At 05:26 PM 8/26/2000 -0400, you wrote:
And in a vain attempt to make my Indenture post relavent, wouldn't a well
done disc like you're talking about look fairly good even if it doesn't
"shoot Hasbro's entire wad" in one shot? I mean, just a welll-done Yars'
Revenge disc where that's the only game on it chocked full of multimedia
would interest me. Then you could almost get one of those TimeLIFE series
deals out of it -- pay $5 for Yars Revenge and then another "historic
perspective" will arrive at your door, one a month, thereafter... Wouldn't
Actually, that's the idea for the online version, only it would be
free. To stagger the game releases in order to get repeat visits, which
means more ad impressions. Editorialize each release so it's like an event
that keeps people coming back for more like a subscription service. It's
not the ROM image that would be released each time, but the entire package
of manual, history, etc...
If it were done this way, you could have a year or more of "issues" in the
2600 catalog.
Glenn Saunders - Producer - Cyberpunks Entertainment
Personal homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1698
Cyberpunks Entertainment: http://cyberpunks.uni.cc
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