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Re: Doom is DEAD

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From: rcme... Robert C. Merritt
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 20:21
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In article <30ek5m$d...@news.tuwien.ac.at> m...@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at writes:
>>From egg...@physics.ubc.ca (Sebastian Eggert):
>>This weekend the TOP100 games chart, compiled by the readers
>>of the internet has declared the strategy game: UFO, Enemy Unknown
>>as the highest rated game above Doom.  
>
>Is there some compelling reason why this was posted to 
>comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic?  Are you a Civ fanatic aggravated
>by the success of Doom?  I fail to see the deeper purpose behind this
>post.
>

No, we were aggravated by people constantly telling us that Doom was the
end all/be all of all games. No matter what game, it HAD to be compared
to Doom. All games after Doom had to be a real time, 1st person, blood
caked on the walls, arcade game or it sucked. Not to mention that it was
hyped for nine+ months before it was released.

It amuses us to no end that a little known, turn based, game simular to
minture board games would de-thrown Doom so soon.

Rob Merritt     email:...@magnus1.com   OR rcme...@cbda9.apgea.army.mil
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From: rcme...@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
Subject: Re: Doom is DEAD
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