Big K
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 3:34 pm
I've been reading through Big K's over the past. Going through issue 6 at the moment.
It's a great magazine and published at a very interesting time in the video / computer business.
Over the past few issues, you can see the C64 getting stronger with comments related to sales and more space giving over to reviews of its games etc. Can't say the same about the poor Dragon 32 though...
Here's a short news item, which I found interesting:
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64 MARCHES ON
ACTIVISION, THE giant American indie software house, have now added the world's best-selling micro-computer - the Commodore 64 - to their list of target machines.
First games on CBM cassettes are: Beamrider; Decathlon; River Raid; Pitfall; Pitfall II; H.E.R.O.; Zenji, and Toy Bizarre. All but the last two are conversions.
The American company has also successfully sued Cornish outfit Microdeal, claiming that the latter's Cuthbert In The Jungle is a rip-off of Pitfall. Microdeal have given a High Court undertaking to shelve the Cuthbert game permanently.
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Not too surprising that Activision won the case related to Cuthbert In The Jungle! The magazine at this time is also full of reviews of games that are very like the classic coin-op games of the period, i.e. rip-offs. Thankfully you can see some original software peaking through. How many Space Invader rip-offs could the market support?!
It's a great magazine and published at a very interesting time in the video / computer business.
Over the past few issues, you can see the C64 getting stronger with comments related to sales and more space giving over to reviews of its games etc. Can't say the same about the poor Dragon 32 though...
Here's a short news item, which I found interesting:
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64 MARCHES ON
ACTIVISION, THE giant American indie software house, have now added the world's best-selling micro-computer - the Commodore 64 - to their list of target machines.
First games on CBM cassettes are: Beamrider; Decathlon; River Raid; Pitfall; Pitfall II; H.E.R.O.; Zenji, and Toy Bizarre. All but the last two are conversions.
The American company has also successfully sued Cornish outfit Microdeal, claiming that the latter's Cuthbert In The Jungle is a rip-off of Pitfall. Microdeal have given a High Court undertaking to shelve the Cuthbert game permanently.
----------------------------
Not too surprising that Activision won the case related to Cuthbert In The Jungle! The magazine at this time is also full of reviews of games that are very like the classic coin-op games of the period, i.e. rip-offs. Thankfully you can see some original software peaking through. How many Space Invader rip-offs could the market support?!