Can Killer Instinct 1/2/Gold appear on the Virtual Console?

mankrip · Post by **mankrip** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:46 pm

Does Nintendo own all rights to Killer Instinct, or is it a property of Rare? I'd love to see at least Killer Instinct Gold in the VC.

Ex-Cyber · Post by **Ex-Cyber** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:32 pm

It looks like they both owned some stake in it - the copyright notice on the arcade version of KI 1 says "(C) 1994 Nintendo/Rare Ltd. / Game by Rare Ltd. / Killer Instinct is a trademark of Nintendo". My guess would be that Nintendo owns the "Killer Instinct" trademark and any rights to the characters themselves (which itself is a legal gray area), while Rare owns the copyrights for the actual artwork and code of the games. However, Nintendo might have a license to distribute KI 1/2/Gold even if they aren't actually the copyright holder, and all sorts of things might have been changed as part of the deal selling Rare to Microsoft. This is part of the problem with our current copyright system - it's often very difficult (and in many cases even impossible) to tell with any certainty who currently holds the copyright to a given work...

gamedudex2 · Post by **gamedudex2** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:00 pm

rars has been rumored to be working on a new killer instinct for 360

but on the older ones i dunno.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:28 am

I was never much a fan of KI when it came out, but I suspect even fans 'back in the day' would be disapointed with it now.

It really hasn't aged well.

Covar · Post by **Covar** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:57 am

i believe there was a PA comic that said rare got killer instinct.

Post by **melancholy** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:41 am

Nyarlathotep wrote:I was never much a fan of KI when it came out, but I suspect even fans 'back in the day' would be disapointed with it now.

It really hasn't aged well.

Indeed. I absolutely loved KI Gold for N64. OMG, the playtime that game got between me and a couple of buddies was insane. For nostalgia sake, I popped it in not to long ago and...wow. I couldn't even play through two matches before I was bored. This game suffered horribly with time.

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:18 am

Non-jap fighting games FTL.

mankrip · Post by **mankrip** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:34 am

I played KI Gold recently, and still like it. I guess it depends on why you liked it before.

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:24 pm

Never played Gold, but the Snes version is still awesome.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:20 pm

Juan wrote:Non-jap fighting games FTL.

Yeah, that pretty much sums up my feelings on the genre. Except I would have used the word 'occidental'.

Cid Highwind · Post by **Cid Highwind** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:06 am

Sir Savant wrote:Never played Gold, but the Snes version is still awesome.

Same here, the graphics amazed me and the soundtrack was very good as well. I really got a kick out of all the combos.

gamedudex2 · Post by **gamedudex2** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:11 am

i still play the snes version with friends online using the zsnes emulator, that and donkey kong country

Sir Slash · Post by **Sir Slash** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:13 pm

bleh
street fighter alphas need to make it to VC...it would be nice atleast

butters · Post by **butters** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:43 am

Sir Slash wrote:bleh
street fighter alphas need to make it to VC...it would be nice atleast

Knowing Capcom, they'd rather release a Street Fighter Collection that will retail for $50.

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:07 pm

butters wrote:
Sir Slash wrote:bleh
street fighter alphas need to make it to VC...it would be nice atleast
Knowing Capcom, they'd rather release a Street Fighter Collection that will retail for $50.

They could just (re)port this.

I haven't seen a proper SF game in a Nintendo console (non portable) since the SNES days.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:46 pm

I've got Capcom Vs SNK on my GC

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:55 pm

Nyarlathotep wrote:I've got Capcom Vs SNK on my GC

That's why I said a proper SF game.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:58 pm

The last proper SF game was what, Streetfighter 3? 10 years ago?

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:05 pm

The last "original" SF (if that could be applied to this particular series) was SFIII - 3rd Strike in 1999, 2000 on DC, and 2004 on PS2/Xbox as a part of the Anniversary Collection, which also included Hyper SF II (last SF Arcade game AFAIK, just a modified SSFII-X). I think 3s was also released as an individual PS2 title, but I'm not sure.

Last SF game to hit a Nintendo console was SFA2; other than that there's a SFA game for Gameboy Color and SSFII Turbo Revival for GBA. And I think that's it. Unless you wanna count VC SFII as a Wii game.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:22 pm

So in summary Capcom need to stop dicking about and make 2D-HD Streetfighter 4?