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From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead.  News at 11:00.
Summary: Games that even drunks can use
Message-ID: <2409@antique.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 19:44:21 GMT
References: <3060@hubcap.UUCP> <70319@sun.uucp> <7436@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <7436@gryphon.CTS.COM> jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow) writes:
>Anyway -*I* certainly will not try to play with that code wheel game during the
>general confusion of a party with several partly sloshed guests all trying to
>pilot that fool plane around the area. They just do not have any empathy for
>the scenario set by the code wheel or such stuff. They want to shoot something
>downor fly under a bridge instead.

Perhaps the moral is that drinking and flying don't mix?  ;^)

Seriously though.  Are we to understand that a game review should
be based on its suitability for use in darkness while inebriated?
Especially if this is not mentioned in said review?  I don't love the
code wheel, I agree it slows things unnecessarily, but complicated it
isn't.

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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