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Royal Mail's new video game stamp set
- grenoire 7y agoInsanely cool and they look very well designed. Might order from outside the UK..!
- stevekemp 7y agoI'm living in Finland these days, but seeing the Dizzy image definitely made me want to buy a set. I've good memories of playing all the Dizzy games on my ZX Spectrum, back in the day.
- Symbiote 7y agoI just bought some, and found that delivery to Denmark was free (!). (Or else their website was broken. It took 6 tries before my credit card was accepted, possibly because of the Øs in "København Ø".)
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago>"All the screenshots were taken using a PC running emulators which ‘emulate’ the original system," Sam continues. "From here, we could play through the games and take multiple screenshots at key moments. >[...] >"We also worked with a guy who was an expert in ripping assets from games such as fonts, which were then used as the game titles where possible." I'd like to have seen something about how they approached the companies for copyright permissions, what emulators the companies endorsed for them to run the games on, etc., whether the companies who owned the copyright currently had the assets but they weren't usable or didn't have the assets (kinda weird to own the copyright on something you don't even have a copy of yourself). Seems like there's a few interesting bits (heh!) of information there. Note that even for personal use these things are verbotten in UK copyright law.
- nmstoker 7y agoThey do touch on rights here briefly: "The choices were made with factors such as licensing ease..." Although it sounds like maybe they did the work and then approached the licensing matters (which would be strictly speaking the wrong way round)
- Symbiote 7y agoCopyright restricts distribution, so isn't is fine for them to copy the art, and then ask for a license? They risk wasted effort if they can't get permission, that's all.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoNo, copying without a license is a tort. Distribution is usually the point when it's found out. But it's the copying that is tortuous.
- freepor 7y agoIn the UK the Queen herself is exempt from a lot of law so maybe the Royal Mail used her prerogatives to just say fuck it.
- Gaelan 7y agoRoyal Mail is a private company now, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail#Privatisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail#Privatisation.
- tenpies 7y agoAll of a sudden Brexit makes a little bit more sense.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoYou do get some odd hangovers in these former civil service companies - I could see the GPO having some carve outs via "crown immunity" Also I believe a few decades ago the Mexican state oil company had a big spill and relied on sovereign immunity to avoid the consequences
- random-dude 7y agoOmg... I can't believe they have Wipeout!
- erk__ 7y agoUK YouTuber Ashens made a video showcasing and talking about the set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eLZGtfHDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eLZGtfHDE
- bmsleight_ 7y agoLoves these, memories! Available from source:- https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/video-games https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/video-games
- bmsleight_ 7y agoLove that Elite is 2nd Class. Very clever.
- codeulike 7y agoI don't get it? Was that a class in the game?
- baud147258 7y agoAs a 2nd class stamp. Since there's two class of mail in the Royal Mail system, there's two class of stamps, more or less expensive.
- Tomte 7y agoSensible Soccer! The game where you ran away from the ball if you went the wrong direction. I loved that game (although I'm not sure which part of the series). It's on GOG, as well.
- trevyn 7y agoFour different Tomb Raider stamps and all have occluded cleavage. Impressive.
- baud147258 7y agoAt least for the PS1 pictures, it's the usual camera angle when playing the game, so that's not particularly egregious.
- akurilin 7y agoDonkey Kong Country would be a great addition for the next batch of these.
- Grue3 7y agoThese look beautiful, never would have thought the freaking Worms would be on a post stamp!