Re: DOOM3 is merely an updated DOOM (from 1984)

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From: McGrandpa
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:44

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N wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:56:15 GMT, "Brian" <screw@spammers.com> wrote:
>
>> 1984?  Yeah, I remember.  Doom for the Commodore 64 and Radio Shack
>> TRS-80. It was great fun ;)
>
> Do you remember the commercials for Doom back then?
>
> "You thought George Orwell was just kidding??? Your Doomsday is now!"
>
> Ah, the eighties... But even better was when I got my first Commodore
> 64 back in 1962. I think Beatles itself composed music to many C=64
> games back then, that's how they started their musical career anyway.

Ya wanna put a different year in there?  There were no 8-bit computers
in the 60's.  There actually weren't any transistors yet :)

--
McGrandpa [AGQx]

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