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Re: sad news on the gaming front...

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From: Goin' Nova
Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00
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In article <mcox-ya02408000R0105981828590001@newsource.ihug.co.nz>,
mcox@ihug.co.nz (Martin Cox) wrote:

> In article <flargh-3004981535150001@p6.gw1.provi.ma.tiac.com>,
> flargh@tikkabik.com (Peter Cohen) wrote:
> 
> >No, what sucks is that Mac gamers _think_ they have to beg to get any
> >quality games at all. If even one tenth of the energy that went into
> >begging for PC scraps was redirected to actively supporting Mac-first or
> >Mac-only shareware and hobbyist developers, some of these game makers
> >would have enough revenue to keep themselves in business.
> 
> If that's how people are thinking (ie beg to get _any_ quality games) then
> I'll certainly agree it sucks. Badly.
> 
> God knows there are a number of extremely high quality Mac games around at
> the moment. (Am I the only one over 6 years old who plays Pop!
> incidentally? ;) )
> 
> Maybe Apple could do some kind of deal with the smaller companies to push
> the games a little. 
> 

Well, jacking with the developer support plans is a good start....

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From: lousemonkey1@NoSpAm.wilhelp.com (Goin' Nova)
Subject: Re: sad news on the gaming front...
Date: 1998/05/01
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