Re: Console gamers, know the roots of survival horror games: Infogrames ALONE IN THE DARK on PC floppy disks

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From: Luc The Perverse
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 23:53

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"Frans" <phasysn...@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:126rf1b42qq69f5@corp.supernews.com...
> "Zaghadka" <zagh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:emoq625e6u4dn1d9468l3o4ns30pjks209@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 19 May 2006 05:12:33 GMT, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, riku 
>> wrote:
>>
> If you can have a "horror" movie or a "horror" book, then you
>> can have a "horror" game.
>
> Right.
>
> So you could theoretically have a
>
> HORROR SURVIVAL ADVENTURE GAME WITH SMALL RTS ELEMENTS IN WHICH YOU AVOID 
> GETTING EATING BY GIGANTIC SPIDERS ON WHEELS WITH GREEN EYES AND TOXIC 
> WEBBS as a genre.

You could . . . but Zaghadka would bitch about it

What we need is a strict legislative body which controls how people describe 
games headed by Zaghadka.   The game descriptors and game genres of course 
will need to be strictly separated.

--
LTP

:)

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