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Article #93431Re: Who was Derek Smart?
From: JS
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:07
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:07
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"Bill Huffman" <bhuf...@REMOVE-THISsan.rr.com> wrote in message news:xkwca.14693$0r1.2130497@twister.socal.rr.com... > > "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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