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- From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
- Subject: Re: Sales of OOTW (was Re: Interplay)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: bonnie.ics.uci.edu
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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
- Lines: 39
- Date: 6 Jan 93 23:05:04 GMT
- References: <9301061528.AA12468@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca>
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- In article <9301061528.AA12468@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@BLUFFS.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
- >The following revelation escaped Jimmy Shaw's lips:
- >>
- >> I am not all that excited about the new project though...
- >> It's _Mario Teaches Typing_ supposedly a education program, kinda like
- >> Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. :( Why can't we get BattleChess II or
- >> Castles ported?
- >
- > Wasn't someone working on BattleChess II already? One that runs under
- >GS/OS, can be installed on a hard drive, faster, smarter, better graphics
- >and sound, etc., etc.?
-
- The BattleChess II that I am think about is Chinese Chess, and not a GS/OS
- version of the original BattleChess.
-
- >
- > Any game with the word "Mario" in the title will usually sell a lot of
- >copies on name recognition alone. It probably wouldn't take Bill half as
- >long to do MTT as OOTW, so maybe Interplay has something else lined up for
- >him. :) (We can always hope!)
-
- A good point, let's just hope all the kiddies would beg their parents to
- buy them a GS so they could play this Mario game :) Yeah, we can
- always hope. :)
-
- >
- >--
- >-- Real name: Brian Tao (Dept. of Exobiology, University of Toronto)
- >-- Preferred: 90taobri@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca (checked daily)
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- Jimmy
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- Jimmy Shaw RamFAST, ZipGSX and 6.0... Apple II Forever!
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