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From: cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Why don't more people write games for the Mac?
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Date: 5 May 90 22:36:03 GMT
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>>>This has NOT been SSI's experience.  NONE of their Mac games have sold
>>>in any significant quantities.
>>The operative word in the post you respond to is _well_.

farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren):
> Nope.  The operative word in the post is NONE.  Not the ones that were done
> well, not the ones that were done poorly, NONE.  And, as I said, this has
> also been the experience of every other game publisher I've ever asked about
> this.

Please tell us which games have been done "well", in your opinion.  I
find that the game publishers and I often disagree about how well a
game has been ported.

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