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From: philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)
Subject: Re: The "other" Infocom software
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Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 05:05:47 GMT
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David Baggett writes:

>almost all the former Infocom people talked about how sad it was that
>all-text games had no future...I used to think this was wrong; now I'm
>not so sure.

  You'd think that anyone who had a love of reading would also be attracted
to all-text games.  I hope that doesn't mean that the current generation of 
computer users are becoming haters of books as well as interactive fiction!

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