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Message: [QUOTE="lonelyrollingstars, post: 249470, member: 17555"] I think the rights to it filtered down to some shitty IP holding company who are trying to milk it for everything it's worth. I've seen several other C64/Amiga games being ported to absolutely everything and it seems like it's usually British devs, so I'm guessing it's whoever bought US Gold/Ocean/Mastertronic/some other consolidated publisher making low-effort "emulator and ROM in a wrapper" releases like the people who bought Bubsy. Since WinUAE/VICE/many other emulators are open source there are ports of them for everything, and getting it running on a new platform takes virtually no work on their part, so even if they only sell 20-30 copies throughout the release's lifetime they still make a profit. The James Pond series had a fairly warm reception in the UK, so I'm willing to bet they make at least a few thousand from every new release. [/QUOTE]

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