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Re: Big name hype

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From: Simon Oke
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 16:57
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In article <1992Dec14.184047.3128@bnr.ca> renfro@crchh610.BNR.CA (Randy Hoekstra) writes:
| And they call the ST a game machine?  Personally, I don't play many
| games on my Mega and from what I see here, a lot of people are using
| there STs for serious computer work.  Granted there isn't much of
| an Atari market left in the States, but of that, what percentage are
| still playing (or purchasing) games on their STs?
|
I still play games, but it's only once in a blue moon that I buy one (there's
too much crap on the market and I have a lot of good games). Last time I
bought a game it was Smash TV about 3 months ago. I used to buy them every 5-6
weeks, but as I said, the market's gone bad.

--
Simon Oke, 3rd year Computer Science
undergraduate at the University of Essex, UK.
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