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Bratwurst

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  1. EA approached Sega initially when the Genesis came out and showed how they were able to publish games on their own, without the need for Sega's approval.

     

    I'm not sure if they went ahead and made games but because they 'threatened' to go on their own EA was able to secure a more lucrative licensee contract than normal and that's where the yellow tabbed cartridges come from. They didn't have to rely on Sega to make their carts for them, etc.

     

    This was all pre-lockout era.

     

    Accolade was sued because they actually used some of the patented code in the newer Genesis' Sega Bios to make their unlicensed games work on the lockout hardware.


  2. Tengen went with Nintendo as a licensee long enough to figure out the lock-out chip and reverse engineer it, hence the three, brief runs of Gauntlet, RBI Baseball and Pac Man as gray carts. After that they decided to break off and make everything in black casings, which pissed off Nintendo alot, not to mention the Tetris fiasco.

     

    Tengen was subsequently sued for, among other things, accusations that they illegally looked at patent information on the NES and of course, false rights to the publication of Tetris. More information at:

     

    http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/special/tetrishist.html

     

    and

     

    http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/special/el/el.html


  3. No idea.. there could have been a limited after market demand for them. I do know however of Nintendo up to this point still offering repairs on Famicom disk system drive belts and the like. Shame that it seems they'll be getting out of that.. something that will be sorely missed in the collecting community over there as nearly every disk system is discovered broken.


  4. Rather surprising in that so far as I know, the last software release for the Super Famicom was sometime in 1997-98, (Rockman and Forte?)

     

    Though, just very recently there was a Saturn and Super CD PC Engine release if I'm not mistaken, and those platforms are considered long dead.

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