BIGHMW Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 In this episode, mentally disabled musician and entertainer Ray Jackson takes a look at an arcade classic that wound up never really being officially released, the superb Venture for the Atari 5200 SuperSystem. Normally, we would be able to afford to you the ROM or .bin file of every game we review here on The Atari Report, but due to potential legal reasons that are beyond even my control, as well as by express request from the original program owner, we are sorry to not be able to afford to you the program for this particular game. We do apologize for this inconvenience. #Venture #Atari5200 #TheAtariReport 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patroclus99 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Well, Mean Hamster Software Inc. who had the rights to Exidy titles is kaput; so, what legalities remain? Oh I see, Gregarious Games DBA CollectorVision LLC. . . looks like they sell some mini-arcade piddly-diddlies, and merchandise the ColecoVision Flashback. . . and some Luminart. . . thingy. They have the registered trademark, but I guess someone else owns the copyright to the source-code? Does someone have an exclusive license to this copyright, if not, what's the deal? Publisher AA sells a 5200 production of Venture with a commission-sales-license to the author. . . or some such arrangement. Who owns the source-code anyway. . .this guy? Oh well, who cares. . . Space Dungeon was wa-a-a-y cooler anyway, rockin' firing-rate. Thank you for posting! I had forgotten about Venture, I think I played it at the arcade a couple of times. . . didn't even know there was a ROM for it. I enjoyed watching the video! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patroclus99 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 While I think of it, folks might find this brief interview with Rex Battenberg who wrote Space Dungeon (Taito cabinet version) interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Alexander Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Continue the great work. The Atari 5200 Podcast supports you with a thumbs up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGHMW Posted September 20, 2020 Author Share Posted September 20, 2020 Thank you!!! The next episode goes up tonight!!! I'll be reviewing (and playing) @playsoft's 8-bit conversion of Star Island!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuzaxeman Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Cool! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGHMW Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 30 minutes ago, phuzaxeman said: Cool! The new episode is up right now, I even mentioned you in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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