Re: Has the sci-fi genre completely died?

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From: Bartow W. Riggs
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:16

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"Lucian Wischik" <lu.nn@wischik.com> wrote in message 
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> "littlemute" <littlemute@woodenmen.org> wrote:
>>How is Weird Worlds?
>
> A lot of fun!
>
> In terms of hardware, I have it running on my two-year-old Thinkpad
> laptop (ATI mobility radeon 9000) with no problems or slowdowns at
> all. The graphics aren't animated, so I'm sure it's not at all
> hardware-intensive.
>
> --
> Lucian


A very nice littel game.  Lite in some ways deep in others.  It reminds me 
of "Pirates" (Sid Meier) a bit.  I play it all the time because you can 
finish a game in a half hour or so...

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From: "Bartow W. Riggs" <briggs@surewest.net>
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Subject: Re: Has the sci-fi genre completely died?
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