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Re: Best DOOM 3 Review yet :)

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From: Allan Martin
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 17:36
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"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Allan Martin wrote:
> > "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:NJbRc.4176$va2.3593@fe1.texas.rr.com...
> >> Buffalo wrote:
> >>> "Marshall" <marshall@nospam.com> wrote in message
> >>> news:X19Rc.11981$9Y6.9858@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> >>>>
> >>>> "Herbl" <hoyghjwe3@gon.nom> wrote in message
> >>> news:zP2Rc.34191$gE.22927@pd7tw3no...
> >>>>> Good honest review :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.afrotechmods.com/groovy/review/d3review/doom3.htm
> >>>>
> >>>> "I wish I could tell you what the monsters are like in the game,
> >>>> but despite having killed over 80 of them, I still haven't seen a
> >>>> single one because it's so fucking dark."
> >>>> [snip]
> >>>> Marsall
> >>>
> >>> And:    "Overall, the game is just one big commercial for Maglite."
> >>> ROTFLAMO
> >>
> >> and as a testament to how far iD have come in 10 years;  each saved
> >> game is bigger than the entire original Doom game :)
> >
> >
> > What's really cool about how far we have come is the fact that I just
> > paid the same price in year 2004 dollars for 512 Megs of additional
> > RAM that I paid back in 1983 for 64 Kilobytes.
> >
>
> Yeah, you had to remind me of that huh?  In 1987 I bought a 'house
> clone' 286-12 with 2 megs of chip ram.  6 months later, I took lotsa
> dollars back to the store and bought another 18  1meg chips to total 4
> megs.  I paid more for that 2 megs than I did the one gig of DDR400 in
> this system right now.  Looking at both receipts and feeling that
> weirdness right now :o\  Sheesh!  (lets NOT do this with hard drives,
> ok?  my first was a 20 meg and this one is a 160 gig)


Yeah, and you had to remind me of that. My first hard drive was 10 Megs and
cost about $1,100.

>
> McG.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> McG.
>
>
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