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28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Lego is actually one of the very few companies that isn't batshit crazy over video game IP. (Real life Lego clones are probably different though).

They even gave a shout out to Manic Miners (a rock raiders fan remake) on the official podcast and haven't done anything to take it down. I can't remember if they officially said they won't do anything also

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's give The LEGO Group some credit, They allow fan-made projects all the time. They even allowed a fan-made BIONICLE game onto Steam. They also allow the hosting of out of print LEGO video games.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 12 hours ago

Lets hope they never get bought out by Nintendo or similar....

[–] firebingo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

They actually also hired the guy who made Manic Miners.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Interestingly LEGO was patented, and that patent has recently expired.

If the company used a Trademark to protect the system they used, it would still be protected.

[–] K4mpfie@feddit.org -1 points 1 day ago

Well they did shut down the Lego Universe reboot. Also Lego most certainly is batshit crazy when it comes to fighting other brick manufacturers and sellers. Just like any capitalist company they are afraid of losing ANY marketshare.