Cinemaware *might* be back!

[esteban]

eGames Announces Acquisition of Legendary Brand and Game Developer Cinemaware. Cinemaware President Lars Fuhrken-Batista To Join eGames As Vice President of Development

TG-16 related titles from Cinemaware's back-catalogue:

It Came from the Desert
Lords of the Rising Sun
TV Sports Football
TV Sports Hockey (exclusive to TG-16 !! ??)
TV Sports Basketball
TV Sports Baseball (never released, HuCard)

Now, I doubt that they will resusitate any of these games -- but who knows?

[GUTS]

The only game I ever liked of theirs was Defender of the Crown, which they tried to bring back and I think it bombed pretty badly.

[esteban]

The only game I ever liked of theirs was Defender of the Crown, which they tried to bring back and I think it bombed pretty badly.

Yeah, I never played it the new version, but I'd be curious to see what it was like. Didn't look too intriquing, though.

Cinemaware's PC games were fun as hell back in the day, but I don't think they've aged too gracefully (I did play a few of them on Amiga and they were always 100000000 times better since I had a sucky video card in my PC). Cinemaware have a special place in my heart, because I trusted them with my $$$ and they never really disappointed me.

But PC games were always clunky... console games were much purer, IMO.

[GUTS]

Man I would have killed to have an Amiga or PC when I was a kid, there was a Commodore 64 at my church which they let me play and that was the only way I got to play most of those old computer games.  There were probably some Cinemaware games in there that I just don't remember, they had a stack of pirated discs like 2 feet high that some guy donated (I never told the pastor they were copied discs for fear of him throwing them out, haha, he didn't know shit about computers so he just thought that's how games came).

What other old computer games did they do?  Wasn't Wings one of them?

[Keranu]

Cinemaware rules.

I had a Tandy 1000 back in the day and I used to play some classics on it with DOS, such as Leisure Suit Larry, Baby Bouncies, and Jumpman 2.

[doomfarer75]

Anyone here knows that I am a true devotee of Tv Sports Basketball. My only fervent wish is that mindrec or you boys at frozen Utopia would do an expanded/corrected/updated Super cd Version for me, its only fan...  I would be happy to be project advisor....

[Kaminari]

Mmm, not sure what they're going to do with it...

The "resurrected" Cinemaware had nothing to do with the original team, it all started as a fan website that bought out long-dead Cinemaware IP in 2000 for a dime, and became really active when they got the opportunity to team up with a (now-defunct) Amiga publisher called ClickBoom. The deal was to develop remakes of the classic Cinemaware titles for the PC, Mac and PPC Amiga platforms, but for whatever reason they failed to gain any momentum.

In the meantime, the announced Amiga ports went AWOL with the demise of ClickBoom after the infamous Nightlong incident. But I digress...