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From: pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: NTSC vs. PAL screen checking (Was Re: JRComm....)
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Date: 3 May 90 00:54:10 GMT
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In article <3396@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> consp11@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett Kessler) writes:
>Sure, NTSC is inferior.  But, by that same token, I've seen a number of
>games made outside of the US that go right off of the bottom edge of my
>screen.  This makes it a bit harder to see things like score, number of
>lives left, etc.

My favorite is the European Tetris clone "Tetris Metallica."  I got a
demo version of it, and liked it so much that I decided to send in the
money for the real version.  Unfortunately, the only place the address was
printed was on the title screen.  And, yes, you guessed it, you couldn't
read it because it was off the bottom edge.  What a brilliant marketing
technique!

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