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- From: renfro@crchh610.BNR.CA (Randy Hoekstra)
- Subject: Re: Big name hype
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.184047.3128@bnr.ca>
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- Reply-To: renfro@crchh610.BNR.CA (Randy Hoekstra)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <71194@cup.portal.com> <1g2aahINN1ger@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> <71535@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:40:47 GMT
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- In article <71535@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- |>Regarding Spectrum Holobyte and "Flight of the Intruder"..
- |>
- |>The SH representative who answered questions about why SH was
- |>NOT going to be releasing ANY more games for the ST said that
- |>in the first (three?) months of its release, FOTI had sold
- |>over 10,000 copies on the IBM platform, over 4,000 on the Amiga,
- |>and only 700 on the Atari ST. With numbers like that, they
- |>couldn't justify putting any further resources into any other
- |>ST releases.
- |>
-
- And they call the ST a game machine? Personally, I don't play many
- games on my Mega and from what I see here, a lot of people are using
- there STs for serious computer work. Granted there isn't much of
- an Atari market left in the States, but of that, what percentage are
- still playing (or purchasing) games on their STs?
-
- Randy
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