IIRC, it's an Apple / Atari box.ijor wrote:Well, the software exists. This doesn't proof that the box exists
Aim Software?Magneto. Again please, which company is the publisher?
Rob, did you get the address?
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IIRC, it's an Apple / Atari box.ijor wrote:Well, the software exists. This doesn't proof that the box exists
Aim Software?Magneto. Again please, which company is the publisher?
So tell everybody who was the bastardosgorth wrote:And yes, it does exist Ijor, I know that to be a fact. But that copy is no more, it's been thrown away... (I know, I want to kill him too)
The truth is that (almost) all publishers were rather small back then. They were insignificantly small if you compare them with today's corporations. Hey, even Microsoft was smallosgorth wrote:The thing here is that we think SSI are big when we look back
You usually can tell by the packaging. A proffesionally pre-printed retail box, manual and disk label, can't be published in too low quantities because that wouldn't be economic. Contrast this with some titles with a simple generic (non-title specific) packaging; such as the earliest Artwork releases.There were plenty of small publishers who only managed to sell a few up to a hundred copies of a particular game, from what I hear from the Apple gang.
That's very interesting. Do you have a list of which earlier versions that are missing? Does Computer Ambush have multiple versions? I don't see any (obvious) version indication.osgorth wrote:What we do find are mostly re-releases and upgraded versions (v1.1, v1.2, Second Editions and so on) from later years. They had a big catalog, and many games were in print for many years. Computer Ambush for example, was in print all the way up to 1988! (it's from 1982 originally). Most of the first editions and v1.0 versions are MIA today, nowhere to be found..
Oh, I see you are talking about SSI in the general sense. Not Atari specific. Sorry, misunderstood your point.osgorth wrote:That would suggest that they didn't release for the Atari until mid or late 1982, and that's also when most upgrades had been done already (not all though!) - hence I think the Atari versions are more or less done. ...
Try finding the original Computer Bismarck from 1980..