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Message no. 1
From: Jason Ustica <usticaj@**.ERAU.EDU>
Subject: FASA's computer dept.
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 00:57:15 -0700
>
> > They call it something more along the lines of a Multimedia
> > Entertainment department (what else?), and it is now headed by Tom Dowd.
> > That's all anybody seems to know.

AACCKKK!! I shudder at the word "mulitmedia". I hope they don't churn
out a bunch of "multimedia" crap. I could see them hire a bunch of cheesy
actors to make an SR "mulitmedia" game, crushing the notion of exposing
SR to a widespread computer gaming audience. The Super Nintendo and
Genisis ones were all right, but they wern't exactly blockbusters.
Please, please Mr. Dowd, don't fall into the "multimedia" trap so
prevalent today.

See ya,
Jason
Message no. 2
From: "Stephanos J. Piperoglou" <sneakabout@***.FORTHNET.GR>
Subject: Re: FASA's computer dept.
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 19:23:24 +0000
On Tue, 17 Jan 1995, Jason Ustica wrote:

> >
> > > They call it something more along the lines of a Multimedia
> > > Entertainment department (what else?), and it is now headed by Tom Dowd.
> > > That's all anybody seems to know.
>
> AACCKKK!! I shudder at the word "mulitmedia". I hope they don't churn
> out a bunch of "multimedia" crap. I could see them hire a bunch of cheesy
> actors to make an SR "mulitmedia" game, crushing the notion of exposing
> SR to a widespread computer gaming audience. The Super Nintendo and
> Genisis ones were all right, but they wern't exactly blockbusters.
> Please, please Mr. Dowd, don't fall into the "multimedia" trap so
> prevalent today.

What *I* really care about is making it an RPG, something very few games
are. The only computer ROLPLAYING game I've ever played was ``Betrayal at
Krondor'' by Dynamix, a true masterpiece. It was the *only* one of the
so-called roleplaying games in which you actually got to know the
characters in your party and interact with your surroundings (and that
was a 386-era game... I hear Krondor 2 is in the making!). Don't get me
wrong; I'm not saying i DISLIKE games like EOB, but I just don't think
they're roleplaying games... actually I'd put them somewhere in the lines
of a ``dungeon hack''. A SR computer game should be Cyberpunk, but also
have that certain kind of mysticism of the Awakened world. Not something
like Syndicate.... (I'm not saying I didn't like Syndicate... it was one
of the best games I ever owned) I want CYBERPUNK, not a shoot-'em-up!

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I like work; | Not yours; My own, truly,
It fascinates me. | Steve J. Piperoglou
I can sit and look|
at it for hours. | sneakabout@**********.hol.forthnet.gr (finger also)
- J.K. Jerome| spip@********.ath.forthnet.gr (mail only)
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Message no. 3
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@****.CAIS.COM>
Subject: Re: FASA's computer dept.
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 18:34:12 -0500
On Tue, 17 Jan 1995, Jason Ustica wrote:

> AACCKKK!! I shudder at the word "mulitmedia".

It used to be "audiovisual." Then they got computers more
heavily into it, both for high-tech visuals and on-the-fly customization
of presentations, and it became "multimedia."
Find a way to send it down the street (even on a hand-carried
floppy, from the looks of things), and it becomes the "information
superhighway."

-------------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@****.com> =========-------------
| "In case you haven't heard, the Internet is not a superhighway." |
| --Bill Washburn, Internet World, Feb. 1995 |
--------========== http://www.cais.com/jdfalk/home.html ==========--------

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