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Indie Says Atari’s On Warpath Against iPhone Apps With ‘Even A Passing Resemblance’ To Their Old Games

Vector Tanks was around for at least three years on the iTunes App Store and looked a lot like Battlezone the whole time. It isn’t there anymore. Atari recently sent legal papers over to the game’s developer, Black Powder Media, which now warns other indie developers that “anything that has even a passing resemblance to an Atari classic” can expect to see a copyright infringement claim.


January 17, 2009
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Battlezone Coming to the iPhone

When he’s not busy maintaining an amazing personal arcade in his home, Luca City Arcade’s Peter Hirschberg is apparently spends his time developing retro games for the iPhone.