Re: new Civ IV - impossible sys reqs

Scott Ellsworth <scott@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

>There are large markets - SimWhatever, V for Victory, Moo2-a-likes, etc. 
>that are not well served in either market, and so a Mac publisher would 
>not be going head to head against PC publishers with twenty times the 
>customer base.

	That seems like it ought to be a worthwhile niche to fill, too.  
I've seen occasional publicity bits about, oh, call them non-bleeding 
edge games being expected to catch on as a market Any Day Now, with the 
intention being that they'd be satisfying to people who just want to 
enjoy something that doesn't require 500 hours of tutorial before going 
on to the main adventure.  

	But still ... pick, say, a 1 GHz, 16 MB video memory, arbitrarily 
large hard drive.  For 1996, that would have been an awesome game play 
computer.  That's still plenty of room for games to match, too.  

	One of the handful of benefits of this IBM laptop the department 
loaned me is I can play what are clearly 'B movie' strategy games like 
Trans****t Tycoon, where you're given the layout of a city and are left 
in charge of the public trans****tation system.  It's not sophisticated 
 -- you can't go spinning the game around in three dimensions and chat 
with random passers-bye and such -- but it's a lot of fun.  There should 
be more room for games like that.  

	(Whatever did become of SimHarbour, anyway?)

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								Joseph Nebus
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