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>Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
>From: pr...@ren.cs.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao)
>Reply-To: pr...@cs.ucsb.edu
>Organization: U.C. Santa Barbara
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim
>Message-ID: <38ho4p$j...@ren.cs.ucsb.edu>
>Date: 24 Oct 1994 18:48:09 -0700
>
>In <Cy6wC...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> ceba...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Casey Barton) writes:
>
>>   People have been saying this about Origin since they released Wing
>>Commander.
>
>>   "What?! You *need* a 386 for it to be playable? That's ridiculous!
>>They're abandoning a substantial part of the market. They don't understand
>>economics - they're going to go bankrupt for sure!"
>
>>   Then a funny thing happened. People went and bought 386 computers.
>
>They could put the game on milk boxes for all I care, as long as it plays
>well.  Unfortunately Origin has been so caught up in the Nintendo-esque
>uninteractive gaming that their recent games, well, suck...
>
>Doom isn't popular cuz it comes on CD, I don't STILL have Monkey Island
>and Tie Fighter on my drives cuz they require Pentium-90's.  They are
>fun.  Origin needs some honest people to continously test their new
>games instead of brown-nosing insiders.  Ultima 8 was a fiasco, and
>Wing Commander Armada isn't all that great (plays sad as a standalone,
>only 2 player network?!?).
>
>--
>parik rao		         	          pr...@cs.ucsb.edu, r...@rns.com

DOOM doesn't come on just CD.  Both DOOM and DOOM II are available
on both 3.5 disks and CD-ROM.  I thought DOOM was very popular.

Regards,

Lawell Kiing (Toronto email: lki...@vnet.ibm.com)