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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Repeated puzzles
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Staffan Friberg (staff@rabbit.augs.se) wrote:

> To show what I mean I'll make an analogy with video games, I mean that only
> three video games exist, Pac Man, Space Invaders and Sports games. All
> existing games are variations of one of these themes.

> For example; Doom is just another Pac Man with a few bells and whistles.

And war games are sports games; so are RPGs such as Ultima.

In fact, Space Invaders is itself a derived game -- it's Pong where the 
bricks move a little and shoot back.

I think Tetris is also a separate class.

Pong, Pac Man, sports games, and Tetris. Hm. I'm biased just like the 
rest of us here: I think IF is a separate class. (You specified "video 
games", but I don't think Colossal Cave was any less a video game because 
it had no graphics. In fact, it must be in the same family, by the 
interbreeding test: there are crossovers between IF and several of the 
other categories.)

I have no comment on the original topic of discussion. :-)

--Z

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