Re: Golden Oldies!!!

From: jbacon@ftp.com (John Bacon)

Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <DHzL5q.6y3@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU says...
>
>In article <47tk64$aqn@lard.ftp.com>, Your Name <Yourname@somwhere.COM>
wrote:
>
>>Any one have news on:
>>
>>       Stars of the Dark Well?
>
>Still alive and kicking; you'll see postings about SDW on this newsgroup.
>

Cool!!!  I spent a whole ton of money on SOTDW in the late 80's.  At one
point I was a corporation president.  Talk about a lot of work!!!  And the
huge phone bills!  I kinda miss it though.

>>       Xenophobe
>
>Kaput. The GM went to work for another gaming company as their systems
>administrator. He's probably making more money that way ;-) I
>personally was very under-impressed by the fact that the only way to
>get ahead in Xenephobe was to give all your stuff to one player, so he
>could have a super-duper-combat-ship. That's great for one player in
>each race, and dull for the rest.
>
>-- greg
>

Xenophobe was the first open ended pbm I ever played.  Luckily, one of the
guys on the pirates talked me into trying SOTDW.  Zenophobe was a really
bad game overall.

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Golden Oldies!!!
Yourname@somwhere.COM (Your Name)
Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000