Showdown: ATARI VS. Peter Hirschberg's Vector Tanks

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Showdown: ATARI VS. Peter Hirschberg's Vector Tanks

So it looks like Atari is trying to take down the "little guys" by claiming copyright infringement on pretty much anything that resembles a past property. This includes the game "Vector Tanks" made by former arcade collector Peter Hirschberg. Pretty crappy if you ask me, especially when Apple complies it their take-down without so much as an email.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/30/a...o-be-putting-the-squeeze-on-hundreds-of-apps/
 
I saw this coming as Smart phone Apps (in my eyes) have brought back alot of interest in old arcade style games from the Golden age. Iphones are the perfect platform for there resurgence to the general populace. Now if they will just release Q-Bert!

BTW The new Asteroids Gunner reminds me more of Sinistar than Asteroids.
 
Sickening. Patent trolls stagnate creativity and inspiration. Atari is nothing like what they were thirty years ago, clearly they are just a corporate name that has switched hands too many times and has no soul. Poo poo on them, this sort of sour grapes reaction only serves to soil an entity that was once legendary and a source of American pride.
 
Sickening. Patent trolls stagnate creativity and inspiration. Atari is nothing like what they were thirty years ago, clearly they are just a corporate name that has switched hands too many times and has no soul. Poo poo on them, this sort of sour grapes reaction only serves to soil an entity that was once legendary and a source of American pride.

exactly. i think if they were the nolan bushnell atari still (which i know isn't realistic) they would welcome innovation like that, rather than just try to make a fast buck off of everything.
 
exactly. i think if they were the nolan bushnell atari still (which i know isn't realistic) they would welcome innovation like that, rather than just try to make a fast buck off of everything.

I thought Nolan Bushnell had gotten back on board. I also thought he was the one who really wanted to target the app market. Not necessarily knock out all these indie guys but to give atari a name in the app market largely based on the classic atari games. I think the problem is that times have changed and possibly passed them by and their real cash cows are their logo/brand name and the games of the past. It's just easier to protect and resell their classics rather than create something new.
 
So what does that mean for those of s who purchased it. I never re-installed it after I wiped my iPad and installed iOS 5. It doesn't show up in my 'Purchased' section in the App Store. Am I out the $ I paid or should I still be able to install it via iTunes?

- Mike
 
Do you mean this one?
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Q*bert is a registered trademark of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

Interesting. I didn't know that in the Gottlieb implosion, Columbia ended up with the Q*Bert IP... not Mylstar then Gottlieb Development / Mondial, like hte pinball stuff.

I wonder if all the video game IP went to Columbia?
 
This is interresting
hopefully Ataris long arm of the law dosnt reach into art and other merch.
Otherwise that could be bad for all of us.
 
I saw this coming as Smart phone Apps (in my eyes) have brought back alot of interest in old arcade style games from the Golden age. Iphones are the perfect platform for there resurgence to the general populace. Now if they will just release Q-Bert!

BTW The new Asteroids Gunner reminds me more of Sinistar than Asteroids.

I have Q*bert on my iphone and have had it for a long time.
 
This is interresting
hopefully Ataris long arm of the law dosnt reach into art and other merch.
Otherwise that could be bad for all of us.

I think the main reason for this is that Atari (whoever the hell that is now) has their own app with tons of Atari arcade and 2600 games available to purchase.

Repro art is probably not even a blip on the radar compared to the millions buying old Atari arcade games through the iTunes store.
 
I think the main reason for this is that Atari (whoever the hell that is now) has their own app with tons of Atari arcade and 2600 games available to purchase.

Repro art is probably not even a blip on the radar compared to the millions buying old Atari arcade games through the iTunes store.

very true and lets hope thats the case.
When I talked to Nintendo a few years back on D2K
they could care less what I did art wise as long as I didnt change charector colors
that was their only simpilation. They were more concerned with tehe current rise of IP, piracy and emulators then the older art.

But there is a growing number of Atari merch out there as well Tshirts, cups, etc.
some licensed and some not.
the more we see non licensed stuff the more we will see on a crackdown from any true license holder.
 
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