From: proteus@yabbs To: htoaster@yabbs Subject: re: Date: Sun Oct 10 08:23:39 1993 gee, isn't this just great...more talk about piracy in a games base. i mean, you don't have to pirate to get games- check out freeware stuff like nethack, the various flavors of moria and angband, nettrek, etc. etc. and if you're really in the mood for some amazing pyrotechnics, just get a few quarters and head down to the arcade. just about every pc games base i see you have something like a fifty message thread devoted to saying "stop piracy" or "pay your damn shareware fees." i mean, people that do it aren't really going to be miraculously convinced that if you pirate you will burn in the pits of hell... not that i'm against piracy or anything. it's just too boring. but don't talk about it here. excuse me, but i just don't like talking bout wares much. anyway, this one didn't make much sense either. so, let's talk about some games. real games. the sort of games you stay up till morning trying to win. or those ones with great fireworks. let me start off at several points so i get more flames :-). first, i saw an article about the new zork a few weeks ago in newsweek. and it looks ho-hum. the graphics are great, sure, but there's no text to enter! it doesn't seem like zork. not really. has anyone yet seen the mac flight sim f/a-18? the release date was two days ago. i guess that's it. later.