MIDI Maze for the Atari 8-Bit
Posted on October 22nd, 2003 by Frank Cifaldi 
AtariAge announced yesterday the “immediate availability” of the previously unreleased Atari 8-Bit version of MIDI Maze through Sunmark Productions. The cartridge, which includes a manual and a full-color label, is priced at $44.95, prior to the $5.95 charge for standard USPS shipping.
Sunmark.com provides information on which Atari computers MIDI Maze is compatible with, along with a mention that the game can be linked to up to sixteen other computers. Three screenshots are provided: two of the options menus, and one which I’d hesitate to describe as “in-game action.” The information ends here.
Sunmark fails to mention that MIDI Maze was a rather popular title for the Atari ST line of computers. They do not explain that a cult following exists even today, all over the world, and that its fans are so dedicated to the game that modern editing utilities and Windows upgrades have been created. They don’t find importance in the fact that just this past June, Midwest Classic held a special tribute by running MIDI Maze on ten linked Atari ST computers. They fail to inform you that the game’s creators later retooled MIDI Maze into Faceball 2000, a succesful entry into the Game Boy’s library. They don’t bother to mention that MIDI Maze was the first 3D multiplayer shooter in video game history.
Sunmark’s focus, instead, is on how much you’re expected to pay for the game cartridge, what the cartridge looks like, and how to use the cartridge once you obtain it.
It is unknown as of this writing whether or not Sunmark has obtained the intellectual copyrights from Atari for the distribution and sale of MIDI Maze, or for Mean 18 Golf, which is provided for free to the first fifty people who purchase the cartridge.
