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Re: crude games???



The backbone theme of Infocom's advertising back in "the good old days" was
that no cheesy hi-res graphic can ever replace the picture in the mind's eye
that results from a good paragraph of well-written prose. The ads generally
had a beautiful picture and the text that described it, to make their point.

Tom Zuchowski

"Donald C. Lee" <coach41@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
>     I had my IIe during 1983 and so probably played some games under the
> Dos 3.3 days (3.2?  Geez, too young! :)
>
>     Phoenyx has a very good point about older games in general
> though.  Making games for the Apple II (esp. II+, IIe, IIc) was not easy
> due to the limited graphics and sound capabilities of the systems.
>