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"IT guy sues Rockstar over alleged GTA idea theft"
"A Scottish computer consultant has filed a legal action against Rockstar North, alleging that the company's massively popular Grand Theft Auto series is based on a concept he showed to the company in the early 90's.
Mark Gallagher claims that he demonstrated a game called Crime Inc to Rockstar North (or DMA Design, as then was) in late 1993, which featured many of the elements which later went on to become part of GTA's winning formula when it was launched in 1997.
According to Mr Gallagher, he went for a job interview with DMA Design in December 1993, and used a demonstration disc of his Crime Inc game to prove his practical abilities - a disc which, he claims, was never returned to him even though he failed to get the position.
Rockstar North is contesting the action, which is set to be heard at Edinburgh's Court of Session shortly, having been granted a continuation at the request of both sides ahead of its original court date of Thursday this week.
Grand Theft Auto, of course, has gone on to become one of the best-selling games of all time with the launch of PS2 titles Grand Theft Auto 3 and Grand Theft Auto Vice City."
I hope he sues 'em for all they got.
*laughs manically*
*wonders if he spelt 'manically' right*
*checks dictionary.com*
*maniacally*
"A Scottish computer consultant has filed a legal action against Rockstar North, alleging that the company's massively popular Grand Theft Auto series is based on a concept he showed to the company in the early 90's.
Mark Gallagher claims that he demonstrated a game called Crime Inc to Rockstar North (or DMA Design, as then was) in late 1993, which featured many of the elements which later went on to become part of GTA's winning formula when it was launched in 1997.
According to Mr Gallagher, he went for a job interview with DMA Design in December 1993, and used a demonstration disc of his Crime Inc game to prove his practical abilities - a disc which, he claims, was never returned to him even though he failed to get the position.
Rockstar North is contesting the action, which is set to be heard at Edinburgh's Court of Session shortly, having been granted a continuation at the request of both sides ahead of its original court date of Thursday this week.
Grand Theft Auto, of course, has gone on to become one of the best-selling games of all time with the launch of PS2 titles Grand Theft Auto 3 and Grand Theft Auto Vice City."
I hope he sues 'em for all they got.
*laughs manically*
*wonders if he spelt 'manically' right*
*checks dictionary.com*
*maniacally*
As much as I'd like to see him win, I can't see it happening.
Why has he left it so late, though? Why only now??
The original `Grand Theft AutoŽ game came-out in, like, '97 or '98 - 5-or-6-years-ago! Is it just because they know have the "right-amount" of money behind them that he would like to get his hands on?!
Or, perhaps, he's one of those people who actually DO live under rocks...?!?
If he'd have sued them all those years ago, he'd have stood a much better chance of getting something, I'm sure.
But the fact is, he is only "one-man" up against `RockstarŽ and the almighty `Grand Theft AutoŽ series. :(
Why has he left it so late, though? Why only now??
The original `Grand Theft AutoŽ game came-out in, like, '97 or '98 - 5-or-6-years-ago! Is it just because they know have the "right-amount" of money behind them that he would like to get his hands on?!
Or, perhaps, he's one of those people who actually DO live under rocks...?!?
If he'd have sued them all those years ago, he'd have stood a much better chance of getting something, I'm sure.
But the fact is, he is only "one-man" up against `RockstarŽ and the almighty `Grand Theft AutoŽ series. :(
He might have programmed it on his old ZX sinclair 48k and saved all the data to a tape cassette :P
or were CD-Roms easily available for the PC in 1993 ?
Hope he wins if it's true, will have hard case proving it though, 1993, he must have written it on a PC, what sort of processors/graphics were available then ? and it must have been saved on a 5.25 or 3.5" floppy. Um so it was less than 1.4mb in size ......
If it was his idea, why didn't he react quicker? I mean, leaving it till the 4th game?
Damarus wrote:
> they don't get sued.
Damn
> they don't get sued.
Damn
He wont win. Every game these days is a rip off of another game. And they don't get sued.
"IT guy sues Rockstar over alleged GTA idea theft"
"A Scottish computer consultant has filed a legal action against Rockstar North, alleging that the company's massively popular Grand Theft Auto series is based on a concept he showed to the company in the early 90's.
Mark Gallagher claims that he demonstrated a game called Crime Inc to Rockstar North (or DMA Design, as then was) in late 1993, which featured many of the elements which later went on to become part of GTA's winning formula when it was launched in 1997.
According to Mr Gallagher, he went for a job interview with DMA Design in December 1993, and used a demonstration disc of his Crime Inc game to prove his practical abilities - a disc which, he claims, was never returned to him even though he failed to get the position.
Rockstar North is contesting the action, which is set to be heard at Edinburgh's Court of Session shortly, having been granted a continuation at the request of both sides ahead of its original court date of Thursday this week.
Grand Theft Auto, of course, has gone on to become one of the best-selling games of all time with the launch of PS2 titles Grand Theft Auto 3 and Grand Theft Auto Vice City."
I hope he sues 'em for all they got.
*laughs manically*
*wonders if he spelt 'manically' right*
*checks dictionary.com*
*maniacally*
"A Scottish computer consultant has filed a legal action against Rockstar North, alleging that the company's massively popular Grand Theft Auto series is based on a concept he showed to the company in the early 90's.
Mark Gallagher claims that he demonstrated a game called Crime Inc to Rockstar North (or DMA Design, as then was) in late 1993, which featured many of the elements which later went on to become part of GTA's winning formula when it was launched in 1997.
According to Mr Gallagher, he went for a job interview with DMA Design in December 1993, and used a demonstration disc of his Crime Inc game to prove his practical abilities - a disc which, he claims, was never returned to him even though he failed to get the position.
Rockstar North is contesting the action, which is set to be heard at Edinburgh's Court of Session shortly, having been granted a continuation at the request of both sides ahead of its original court date of Thursday this week.
Grand Theft Auto, of course, has gone on to become one of the best-selling games of all time with the launch of PS2 titles Grand Theft Auto 3 and Grand Theft Auto Vice City."
I hope he sues 'em for all they got.
*laughs manically*
*wonders if he spelt 'manically' right*
*checks dictionary.com*
*maniacally*