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Re: DESCENT SHAREWARE - DOOM KILLER!! [0/?]

#244
From: war... warlock
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 04:55
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In article <3edff6$6...@granite.sentex.net> ssim...@granite.sentex.net (Steve Simpson) writes:
>From: ssim...@granite.sentex.net (Steve Simpson)
>Subject: Re: DESCENT SHAREWARE - DOOM KILLER!! [0/?]
>Date: Wed, 04 Jan 95 02:35:25 PST

>In article <3ebofn$7...@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, 
>br...@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu says...
>>
>>In article <ariff.19...@primenet.com> ar...@primenet.com (Ariff) 
>writes:
>>>I'm about to post the shareware for a game called Descent.. It's 
>BITCHIN' and 
>>>blows away DOOM, HERETIC, and all other DOOM type games..

>Hold on partner I think youre in the wrong place to start take DOOM down 
>a peg!
>You are failing to relise that doom has changed computer gaming for all
>time. It was the first of a kind and still stands up to any clone game.
>Id are pioneers and DOOM a classic of classics!

Agreed!  But Descent is something else.....

>While I enjoy descent, it seems more oriented to those who enjoy 
flight >sim. type games. Doom has your feet on solid ground. 

True.  *I* enjoy flying.

>Ever play four man deathmatch...I didnt think so.

Yes, I have.  Have you played 4 player Descent?

>I suggest you take your 
comments to a 'descent' news group. This is where >Doom lovers are found and 
they will not agree with some one making out >like some new kid on the block 
is better than their beloved (this >includes me)!!!

I am.  See the header of this message, it is being cross posted to 
alt.games.descent.

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Subject: Re: DESCENT SHAREWARE - DOOM KILLER!! [0/?]
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