Talk:Joe & Mac

Developer

Was this outsourced to Probe... or Arc Developments... or? The programmers seemed to have come from Arc; three of the graphics artists from Probe - Andlabs 22:25, 30 May 2012 (CDT)
Ok let's do this

Written by: Tim Round	(independent contractor?)
Additional Code: Jason Stoat
Additional Code: Stuart Middleton
Graphics by: Tim Round
Graphics by: Terry Baker
Graphics by: Stuart Middleton
Graphics by: Rob Thursfield
Graphics by: Lee Beckett
Graphics by: Robert Dorney	http://uk.linkedin.com/in/robdorney EDEN BUT THIS ONE TELLS US IT WAS ELITE THANKS ROBERT ... but it's not on Elite's site? maybe there's way more to the story
Audio by: Krisalis Software Ltd
Music by: Matt Furniss	Krisalis
Music Driver by: Shaun Hollingworth	Krisalis
Testing by: Phil Bradley
Testing by: Lee Mather
Testing by: David Fowler
Special Thanks: Kinya Tago
Special Thanks: Phil Bradley
Special Thanks: Mike Brown
Special Thanks: David Fowler
Special Thanks: John Davies
Special Thanks: David Powell

- Andlabs 19:13, 6 July 2012 (CDT)

http://i.imgur.com/2CMeG.png I am an idiot - Andlabs 00:12, 7 July 2012 (CDT)

Elite Systems

Hello. Elite Systems was involved in the production of this Mega Drive conversion. They were the ones which licensed its creation from Data East, like they did with all the other home versions of this game except the SNES version (which they still published in Europe, given their rights), and also the ones who managed and tasked the development of this conversion to Eden Entertainment Software. I suppose this was the reason why Elite was listed as developer together with Eden, but a recent edit has left them out. I think they should still be referenced somehow, either as developer or as publisher (because Sega Retro doesn't have a in between role for producing companies, like this case). Eden most likely would have published the game at least in Europe, even though there were widespread indications in the media press of back then that they sold the European publishing rights to Codemasters, still not being any European release of the game because of that. Nevertheless, Elite was definitely behind this, the copyright screen of the game makes it clear and there's also the fact that all versions of the game are using the European cover art that Elite themselves designed for the game and their European releases, so yeah, they still must be included somehow, either as developer (which may be the most accurate indication to their producer role) or publisher. Another good option may be as licensor, together with Data East. (Wesker (talk) 10:39, 16 October 2022 (EDT))

I added this information to the opening paragraph. I also added Elite Systems to the Developer field of the infobox, which seems to be the precedent used for other games that are subtracted out (for example, all the games ISCO subcontracted out to Opera House). --Typhoon (talk) 16:13, 16 October 2022 (EDT)