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Article #100Re: Doom is NOT Dead; The Rating System is Skewed
From: jbur... Jason Burrell
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 01:21
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 01:21
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In message <30lakp$c...@illuminati.io.com> on 21 Jul 1994 08:12:09 GMT, Hardball (hard...@io.com) wrote: : : Doom is an okay game and was fun, but was just another shoot 'em up. UFO is : : F@#ckin awesome and requires thinking. : Get real. Nothing comes close to the action DOOM has. If you : think some cheesy UFO puzzle-game is better than DOOM, you're too old to : be playin' it. DOOM kicked the butts off of every game that was out : there and the only reason it's fallen is because the friggin' voting : system is screwed. : How long has DOOM been out? ~26 weeks. : How long can 1 person's : vote count for 1 game? 26 weeks. : Duh! Go figure. Whoa. Doesn't ONE vote last for FOUR weeks? If you get 26 votes, and that is indeed correct, that means that Doom could have stayed at the top for TWO YEARS. -- -- Jason Burrell |GCS/CM/S/M d++ H s:+ !g !p+ !au !a w+++ v+>!v C++ UC+ Jbur...@crl.com |P+>++++ L+ 3 E+ N+++ K--- W--- M-- !V -po+ Y++ t++++ 5+++ San Antonio, TX |jx R+ G tv++ b++ D- B-- e u++>+++ h* f+ r* n---->+++ y? World Wide Web: |file://crl.com/users/ro/jburrell/Index.html
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