Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Subject: Re: CDTV misleading???!? Air Mouse and things. Message-ID: <1991Jun7.155316.9310@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University References: <1991Jun6.005113.7848@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <136800@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 15:53:16 GMT In article <136800@unix.cis.pitt.edu> cjfst4@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Chad Freeman) writes: >You mention that software may be an important part in the CD-I/CDTV >competition. I read an interesting article in the local paper saying >that two CD-I companies had licensed Nintendo software and/or >characters. If CD-I has a laserdisk version of Super Mario Bros 6.541, >you can bet it'll have a jump in sales over CDTV, which, according to >INFO anyway, has boring titles (I have no personal experience). Also, I >think the fact that Commodore will be the only ones making a CDTV >machine will hurt it. I hate to say 'look at beta', but _look at beta_! > LaserDisc version? I assume that was just a typo, as this is all CD. Getting Nintendo characters would be useful, but then again most people already HAVE Nintendos. Why would they buy CD-I and spend $40 for their Nintendo games when they could just get it for their Nintendo? It would make a difference, but a lot depends on how long it takes to come out and how much of an improvement it is over the Nintendo original. -- Ethan Now the world has gone to bed, Now I lay me down to sleep, Darkness won't engulf my head, Try to count electric sheep, I can see by infrared, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. How I hate the night. -- Marvin