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Re: Who was Derek Smart?

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From: JS
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:07
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"Bill Huffman" <bhuf...@REMOVE-THISsan.rr.com> wrote in message
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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.
>
>

Not nearly as sorry as the people who *payed* to play it   :p
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