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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,rec.games.misc
Subject: Black Box (was: status of Ogre computer game?)
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Date: 27 Jan 88 20:12:54 GMT
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In article <22043@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> robertj@yale.UUCP writes:

>I would tend to think that all the Black Box adaptations are equally
>illegal, by this same rationale.  Numbers do NOT make it right, NOR
>do they make it legal... it's just that it probably hasn't been brought
>to the attention of the people who make Black Box.

As a point of curiosity:  I thought that Black Box was first implemented
as a computer game (via a contest in Creative Computing magazine, if
I remember correctly) and only later made into a commercial boardgame.
Does anyone know what the true chronology is/was?

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