Re: Recommended Games

From: Colin Forbes <colin@timewyrm.co.uk>

Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 21:29:22 +0000

Enno Rehling wrote:

>While I'm not sure why web-based games should be on-topic in a PBM
>Newsgroup...
>
Interesting point. At what point does PBM stop being PBM and start being
another form of gaming? Given the increasing pre-dominance of email in
terms of sending in orders and receiving turns, PBM in general is a good
deal less postal than it used to be - and that's an understatement. :-)
  If a game is turn based, whether the interface between game and player
is a keyboard or a pen, surely there is so much in common with 'PBM'
that it IS, in effect, a PBM? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a
duck, then it probably is a duck... :-)

It is possible to make a cogent case for PBM being in the process of
spreading out in sveral different directions. I would argue that web
gaming is one of those directions and, as such, the discussion of that
sort of game has a place on rec.games.pbm.

When push comes to shove, a discussion about web gaming has far more to
do with PBM than many recent threads ...

Colin.

References

Re: Recommended Games
Daniel Vuurboom & Gerry Damen <vuurdameDELETE@xs4all.nl>
Tue, 07 May 2002 17:10:20 +0000
Re: Recommended Games
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 07 May 2002 19:25:39 +0000
Re: Recommended Games
"Enno Rehling" <enno@despammed.com>
Tue, 07 May 2002 19:33:22 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Recommended Games
Daniel Vuurboom & Gerry Damen <vuurdameDELETE@xs4all.nl>
Tue, 07 May 2002 17:10:20 +0000
Re: Recommended Games
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 07 May 2002 19:25:39 +0000
Re: Recommended Games
"Enno Rehling" <enno@despammed.com>
Tue, 07 May 2002 19:33:22 +0000