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False citation[edit]

As can be seen on Incitti's page the actual quote from BizarreCreations begins "We're beginning to feel the effects of the Geometry Wars clones on our sales [...]"

It is not "clone's" as written in this article. There is an important distinction here in that they are referring to multiple clones - not this one in particular, which casts doubt on the allegation in this article that GridWars popularity was the reason for BizarreCreations mailing Incitti. --89.0.30.127 (talk) 20:00, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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It's funny how this guy had to stop distributing his game because of infringement of "intellectual property", especially seeing as I clearly remember a game very similar to Geometry Wars nearly ten years ago on the PSone (As a mini game on a game called Ape Escape). It seems unfair that he can't distribute his work, especially seeing as Bizarre weren't even the ones to originally come up with the idea. 82.19.24.60 21:56, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly but the original idea was way, way back with the original robotron. The problem arises when the exact same enemies, visual design, gameplay and everything else are blatantly copied. Look about for comparisons between 'Great Giana Sisters' and Super Mario Brothers for a more famous case of IP copying.

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I'm removing the line 'What is ironic is that in Windows Marketplace you type in Geometry wars in the search form and grid wars will pull up,' as I'm fairly sure this isn't the kind of thing Wikipedia needs.86.142.244.132 22:38, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clone[edit]

I am going to change this since it is a PoV.

Quote[edit]

Please do not remove sections of quotes John .n-IRL 02:41, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation?[edit]

Grid Wars is the name of a first-person arcade game released in 1985 by Roy Harvey of Ann Arbor Softworks.

It can be downloaded here: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/grid-wars

Here is a decent screenshot: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/gridwars.htm

Systemic bias seems to have created this page about another game by the same title simply because it's more recent and has an associated story of interest about intellectual property. I don't know that there's enough for a full entry on the 1985 Grid Wars, so perhaps restructuring the article might be better than a disambiguation page. Perhaps, one article, split into sections: Roy Harvey Grid Wars, Marco Incitti Grid Wars, and Marco Incitti Grid Wars 2. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.203.181.181 (talk) 18:15, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One is spelled "GridWars" and the other "Grid Wars." That seems enough to make a disambiguation link at the top of the page, with a link to each others' article, though I agree it's not enough for a full disambiguation page. As for there not being enough information, here's another wiki with information on the 1985 Grid Wars: https://tcrf.net/Grid_Wars --198.203.181.181 (talk) 17:03, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm the actual author of the 1985 Macintosh GridWars if anyone is looking for a bit more background, I'm happy to provide it. https://www.linkedin.com/in/harveyroy/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.153.129.39 (talk) 11:11, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

exponentially increasing difficulty curve[edit]

As a long time Grid Wars player I cannot confirm this. The game's difficulty plateaus around 1.5 million score points. I've reached over 2 million points without any noticeable difficulty increase. Also the sentence about spawn points growing in size and enveloping the entire grid is nonsense, because enemies can spawn at any point at all times. 78.50.71.221 (talk) 11:49, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

sequel[edit]

Grid Wars 2 used to be available from Marc Incitti's page. The game still available from the German page marune.de IS NOT a later version or sequel as stated in the article. It is a different build of Grid Wars 2 by "taumel" (as the game states itself) from around the same time Incitti stopped development of Grid Wars 2 (2006). The main differences include different in-game music and less control options than the Incitti's build. 78.50.71.221 (talk) 11:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Paid version with distinct features - Yura87 (talk) 21:45, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[edit]

The author said he "ended up" making a GW clone. http://www.incitti.com/Blitz/index.html - AtomHex is a "more colorful sister", and, by extension, "shareware variant" of Grid Wars, with a distinct feature in "atoms" that have different colors, behaving differently relative to each other.