This is going slightly off topic, but your answers can be found at
http://www.videogames.com Just check out the Features section from a
couple weeks back regarding Atari and why it's possible to still make
games for those systems (Jaguar, Atari 2600, Lynx portable). It's got
something to do with Atari giving up the rights to licensing games for the
system (or something to that effect) and the fact that the original 2600
never required licensing to begin with =)
Back to the subject at hand, I would say the same holds true for the NEC
systems - a publisher/developer HAD to have a license from NEC to develop
and publish games for the system. Perhaps that is why we have never (too
my knowledge) seen a "home grown" or "prototype" game of sorts on our
beloved system. ;)
Hope that helps, and if not, back to Dead of the Brain (is there a FAQ for
this thing ?!?!)
Happy Gaming all!
Mark Magdamit
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2000 xxxxxx@aol.com wrote:
> I have been thinking about this a lot recently, especially with
> companies like Telegames and even some private parties releasing
> previously completed but unreleased games for other systems (Atari
> Jaguar comes to mind). Why hasn't TZD or someone else ever made an
> effort to try and license and release a few new turbo games? There is
> obviously a huge demand and the number of turbo collectors is growing
> at a remarkable rate. Does anyone have any ideas about this?
>