[MUD-Dev] Re: Gender specific

[Caliban Tiresias Darklock]

On Monday, November 24, 1997 2:38 AM, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
[SMTP:olag at ifi.uio.no] wrote:
>
> So what is the "missing link"?  Is it only a lack of
> interest, or is it installation.  I mean, I guess an average man in
> his fifties would look at a "Formula 1" type car game and think "That
> could be fun...".  So what keeps him back, is it painful memories of
> prior experience with computers?

Personally, my major obstacle to buying games is the simple fact that every 
game manufacturer on the market seems absolutely unable to believe that you 
might not want to devote EVERY LAST BIT of your attention to their game. 
Phantasmagoria was a decent game, I liked it a lot; but if you tried to 
Alt-Tab at the wrong time, it would lock up. Harvester would crash the 
whole system under similar circumstances. MYST set my system to 256 color 
640 by 480 resolution, which is a real pain in the ass with my preference 
for true color 1280 by 1024, and then didn't set it back when I quit the 
game. Jedi Knight insists on being the only application I work in. Dungeon 
Keeper insists on being the only application I work in. Look, the only time 
I use one application and only one application is when Hell has frozen 
over, pigs are divebombing the European Union, the moon is in it's seventh 
kernel, and Venus is eclipsed by Mars. Get the picture? If I can't 
multitask it, I don't use it, and I'm not paying $60 for something I won't 
use. ;)


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