The Battle of Olympus - Your Thoughts Today?

[ColecoFan1981]

Do you folks believe that The Battle of Olympus could use a modern-day remake? I see many people criticize it as a Zelda/Metroid/Castlevania knockoff.

The original Japanese FamiCom cartridge release, from March 1988, was published by Imagineer with development work by Infinity. The Japanese title, Olympus no Tatakai: Ai no Densetsu, translates as "The Olympus Fight: The Legend of Love."

For the North American (here) NES release in December 1989, the title was published by Brøderbund Software. The European PAL release, from 1991, was published by Nintendo itself. Strangely, however, the PAL version's title screen lists the game as "Licensed by Nintendo" when it should be "Licensed to Nintendo" (or, perhaps even, "Licensed exclusively to Nintendo"). Anyway, I'm wondering if Nintendo grabbed the European rights to this title on the assumption of its being compared to its own holding that is The Legend of Zelda (in particular: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link)?

Our version erroneously lists the trademark owner as Brøderbund rather than Imagineer. The PAL version does list Imagineer as the trademark owner. I'm wondering if UbiSoft (which owns most of the classic Brøderbund properties) controls the North American rights to this title today (just as Imagineer would outside North America)?

~Ben