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Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Posted on 19 September 1998, 21:00 GMT

Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro and the makers of Monopoly®, has threatened legal action against Kirk Meyer should he put a playable TI-86 version of that game on the Internet. Therefore, Kirk has stopped working on Monopoly® for obvious reasons. Ironically, Parker Brothers was impressed by his talents and have asked him to create a version of Monopoly for the color gameboy. Kirk is considering that offer and is also working on his pinball game Lalean for the TI-86.

 


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Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
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i was told by a friend that all he would have to do is change the name and mabey move the space around and change the peices

     19 September 1998, 23:00 GMT

Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Luke

just change its name from monopoly to Kirk's Financial Game........hehe :)

     19 September 1998, 23:41 GMT


Re: Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Ray

How about TI-Opoly, with spaces for each calc and the jail could be changed to "error!" and "just fixing..hehehe

     20 September 1998, 02:38 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
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I love it!!!!!!!!!!

     20 September 1998, 15:22 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Sarcasm

Why in the hell would he want to distribute it for free and wreck his chances of getting PAID to develop it and still run this risk of getting sued? Think about it!!!

     23 September 1998, 08:18 GMT

Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
CalcMan

I think that it is terrible that there is going to be no more monopoly for calculators. Why, can't PB give up their MONOPOLY on monopoly. I think that all loyal calculator gamers, ect. should boycott Hasbro products.

     19 September 1998, 23:44 GMT

Re: Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Luke

great idea. only problem is that if all 24 of us stop buying hasbro products, it only makes them lose $0.39 a year............... :)

     20 September 1998, 16:24 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Cal Folds

Who the hell doesn't already have the game anyway?
Don't get me wrong I think PB is right to stop Kirk although I wish they didn't.

     21 September 1998, 03:47 GMT


MONOPOLY IS ALREADY HERE
Knight2626

OK, i'm sorry, but I just have to mention this. There already TWO, count them, TWO versions of monopoly out for the TI-86 calculator and I think for the 85 also that could easily be ported to teh 83 and 82. One is a very, very graphical BASIC version that takes up about 23K and runs great, only slightly slow because the prog itself is huge at 11k. It shows sections of the board and your see an arrow indicate where your peice has moved. The other is written in ASM, runs fast as all, and shows teh board from a top down view. It is only about 5K and is identical to the real game. So I don't know why everyone is so upset about not having monoploly, when its there already.

     27 September 1998, 04:47 GMT

Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Stuart Bergstrom
(Web Page)

Well a copyright law is a copyright law, you can't just go and do what you please. It's not wrong of PB to protect something that they own, it's legal and it's their right and responsibility to do so. It may be disappointing, but come on folks, its a far cry from 'not fair'.

     19 September 1998, 23:47 GMT

Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
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This sucks big time Fuq Hasbro i hope they goto hell the game is like a thousand years old they should give up the copyright or at least let him make the game and release it

     20 September 1998, 00:15 GMT

Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Kirk Meyer
(Web Page)

I will not make any promises just yet, but I plan on inventing a newer, dynamic board game. Since it is electronic, its components will be able to be dynamic according to the game play. Please post any suggestions you have as responses to this thread. Please limit your comments about this to this thread only so that I can find them. Thank you.

     20 September 1998, 00:33 GMT


Kirk''s new game
Andrew Hockman
(Web Page)

How about some sort of thing where the board size/shape re-configues according to the gameplay? Maybe some funky shapes, so it's not all squares and rectangles.

BTW, please post the PB letter to satisfy everyone's curiosity. And if they're throwing money at you, I'd go for it.

     22 September 1998, 02:54 GMT


Re: Kirk''s new game
Bob

I'm just starting to program some games and just thought I'd let you know that I really enjoy the games I have. I have an older version of Monopoly that I got from here. Its pretty good.

Anyways, Kirk, I'd jump at the chance to make a game for a big company. Take the money and I can't wait for your new game.

     24 September 1998, 03:44 GMT

Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Scott RUbin
(Web Page)

I think this is just bad omens. Even though it seems that TI's are a real big thing, large corporations don't even know that there are calculators with games on them. I bet Bill Gates would be shocked and panic if he found this out. This is just the first instance of a big company acknowledging our existence. Eventually if they think there is a big enough market for calculator games eventually they will sell caculator games in the store and ticalc.org will be a thing of the past. Of course this is not the worst case scenario. If big companies start making games that would rock! Imagine like Activision and Interplay making calculator games. Yeah!

     20 September 1998, 00:38 GMT


Re: Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Jeff Min
(Web Page)

Of course you'd have to pay for them... (most likely anyway)

     20 September 1998, 02:02 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
mistuhdriggs

Not when it costs zero cents and a certain quantity of electrons to transfer string code from one calc to another.

     20 September 1998, 02:19 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Killbat, Conqueror of Worlds

Actually, the electrons need not be supplied. There are plenty out there. It's a matter of paying the molocules in your batteries to force the electrons to move, but they work for cheap. However, my buds *name removed* and *name removed* have leaked some information to me. It seems the electrons have been talking among themselves. They plan to form a union, or at least band together just this once to strike. They have been forced to move for millennia, and they are not happy. They want their share, and they're going to get it. So, in closing, transfer all the programs you'll need for a long while now, because the cost of moving electrons is going UP. Don't tell the electrons I told you.

BTW: You have fallen victim to the psycho-babble of Killbat. Have a nice day. :-)

     20 September 1998, 04:32 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Juancho

This is IMO why they have designed apps that are going to be SOLD on the 89. That way they're gonna be able to gouge us $50 for starcraft89 and diablo 89 and the like. Maybe it is a good idea, maybe not. I dunno. And supposedly you can't pirate them though i havent tried

     20 September 1998, 05:32 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Sarcasm

Just a couple of things:

a) You can pirate ANY program.
b) No one in his right mind would pay $50 for a calculator game.
c) Any program sold for the calculators will likely be really awesome, as the companies creating the software will be aware of the vast amount of quality calculator freeware.

     23 September 1998, 08:35 GMT

Re: Legal Threat Halts Monopoly Development
Alan Johnson
(Web Page)

Just wondering, are you gonna make the GB Color Monopoly? I think you should.

     20 September 1998, 00:59 GMT

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