Wheel of Fortune
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Stern owning the code didn't stop that one guy from re-writing Star Wars. Stern liked it so much, they even posted on their website as an "official" release! They certainly didn't have any more 20 year old DE Star Wars pins to sell!
Quoted from pinball_keefer:Last I heard, Stern the man or company has no rights to anything DE, so not exactly a apples-apples comparison.
Well, they posted it as an "official" Stern release....which would seem to imply Gary still considers everything from DE (and I assume Sega also) to part of his current company.
Interesting, if Stern doesn't own the DE assists, who does? The history of those three companies is fascinating to me. I hope someone does a documentary on it someday.
Quoted from ChadH:I am the one who did the Star Wars update. Stern Pinball contacted me when they heard about it. In no part of dealing with them was there ever any mention that they did not own the Data East code. In fact, there was several references to Stern needing to protect their IP (in this case, the Data East Star Wars code). The deal was that they would allow me to finish my update and they would approve it and they would host the download file and the would retain the rights to it. I was allowed to write all about it on my website but the link to the actual download on my website was to be a link to their web site where they host the download file. The whole process was actually quite smooth and the folks I met from Stern were great guys.
Cool story! Thanks for explaining it to us in detail. I still think it so cool what you were able to do, and the cooperation by Stern is a nice contrast to how some companies work today.
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