Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: About WHEN IS ??? Message-ID: <1991Feb16.192720.20637@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 16 Feb 91 19:27:20 GMT References: Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 44 dw3w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Database Work) writes: > To be honest, I'm getting sick of everyone complaining about "When is > Wing Commander coming out for the Amiga" or "Sim Earth...when?" I > think many of you forget the fact that most of the good games made for > the amiga AREN'T ported to them. Games like Turrican never show up on > other systems, or are not nearly as good. Maybe a little more emphasis > on games made for the amiga would be good for the community. After > all, why should we buy a game from Orgin (Wing Commander) so they can > take that money and put it into another IBM game that will be poorly > ported to the amiga. I dare say you don't see IBM users wondering when > good Amiga games are going to show up on their IBM's. Try to imagine > the two best games of the year so far, Speedball II and Lemmings, on > an IBM. Makes me laugh. So lets see some "When is Turrican II coming > out" rather than "Wing Commander" or some such thing . Support > companies like Psygnosis (they are finally geting better) Rainbow ^^^^^^^^^ > Arts, Bullfrog, Image- works, and countless others to continue to make > games on the amiga. It has seemed to me the BEST amiga games are made > ON the amiga FOR the amiga. You were on a roll right up to that one. I just let myself get suckered by all the great descriptions here into buying Yet Another Piece of Psygnosis Garbage, The Killing Game Show. Thanks to their _dandy_ attitude toward their customers (crooks every last one of us) the game has enough copy protection that it will boot neither on my A1000, nor on my A2000, both reasonably stock machines. Won't get past what sounds like about the first couple tracks on either machine. I'm not up to organizing a boycott of these jerks, but I sure wish someone would. $32 down the tubes for a pretty box. Baratacus, Terrapods, Shadow of the Beast I & II, and now The Killing Game Show; every one a total waste of money, an insult to the user, with machine destructive copy protection, all glitter, no gameplay. What keeps these idiots in business, besides incurably optimistic fools like me? Kent, the man from xanth.