[Coco] Category:TRS-80 Color Computer games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Fri Mar 29 02:42:47 EDT 2013


Steve, I'm a little curious about a couple of aspects of the licensing.
I think that most if not all of the games you mention were sold by Tandy.
Does that mean it would have been prohibitively expensive for a third party
to have licensed one of them and sold it by mail order?
What kind of licensing fees were being asked, back in the CoCo's heyday?

Also, if someone did license a game, did the company it was licensed from
typically provide any assistance as far as development of a CoCo version?
Access to source code and the like?
Art
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Steve Bjork <6809er at srbsoftware.com> wrote:

> The following games:
> Arkanoid, Dallas Quest, Dung Beetles (Mega-Bug), One on One: Dr. J vs.
> Larry Bird and Super Pitfall
> were fully licensed games.  (Not clones.)
>
> Steve
>
> On 3/28/2013 11:10 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>
>> There are a number of incorrect listings on the Wikipedia. In most cases,
>> there is a claim that some official arcade game was ported to the Color
>> Computer, when in reality, all we had was a clone. Paperboy, Moon Patrol
>> and a number of others I noticed are all listed, claiming that a CoCo
>> version existed, when it did not.
>>
>> Or did I miss out on a bunch of official arcade ports somehow?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Category:TRS-80_Color_**Computer_games<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:TRS-80_Color_Computer_games>
>>
>>
>>
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