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Style
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Did anyone make much money writing c64 games?
and if so, what sort of money are we talking?
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
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A friend of mine made a few games for C64 and recently he told me Players only paid for half of them... stinky business it was, if you ask me!
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Platoon
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well the young kid who invented / made the game boulderdash made tons of money of it as far as i can recall :D |
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Graham
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But boulder dash is an atari game and not a c64 game. |
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The Syndrom
Registered: Aug 2005
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we in TIA were involved in a few games nearly at the end of the commercial cycle, but as far as I can remember usual payment for the whole game on platforms like 64'er, Magic Disk, Game On etc was a few thousand DMs.
I believe, real commercial games like f.e. Turrican or LN3 surely were commercial success-stories. |
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Oswald
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LN3 sort fragments of LN1 which was rather a success, LN3 was to close to the end of the lifespan. |
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Platoon
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@Graham well didnt know that i only remember playing it alot on the c64 and that it was one of my all time favorites......
and recall i read an article in some computermag that it was a young kid from canada if i remember it correctly that got pretty rich for inventing the little ant concept :P
but if you say so i believe you :P never owned an atari so didnt even know it was on that machine it all began :D
regards platoon |
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BAR.
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Quote: @Graham well didnt know that i only remember playing it alot on the c64 and that it was one of my all time favorites......
and recall i read an article in some computermag that it was a young kid from canada if i remember it correctly that got pretty rich for inventing the little ant concept :P
but if you say so i believe you :P never owned an atari so didnt even know it was on that machine it all began :D
regards platoon
I've had an atari2600 and i can't remember boulder dash..
Graham, do you mean dig dug ? |
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Platoon
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@graham is right it was an atari game but it was invented by a canadian guy just googled it :P
Peter Liepa (from Canada) is the inventor of the original Boulder Dash. He wrote Boulder Dash for the Atari 400/800 together with Chris Gray in 1983. Although Peter wasn't familiar with the Commodore 64 scene, First Star Software published a C64 conversion one year later. This game was not very different from the Atari 400/800 version, only the graphics and sounds were slightly different.
regrads platoon |
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BAR.
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Quote: @graham is right it was an atari game but it was invented by a canadian guy just googled it :P
Peter Liepa (from Canada) is the inventor of the original Boulder Dash. He wrote Boulder Dash for the Atari 400/800 together with Chris Gray in 1983. Although Peter wasn't familiar with the Commodore 64 scene, First Star Software published a C64 conversion one year later. This game was not very different from the Atari 400/800 version, only the graphics and sounds were slightly different.
regrads platoon
ok, forgot this computer as i never brought an atari xl before
the C64.. ;)
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BAR.
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Wasn't Rainbow Arts the ones making much money producing Katakis and DENARIS for the french people and other games together with Manfred Trenz ? |
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