<story><title>Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220106-00/?p=106122</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_fat_santa</author><text>Going down the rabbit hole of some of the referenced articles. I read this one [1] about Microsoft&amp;#x27;s attempts to resurrect the game. The problem seems to be the license agreement does not allow MS to release the game as a standalone copy. Not a lawyer but wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be pretty easy for MS to just re-license it? MS has a market cap of 2.3T, I think they could swing it without too much of a sweat.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;oldnewthing&amp;#x2F;20181221-00&amp;#x2F;?p=100535&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;oldnewthing&amp;#x2F;20181221-00&amp;#x2F;?p=10...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selectodude</author><text>Judging by Cinematronics and the long chain of purchases, closures and divestures, it wouldn&amp;#x27;t surprise me if there wasn&amp;#x27;t anybody who even knows who the hell owns the rights at this point. Unfortunately for Microsoft, they&amp;#x27;re &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; worth suing and consider it not worth it to have that exposure over Space Cadet Pinball.</text></comment>
<story><title>Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220106-00/?p=106122</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_fat_santa</author><text>Going down the rabbit hole of some of the referenced articles. I read this one [1] about Microsoft&amp;#x27;s attempts to resurrect the game. The problem seems to be the license agreement does not allow MS to release the game as a standalone copy. Not a lawyer but wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be pretty easy for MS to just re-license it? MS has a market cap of 2.3T, I think they could swing it without too much of a sweat.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;oldnewthing&amp;#x2F;20181221-00&amp;#x2F;?p=100535&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;oldnewthing&amp;#x2F;20181221-00&amp;#x2F;?p=10...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wildzzz</author><text>No need to relicense and release it again. Space Cadet is part of Full Tilt! Pinball which is hosted online at a certain abandonware website. Until Maxis (or EA) decides to release it again, just download a free copy of it. There are even instructions out there for getting it to work on Windows 10.</text></comment>