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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Subject: Re: Game ads in magazines (Was: NeXTWorld)
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Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 08:40:39 GMT
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In article <1164@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>
>Well, do you judge a magazine only for the game ads in it? Then I must
>tell you that the situation here in Germany is more relaxed. Every
>professional computer magazine has at least 2 or 3 pages about games.
>(Can't give exact data about game ads, don't read them normally.)
>Well, the standard Amiga magazines provide definitely more. But you
>can't say, Amiga mags are full of games and the PC mags aren't.
>The world is not so simple b&w.
>
>-- 
>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk

I had heard several complaints about all the game ads in the Amiga magazines
right here on the net.  Further, the CE department where I go to school is 
in the market for some new computers and about the biggest argument against
Amiga is that it is percieved as a game machine.  Amiga World compared to
Mac World or some of the PC magazines does (did) seem to convey an image of
a computer designed and marketed for fun and games.  I like games.  I like
fun.  But I agreed with the complaints here on the net that Amiga needed at
least one reletively professional magazine.

Things probably are different here.  ???

I would imagine that most people in the US would agree that fewer game ads
in Amiga World is a good thing for Amiga's succuss as something besides a
game machine in the US. 


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