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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Amiga World Top Ten PD games
Message-ID: <5130@crash.cts.com>
Date: 19 Oct 90 02:00:49 GMT
References: <1990Oct6.144026.12961@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <1990Oct13.115336.15475@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Oct15.152646.11115@agora.uucp>
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In article <1990Oct15.152646.11115@agora.uucp> billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes:
>In article <1990Oct13.115336.15475@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>:poirier@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Stephane Poirier) writes:
>::the november issue of Amiga world has a list of top 10 PD games.
>:
>::Here's the list:
>:
>::10 DeluxeBurger
>::9  Destination Moonbase
>::8  Quattro
>::7  Electric Train
>::6  Metro
>::5  Nakamoto (updated Jumpman)
>::4  MechForce
>::3  Monopoly
>::2  Moria 3.0
>::1 Star Trek the Game
>:
>:A list that ignores both nethack and hack wasn't trying hard enough.
>
>	If you look hard at the list, you're liable to notice that each
>of the games are pretty old... I believe Harv wrote that article just
>*before* I posted NetHack patch 7 to PLink. :-} And he's not into the
>dungeon games that much anyway...
>	I actually have been playing much more Omega than NetHack lately.
>
>-- 
>     -Bill Seymour                                            billsey@agora
>***** American People/Link Amiga Zone Hardware Specialist  NES*BILL *****
I didn't write the article, Bill. I was one of 5 or 6 people who were sent
ballots by Amiga World's Linda Barrett LaFlamme and asked to vote on
the best all-time "PD" games. Linda compiled the ballots and wrote the
article.  You might've been confusing this list with the "Top 20 PD" 
article I wrote for Amiga World which was published in their Feb. 1990
issue.. for _that_ one, you can hold me responsible (except for AW's
editing gaffes) but not for the recent games one.

People love lists but any list voted on by any "experts" is always gonna
be torn to shreds by readers/viewers and that's fine, and it's the way it
should be.  Like I posted previously, Tobias Richter's Star Trek game
would've been my #1 pick for the ballot if the game had been in my claws
when I was voting, but since it wasn't, and since, coincidentally, 
Jim Barber's Star Trek was one of my all time favorites, it got the
nod from me.  (I also voted for Deluxe Burger and Electric Train and
I can't remember what else 'cuz I didn't photocopy my ballot before I
mailed it back). 




Harv Laser                                      {anywhere}!crash!hrlaser
"Park and lock it.  Not responsible."           People/Link: CBM*HARV