Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!cbnewsl!conty
From: conty@cbnewsl.att.com (The Conty)
Subject: Re: Balance of the Planet
Organization: The Event Horizon
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 90 15:52:51 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.155251.2386@cbnewsl.att.com>
References: <159@jim.UUCP> <1990Nov28.080100.12605@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Keywords: ecological games, SimEarth, Balance of the Planet
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In article <1990Nov28.080100.12605@portia.Stanford.EDU>, dove@jessica.stanford.edu (Emperor of Ice Cream) writes:
> In article <159@jim.UUCP> jwh@wgate.UUCP (Joe Hughes) writes:
> >
> >	I heard a rumor that Chris Crawford, author of 'Balance of Power', was
> >writing a program called 'Balance of the Earth'.  Can anyone substantiate this
> >rumor?  Also, having purchased 'SimEarth', if this rumor is true can you do a
> >comparison between the two.  Thank-you.
> >-- 
> >Joe Hughes                    Wandel & Goltermann Technologies, Inc.
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> 
> 
> The game I think you are thinking of is called 'Guns or Butter.'  Set
> in a fictional world remarkably looking like Earth with a few land
> bridges thrown in, this game is not environmentally based but
> socio-econmically based.  The player controls whether to spend money,
> energy time on either military power - guns - or social solutions
> -butter.

BZZZT!  There IS a game called "Balance of the Planet" by Chris Crawford, which
has been out for a couple of months (saw it at the local Egghead).  From what
I gather from the box, the game has an ecological bent similar to SimEarth.
Alas, I've never played it, so I can't give you a review.
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