Definitions

1. Tengen was a video game publisher and developer that was created after the video game crash of 1983 -1984 by Atari Games.
2. Tengen is re-admitted as a Nintendo licensee. (Web site)
3. While Tengen was sued by Nintendo for making unauthorized games, Wisdom Tree was not.
4. However Tengen was apparently less than enthusiastic about the terms of the license, and secretly worked to defeat the Nintendo lock-out chip.
5. Eventually Tengen was forced to admit its duplicity and pay damages to Nintendo.

Cyberball

1. Cyberball (Tengen) --- The box scan below is a close-up from an ad in GamePro Feb 1991.

Standard License

1. Nintendo was not interested, so Tengen agreed to their standard license in December of 1987.

Rights

1. Tengen got the rights to make it from MirrorSoft, a European company who got the rights to distribute Tetris in Europe.

Manufacture

1. The year after, Tengen formally terminated their licensing agreement with Nintendo, since they were able to manufacture their own carts by this time.

Dreams

1. Among these businesses was Color Dreams, which crafted a few subpar games, and along with examples like Tengen underwent litigation from Nintendo. (Web site)

Various Ways

1. Companies such as Tengen found various ways to circumvent the chip, leading to inevitable legal action. (Web site)

First Version

1. The first version, distributed by Tengen, came in a black cartridge that was different from Nintendo's traditional grey colour format.

Nintendo Entertainment System

1. This is a list of the unlicensed games made by Tengen for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Atari

1. Several publishers—notably Tengen (Atari), Color Dreams, and Camerica —challenged Nintendo’s control system during the 8-bit era. (Web site)
2. The district court's injunction order grants a preliminary injunction as to Nintendo, Atari and Tengen. (Web site)
3. However, the court went further than Atari asked, making the injunction reciprocally binding on Atari and Tengen as well. (Web site)

December 1987

1. Nintendo was not interested, so Tengen agreed to its standard license in December 1987.

Court Case

1. The court case between Tengen and Nintendo begins. (Web site)

Case

1. Tengen lost this case, since MirrorSoft didn't really have the right to grant licenses anyway.

Version

1. This version of Tetris is collectible due to Tengen being refused copyright for its NES version of the puzzle game, but they distributed it anyway. (Web site)
2. This version is published by Tengen.

Shelves

1. Tengen's version of Tetris is taken off the shelves, and manufacture of the Tengen version is ceased. (Web site)

Games

1. Three games were launched with the Mega modem Cyberball by Tengen and the two other games were a version of Mar Jong and a Baseball game.
2. Tengen also released games by Sunsoft (another developer without a North American branch). (Web site)

Nes Games

1. Tengen manufactured both licensed and unlicensed versions of three of their NES games. (Web site)

Pac-Man

1. As for Pac-Man, I got the Tengen version and then more or less immediately wondered why.

Japanese Game

1. The new subsidiary was dubbed "Tengen", which in the Japanese game Go refers to the center of the board.

Gauntlet

1. Tengen only released 3 games as an official NES game maker; Pacman, RBI Baseball and Gauntlet.
2. GAUNTLET II is published by Tengen and distributed by Mindscape.

Nintendo

1. Nintendo won the case and Tengen was forced to pull all copies of the game from shop shelves.
2. Nintendo would later repay the favour by taking Tengen to court over the latter’s NES version of Tetris (which Nintendo had just won the licence for).
3. Nintendo would then sell the completed cartridges to Tengen for distribution. (Web site)

Tetris

1. Also, most people agree that Tengen Tetris is higher quality than the Nintendo one.) 2) Price-fixing. (Web site)
2. But the most interesting thing of all (to collectors anyway) is that, as a result of the case, all copies of Tengen Tetris were taken off the shelves.
3. Tengen responds to Nintendo on April 7th that they completely own the rights to home versions of Tetris. (Web site)

Atari Games

1. In the meantime, Atari Games was bought out by its employees in 1986, who also founded Tengen to bring their arcade games in to the home.
2. Atari Games begins producing games for home consoles under the name Tengen, starting with the Nintendo Entertainment System.
3. Atari Games created a line of NES products under the name Tengen and took a different approach. (Web site)

Tengen

1. In 1988, Tengen released their first (and only) three cartridges licensed through Nintendo - RBI Baseball, Pac-Man and Gauntlet.
2. Atari Games establishes Tengen, a subsidiary that produces games for home consoles. (Web site)
3. The new subsidiary was dubbed Tengen, which in the Japanese game Go refers to the central point of the board (the word "Atari" comes from the same game). (Web site)

Categories

1. Entertainment > Games > Video Games > Atari Games
2. Entertainment > Games > Puzzle Games > Tetris
3. Entertainment > Games > Video Games > Nintendo
4. Gauntlet
5. Home Consoles
6. Books about "Tengen" in Amazon.com
   

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