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to: JUSTIN SMITH
from: NICK ANDRE
date: 1998-04-19 10:51:00
subject: Re: Multiplaying

 > For half the price of an N64, you could get two C64's, two
 > monitors, two disk
 > drives, two modems, four joysticks, and have four player
 > games that have the
 > same interest level and playability as N64 games do, maybe
 > even better...
JS> First of all, why are you telling me that? Second, those are some crappy 
JS> monitors you got there. And I have no desire to play the commodore 
yway.
But it proves you can play 4-player multi-screen, multi-player games for
half the price of a Nintendo.
 > Its that we're trying to bash split screen. Its nice that the
 > N64 can do this. But please, tell me a two-player game which *really* 
eeds
 > it. If you were playing co-operative, maybe... But personally, its a way
 > of Nintendo showing off on TV commercials the scrolling abilities of N64.
JS> No games really needs anything. But split screen makes 2 player games 
more 
JS> fun. I personally would rather play a racing game split screen instead of 
JS> watching my friend play, and then having him watch me play. And btw, I 
don'
JS> even own a N64, so i don't know what you're talking about with that 
JS> commercials reference you made.
I wouldn't. More confusing. For dyslexics, its a nightmare.
Nick.
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