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From: orpheus@reed.UUCP (Aaron Semplers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Risk
Keywords: Risk,color
Message-ID: <15687@reed.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 90 12:15:08 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.230335.18588@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: orpheus@reed.UUCP (Aaron Semplers)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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I decided to call Tone Engel and find out whether there was a newer
version than the black and white one I had. (Not only does it bomb on
the II series machines, it bombs with the usual INIT configuration on
the nine-inchers I use, too.)

Apparently, Engel wrote it as a proposal to Parker Brothers. They had
some gripes about the user interface and the deal fell apart. He said
the copy I had was a copy of a bootleg that was never intended to be
distributed.  He also said that he was not planning on working on it
again, and that Parker Brothers was glad of it.

Ignorant fools. Dare I say it, that bootleg has become one of the most
popular Macintosh games ever. If they had just shrink-wrapped it and
gotten it to some retailers... Oh well.

Just goes to show, someone or something is trying to keep the Macintosh
game market depressed. I don't know who, and I don't know why, but I
intend to find out.

orpheus@reed
just trying to bring a little conspiracy to our bland existence