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- From: kaminsky@tatertot.com (Daniel Kaminsky)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video,alt.games.lynx
- Subject: Re: Market Forces and the Lynx
- Message-ID: <FRqyXB2w165w@tatertot>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:43:38 GMT
- References: <rauser.727945351@sfu.ca>
- Organization: Tater Tot News & Mail, San Francisco, CA
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- rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser) writes:
-
- >
- >
- > Although I no longer own a Lynx, I still like to browse through
- > alt.games.lynx every once in awhile for the heck of it. And every time
- > there's the usual string of messages slamming Atari for their horrible
- > marketing and calling for a letter writing campaign to Toys R Us for
- > their poor Lynx support. A recent message suggested this campaign be
- > extended to Software Etc. The underlying theme of these messages seems to
- > be that the Lynx is an amazing machine that masses of people want to buy,
- > but that Toys R Us and Software Etc (and many other retailers) won't let
- > them.
- >
- > Well, I don't know. At the risk of enraging the Lynx loyalists, can
- > I say that it's rather pathetic to have to launch a letter writing campaign
- > to save your system? Atari places a two page ad in the newspaper and everyone
- > on alt.games.lynx goes wild with excitement...isn't this a little sad?
- > I mean, come on, guys. I'm starting to get depressed from reading alt.games.
- > lynx. It's nothing but teary-eyed demands to write letters to save the Lynx,
- > anecdotes about the ignorance of Toys R Us staff and the apathy of Atari
- > employees, and moans and groans about how undersupported and downright
- > DOOMED the Lynx is.
- >
- > You certainly don't hear such things from Game Gear, GameBoy (ugh) or
- > TurboExpress owners.
- >
- > So how about we let market forces (that ugly right-wing term...I can't
- > believe a liberal like myself would use it!) deal with the Lynx. If Toys R
- > Us and Software Etc. aren't selling it, could I politely suggest that's
- > because it's no longer selling? Do we really need to bombard them with
- > letters demanding they stock the shelves with an unpopular product?
- >
- > I really liked my Lynx. Honestly I did. I only ditched it because I
- > preferred the games Sega had to offer on their Game Gear. But I'll be honest
- > here: some of the tripe being posted about the Lynx is starting to make me
- > lose respect for the machine. There are suggestions about Atari's total
- > incompetence, endless tirades about the Lynx's utter superiority to the
- > Game Gear, and allegations that Toys R Us is involved in a big conspiracy
- > to sink the Lynx, which Nintendo and Sega recognize as a genuine threat.
- >
- > Uh, I know I'm going out on a limb here, but maybe, just maybe, the
- > Lynx isn't that great a machine. Maybe, just maybe, that's why it isn't
- > selling. And maybe, again, just maybe, that's why Toys R Us and Software
- > Etc. are backing down.
- >
- > Or are the Lynxites going to blame Nintendo and Sega for the Kennedy
- > assassination as well?
- >
- > --
- > Richard J. Rauser "You have no idea what you're doing."
- > rauser@sfu.ca "Oh, don't worry about that. We're professional
- > WNI outlaws - we do this for a living."
- > -----------------
- > "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." -Dr.Banzai
-
- About toys R us: DO NOT BUY VIDEO GAMES FROM THEM, PERIOD. Not only are
- they overpriced, but they will (for fear of 10000 flame messages from a
- so called moderator) "twist" you over worse than The Good Guys(another
- story, dont shop there either). My friend bought a Lynx game there, and
- it was a disaster. They forgot to mention that the game was used. By a
- sadistic madman. The manual was a mess, the INSIDE(not outside) looked
- horrid, the sticker on the game was half off, and the game ITSELF didnt
- work. Ouch. All good guys did was stiff us for 10%.
- Later,
- Gasman
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