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From: mattack@eskimo.com (Matt Ackeret)
Subject: Re: Zork TV Series!!
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 21:54:45 GMT
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In article <4gsg7m$fkn@Mercury.mcs.com>, Jorn Barger <jorn@MCS.COM> wrote:
>In article <4gr1d0$os6@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>,
>Pat Breen <pbreen@cs.newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
>[...]
>>Threshold plans to initially develop Zork into a TV series, marking the first 
>>time a computer game will be developed for TV. 
>
>I'm skeptical... PacMan?  Mario Brothers??  Sonic the Hedgehog???  I
>don't watch Sat morning tv so maybe these never hit tv... but I'm
>skeptical.

	That "first" is completely wrong, because even if one is considering 
only live-action shows, "Maniac Mansion" was made into a TV show that I think
ran for 2 years.  Really awful.  Might have been USA network specific, I
don't recall for sure.
-- 
unknown@apple.com		Apple II Forever
These opinions are mine, not Apple's.
