Help me rescue abandoned DOS/amiga Games

[PikoInteractive]

I have a project for Piko, to find the owners of old video games and buy the rights.

I have been able to find and buy the rights of DOS games like The Humans, Viking Child, Jim Power, and Alien Rampage!

I am interested in finding more, specially if they have Amiga, Atari ST, and other retro platforms ports.

Any suggestions? There are a couple I liked from Korean devs, but is hard to break the language barrier to do the tracking down!

Any beat'em ups, run and gun, action, rpg, or adventure you may suggest?

Thanks!

[Iwantgames:)]

Itll never happen but would be awesome if someone could pry the rights to Ultima from EA. I loved that series.

 

Also I always wished the FPS ZPC(zero population count) had gotten a sequel.

 

Also the old FMV games from rocket science games (loadstar, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Wing Nuts)

[PikoInteractive]

Itll never happen but would be awesome if someone could pry the rights to Ultima from EA. I loved that series.

 

Also I always wished the FPS ZPC(zero population count) had gotten a sequel.

 

Also the old FMV games from rocket science games (loadstar, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Wing Nuts)

 

I just sent an email like 2 days ago to the director of Red Ant, so Wing Nuts is not that far-fetched!

 

EA would be impossible to deal with lol.

[Iwantgames:)]

Also a couple others I thought of,

 

Corridor 7 and operation bodycount from capstone.

 

The Catacomb 3d series now owned by http://flatrocksoft.com/based on the site it looks like they are in fact looking to offload the IP

 

Amberstar and Ambermoon or any of Thalion Softwares games I think these are all in the public domain now tho

[zzip]

I have a project for Piko, to find the owners of old video games and buy the rights.

I have been able to find and buy the rights of DOS games like The Humans, Viking Child, Jim Power, and Alien Rampage!

I am interested in finding more, specially if they have Amiga, Atari ST, and other retro platforms ports.

Any suggestions? There are a couple I liked from Korean devs, but is hard to break the language barrier to do the tracking down!

Any beat'em ups, run and gun, action, rpg, or adventure you may suggest?

Thanks!

What do you plan to do with the rights?

[jhd]

Congratulations on managing to acquire the rights to at least some games. I find this type of research very interesting.

 

Many of these very small developers are long out of business, and, depending on their age, the people involved may even be deceased.

 

I know that was the situation with at least one small 2600 developer from the 1980s (whose name I do not recall); he left no spouse or children, so whoever inherited the IP/rights to his game (siblings; nieces or nephews) is probably unaware of its very existence.

[PikoInteractive]

Also a couple others I thought of,

 

Corridor 7 and operation bodycount from capstone.

 

The Catacomb 3d series now owned by http://flatrocksoft.com/based on the site it looks like they are in fact looking to offload the IP

 

Amberstar and Ambermoon or any of Thalion Softwares games I think these are all in the public domain now tho

 

Aware of Catacombs, but I think price is a bit too expensive, since they already released on GOG.com and pretty much have made anything those games were going to make.

 

Corridor 7 and Operation Bodycount are on my radar, mainly to do the same we did with SNA3D!

 

Thalion I think was acquired by a German Magazine, along with Lionheart Amiga, which have never answered my emails :/

 

Not familiar with Amberstar and Ambermoon.

 

 

@Zzip - We exploit the IP, port games, try to do cool stuff.

 

 

[Iwantgames:)]

How about Lighthouse: The Dark Being, a adventure game like Myst, by Seirra On-line

[PikoInteractive]

How about Lighthouse: The Dark Being, a adventure game like Myst, by Seirra On-line

Activision owns Sierra

[Iwantgames:)]

Oh here's one I played all the time:

 

Skyroads by bluemoon

[Iwantgames:)]

Also the Realms of Arkania series would be cool, first was on Amiga and DOS the 2nd and 3rd was DOS only

[Iwantgames:)]

The Hugo Series (first 3 are adventure games and last 1 is FPS)

 

Hugo's House of Horrors, Hugo II Whodunit?, Hugo III Jungle of Doom!, and Nightmare 3D

[PikoInteractive]

The Hugo Series (first 3 are adventure games and last 1 is FPS)

 

Hugo's House of Horrors, Hugo II Whodunit?, Hugo III Jungle of Doom!, and Nightmare 3D

I think Hugo is based of a German cartoon isn't it? That would be hard.

 

Checking the other 2 suggestions now.

[SignGuy81]

I think Hugo is based of a German cartoon isn't it? That would be hard.

 

Checking the other 2 suggestions now.

I think he came up with the character himself I believe but game was inspired by some other games. I could be wrong though but I think the character was his idea although it may share same name as a cartoon character. The creator of the game is David P Gray.

[PikoInteractive]

I am going to recheck whats up with Hugo then! Thanks for this one seems solid!