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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Want pointers to _good_ msdos games
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.181931.26956@uwasa.fi>
Date: 31 Dec 90 18:19:31 GMT
References: <1990Dec26.224913.12338@cs.dal.ca>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1990Dec26.224913.12338@cs.dal.ca> gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Gauthier) writes:
>Almost every PD/Shareware game I've come across on local BBS systems
>and the anonymous FTP sites that I've looked on has been of terrible
>quality. I found a really enjoyable 3D Chess program, a bazillion versions
>of Tetris clones, but that's about it. Almost everything else is written
>so poorly as to be unplayable.
>
>I'm looking for PD/Shareware games which are of high quality. Pointers
... rest deleted ...

First of all one has to agree in general to what is being said here. 
The average quality of PC games is poor (in comparison to other PC
programs).  That is much because of the history of the PC usage.  If
you want games, there are thousands, if not tens of thousands of
well-made (even if childish, nothing wrong with that) games for C64,
Amiga, and Atari.

Second, take a look at the /pc/pd2/files-mm.zip listing what it has
in the way of games.  Sorry no, I can't single any of them out.

Third, many ftp sites, e.g. Simtel20 in particular, and uwasa.fi to
a lesser degree are not game oriented, or have no games at all. A
question of deliberate policy.

Fourth, an indignant note from the insulted author :-).  What the
heck is wrong with my flag games? (/pc/ts/tsgmed11.arc).  I thought
that they were gr8.  :-)

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun