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[L. Curtis Boyle]

Zaxxon (when first released) was through Datasoft directly and not Tandy, from what I recall. Also, Moon Shuttle was through Datasoft, and not sold by Tandy. One other one was Frogger by The Cornsoft Group. But that is the only ones I can think of that were both 1) officially licensed, and 2) not sold through Radio Shack (Zaxxon was later, obviously).

L. Curtis Boyle
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On Mar 29, 2013, at 12:42 AM, Arthur Flexser wrote:

> Steve, I'm a little curious about a couple of aspects of the licensing.
> I think that most if not all of the games you mention were sold by Tandy.
> Does that mean it would have been prohibitively expensive for a third party
> to have licensed one of them and sold it by mail order?
> What kind of licensing fees were being asked, back in the CoCo's heyday?
> 
> Also, if someone did license a game, did the company it was licensed from
> typically provide any assistance as far as development of a CoCo version?
> Access to source code and the like?
> Art
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Steve Bjork <6809er at srbsoftware.com> wrote:
> 
>> The following games:
>> Arkanoid, Dallas Quest, Dung Beetles (Mega-Bug), One on One: Dr. J vs.
>> Larry Bird and Super Pitfall
>> were fully licensed games.  (Not clones.)
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> On 3/28/2013 11:10 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> 
>>> There are a number of incorrect listings on the Wikipedia. In most cases,
>>> there is a claim that some official arcade game was ported to the Color
>>> Computer, when in reality, all we had was a clone. Paperboy, Moon Patrol
>>> and a number of others I noticed are all listed, claiming that a CoCo
>>> version existed, when it did not.
>>> 
>>> Or did I miss out on a bunch of official arcade ports somehow?
>>> 
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Category:TRS-80_Color_**Computer_games<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:TRS-80_Color_Computer_games>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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