The legal implications of modifying someone else's work and selling it on were fuzzy.Īt last week's Game Developers Conference, one of Ms. In the early 1980s, the legal status of this activity was yet to be established. That company was called General Computer, and it made its living by modifying the work of others, and presenting that work as separate intellectual properties. distributor Midway and Japanese creator Namco as a new game.
But still, it's a humdinger.Ī group of MIT drop-outs deconstructed the original game, made significant improvements and sold the additional modifying code back to U.S. Pac-Manhas been told before and is well known, especially among those fascinated by the raucous early days of the coin-op boom.
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