> From: (Bill Paul)
> Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
> Subject: New!! Cinematronics Home Page
> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 96 00:57:09 GMT
> Organization: Qualcomm Inc.
>
> The unofficial Cinematronics Home Page is now on the web! The URL is
> http://home.concentric.net/~Zonn/
> Amoung the many items it includes, you can find instructions for converting
> Star Castle into War of the Worlds (an ealry X-mas present).
Thanks for the pointer. His history is generally accurate, but from
my conversations with Tim Skelly and Scott Boden I concluded that
Larry Rosenthal got screwed bad in the deal and basically walked away
with nothing, the programmers were called technicians and paid as such,
and when they bought/sued Vectorbeam the owners of Cinematronics got
the rights to the design in THEIR NAME NOT THE COMPANY so when things
later went bad, the company folded while they continued to collect
royaltys on the game! Bills history sounds like he got it from the
other side. I have yet to actually talk to Larry about it, I contacted
him once, but had heard that it was sort of a taboo subject with him so
I didn't pursue it any further.
-- ___ __ _ _ _ | \ / \ | | | || | Engineer/Programmer | _/| || || |_| || |__ " What makes someone care so much? |_| |_||_| \___/ |____) for things another man can just ignore. " -S.H.
