Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!xavier!garth From: garth@cs.swarthmore.edu (Garth Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: Game Survey Results Message-ID: Date: 4 May 90 03:14:16 GMT References: <40720@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@xavier.swarthmore.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Swarthmore College, PA, USA Lines: 30 chuq@Apple.COM (The Bounty Hunter) writes: > Here's the results of the survey on favorite mac games. The winners > didn't surprise me a bit. I'm not too surprised either, although I wonder if this polling methodology is really all that valid. Ask people who have played only one game what their favorite game is, and they are unlikely to shock you with their answer. Of course, the respondents to this survey are probably much more experienced than the average Mac user off the street. It is encouraging that some relatively obscure games did so well (and that some relatively common games were denigrated). This reminds me of the mail-in Infocom survey in which people were asked to rate their favorite Infocom games. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe won hands down, not, I think, because it was a superior game, but because it was the game with the most copies outstanding. The most useful thing for me about these surveys is not reading about which games people liked, but about which ones they hated, and their reasons for doing so. The actual comments mean so much more than the numeric ratings; would you be willing to post what people wrote as well as the statistics, Chuq? -------------------- Garth Snyder UUCP: {bpa,liberty}!swatsun!garth Swarthmore College INTERNET: garth@cs.swarthmore.edu 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." --------------------