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Article #46Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: mat... Matuse
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 09:58
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 09:58
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In article <38jpqe$8...@caslon.CS.Arizona.EDU> jmac...@CS.Arizona.EDU (J MacNish) writes:
>In article <38i49h$l...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
>Tom Hong <th...@aloha.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>>In article <38ho4p$j...@ren.cs.ucsb.edu>, Parik Rao <pr...@cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>[snip]
>>>well. Unfortunately Origin has been so caught up in the Nintendo-esque
>>>uninteractive gaming that their recent games, well, suck...
>> Nintendo-esque? Not. Trying to compare something like Strike
>>Commander or Privateer to a Nintendo game is like trying to compare a
>>Formula-1 to a Ford Pinto.
>
>So...Which one is the Pinto?
Thats pretty easy, just look at the adds for "Zero Tolerance" for
sega...and compare that to real computer games of 5 years ago...computer
wins out every time.
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