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From: Tim O
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 12:19

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On Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:00:24 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>There's an interesting archive of Origin Systems (of Ultima and Wing
>Commander fame) internal newsletters available here:
>http://download.wcnews.com/files/documents/
>(it's the "Points of Origin PDF files)

[snip...]

I love this kind of stuff. The original Origin was such a cool
company, they pushed hardware so hard and I loved their games despite
being a broke-ass apartment dwellerat the trailing edge of the system
specs (I can't be the only one that rememebers paying $400 for 8 meg
of RAM? My rent was $600, yikes!).

I wasn't so much into Wing Commander, but their arcade/sim/soap opera
flight sims like Wings Of Glory and Pacific Strike are pretty much my
favorite games of that era.

Thanks for the link.

There is another one of these around with Atari documents. Lots of
entertainment there, engineers bickering back and forth with marketing
and newsletters saying no two games could be like anything else they'd
previously made which is why we wound up with wildly creative stuff
using varied controls, from trackballs to flight yokes, to the
handlebars on Paperboy. Who the hell could sell the idea of a game
where you delivered newspapers, then actually make an amazing game out
of it?

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