Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-pac.cts.com!tsouth From: tsouth@pro-pac.cts.com (System Administrator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Xenocide Press Release Message-ID: <8907221613.AA05598@crash.cts.com> Date: 21 Jul 89 21:34:34 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tsouth@nosc.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 51 Re: > From: "David C. Whitney" > Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology > Subject: Re: Xenocide Press Release > Message-Id: <12752@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> > In article <8907170857.AA14522@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-lep!orcus@nosc.mil writes: >> >> * * * A T T E N T I O N A P P L E I I G S U S E R S *** >> >> * * * P R E S S R E L E A S E * * * > Firstly, you're probably going to take a lot of flak for making a commericial > announcement here. Secondly... True, but when looking at the overall posting, I think that if he had changed it to a little less advertising and a lot more review that it would have been acceptable (hint hint!). >> >> >> This is an official press release from Micro Revelations, >>Incorporated for their new product entitled Xenocide, a science >>fiction arcade game that runs on the Apple IIgs computer. >> In Xenocide, an alien race has taken over research outpost on three moons >>orbiting the planet Talos IV. There have been no recent communications from > Talos IV?? I hope you've talked with Paramount Pictures about using > one of their planets... That one was first visited by Captain > Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise. He found a race of > mind-controlling creatures there. You people should check out your > planets before referring to them... > (A message mostly in jest - we'll see how Paramount really reacts :-) > Dave Whitney A junior in Computer Science at MIT Dave, Talos is both a constellation and a mythological character. You cannot copyright something that has been used for a few hundred years by the general populace. If this were true, the GDW and other Science- fiction based games would be in a world of hurt in the name stealing department! Todd South -- UUCP: {nosc, uunet!cacilj, sdcsvax, hplabs!hp-sdd, sun.COM} ...!crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tsouth ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tsouth@nosc.MIL INET: tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM - BITNET: pro-pac.UUCP!tsouth@PSUVAX1