Re: Industry Stats

From: jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (JonMMorris)

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Casbah Carl asks:
>The data's, of course, pretty incomplete, but I'm surprised that there are so
>many companies listed in the States. These are commercial games, right?
>
>I'm familiar with perhaps no more than a dozen PBM/PBeM companies doing
>business in the United States. Do these stats include companies that run
>pretty
>much just wargames and such?
>

The stats are derived from the US edition of Flagship's "Galactic View" which
"...is a list of PBM companies believed by FLAGSHIP to be operating at the time
this issue is published."

Virtually all the games charged fees so some might classify them as "commercial
games".

There's definitely more than a dozen US PbM companies. If you're interested,
I'll e-mail a list of the 1995 companies but for 1999 companies, I suggest
looking at Greg Lindahl's list: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm_list/

Even deeper in ye olde closet of junque, I have found Flagship #26 (May, 1990)
and have updated the collected stats:

UK  (Year: Companies / Games)
1991: 124 / 215
1995: 127 / 261
1999: 120 / 255

US/N.America (Year:Companies / Games)
1990: 83 / 143
1995: 97 / 184
1999: ?

Also from issue #26: the Summer, 1990 Award Winners (I think it mixes US and UK
games):

Crimes Games - St. Valentine's II
Fantasy Wargames: Adventurer Kings
Power Games w/Special Actions: Where Lies the Power?
Role-Playing Games: Raiders of Gwaras
Computer-Moderated SF: Space Combat
SF w/Special Actions: Galaxy: Alpha
Sports Games: Kick-About
Non-Fantasy Wargames: Crisis II
Other Games: Continental Rails

Enjoy!

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References

Re: Industry Stats
casbahcarl@aol.compost (Chuck)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Industry Stats
casbahcarl@aol.compost (Chuck)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000