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BattleSphere is a 3D space combat simulator for the Atari Jaguar console by 4Play/ScatoLOGIC Inc., released in 2000. Released after the Jaguar's demise, cartridge components and other supplies needed to manufacture the game were scarce, resulting in not enough copies to meet demand. A second edition of the game, with additional features and improvements, was released as ''BattleSphere Gold'' in 2002. Although Scatologic will not release sales figures, a few hundred copies are known to have been manufactured. The first copy of BattleSphere was sold on eBay for over $1500.〔(Slashdot article on the eBay auction ), March 4, 2000〕 ==Development== BattleSphere was originally called ''Star Battle'', named after a mainframe game written by one of its creators back when he was in high school. PlayNet, the forerunner of AOL, almost bought Star Battle for its online services in 1986. The game was first announced in 1995. After Hasbro bought out Atari, it took relentless lobbying by the BattleSphere fanbase and much behind the scenes persuasion to convince Atari to release the Jaguar console into the public domain. Without this event, BattleSphere, though completed in July 1998, would not have been allowed to be encrypted and released. Concealed within Battlesphere is JUGS (The Jaguar Unmodified Game Server). JUGS allows anyone to develop and run Jaguar games if they own a copy of BattleSphere and a Catbox. BattleSphere was the first Jaguar game to include a development system hidden within it. Despite the unusual length of time involved, the development budget for BattleSphere was rumored to be less than $10,000. The game's release was not without controversy with some customers complaining that insufficient copies were available. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BattleSphere」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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