Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!kudla From: kudla@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Sierra's gaming network (was re: CDTV etc.) Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 20:02:09 GMT Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >Now that there are finally game machines comming out with serial ports(CDTV), >will there be online services JUST to play multi-player games on?? Anyone hear >of anything like this? Or is it just too early to speculate? Well, Sierra is starting an online service devoted exclusively to multiplayer interactive gaming.... I don't remember the name, but if you pick up the July COMPUTE! (which I haven't bothered to drop only because it's so cheap I wouldn't get much of a refund anyway) there's a little box devoted to it. Basic concepts: Will eventually allow you to play your Sierra games that support a modem with just about anyone for $12 a month in big cities and $2 an hour outside urban areas. They're also supposedly developing really cool interactive adventure type games like the old Habitat on Qlink would have been (I imagine) but at the moment the only net-specific games they have are things like backgammon. I'm pretty psyched for it, though ten to one I'll get lumped in the 2 bucks an hour crowd.... -- Robert Jude Kudla, for the moment.... "Oh, forgive me, Assembly'O'God! Oh Jaysus, I jest stuck the tip in, oh ma god...."