So the other day I saw that there was a news article about how the creator of Hong Kong 97 came out and released a personal statement about the game.
http://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entert ... -1997-ends
In the article the creator talks about how he just wants people to forget about the game and that he doesn't want anything to do with it. Then I came up with an idea. If the game really is a homebrew and not a hack, then technically he still has the rights to his game. If he did a rom hack of his own game and removed all of the copywrited material and replaced it with similar material then technically he could sell his game legitimately.
Since this game is literally infamous now, he could probably cash in on this and launch a kickstarter or do a Steam release or something and everyone would go nuts over it. He seems to be a business guy so I don't see why he wouldn't go for this idea.
What are your thoughts?
http://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entert ... -1997-ends
In the article the creator talks about how he just wants people to forget about the game and that he doesn't want anything to do with it. Then I came up with an idea. If the game really is a homebrew and not a hack, then technically he still has the rights to his game. If he did a rom hack of his own game and removed all of the copywrited material and replaced it with similar material then technically he could sell his game legitimately.
Since this game is literally infamous now, he could probably cash in on this and launch a kickstarter or do a Steam release or something and everyone would go nuts over it. He seems to be a business guy so I don't see why he wouldn't go for this idea.
What are your thoughts?