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Article #794Re: TFTD could have been a 50k patch for UFO!
From: arga... Andrew R. Gillett
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:00
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In alt.games.x-com, article <362b1f13...@news.get2net.dk>, mack...@freemail.danbbs.dk (Peter "Mack-Jack" Christiansen) (mack...@freemail.danbbs.dk (Peter "Mack-Jack" Christiansen)) wrote: > >It's a pity that they can't progress from the first UFO. Other > >companies, like id software, manage to advance without losing the > >plot. > > Id-Software ? Weren't it those guys that first made: > > Doom 1 > Doom 2 (new levels, weapons & monsters - NO new gameplay at all) > Final Doom (another one..) Final Doom wasn't made by id Software, and it wasn't meant to be a totally new game, it was more like a mission pack. > Ultimate Doom (Yet another one..) Ultimate Doom came before Final Doom. Ultimate Doom, AFAIK, was done so that Doom could be put in a box and sold in the shops instead of only being available by posting the money to id Software (which was kind of inconvenient for people in Europe). -- Andrew Gillett http://argnet.fatal-design.com/ ICQ: 12142937
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From: arga...@fatal-design.com (Andrew R. Gillett) Subject: Re: TFTD could have been a 50k patch for UFO! Date: 1998/10/17 Message-ID: <MPG.109186b7610e274a98968d@news.freeserve.net> X-Deja-AN: 401957813 References: <361adbf4.1998133@news.cc.strath.ac.uk> <362b1f13.6909158@news.get2net.dk> X-Trace: newsreader2.core.theplanet.net 908579193 7837 62.136.19.51 (16 Oct 1998 23:06:33 GMT) Organization: Customer of Planet Online Reply-To: arga...@fatal-design.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Oct 1998 23:06:33 GMT Newsgroups: alt.games.x-com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit