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From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New videogame offering 'Beast'
Message-ID: <1989Oct3.031541.21157@rpi.edu>
Date: 3 Oct 89 03:15:41 GMT
References: <125648@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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In-Reply-To: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM's message of 2 Oct 89 20:53:54 GMT


In <125648@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:

Chuck> This section bothered me on several counts, not the least of
Chuck> which was the programmers threatening to work exclusively on
Chuck> game cartridges if the piracy problem didn't let up. 

Let 'em. Psygnosis are a bunch of college video geeks whose software
is kludgy as hell, stomps all over the OS, makes me wary of rebooting
without keeping my computer off for 30 seconds or more lest it jump
all over my bootdisk because it really reminds me of the sort of thing
pirates used to program for the C64, are extremely ego-bound
considering that every game they write is done from the ground up
without any shared libraries and can't seem to grasp the concept of
being nice to the OS, have absolutely horrible taste in music (I like
nauseating new-wave music sometimes too, but not constantly... this
also seems to be a problem with those who create Sonix scores), and
should have quit while they were ahead after doing Menace instead of
making seven or eight clones of it. I don't know about the other ones,
but Blood Money has a similar booklet (I don't recall what they said
about piracy because I probably tuned it out as per usual) and struck
me as being equally braindamaged.

And with their programming styles and turnaround time, I'd just love
to see them try to get official Nintendo standing..... there's a lot
more competition in that market, too, and their blazing graphics would
probably be quite outclassed since people have already had to learn
how to push the Nintendo to its hardware limits.

I also get annoyed at putting a nice new Menace disk in my drive and
having it say "not a DOS disk" and having to click two requesters
before I can even get the drive to shut off so I can reboot.... but
what can you do....

flame off
--
Robert Jude Kudla     

                       What noisy cats are we.