Exidy: who owns the pieces?

[Flojomojo]

Just thinking about this old company, wondering where they went. If you visit http://www.exidy.com/ you will get a nice surprise, but not much information.

[Atari-Jess]

I have one of these, its sitting with its keys strewn across the room.

[joeybastard]

Either that's a very large computer or that's a very small man.

[Lauren Tyler]

I never knew Exidy actually tried to get into the computer business! Who owns the rights to their games, like Chiller, Venture, and Mouse Trap?

[cimerians]

They made some cool offbeat games. Chiller was completely weird and I think they banded that game.

 

Venture and Crossbow were my favs.

[Atari-Jess]

the sorcerer 2 is HUGE.

 

It is the heaviest retro-puter I own and everything about it screams giant.

[Lauren Tyler]

Don't know if Chiller was banned, but I do know that they did have their Death Race game banned.

[Crimefighter]

Most arcades wouldn't carry Chiller, thats it.

[mos6507]

And also Death Race, of course.

 

When you read the Sorcerer specs it really doesn't seem like a machine developed by a game company. Just black and white character graphics (albeit high res) and no built-in sound.

[Flojomojo]

So no one knows who holds their intellectual property?

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmm .... Winky

[Zonie]

Star-Fire Rocks!

[+DamonicFury]

It would be really great if some of these older game manufacturers would make their IP available in some form or other. StarRoms has been in business for something like 2 years now, and only Atari (Infogrammes) has made their Roms available for sale on it. Why not Exidy, Cinematronics, Universal, etc? Even a CD-Rom package similar to Namco's, Midway's, or Atari's would be nice.

 

(Yeah, I know it's easy to find ROMS 'out there' but I really would like to see as many arcade games as possible get a proper modern release.)

[Tempest]

So no one knows who holds their intellectual property?

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmm .... Winky

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Funny, we were discussing this at dinner at the show the other day. We *think* it might be Williams, but no one is really sure. I have someone looking into tit.

 

 

Tempest