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Article #86488Re: DOOM3 is merely an updated DOOM (from 1984)
From: McGrandpa
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:09
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:09
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pop wrote: > ahhh... the 70's and 80's: mid 70's Adventure type games (Zork 1,2 & > 3, etc;) to the 80's ascii games that waited for input on a > background picture that depicted the current game environment. Then > to the 90's with id's first PC game with motion: Commander Keen - > that got the ball rolling with a new marketing method: give away part > of the game free... pay later for the rest of the game. And here we > are now fussing over whether our video card can get a gazillion > frames per second with the latest game. How time flies when you're > having fun :-) Yeah :) McG. > > -- > pop is Mark > Old age ain't no place for sissies. > -- > "Brian" <screw@spammers.com> wrote in message > news:zaURc.5019$U_.4348@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com... >> 1984? Yeah, I remember. Doom for the Commodore 64 and Radio Shack >> TRS-80. It was great fun ;) >> >> >> "Art Simpson" <Alfred@NOSPAM.ever> wrote in message >> news:TvOdnesW-cBiNYvcRVn-gA@look.ca... >>> I'm quoting someone very smart here in this title; But I agree with >>> him. >>> >>> It should have been a shareware. >>> Regards,
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