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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Risk
Message-ID: <1482@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 22 Nov 90 20:06:33 GMT
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Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +1 (415) 966-1151
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James Preston writes:

> 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.

Most likely that game is from Leisure Genius of Florida (distributed, I
believe, by Virgin Mastertronics of LA) (as I recall) and last time I 
talked with them they were planning on coming out with a version of this 
title for the Macintosh too.  They also have a number of other Parker 
Brothers titles available on computer, including the authorized version 
of Scrabble, Monopoly, and so on.

I have tried both Scrabble and Monopoly and outside of the excellent
cover art, I found them both quite lacking (not to mention non-32-bit-QD
compatible!!).

BTW: I would be delighted to find a well-designed Monopoly game for 
the Macintosh that had some reasonable strategies that I could play
against, but I have yet to even come close...(and writing my own seems
like an awful lot of work)

						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

taylor@limbo.intuitive.com    or   {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor