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In article <19941024....@almaden.ibm.com>,
Lawell Kiing <lki...@VNET.IBM.COM> wrote:
>>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.
>

Quite true  but it has nothing to do with Origin.  Doom is made by id.
Also Monkey Islan and Tie Fighter are Lucas Arts games.  And I don't
know about Tie Fighter, but Monkey island 1 and 2 I very happily played on
my old 386sx.  I think original poster confused these games with
something else.

Regards,


Vadim..

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


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