At 8:19 am +0100 21/2/01, Robert van der Veeke wrote: >Any comments about those "Dickheads". They are now out with a press release >at > >http://www.jesterinteractive.co.uk/press/media_packs/jsw_manic.html
For those who don't know what he's talking about, there's a lot of threads on comp.sys.sinclair about this: Jester Interactive are basing their game and their marketing on the unlicensed IP of Matthew Smith, even using his very name, and yet the first he knew about it was the press release. When someone asked the CEO of Jester Interactive whether Matthew Smith would receive royalties, or be employed as a consultant for the game, the CEO apparently replied: "F[] off D[]head". Oh, and if you didn't need another reason to not buy the game, another contact at Jester says the new games are highly likely to be in 3D. So much "the days when gameplay was king" and "faithful to the original games". Personally I wouldn't touch the games or the company with a twenty foot bargepole. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ---- ---- http://mnemotech.ucam.org/ --- -- r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
