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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova)
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Subject: Re: Rastan GS!
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Date: 16 Sep 90 18:29:26 GMT
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In article <4436@crash.cts.com> tg.exc@pro-harvest.cts.com (Terry Guelfo) writes:
>Well, Taito has released Rastan GS.  It's been shipping for a few weeks now. 
>Frankly, I'm surprised, but I'm also excited and thankful.  Taito did not
>choose to continue work on Renegade (no great loss, really), yet they release
>Rastan for the GS.
>
>I have a copy already.  I barely remember the game from the arcade, but I'll
>tell you that the GS version looks like a carbon copy of the arcade version. 
>If you thought Task Force was good, you ain't seen nuttin yet.  Smooth
>scrolling, fantastic animation, stereo sound... it's got it all... and well
>worth the $22 that Programs Plus is charging.  I really do hope that people
>will buy this ware and not copy it and pass it out.  This is one fantastic
>game.

  Bravo!
  I was just re-reading one of the II Infinitum letters yesterday, and I
paused at the part suggesting that users need to buy software to keep companies
interested in the II.
  So I bought Qix GS from Programs Plus for $10.  And as soon as I get my Visa
bill down a bit, I'll buy Rastan.  Even though I can get both from the guy down
the street who runs a pirate BBS.
  But I have a question for ya all.  The pirate mentality is, I think, an
adolescent mentality.  The young are easily motivated and impressionable.
Therefore, shouldn't it be possible to do SOMETHING to change these kids'
attitutes towards what most consider a crime?
  Part of the problem is that most kids don't have the money to spend on $50
video games (although new Nintendo carts can cost that much).  The high cost
of software drives the kids to pirate. And of course the software industry 
blames the pirates for the high cost of software.  Somewhere, this circle
has to be broken.
  And Taito is starting to do this.  If anyone from Taito is reading this...
  BRAVO!  

>For all of you doubters out there who thought that the Gs was dead and wasn't
>good for much anything anymore:  check out Rastan and start eating your words!

  Just wait till I'm done implementing Minix. Then we'll see how dead the GS is.

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