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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Behond the best... Dark Castle.
Message-ID: <2260@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 88 10:07:43 GMT
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Reply-To: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
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I am the bearer of ery bad news. Silicon Beach Software has said repeatedly
that they will not be producing any games after Apache Strike Mission and
Beyond Dark Castle. Since SBS is a leading innoator in Macintosh-based games,
this means the loss of good potentials, and that we have only flight simulation
software and silly puzzle games (nee The Fool's Errand) to play. I am
saddeded by this loss, as I suppose many others are too.

To paraphrase from memory:

an SBS employee said, "It takes as much to produce a game as a business product
and a business product sells for more."

Perhaps we can start some sort of Letter Writing Campaign to help change
their mind. If lobbying can solve this coming dearth of games, then we
must take the challenge and demand our games!

DISCLAIMER: I am not in any way affiliated with SBS or anybody for that manner.


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