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- Subject: Re: Games and the C64...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.225627.15876@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 22:56:27 EST
- References: <1992Nov9.011344.22500@mprgate.mpr.ca> <L8NZTB2w164w@jwt.UUCP>
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- Organization: Cornell University
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- In article <L8NZTB2w164w@jwt.UUCP>,
- bbs-artmoore@jwt.UUCP (arthur moore) writes:
- >> I suspect that in many cases these games are "out-of-print"...how does
- >> one now go about acquiring them, if the company has gone defunct...
- >> is copying now "fair game"???
-
-
- It'll be downright impossible to get games like Space Taxi and stuff like that.
- The only way to get them is through piracy - finding people and trading, I
- guess. But do remember it is highly illegal. :)
-
- My favorite games were the sports simulations - remember Hardball? Accolade
- made other versions for other computers, but none were as fast as the C-64
- version - yeah, that sounds dumb, but it was true. When Tompkins threw that
- "FASTBALL!", I was a gonner.
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