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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Your Ultima Quote
Message-ID: <16006@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 30 Apr 91 15:33:20 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <10920@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) writes:
>Here's a neat little story.  Dragon Wars GS has sold around 600 copies
>(it was 500 about a month ago, hopefully 100 have been sold by then).
>Will harvey is very disappointed with the sales of Immortals GS, I'd expect
>it to be around 1000.  Even Victory Software hasn't had a smashing success
>with Cryllan Mission (the first or second scenarios), and their game is a
>Ultima style game.  Nor has space Ace GS done well.  Taito dumped all their
>computer games, so they're sorta irrelevent.
>The point - all these professed users don't seem to be buying games. 
>Accolade dumped the IIgs when their game sales didn't even help break
>even (TDII, Grand Prix, etc).  

Don't blame the consumers for this.  I've been looking for Dragon Wars GS
for months now, and it simply has NOT been stocked in ANY software store
in the area.  I finally ordered it from QuestBusters, of all places.

About the only IIGS software I've been able to find stocked in stores
is software that I bought years ago, so naturally they're not selling
much of what they DO stock.

It appears to be a conspiracy, or perhaps simply stupidity, on the part
of the software distribution channels.

>And as someone said a while back, in 1989 Origin released all
>their games on AII format 1st (remember a ton of 128k dblhires games?)
>and almost went bankrupt.  That sorta thing wakes up a company I guess.

I don't recall many Origin releases in 1989, but the few I do recall
came on 5.25" floppies for 8-bit Apple IIs.  Many Apple II family owners
do not even have 5.25" disk drives, and IIGS owners would prefer to spend
their limited software dollars on software that exploits the IIGS hardware
rather than simply emulating the old 8-bit Apple IIs.

>pick up a couple games AND SEND IN THE WARRANTY!  Buy from a local
>dealer so he at least stocks stuff on the shelves.

Yes, this might help, if it isn't already too late.
Some stores around here don't even have an Apple II section any more.