CompuServe Messages

That's funny you should mention Marble Madness of all EA Amiga products to bash!! If anything, Marble Madness has sold thousands of Amigas, literally, in and among itself. It has easily the best graphics, and easily the best soound of any of the Marble Madness conversions. It is very funny and humerous – and contains alot of small touches that the other ones miss – like the brush cleaning up the marble shatterings. Now you're calling EA "reprehensible" – quite a strong word about not having Analog joystick support in a game that hasn't even been released yet. No, I think their's something more to this. Unfortunately, I think it's because it's the "in" thing to do. If you bash EA here you'll have a lot of people grin and smile and type little messages back and forth – I have been watching it. Please tell me which games and products crash your computer and why? It's funny because Ben Blish said that DPaint II crashes and gurus his computer constantly. However, the other night in CO I asked some people (who are well known around here, in fact) that use DPaint II constantly if it ever crashed on them. One person (I won't put him on the spot by naming him) said that he used every available function in DPaint II in all sorts of circumstances and had NEVER seen the guru. Further evidence of it being "in" to bash EA. It's also funny to see people bash WordPerfect, yet when you really ask them what they do to crash the program, they quote a November version (me wonders why they still have November – when customer support mails out updates free) or they say "well a friend of mine said that" with no hard evidence any more. I think what I am witnessing is a disturbing and distressing trend to bash particularly well established companies with little reason. I think it's kind of adolescent.