Re: Apple // Game Gods

[dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail)]

Roby Sherman (roby@h2net.net) wrote:
: In article <5488l7$g6@borg.svpal.org>, Paul Creager wrote:
: >> - Ken or Roberta Williams as a member of Sierra
: >
: >I certainly would _NOT_ invite them.  Although Sierra got its start on 
: >Apple II's, they were one of the first to drop II development, and Ken 
: >Williams went so far as to bad-mouth the Apple II.  

: This is true. On more than one occasion I have heard Ken Williams bad mouth
: the Apple ][. I remember talking to him about some Helicopter game that 
: they were trying to port to the GS. He told me that it would never be ported 
: because :

: 1> The GS was too slow (In other words they didn't want to write native code)
: 2> They could not see supporting a platform with such an insignifigant
:    market share. This was in the late 80's when the Apple II market was still
:    quite large, signifigant, and popular.

: Don't invite them.


This is the silliest thing I ever heard.  Why do you hold such a grudge
against them for making (what I'm sure they thought was) a sound
business decision?  If you couldn't make money selling games on a system,
you'd probably drop the support also.  Are you saying that you wouldn't
care if you were losing money at a venture?  I doubt that.

The Williams' are responsible for many classic games on the
Apple ][, and Sierra Online was certainly one of the original apple
][ game companies.  If you don't invite them, you may as well not
invite Lord British.
-- 
Sam
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