Re: LoadRunner - Anybody got it?

[neiderma@eden.rutgers.edu (Kid)]

djwalton@chorizo.engr.ucdavis.edu (David J Walton) writes:
>cso77@teach.cs.keele.ac.uk (R. Champalbert) writes:

>>This game involves collecting blocks of gold, running away from baddies, and
>>digging holes in the ground. I think there was an IBM conversion of it, but
>>it was not quite as good as the Apple one.

>Dynamix will be releasing a new version of Lode Runner later this year.
>Has anyone else heard a mysterious rumor that Broderbund is also re-releasing
>Lode Runner?  It seems strange that they would do that...

Not really, they're just capturing a whole new "age group" for their games.
Kind of like Microsoft introducing "Microsoft Arcade" with Ms Pacman,
Defender, Battlezone, and Centipede (I think those are the games), since
most people with Windoze Pee Cees weren't around for the original games.

It's kind of funny, as someone pointed out in rec.games.video.classic,
that Microsoft Arcade requires Windows 3.1, 4megs of RAM, and 6megs of
hard drive space.  But the original Ms. Pacman on the Atari 2600
takes 4k and a couple of ROMs!  And what the 2600 uses to generate
sound (FM waveforms) have been sampled in the Windows version.

Microsoft: the marriage of crap code and crack marketing.