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Article #93426Re: Who was Derek Smart?
From: Bill Huffman
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 02:36
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 02:36
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"Allan Parent" <all...@nospamforme.charter.net> wrote in message news:v742lir42eo60a@corp.supernews.com... > He was the author of one of the most *infamous* games. BC3000 was one of the > most buggy games of all time and suffered an estimated 75% return rate when > it hit the shelves. Later games in the BC3000 "series" are basically just > patches/graphic updates for the original game. Don't let anyone tell you > different. I believe that Take 2 did one printing. That one printing was probably sold three or four times over. What I think was very funny was that at this period of time when there was no manual and people were complaining the the game wouldn't run and that they didn't even know what the secret key combinations did which command, Derek would sometimes go off on rants about how people cracking his game so that they could play it without paying were going to be very sorry.
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