damien: I noticed on Fever_Discordia's thread that Elite is listed among Tommo games. With more than 1100 votes on the wishlist it is surprising that it didn't yet get a release here. Does anyone know whether Tommo really has the rights?
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/missing_original_ips_from_signed_publishers/post5 Yeah, I must admit that I was surprised to see it on this list:
http://docs.bmcgroup.com/Atari/nysb_1-13-bk-10176_313.pdf (page 75)
too! Along with the original version of Geoff Crammond's 'The Sentinal' too
They are both games originally published by British Telecom's 'Firebird' label
Firebird's was bought by Microprose who's rights, in turn, were split between Atari (or whatever they were called at the time) and
Take 2
The other Firebird published games on that list (Estra, Viking Raiders) are a small selection of their library that were only released on 8-bit machines like C64 and ZX Spectrum so I guess its possible the Tommo rights to Elite and The Sentinel are only to those old 8-bit versions too
Some of their titles like 'Booty' are in 'strikethough' font too - whatever that signifies
Elite Plus was Published by 'Microplay' which was a Microprose label so the rights MAY go with the older version but it would be nicer if 'Elite Plus' was on the list seperately
That's about all I know
Thanks for perusing my list!
*EDIT*
Interestingly the Elite 2 - Frontier series was published by GameTek, some of who's right were bought by Take 2 when they went under
As Microprose founder Sid Meier's new company Friraxis is part of the Take 2 group I might speculate that he would be interested in getting right to Elite games again but that's just speculation...
*EDIT 2*
'Elite - Dangerous' Kickstater link because why not?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
