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Re:Atari abuses copyright to kick competitors out of the iOS... by mwexler on Saturday December 31, 2011 @01:57PM (#3411533)
What does this mean for classics like Spectre? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(video_game) It's been around for a long time on multiple Apple platforms. Will Atari start attacking not only recent entrants, but also ones who were there far more than a year ago?
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Re:Atari abuses copyright to kick competitors out of the iOS... by jawngee on Sunday January 01, 2012 @08:55AM (#3413027)
Spectre VR was the business back in the day. Not sure how many hours I lost playing that game.

We also used to play that and Bolo all of the time back in school (92-93'ish).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(video_game)

But, to your point, Spectre is way different than Battlezone. IIRC, you collected flags and other stuff, with some RPG stat leveling business.

God, now I'm all nostalgic.

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Re:Atari abuses copyright to kick competitors out of the iOS... by kabdib on Saturday December 31, 2011 @03:01PM (#3411687)
One word: Laches

(IANL, but they probably lost their opportunity for a suit a /long/ time ago)

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