11/16/99 - Latest News

Jane Jensen's Letter
Berendir @ 3:19 pm EST

Well this isn't news, yet it still might be interesting to read. Jane Jensen is a game designer, and wrote a letter to Sierra, which many of you may find interesting. Heres a small piece of the letter:

"Sierra" and "Infocom", the "Rome" and "Athens" of adventure games, ah, how little we knew thee! Waiting for those slim boxes with floppy disks, manuals full of clever repartee, we thought we'd have you forever. We could not know that millions of mall-happy arcade players and Nintendo-addicted five-year-olds were hurdling through space and time to invade the PC industry as soon as Intel (oh, sure) made a chip fast enough to make scrolling platform games possible. Oh, but we were naïve! Eagerly awaiting the day when a PC would be in every home and PC games would be "mass market," never guessing that "mass market" meant 15-25 year old males with twitchy fingers and about as much interest in adventure games as they have in reading Shakespeare and Jane Austen on the beach when there's a perfectly good volleyball set standing right there.

Read the rest of that letter Here If your interested.