From:	Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject:	On Topic (Was: Re: Off topic.)
Date:	Fri, 15 Sep 1995 19:11:05 +0200

> >>What do you mean by that Gurth? Are shows like "The Mighty Morfin Power
> Rangers" or the "Biker Mice from Mars" or the "Super Something
Syber Samurai"
> or the "Virtual Soldier Wahtever" not popular with todays kids ? :)

Thats the Super Samurai Syber Squad, my apologies to anyone actually
watching this show :)

> PS: I'm kinda partial to the Biker Mice from Mars, I like the one with the
> Cyberarms :)<<
>
> Just gotta toot my own horn here and brag to what appears to be the one
> person in the universe who actually watches this show, that I was a writer
> for BMFM, and I think I'm even down as Assisstant Script Editor in some
> of the later ones. :)

WOW that means you are actually FAMOUS !!!! I feel honoured :)

> Actually, I notice that the most popular video games tend to be based
> in fantasy. But in Shadowrun, a lot of what used to be fantasy is now
> reality; Mortal Kombat for example; is just a bunch of phys-ads with some
> additional magic kicking the snot out of each other, and you can read
> about that in a 2054 newpaper. I forsee video games in the future to have
> a lot of advanced spaceflight simulators, since that's something SR hasn't
> caught up and made real, and probably a resurgence of medieval fantasy
> games, and a few DOOM-like games for the ultra-violent. And, of course,
> a "Shadowrunners" game, but it would be about as popular as those
"Real
> Cop" shooting gallery-type games are today...

Great ideas, how about making a writeup of those games ? That would be
fun. Maybe someone would want to design someone that would have some sort
of special skill like Arcades(Beat'em Ups/Mortal Kombat XXXI) :)

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