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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org (John Meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Backup Programs (Games, ect...)
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Date: 16 Mar 90 18:21:41 GMT
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Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Research, Beaverton, OR
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>	But, I am getting beside myself.  Epyx did not go out of business 
>   because of piracy but because of Lynx. 


Excuse me, but Lynx did not put Epyx out of business. Lynx kept Epyx in
business at least a year beyond when it would normally have failed.
A good portion of the venture capital for Lynx (Handy) was used to
keep the rest of the company afloat so there would be someone to
make the thing when it was finished.
And piracy was not responsible for the Epyx demise, either. Epyx 
management made some really stupid decisions, like putting millions
into VCR games, and relying on a sagging PC (IBM, C-64, Apple-//)
games market when the emerging market was Nintendo, Sega, etc.