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[News] PC Magazine rate entertainment pack #1 - 4 out of 5ANN.lu
Posted on 22-Jul-2002 22:50 GMT by Sam Smith17 comments
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PC Magazine rate entertainment pack #1 - 4 out of 5 (from the amiga.com site) and add an interesting comment... If you read the comments it is interesting to note that the reviewer states the games are 'Amiga-style' which clearly lead to a positive conclusion of 4 stars out of 5. It just goes to show that even now people still remember the Amiga name for good quality games. :) 1000+ club members over the next couple of days? I hope so. If they could just release some more teaser screenshots of OS 4.0 then they may well do it.
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PC Magazine rate entertainment pack #1 - 4 out of 5 : Comment 10 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 23-Jul-2002 10:00 GMT
"Back when the IBM PC was mostly used in text mode, the Amiga A1000 blazed with 4,096 colors and stereo sound. This package brings four Amiga-style games to your Pocket PC or phone, including Solitaire, Gobbler, Convex, and an elaborate outer-space shoot-'em-up called Planet Zed. But don't expect your PDA to be as thumb-friendly as a Nintendo Game Boy."
That's the "review" in its entirety! It mostly sounds like a description of an emulator which will let fools with $30-60 too much in their wallets relive the old days when "colors and stereo sound" was a novelty (and apparently still is what's defining "Amiga-style").
And WTF does any of this have to do with AmigaOS or the coupon fraud? Why did the submitter mention that?
The next time AI orders a review I think they ought to downplay the "Amigas used to be great, so this must be as well because we're using the same trademark" bit (the market doesn't care about what was yesterday) and instead try to tell the world why people should buy this stuff TODAY and why it's better than other stuff available TODAY.
The marketing needs to be directed outside the little flock of already brainwashed fanatics - that's not a viable market, and the more they get lied to WRT the benefits of Amiga-labelled products the happier they get. Out there in the big world, the lies need to be both plausible, attractive and relevant. Not just "It's AMIGA!! Amiga, I tell y'all! I am Amiga!!" - people don't give a crap and if things are done like they've been done so far the word "Amiga" will be shunned *everywhere*, and the only "product" of Amiga Inc. - licensed IP - will be *totally* worthless.
Will somebody pleeeeease take that open marketing position over in Snoqualmie before things get even more fucked up? You probably won't get payed, but please do it out of pity for The Trademark...
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