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Sat, 09/01/2007 - 11:46am
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From an old Ultima AOL

From an old Ultima AOL chat

http://vorlon.case.edu/~zwb2/Ultima/1984-06-14.txt

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June 14th 1984
(1,CONTACH) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF QUESTRON?
(1,LORD BRITISH) QUESTRON... A TOUCHY SUBJECT....
(1,LORD BRITISH) WELL, THERE IS A LONG STORY BEHIND QUESTRON...
(1,LORD BRITISH) AND I'LL GIVE YOU THE VERY, VERY SHORT ANSWER....
(1,LORD BRITISH) QUESTRON WAS SUBMITTED TO A NUMBER OF COMPANIES...
(1,LORD BRITISH) INCLUDING ON-LINE WHILE I WAS THERE...
(1,LORD BRITISH) AND THEY DID NOT ACCEPT IT....
(1,LORD BRITISH) THEN IT WENT TO BRODERBUND, AND THEY...
(1,DW MAZE) QUESTRON IS NOT ON THE SAME LEVEL AS YOUR GAMES.
(1,LORD BRITISH) THANK YOU....
(1,LORD BRITISH) THEY ALMOST PUBLISHED IT UNTIL I COMPLAINED....
(1,LORD BRITISH) THEN, THINKING IT WAS ALL OVER,...
(1,LORD BRITISH) SUDDENLY SSI HAD ALMOST RELEASED IT...
(1,LORD BRITISH) AND WOULD NOT STOP WITHOUT A SUIT,...
(1,LORD BRITISH) SO WE SETTLED OUT OF COURT...
(1,LORD BRITISH) AND I GET CREDITS ON THE BOX, DOCS & BOOT FOR...
(1,LORD BRITISH) GAME STYLE AND A SMALL, SMALL ROYALTY. GA

I find it odd, mostly because Questron I is nothing like any Ultima. That they settled means SSI thought there must have been something to it. Questron I dates to 1984, Ultima III to 1983. Hmm looking over mobygames, I cant see any rpg thats tile based, it looks like Questron I was the first (that I can see).

I'm kinda surprised it took until 1984 and post Ultima III for there to be another tile based crpg!

(feel like I missed something tho. lots of roguelikes, but no tile based stuff).

Mmm the days of look-and-feel lawsuits.

-- Stu --

-- Stu --

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