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- Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
- Path: sparky!uunet!grebyn!daily!rich
- From: rich@grebyn.com (Richard Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Lynx - bad sign!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.011520.8448@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <27DEC199214041812@mary.fordham.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:15:20 GMT
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- In article <27DEC199214041812@mary.fordham.edu> areid@mary.fordham.edu (Darin Reid) writes:
- >
- >
- >I just got the Sunday edition of the New York (City) Daily News...
- >in it there is a sale paper for Toys "R" Us, it has a huge section for
- >game systems and their games, and guess what..., the Lynx is nowhere
- >to be found!
- >
- >They advertise: Super Nintendo, Gameboy, Game Gear, Nintendo, Genesis,
- >TurboExpress, and Turbografx-16, all of the Game Genies and hand held
- >games from Tiger. NO LYNX... I bought a system that has no
- >following!!!
-
- I'm sorry, but this is just silly. Ohmigod, there's no Lynx advert in
- the Toys R Us section. Time to drop ballast! Jump ship! Haul in the
- sails! Maybe, just maybe, they just decided not to run a promotion on
- the Lynx.
-
- >I should have gotten a Game Gear! Sorry Robert but I've lost faith in
- ^^^^^^^^^
- If you had, you'd be sitting at home right now with a significantly
- poorer game pool, IMHO. I owned one, and got rid of it. It didn't serve
- my portable gaming needs as well as the Lynx does.
-
- >Atari's ability to market and support their product. I can't even
- >find games for it; Not in T"R"U, The Wiz, Kiddie City, Electronic
- >Boutique (mail order catalog dropped the Lynx too!), Kaybee can a Lynx
- >game be found. The machine isn't even mentioned. When the TG-16 is
- >displayed more prominently than the Lynx quittin' time has come...
-
- Again, not to be blunt, but you are not the center of the gaming
- universe. Here in the Washington DC area (not known for being the Mecca
- of the gaming world) I can buy Lynx games from Toys R Us (if I were to
- be so insane), Babbages (four different locations come to mind),
- Electronics Boutique (three new games in the last week), Software Etc,
- Walden Software, and a couple of non franchise locations.
-
- Let's even assume that your dire predications are correct and say,
- tomorrow that Atari goes out of business (not something that would
- surprise me, by the way). So what? Will that instantly detract from your
- enjoyment of the games that currently exist? Will that invalidate
- whatever fun you've had with the system so far? As far as I know, only
- Robert and I are insane enough to own every game for the system. That
- means that even if the Lynx world were to end tomorrow you'd have
- something to look forward to.
-
- There were droves of people of your mind years ago when I bought my
- first Lynx. I still have it after all this time, it still goes with me
- on my frequent flights, it's still lots of fun. It's too bad Atari is
- owned by a family of grade A morons, but I'm not going to let that get
- in my way of having fun.
-
- >Just my view o' things...
- >- Darin
- >
- --
- Rich Lawrence, Synoptics Systems Engineer DOD#9630 rich@grebyn.com
- '92 Seca II "Yuri" CI$:71101,2272 GEnie:R.LAWRENCE14
- 216 years ago my government gave me certain inalienable rights.
- Since then, they've been trying to correct their mistake.
-