RE: The King is dead

G'day folks,

One possible conclusion of Tempest's fall in VAPS rankings could be that
vectorlist is not inclusive enough (vs RGVAC or other arcade forums) in
bringing newbie collectors into our fold. If we were more receptive of
"idiots", we might have more of them interested in owning a vector game.
Based on earlier email, the spare vector PCB's do seem to exist...perhaps
the spare vector monitors are required?

A seperate but more comfortable conclusion to Tempest's fall is that raster
projects that generate interest are further along than vector projects. Or
more simply put, rearranging Clay's to do list might have a pronounced
effect on VAPS.

Just some musings....I'll be ducking for cover now.

            Steve Ozdemir
            sozdemir@att.com

ps - I'm assuming that VAPS members represent the collecting community
proportionately. If not, a third conclusion could be that VAPS just draws
more raster collectors.

-----Original Message-----
From: Noel Johnson [mailto:nej2001@my-Deja.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:02 AM
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Subject: RE: VECTOR: The King is dead

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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 07:59:44   Jon Raiford wrote:
>I'd hate to burst everyone's collective bubble, but we all *really* know
>that there are probably 10 times more ms pac's in private homes than
Tempest.
I'm glad you brought this up.  I almost posted a similar response last
night.  As much as I love Tempest (started playing 2 to 3 hours a day in
late '81 when it came out), there can be no doubt that there are many many
more Ms. Pac's than Tempests sitting in private gamerooms around this
country.  We could get into a heated discussion over the definition of
"collector", however I consider anyone who owns a couple of arcade games to
meet that definition.. 
My 2 cents...
Noel  
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