Re: Sales of OOTW (was Re: Interplay)

[jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)]

In article <9301061528.AA12468@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@BLUFFS.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
>The following revelation escaped Jimmy Shaw's lips:
>>
>> I am not all that excited about the new project though...
>> It's _Mario Teaches Typing_ supposedly a education program, kinda like
>> Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. :(  Why can't we get BattleChess II or
>> Castles ported?
>
>    Wasn't someone working on BattleChess II already?  One that runs under
>GS/OS, can be installed on a hard drive, faster, smarter, better graphics
>and sound, etc., etc.?

The BattleChess II that I am think about is Chinese Chess, and not a GS/OS
version of the original BattleChess.

>
>    Any game with the word "Mario" in the title will usually sell a lot of
>copies on name recognition alone.  It probably wouldn't take Bill half as
>long to do MTT as OOTW, so maybe Interplay has something else lined up for
>him.  :)  (We can always hope!)

A good point, let's just hope all the kiddies would beg their parents to
buy them a GS so they could play this Mario game :)  Yeah, we can
always hope. :)

>
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