To Ed Martin: Please comment on Daytona track at Daytona USA

It seems to me that Ed has always been open and honest with us but sometimes people just can't talk about what is going on behind the scenes. It's like that in every career. But now since everybody knows about the existance of Daytona maybe we should relax and hope that Ed can explain about this instead of blaming Sierra and Papyrus for earth's destruction. Ed........... Mike Lewis

: It seems to me that Ed has always been open and honest with us but : sometimes people just can't talk about what is going on behind the : scenes. It's like that in every career. But now since everybody knows : about the existance of Daytona maybe we should relax and hope that Ed : can explain about this instead of blaming Sierra and Papyrus for : earth's destruction. Maybe eggs.com gets a slow news feed, but this has already been discussed by Papyrus on a couple of occassions. Sega still has the "EXLUSIVE" rights to the Daytona track (didn't you watch the SEGA 400 Saturday?) ;-) Their rights do not end until the end of APRIL 1997. Papyrus has said that they are doing everything in their power to get the rights to use this track. Unfortunately what they don't have is the $$$$$$$$$$ to throw around that Sega has. However, maybe we'll see Daytona about the same time we see f1GP2 :) "I said, I said, it's just a joke son!" -- Foghorn Leghorn) -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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>It seems to me that Ed has always been open and honest with us but >sometimes people just can't talk about what is going on behind the >scenes. It's like that in every career. But now since everybody knows >about the existance of Daytona maybe we should relax and hope that Ed >can explain about this instead of blaming Sierra and Papyrus for >earth's destruction. >Ed........... >Mike Lewis

Following is a cut 'n paste of my response in another thread... OK, here's the scoop on Daytona USA. Yes, Papyrus does have a pavillion there. Yes, we did create the Daytona track for the exhibit. Yes, it's the one you saw on TV. - This in NO WAY means that we have the rights to use the Daytona track in the retail game. For the millionth time, Sega owns the exclusive license to it until April '97. - This in no way should be construed to mean that we will get the track after Sega's contract expires. Yes, we are working on it... of course we are, but we aren't any closer now than we were before Daytona USA opened. - The track that we created for the theme park WILL NOT work in the retail game. I know what you're thinking... "ya, right, Ed... it'd just be a simple hack by someone to make it work." It's not. I won't bother getting into the details, but it would take an effort similar to the infamous "Talladega to Daytona pathes" to make it work. The exhibit is NOT running the retail NASCAR 1.x product (no, it's not NASCAR 2 either). It's a special piece of code. To col seeing Richard Petty driving our stuff. Now if we can just get him in the NRL!!! :-) Ed Martin Producer, Series Director NASCAR Racing League Papyrus / Sierra On-Line, Inc.

..... maybe we should relax and hope that Ed Earth was destroyed???? Man! I gotta get up earlier! I keep missing the good stuff! :-) Can we get that in a simulator? Mike (HA! I break me down!)