Nintendo call a c&d on princess rescue?

Los Lobos · 12-09-2013 10:38am #1

http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=1&catid=31&threadid=111322

While all involved in making this game happen seem to be keeping quiet, probably because of a gagging order, it seems that nintendo have made aa pull pr from their store. Yes the sprites and music etc were like smb, but this was coded all from scratch, can a little 2600.game really affect nintendo that much? and what about other homebrewers now making tribute games?

also being discussed on the pr thread on aa

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/212554-princess-rescue-now-available/page-31

its a shame my copy got lost in the post if you're listening, nintendon't...

o1s1n · 12-09-2013 10:43am

And Princess Rescue car value instantly quadrupled!

Worrying trend alright, although not surprising given how blatantly copywrite infringing it is.

I wonder what Microsoft thought of the Halo 2600 game?

Los Lobos · 12-09-2013 11:04am

halo 2600 was programmed by ed fryes, so that should be ok :-)

will be interesting to see what pr changes hands for now alright

gouche · 12-09-2013 11:07am

Looking at the Let's Play on Youtube it is a blatant rip-off.
They could have modified the sprites a bit more.

Have to say I'm impressed looking at the footage of it as well.
Looks far better than any 2600 game I ever had!
I've heard it's a notoriously difficult system to code for.
Shame the developer got gagged.

o1s1n · 12-09-2013 11:09am

I did not know that

Los Lobos · 12-09-2013 11:09am

he's working on zippy the porcupine as we speak, wonder will sega stop that one? i would love a copy of that in my collection

Los Lobos · 13-09-2013 10:02pm

from al, the main dude on atariage:

"Just to squash any speculation, yes, there was a Cease and Desist from Nintendo's intellectual property law firm regarding Princess Rescue and the Return to Mario Bros. hack. There was no gag order. I didn't want to say anything until I knew the situation was resolved, which it now is.

The Cease and Desist paints pretty broad strokes in terms of the infringement. The case is clear with the "Return of Mario Bros." hack since obviously "Mario Bros." is a trademark owned by Nintendo. Princess Rescue is less clear, although the music was specifically cited. I'm confident some of their claims could be argued, I'm not in a position to tackle a giant like Nintendo. I'm sure the game could be changed enough to avoid future attention, but then, that kind of defeats the whole point of the game, which was to see if SMB could be done on the 2600.

I do feel it would be worthwhile to take the same game engine and create a game with unique levels, graphics, audio and music, but that's entirely up to Sprybug. Right now he is busy with another project."

Nintendo call a c&d on princess rescue?

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