As I recall there were two reasons. THe first was that he originally thought
there would be less likelyhood of running into copyright issues if he
changed the name of the game. And obviously he wasn't aware of the fact
there was already a game called Montezuma's Return. The second reason is
that in the US at least, Montezuma's Revenge is slang for shall we say, a
nasty case of the flue. And according to history the actual Emperor
Montezuma suffered from poor health for most of his life and so Thomas felt
that it would be in bad taste to use the term as the title for a game. And
I'm assuming it hadn't yet evolved it's alternate meaning at the time when
Parker Brothers released the original Arcade game, or if it had it wasn't
yet in popular usage.
We are the Knights who saaaaay...Ni!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Gauler" <michael.gau...@gmx.de>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Why I want older versions of the games
Hi Thomas,
I am no expert in copyright issues. And if that was not Enough, I am not
living in the USA, so I also don't know USA copyright laws.
For that it is not the least bit surprising to find out I don't know
something.
But what I never got in the first place was why you changed the
Montezuma's Revenge first to Montezuma's Return if staying with it could
have possibly avoided the entire matter.
Don't get me wrong here: I have nothing against a greg temple instead of
an Aztec one...
But it is still disapointing to not have a proper ending to the old game.
And this is again not meant as an insult to you or your company, but to
have 22 public versions with not more than two levels max when the last
nearly finished release had six levels is a bit frustrating (you have to
wait) of course...
Also, what was the problem with the last version Called Tomb Hunter
Mysteries of the Aztecs?
That was your character, and your music or someone whoose music you
bought, right?
The only sad thing is that Montezuma's Return beta 9 had the best of all
main themes I have known for Audio games if you don't count dramatic
themes.
And the Music of the Mysteries of the Aztecs Beta 1 ( primarily the last
public version's main theme) would have been even better if it was not too
quiet and in full 44100 KHZ instead of only 22050 KHZ...
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