes is a big question mark. Perhaps Telegames does own the rights to them. But if they have the rest of the Coleco library, they haven't gone after anyone for distributing other Coleco games, at least not to my knowledge. So I have a hard time believing that they'd be concerned with two unreleased 2600 games. I just hope that if Ed Temple has (or had) copies of these unreleased games that he at least allowed someone to dump the. At least then there's hope that we'll see them someday. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahfish Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 quote Even companies like Activision, which is working on an anthology package of 2600 games for the PS2, is benefitting from the release and discovery of Activision protos as they will be including them in this package. yeah, funny. i lended them some of my patches, as they don't have these anymore. isn't it kinda strange, that activision doesn't have these patches anymore ...? quote: First off, here are the protos that we know exist, but we don't have dumps of yet: AD&D: Tower of Mystery AD&D: Treasure of Tarmin Anteater Crack'ed Funky Fish damn, funky fish? what that, alex? never heard of it, but that sounds like the ultimate game for my collection, a must-have ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Perpetua Posted December 29, 2001 Author Share Posted December 29, 2001 Another reply to my thread. There was a rumor going around that because of all the complaints about Pac-Man that Atari was going to re-program the game to make it more like the arcade. I have a catalog that shows a screen shot of a better looking Pac-man. Could another Atari version exist ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 Never heard that before. What catalog are you referring to? Can you post a scan of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Perpetua Posted December 29, 2001 Author Share Posted December 29, 2001 The Cat is on this site. Its the Green Poster one. Its tough to make out because of the small size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Monkey Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 The Pac Man on the Green Poster looks the same as the released version. If you click on the smaller image you can see a bigger one in detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 It's a mock-up (drawing) - they even got the maze upside-down! Funny how the original (top) version looks better b/c the colors actually match the original (couldn't Tod at LEAST have made the colors match?!?) The one below it is the version that was used more extensively (mags, catalogs, flyers, etc.) Note the infamous "tilting" ghosts used in both Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 Just came across this one, in the 12/82 issue of EG (page 10). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagMax667 Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 I wish someone would find the Swordquest Airworld proto. Even though they say it's only 20% done, it would still be cool to have. Also, it might help the 5200 Airworld project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 Interesting that in the 2 and a half years since this thread started we have seen releases of "Looping" {CGE}, "Crack'ed" {CGE}, "Funky Fish" {AA}, "Pleiades" {AA}, "Snow White" {Retrodesign ???}, and "Planet of the Apes" (as "Revenge Of The Apes") {AA}. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Nevada Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 Ladybug! Yes, Ladybug! If it ever does turn up, someone should post it. If it were to, I'm sure the person who made it would get rich fast. I'm not yet a programmer...anyone up to the job on Ladybug...!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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