Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!starsoft!david From: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Amiga World Top Ten PD games Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 90 11:07:16 GMT References: <1990Oct6.144026.12961@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <1990Oct13.115336.15475@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Oct15.152646.11115@agora.uucp> <5130@crash.cts.com> Lines: 53 >In article <5130@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes: >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. You would think that maybe they would let the readers vote on something like this! Naahhh, that's too democratic, I guess. We readers wouldn't know what we were talking about. We might even vote for Good games! -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- These words be mine. The company doesn't care, because I am the company! :-) Dave Lowrey | david@starsoft or {uhnix1,moray}!starsoft!david Starbound Software Group | Houston, TX | "Dare to be stupid!" -- Weird Al Yankovic