At 9:47 AM -0800 3/10/01, Glenn Saunders wrote:
>[I] wrote:
>>The damn thing is, I'm still not convinced it was intentionally a scam.
>I'm convinced the game was written. The screenshots looked authentic to me.
This is essentially what I believe...
>It wasn't designed to be a scam, not that it makes a difference.
Might mean the difference between jail and public service. :-)
>It's just that at some moment he decided he wouldn't or couldn't deliver
>the product, and pocketed the money or forgot about us.
It's quite possible all the stories about his daughter were true, for
which I would feel bad, but still, no reason to rip off earnest folk.
>I still think the game could be released if someone managed to track the
>guy down and give him a guilt trip. He might release the ROM image.
This is the angle I'm trying. One lead may have panned out to a small
effect -- I'll keep on it to see where it leads.
At 5:27 PM -0500 3/10/01, Erik Mooney added:
>I think his game kinda wound up in the same boat I did with INV - he got a
>ways into it out of curiosity about 2600 programming, and then got bored
>with it when the coding got more tedious than fun, and the code got harder
>and harder to keep a handle on.
The difference is, you didn't take preorders.
>I'd bet that he does have a ROM in
>prototype/beta form, though not a finished game.
Probably true.
At 5:49 PM -0800 3/10/01, Lee Krueger added:
>He didn't FORGET about us. He ripped us off. Maybe not intentially at first.
>The way I figure it, he took about $3000 (if he took money for all 50 carts).
I'm not sure that many sent money in though. Maybe, but I doubt it. Did
anyone ever make a list of those cheated?
>He took our money fruaduantly, regardless of his intentions.
That IS the gist of it.
>Just gert me a valid address I can send to the WA State DA's office..
I'm working on that.
>and a baseball bat ; -)
Now now, if anyone's going to drive over to his house, IL is closer than
WA. :-p
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