[mindnoise]

Hi for here is a special place for the everlasting Bungie Glory Gory
I wanted to share that Abuse the old Classic is on the iTunes Store for a dollar!

AS far as I can tell this is in faith following of the orignal and the a hell of a fun to play!


Did anybody saw this coming?

cheers
m.

[Janichsan]

Actually, I heard about this quite a while ago. But I also heard that the developer of the iPhone version didn't have the rights to release it (it seems the levels are freely available, but still copyrighted, similar to the situation with Marathon) so that the game was pulled from the App store (can't find the link to that right now). And it's certainly no longer available in the German App store.

Is this another, more "official" version of the game?

[mindnoise]

Janichsan, on August 14th 2009, 07:48 AM, said:

And it's certainly no longer available in the German App store.

Is this another, more "official" version of the game?

I don´t know how, but these problems seem to be solved:

here is he link from the German iTunes Store:
http://itunes.apple....e...397227&mt=8

best

[Pegasus]

Janichsan, on August 14th 2009, 07:48 AM, said:

But I also heard that the developer of the iPhone version didn't have the rights to release it (it seems the levels are freely available, but still copyrighted, similar to the situation with Marathon)

Which makes me wonder why nobody else has gone the route Mobila Interactive has gone with Tyrian, for which you have to separately download the actual game files within the app as they're only free as directly accessed by the end user. I thought that that was quite the clever workaround for such a situation.

[Pegasus]

Stumbled over this link on the Touch Arcade forum just now.

Man, that Dave Taylor guy sounds pretty damn nasty. So I guess this makes Abuse Classic an "officially sanctioned" version.

[Janichsan]

mindnoise, on August 15th 2009, 04:02 AM, said:

I don´t know how, but these problems seem to be solved:

here is he link from the German iTunes Store:
http://itunes.apple....e...397227&mt=8

Yep, that's a new port. The old one was called "Alien Abuse" and looked somewhat different.

[the Battle Cat]

mindnoise, on August 14th 2009, 07:07 AM, said:

Hi for here is a special place for the everlasting Bungie Glory Gory

Actually, Bungie only produced that game as they did Weekend Warrior. Abuse was developed by Crack Dot Com. But still, yeah, when I think of Abuse I think of Bungie.

[mindnoise]

the Battle Cat, on August 15th 2009, 08:39 AM, said:

Actually, Bungie only produced that game as they did Weekend Warrior. Abuse was developed by Crack Dot Com. But still, yeah, when I think of Abuse I think of Bungie.

Yes, and since it was in the Bungie Action Sack....

But wow, this is a nasty story behind Alien Abuse and Abuse Classic. Really nasty.