BK,
What I read is that Red Baron II sales were so poor,that Sierra had it
stripped to practically its demo state,and wholesaled it off to any large
discount chain.
What I read was that the problem with Red BaronII was that no one was
really interested in a flight sim that was simulating events from nearly 90
years ago. The kids of today want the latest and hottest jets. Even WWll
still sells,but todays high tech is #1.
Joel Willstein
The difference with GPL is that most people do know the planes that
flew in WW1. Many people have heard of the Red Baron.
But no so many people do know about racing in the '60s, and I don't
think that many kids ever heard of Clark and Hill (the father of Damon
you mean? He was a driver too?)
Andre
> What I read is that Red Baron II sales were so poor,that Sierra had it
>stripped to practically its demo state,and wholesaled it off to any large
>discount chain.
> What I read was that the problem with Red BaronII was that no one was
>really interested in a flight sim that was simulating events from nearly 90
>years ago. The kids of today want the latest and hottest jets. Even WWll
>still sells,but todays high tech is #1.
> Joel Willstein
:> (snip)
:> Sierra had the same problem with Red Baron II that actually had a
:> worse sales record than GPL.
:> (unsnip)
:>
:> Then how do you explain, Joel, that (a) the original Red Baron sold like
:> hot-cakes, (b) any WW2 flight-sim worth its salt sells like hot cakes?
: What I read is that Red Baron II sales were so poor,that Sierra had it
: stripped to practically its demo state,and wholesaled it off to any large
: discount chain.
: What I read was that the problem with Red BaronII was that no one was
: really interested in a flight sim that was simulating events from nearly 90
: years ago. The kids of today want the latest and hottest jets. Even WWll
: still sells,but todays high tech is #1.
Surely the Red Baron was WW I. (he said pedantically).
--
Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving
Networks and Non-Linear Dynamics Group
Dept. of Mathematics, Uni. of York
www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html
Well here in the UK, when I was a kid we had a choice of several (3 or 4)
WW2 based comics sat alongside Beano/Dandy/whatever. And no wet, rainy
Sunday afternoon would have been complete without at leave *one* WW2 movie
on the TV.
Maybe you missed out because Aus doesn't have enough wet and rainy Sunday
afternoons :-)
Andrew McP
BK
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I can beat him at the Nurburgring every time though in GPL, so I wouldn't
say it was too hard.
The problem is most people aren't interested in how a racing car behaves
on the limit of adhesion. They just want a steering test like NFS:-(
- Michael
- Michael
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