Re: Joe Kohn to moderate csa2 (was: METAL is now FREE!!!!!!)

[isc10327@nusunix1.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE)]

Scott Alfter (sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu) wrote:
: 
: Ugh.
: 
: Games?  We don't need no steenkin' games!
: 
: The LAST thing I'd like to see happen would be for the II to
: degenerate into a Commie 64 knockoff.  Niche markets are fine, but let
: it be a respectable niche market.  Games and demos are one step away
: from useless, IMHO.
: 
	Not really, "games" are also considered a proper way to use a
computer.  The revenue they generate could provide the software
developers the foundation and monetary security they require to develop
application software.  IMHO, games theyselves form a respectable and
profitable market.  Look at the success of Out Of This World.  The
profit it brought to Interplay causes them to give the IIgs market a
second chance.
	And as someone said earlier (Henrik?), it's money that moves the
world.

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