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Originally Posted by deltav
That's great, I'd love to see Mario 2 and 3 get the same treatment though both are a bit more complex. How they got around copyright for this (if they even did) I have no idea.
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I heard about this through the
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/ site on their weekly podcast. The game has been around for several months.
The owner did get DMCA'ed by Nintendo after getting well over 1 million visits to his sites.
Copyright, I would say yes.
The game is a clone. Doom was converted into flash (the first episode which is freeware and the music was copyright so it is not included).
For the sake of age, being a classic, I give it a pass however.
Clones are made all the time that are just copying functionality, Linux (completely free) is essentially a Unix clone. The code isn't the same but provides (much more now) the same functionality.
Even as far back as dreamcast friends of mine would have a DVD disc that had every Nintendo game ever made on it.
Funny how I would beg my mom when I was 6-7 to get me a shitty Nintendo game I had no idea about for $50-70, she declined me thank god!
Playing some of the old games I can't believe how much they sold for considering how low value they are. Super Mario 2 and 3 are good games, and worth the price, not many games were though.