rusty@garnet.berkeley.edu (10/12/89)
I agree. rec.games.video has too much pinball garbage in it. This newsgroup was created to discuss video games, not pinball games. We need a new group rec.games.pinhead. Oops, I meant to say (or did I?) rec.games.pinball. -- -------------------------------------- rusty c. wright rusty@violet.berkeley.edu ucbvax!violet!rusty
bee@cs.purdue.EDU (Zaphod Beeblebrox) (10/12/89)
Said rusty@garnet.berkeley.edu: (in article <RUSTY.89Oct11165602@garnet.berkeley.edu>) |I agree. rec.games.video has too much pinball garbage in it. This |newsgroup was created to discuss video games, not pinball games. Ha! There's been more of those damn Zelda postings in the last 3 months than there's been pinball traffic in the last 3 years. Video games are much more closely related to pinball than to home systems. Besides, postings for home systems should be in rec.games.misc anyway. (Stuff about NES, etc. DOES show up in there occasionally.) rec.games.misc needs splitting as it is, but I've tried that before and ran into a large wall of indifference. (Of course, last time that was tried, someone threw in with it the absolutely brain-dead idea of combining the various groups rec.games.hack, rec.games.rogue, rec.games.moria etc. in with it, which only resulted in flames from those folks.) B.E.E. -- Z. Beeblebrox | "Some girl with psychic powers asked me, (alias B.E.E.) | 'T-Bone, what's your sign?'; bee@cs.purdue.edu | I blinked and answered, 'Neon'. ..!purdue!bee | I thought I'd blown her mind!" -- _Existential Blues_
arisco@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM (John Arisco) (10/12/89)
bee@cs.purdue.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes: > Subject: Re: NEC Turbografix > Sigh. Get the spelling right, people. Kill files don't work when > people misspell the items in them. [ Somebody pointed out that NES is Nintendo Entertainment System [ while NEC is the company that makes printers and the new TurboGrafix [ 16 home video game system. bee@cs.purdue.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes: > Whatever. These damn things are multiplying so fast, I can't even > keep up with their silly names for kill file purposes. We're outraged that you were forced to read that 13-line posting. Swift and sure action is called for. If this could happen to you, just think about the terrible toll it will take on the youth of America. > Which brings me to a point I'd like to make yet again: let's split > this group so that the NES/NEC/Sega/etc have their own group and the > rest of us can talk about the real arcade games (video and pinball). > IMHO there's plenty enough traffic to justify the split, and the > overlap between the two is minimal. Followups will be crossposted to > news.groups. OK, we'll call our group rec.games.video and I don't care what you call your group. In fact, even though I don't agree that the traffic justifies a split, I will vote for your group and subscribe to it if you choose a reasonable name. I will vote against changing the name of this group or tacking on a suffix like .home or .not.as.sophisticated.as.the.stuff.at.the.bowling.alley Most of us in this group like reading about all kinds of video games (and pinball). There are a few folks who occasionally complain about the "kiddie toy" traffic all the while bragging that they can play all night on the same quarter, and that they have a basement filled with primo arcade games. If you to want create another newsgroup for these postings, have it it. Maybe you could call it sci.games.video -- John Arisco, MCC CAD Program | ARPA: arisco@mcc.com | Phone: [512] 338-3576 Box 200195, Austin, TX 78720 | UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!arisco