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From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Subject: Re: do AI games exist ;-)
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 06:22:22 GMT
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byron gaudet <byron-gaudet@uiowa.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>Isn't Mortal Kombat one of those silly whackem games?
>>Now, what about *real* AI games?
>
>Ok, what would a game have to do to be considered a real AI game? 

I just want to drive home the point that we aren't all a bunch of beady-
eyed adolescent nerds who get off on watching pictures of characters bop-
ping, shooting, or otherwise attacking each other.  It's not that attack
should not form an element of computer-based games.  It's just that there
is no way to simulate battle with a joystick or a CRT.

If you want to attack someone, go out and shoot some hoops.  Or try out
boxing at the Y.  Much more physical, and in many ways more cerebral as
well, since your "moves" aren't just flicks of pasty flabby fingers.

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   Richard L. Goerwitz     ***      goer@midway.uchicago.edu
