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- From: seifert@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael S. Seifert)
- Subject: Re: three-sixty is gone :-(
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.190433.6785@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1993Jan19.054923.1017@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Jan19.211303.45926@datamark.co.nz> <1993Jan20.201443.9257@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:04:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.201443.9257@samba.oit.unc.edu> John.Carver@launchpad.unc.edu (John Carver) writes:
- >
- >I mostly agree, but I do miss the biggy flight sims the DOS people have.
- >What have we gotten recetnly? OK, we got Birds of Prey, and I like that
- >game. In fact I bought two - one for a gift. But its pretty sparse.
- >Sometimes we'll get ports of things like Red Baron and whatever, but
- >always late. And we don't have Falcon 3.0, or Gunship 2000 (coming?).
- >We won't have this anticipated Strike Commander thing.
- >
- >Yeah, the Amiga is way better at arcade games, both in market and
- >capability. I tend to like flight sims though, and wish we had more and
- >better ones on the Amiga. Ones that use the new technologies they have
- >for fractal terrain, etc.
- >
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- And dont forget the PC war games we arent getting anymore... With the
- pullout of SSI and Three-Sixty, my amiga gaming has reached a standstill..
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- Ill just have to keep playing Second Front,Korea,or Harpoon, and hope
- an amiga company learns to make real strategy games....
-
- mike
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