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From: crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Crosby)
Subject: Re: Infocom Nostalgia.
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In article <1qd2aq$ait@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ted5@po.CWRU.Edu (Thomas E. Davidson) writes:
>
>In a previous article, bigmac@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Christopher Macsurak) says:
>
>>It was basically about how Infocom was so awesome and how Mediagenic have so
>>rudely broken them up and then repackaged in the worst way and how I once
>>wished I had enough money to bring the group back together and if there are any
>>other playtesters out there and other musings.
>
>	*nod* Yeah. Back in the late '80s, I was one of those lucky 
>adolescents that Infocom would occasionally hire as one of their

...lots of interesting stuff that I totally agree with

>down "The Ballad of the Starcrossed Miner" and wishing I had someone
>like Floyd to play with.
>
Ok.  Confess.  Hands up who else cried when Floyd died.

(Of course, I *was* ten at the time, but when I read that capture of the scene
someone posted just recently, I did feel a little misty eyed)

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