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From: jsp@key.COM (James Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Risk
Message-ID: <2280@key.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 90 22:04:18 GMT
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Reply-To: jsp@penguin.key.COM (James Preston)
Organization: Key Computer Laboratories, Fremont
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Regarding why Parker Bros. might not be too interested in marketing the
existing Mac version of Risk:  Owning a Mac and no PC's, I normally pay no
attention to what exists in the PC world, but I was thumbing through a
catalog from Egghead yesterday and couldn't help notice that there is a
Parker Bros. authorized version of Risk for the PC.

Since there seem to be a lot of folks here who play this game, I have a
question.  Is it just me, or are all the variations of the computer opponents
just plain DUMB?  I have played many times, against many different numbers
and combinations of computer opponents, and I have almost never had any
trouble beating them.  I mean, it's almost embarrassingly easily.  None of
the computer opponents seem to have the slightest concept of even the most
basic of strategies for this game, such as that continents are important to
hold for yourself and important to take away from your opponents.  At first,
I thought it might be because I always go for South America first.  But no,
I can almost always quickly take and hold North America, or Europe, or even
Asia and the stupid computer opponents don't really fight me for them!  So
I've given up playing; there's just no challenge to it.

--James Preston