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From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Subject: Re: The "other" Infocom software
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Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 17:23:18 GMT
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In article <1s0mcvINN4ap@life.ai.mit.edu> dmb@ai.mit.edu writes:

>Could it be that Ken and Roberta had the right idea all along?  Do we
>have to add digitized pictures of girls in swimsuits and adolescent
>bathroom humor to sell text-based games now?  (Whine.)

'Fraid so.
That's why we ought to go the GNU route and make 'em freeware, or at least
shareware.  The peasants can't appreciate proper IF anyway, only 17-meg
monstrosities that leave nothing to their stunted imaginations, which are 
incapable of creating better scenes than 320x200x256 anyway.

Snarl.

Adam, crotchety old Infocom fan.
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